Shooting Clerks (2016)
Biography, Comedy drama
Comedy movies
Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.
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Without You I'm Nothing (1990)
Comedy, musical film
Chi trova un amico, trova un tesoro (1981)
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Alan Lloyd is an inveterate gambler who accumulates a lot of debt and therefore is forced to flee, pursued by shady employers in the area. Charlie O'Brien is an actor who is hired to advertise a jam (that tastes horrible) and is embarking on a long promotional boat trip. Alan, still fleeing, hides inside Charlie's boat behind his back.
Compulsion (2013)
Dark Comedy, Drama, Erotic Thriller, thriller film
Amy (Heather Graham), an obsessive chef, befriends a bulimic former child star Saffron (Carrie-Anne Moss) living in the apartment next door, sparking a fiery battle of wills. Unstable Amy wields a spatula like a samurai, and dreams of the day she'll have her own cooking show. As a young girl, Amy was infatuated with a television show starring Saffron, who subsequently vanished into obscurity.
A Fine Madness (1966)
Comedy, Drama, romance film
Poet Samson Shillitoe lives in Greenwich Village with his wife Rhoda, a waitress who supports him through all his troubles. When Samson cannot find the inspiration to finish his latest poem, he becomes belligerent and depressed. He is continually pursued by a debt collector after his late alimony payments to a previous wife.
The Tracey Fragments (2007)
Coming-of-age, Drama, Family Drama
Fifteen-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is first seen naked in a tattered shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog. The film shares its story in choppy, disjointed fragments, telling the story from Tracey's point of view. Tracey is a caustic, sarcastic, and vulgar teenager, living with her well-meaning but often verbally abusive and neglectful parents.
Treehouse Hostage (1999)
Adventure, Comedy, family film
Carl Banks is a dangerous counterfeiter and escapes from jail. Meanwhile, 11-year-old Timmy Taylor has a current project due on Monday and if he shows up empty handed he is going to summer school, simply because of his lack of participation in class, and that his teacher and Principal Ott hate him. Carl Banks tries to print some more money and finds one of the counterfeit plates but can't print any money when his crooked ex-boss and his cops, who are counterfeiters as well, catch him at his base.
Breaking Up (1997)
Drama, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
Monica teaches, Steve's a photographer. They've dated more than two years. They're arguing, and she leaves for her apartment, only to return in a few minutes to say they should stop seeing each other.
Down Terrace (2009)
Comedy drama, Crime, Social Study
Upon release from prison, Bill and his son Karl arrive home at Down Terrace in Brighton. With the help of his wife Maggie, Bill decides to find the rat in his criminal organisation and a tale of recrimination, betrayal and murder ensues. Meanwhile, Karl grows increasingly edgy and uncomfortable with his dysfunctional family.
Malice in the Palace (1949)
Comedy
thumb|left|Shemp: "Boy, if I hadn't ducked, we'd have collided sure. What a narrow escape!" The Stooges operate a Middle Eastern restaurant called Cafe Casbah Bah, where they become entangled in a string of mishaps while serving patrons Hassan ben Sober and Ginna Rumma. A culinary incident ensues when spaghetti inadvertently splatters onto the patrons' faces, prompting the Stooges to offer a replacement meal of rabbit and hot dogs.
Wisegirls (2002)
buddy film, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Returning from Missouri as a medical school dropout, Meg Kennedy moves to Staten Island, New York City, staying with her grandmother due to not having found a place for herself. With the recommendation of Mrs. Saladino, a woman who looks after Meg's grandmother, Meg takes work at an Italian restaurant, run by Gio Esposito.
High Time (1960)
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Wealthy restaurateur Harvey Howard, a self-made man, widower, and owner of Harvey Howard Smokehouses, decides to go back to college at the age of 51 and earn a bachelor's degree. He faces opposition from his snobbish grown children Harvey Jr. and Laura, as well as a generation gap between himself and his much-younger fellow students.
The Shaggy Dog (1994)
fantasy film
Preteen Martin "Moochie" Daniels wants a dog, but his dad, Ron, is allergic to canines, like Bundles, the Old English Sheepdog of neighbor Charlie Mulvihill & his niece Francesca, who secretly trained his pet to help him steal jewels. Mooch's big brother Wilbur "Wilby" is a promising inventor, but clumsy when it comes to girls, and is jealous of his mate Trey who has no problems. Desperate Wilby cast a spell on himself (he accidentally got from dad's museum of curiosities), which transforms him into Bundles the Shaggy Dog.
Crossworlds (1996)
Adventure, Science fiction, science fiction action film
College student Joe is drawn into a battle to save the world from arch-enemy Ferris. Joe's heirloom pendant just happens to be the key to a sceptre that opens doors to the Crossworlds, another dimension. When Laura shows up to check on the key and Ferris' goons begin their assaults, they run to semi-retired adventurer A.T.
The Boatniks (1970)
Comedy, Heist
Lieutenant Jordan, U.S. Coast Guard, responds to a number of pleas for help from civilian pleasure boat sailors around Southern California's Balboa Island. This type of event is typical of what the Coast Guard deals with on a regular basis, and it is one of the reasons why Jordan has requested to transfer to a new station.
Dogging: A Love Story (2009)
Comedy, Drama
Dan (Luke Treadaway) is an aspiring journalist who drops his inhibitions to research the United Kingdom's underground subculture of dogging or public sex and along the way finds love and friendship.
Smother (2007)
Comedy
Noah Cooper (Dax Shepard), a therapist, gets fired from the office where he has worked for many years. When he arrives home he finds his wife's cousin, Myron Stubbs, (Mike White) has moved in. Later that evening his mother, Marilyn (Diane Keaton) also arrives with her dogs and asks whether she can stay.
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
Comedy, Drama
Having been diagnosed as terminally ill, Henry Poole purchases a tract house in his hometown, a working class suburb of Los Angeles, and awaits the inevitable, fortified with whiskey and frozen pizza. His peaceful solitude and self-imposed exile are disrupted by his meddling neighbor Esperanza Martinez, who insists she sees the face of Christ embedded in the stucco wall of his home and is convinced the image has miraculous powers when it begins to exude drops of blood. Before long, she is leading pilgrimages to his backyard and inviting Father Salazar from the local parish to bless the supposedly sacrosanct blemish.
The Best House in London (1969)
Comedy
Victorian London. Sir Francis Leybourne is an aristocrat, city councillor, land baron, and businessman with interests in the far east. Like most aristocrats, more important for the married ones in needing refuge from one's wife, widowed Sir Francis has a kept woman, Babette.
Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
Cartoon
thumb|left|250px|Bugs Bunny aims his mallet at Black Knight Yosemite Sam In the realm of King Arthur, trouble ensues when the infamous Black Knight Yosemite Sam steals the Singing Sword. King Arthur, looks to the Knights of the Round Table, as a volunteer to recover the stolen artifact, to which all of them reject. Reluctantly, court jester Bugs Bunny is assigned the mission by King Arthur, facing execution if he fails.
The Diane Linkletter Story (1970)
Comedy
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998)
Comedy drama
In the small West Texas hamlet of Dancer, four friends (Keller, Terrell, John, and Squirrel) have just graduated high school and are weighing the decision to leave for Los Angeles. The young men made a pact to leave long ago, but their families and friends won't let them go without a fight. The well-off Terrell wants to escape the controlling influence of his mother, who insists he stay in town to work in the family oil business.
You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat (1971)
Comedy drama
Carter Fields is a 25-year-old naïve, idealistic hippie/yippie only interested in sexual intercourse, but as the narrator would say "he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground." He works as a stockbroker in New York City on Wall Street in the late 1960s, but is hindered by his domineering mother in the progress of looking for a more meaningful life. One day Carter visits New York City's Central Park possibly to commit suicide by hanging but fails in the endeavour as the rope breaks. He is then assaulted by a "Fat Black Lady" for staring at people.
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
Comedy, romantic comedy
After nineteen years of marriage, workaholic Dan Edwards's wife Valerie is frustrated. Rather than tending to her needs at home, Dan spends most of his time at an ad agency he runs with old friend, Ernie Brewer, a laid-back bachelor and Dan's second-in-command. Once a real swinger, Dan has become a bore to his whole family.