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Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 230.

Horse Feathers (1932)

American football film, Comedy, Parody

The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, is convinced by his son Frank, a student at the school, to recruit professional football players to help Huxley's losing football team. Baravelli is an "iceman", who delivers ice and bootleg liquor from a local speakeasy.

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Happy Endings (2005)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

The film follows a diverse group of mostly middle-class residents of Los Angeles through emotional ups and downs in their lives, loosely connected to each other through a restaurant. In the first story, Mamie reluctantly agrees to work with a would-be young filmmaker in order to locate the now-grown son she secretly gave up for adoption after becoming pregnant from her stepbrother Charleywho is later revealed to be gay19 years earlier. In the second story, Charley and his domestic partner, Gil, are deciding whether or not to confront their friends, a lesbian couple, regarding the paternity of their son.

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Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)

Animation, Cartoon, Comedy

The opening credits, consisting of roles filled by Newland himself, scroll over an image of the fawn Bambi serenely grazing on a field of grass and flowers while the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's recording of William Tell's Ranz des Vaches plays in the background. After the credits, Bambi looks up to see Godzilla's foot coming down, crushing him (set to the final chord of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life"). After a moment, the closing credits appear alongside the image of Godzilla's foot atop Bambi.

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The Reivers (1969)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama

Set in 1905, the film follows the exploits of the likable but raffish Boon Hoggenbeck, who takes an interest in a new car, a new 1905 Winton Flyer owned by Boss, patriarch of the McCaslin family, who live in the Mississippi area where Boon lives. When the taking of the car, first by Boon, then by Ned — who are reivers, or thieves — leads to a public brawl, the local magistrate lets them off on a bond that Boss pays on the condition that both men stay out of trouble and far away from the car while he is away with family to attend a funeral. Boon violates the condition when he takes the car again to go to Memphis to see his love interest,…

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Rejected (2000)

Cartoon, Comedy

thumb|right|Rejected makes heavy use of surreal humor, such as in this scene that uses a giant spoon and an anthropomorphic banana to advertise the Family Learning Channel. The film's fictional narrative is presented as a series of promotional cartoons created by Don Hertzfeldt, commissioned by the Family Learning Channel in spring 1999. Text title cards serve as a production diary, chronicling Hertzfeldt's psychological decline as his work is repeatedly rejected.

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Lazy Susan (2020)

Comedy

A frumpy, bumbling, unmotivated woman named Susan always manages to get herself into the most ridiculous situations imaginable. One day, Susan wakes up to realize that her relationships have all tanked, her family is estranged, and she has no prospects. She decides to take charge and turn things around but finds that becoming a better woman on her own is difficult.

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Hell and Back (2015)

Comedy, Comedy horror, Computeranimation

Carnival barker Remy needs to bring in business at a rundown pier carnival alongside his childhood friends, carnival repairman Augie and assistant manager Curt. After Curt reveals the bank has foreclosed the carnival, Remy borrows a book of spells from fortune-teller Madame Zonar. Remy displays the book at The Gates of Hell attraction.

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L'Homme qui a vendu sa peau (2020)

black comedy film, Drama, Satire

Raqqa fiances Sam and Abeer are separated by the Syrian Civil War. While Sam seeks refuge in Lebanon, Abeer's family forces her to marry a richer man and move with him to Brussels. In the desperate pursuit of money and the needed paperwork to travel to Europe to rescue her, Sam accepts to have his back tattooed as a Schengen visa by one of the most controversial contemporary artists in the West.

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