Sitting Ducks (1980)
Comedy
Comedy movies
Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.
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Gold Dust Gertie (1931)
Comedy, musical film
Gertie Dale is a gold digger who marries men only to divorce them and collect alimony. She marries George Harlan in 1927, divorces him, and then marries his friend Elmer Guthrie and also divorces him. By 1930, both men have remarried but they continue paying alimony to Dale without the knowledge of their current wives.
J-Men Forever (1979)
Parody
The Bug's first victims are square record moguls Lawrence Milk and Jive Davis, who are hypnotized or otherwise prodded into killing themselves, and bandleader 'Screen' Dorsey, whose car is booby trapped and then run off a cliff. The Bug, his henchmen and henchwomen (including the villainess Sombra) are opposed by the J-Men, a group of government agents hired by the legendary J. Eager Believer.
Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room (2019)
stand-up comedy
A Therapy (2012)
Comedy
A female patient walks into a therapist's office, dressed head to toe in Prada design. She lies down on the couch and begins to talk about her problems, completely unaware of the therapist's growing obsession with her fur coat.
Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (1965)
Horror
During a local college's initiation week, Professor Williams and Police Lieutenant Hudson investigate a seemingly abandoned old mansion, situated from town. The lieutenant notes that, according to rumors, strange noises can be heard from the house after midnight. He also says that the residence was once home to a mad scientist who transforms teenagers into monsters, and who has monsters working as his assistants.
Sassy Sue (1974)
Comedy, sexploitation film
27 Missing Kisses (2000)
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, Melodrama, romance film, romantic comedy
Fourteen-year old Sybilla (Nutsa Kukhianidze) comes to a small village in Georgia for a summer visit to her grandmother. (The specific year is not given in the film.) At the beginning, Mickey (Shalva Iashvili), a young teen, is heard in a voice-over, stating that Sybilla that summer had promised him 100 kisses, but that he only received 73 (leaving the 27 missing kisses of the title). The film's plot is episodic, with Sybilla running freely about the village and countryside, observing different people, and sometimes entering their homes uninvited.
Bachelor of Hearts (1958)
Comedy
Young German maths scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge on a student exchange programme. Settling into his rooms at the fictional University College, Wolf has more than his share of trouble negotiating English customs and manners. To make matters worse he becomes the favourite victim of the snobbish and generally unpleasant "Dodo Club".
The Finishing Touch (1928)
Comedy
Stan and Ollie are contracted by a homeowner to expedite the construction of his residence, with the promise of a $500 incentive for timely completion. Despite their earnest efforts, the duo encounters a series of mishaps, exacerbated by the interference of a nearby hospital's head nurse, who enlists a policeman to enforce noise regulations. The policeman inadvertently becomes the target of various misfortunes, including being struck by falling construction materials.
Bitter Feast (2010)
Comedy horror, comedy thriller, Horror
Peter Grey is a successful New York chef, disgruntled by caustic reviews from the food critic J.T. Franks. After Franks' bad review, Grey is fired by his boss Gordon.
Rompecabezas (2009)
Drama, Family Drama, Tragicomedy
A middle-aged housewife, Maria del Carmen (Maria Onetto), suddenly finds she has a gift for assembling puzzles. Unbeknownst to her husband (Gabriel Goity) and two college-age sons, she begins practicing for a tournament with a man (Arturo Goetz) she met through an ad in a puzzle shop. The thrill "of a woman discovering her special gift and rejoicing in it" is just one of the surprises in store for Maria, as she starts to look differently at the pieces of her life, and to try new things.
A Talking Picture (2003)
Comedy, Drama
In July 2001, Rosa Maria, a university teacher, takes her little daughter Maria Joana on a cruise from their home country of Portugal to Bombay, India, to see Rosa's husband who is an airplane pilot. Her motive is to visit the birthplaces of civilization. At each port, a new person boards the ship.
For the Love of Mary (1948)
romantic comedy
Mary Peppertree starts a new job as a telephone switchboard operator at the White House, where her father Timothy has been working as a guard for many years. A former Supreme Court telephone operator, Mary takes her first call from David Paxton, an ichthyologist who insists on speaking to the President about a political issue involving a small Pacific island. After hanging up on him twice, Mary spends the rest of her day fielding calls from various Supreme Court justices who attempt to reconcile her with her former fiancé, Phillip Manning, a Justice Department attorney.
The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
American football film, romantic comedy
Qualifying to play in the illustrious Rose Bowl football game on New Year's Day, a Midwestern college's quarterback, Steve Davis, is less enthusiastic than expected, as playing football does not excite him, but his teammate Bronc Buttram is thrilled. Their coach, Jim Hadley, is equally pleased because his ill wife has gone to warmer Glendale, California for her health, allowing him to spend more time with her. Steve perks up in Pasadena while meeting the Rose Bowl's committee and particularly the tournament's queen, Denny Burke, a beauty in a fur coat.
Lost in Translation (2003)
Drama, independent film, Melodrama, romance film, romantic comedy, Satire
Lost in Translation is the widely successful debut film of Sofia Coppola. Set in Tokyo under the bustling city life and lights, the two main characters from different generations build a surprising friendship on their common bond of insomnia and boredom. The film is a slow, dreamy and at times hilarious look at their relationship and the city through which they're aimlessly drifting.
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Comedy, mystery film, Parody
An incompetent mail-order private eye, aided by a chicken hatchery owner, is called upon to solve the murder of the mail-order private eye's nutty milkman, who it is discovered had a secret life where he practiced various animal fetishes.
Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
Crime, Mysterie, mystery film
When a prominent racehorse owner winds up dead-allegedly kicked to death by his prized stallion, Charlie Chan is called in to investigate. But when the indomitable detective discovers evidence of foul play, he's soon hot on the hooves of an international gambling ring with an evil plot to turn the racetracks of the world into a trifecta of terror!
The All Together (2007)
Comedy
Frustrated TV producer Chris is a self-opinionated wannabe screenwriter (with a particular dislike of British films featuring quirky secondary characters and plastic gangsters) who is forced to leave his unreliable flatmate Bob in charge of showing a series of estate agents around the house he is trying to sell. Worried by Bob's habit of spending all day "working" in the basement playing loud music, Chris asks his friend to listen out for the door bell and show anyone who comes calling inside. Bob promises to do exactly that and for once, not to let him down.
Footlight Serenade (1942)
musical film, romantic comedy
Tommy Lundy is an arrogant champion boxer who is hired by Broadway promoter Bruce McKay to star in a stage act, which will include singing, dancing, a comedian called Slap and a boxing exhibition. Tommy makes sure his girlfriend, singer Estelle Evans, gets the female lead in the role, but he falls in love with dancer Pat Lambert, who becomes Estelle's understudy. Pat is engaged to Bill Smith, who ends up with a small part in the show.
Say Hello to Yesterday (1971)
Comedy drama
On a winter morning in an affluent suburb, the Woman – having just said goodbye to her stockbroker husband and their two young children – is going to London, shopping. She drives to the station which is shown as Cobham (referencing Cobham, Surrey or Cobham, Kent). Among the crowd, as she boards the train is the Boy.
Skid Marks (2007)
Action, screwball comedy film
Budget cuts force two rival ambulance companies and their misfit medics to go head-to-head to save their patients, their jobs and their beer money, all in the name of emergency medicine.
Laughing Gas (1914)
Splatstick
We are told Charlie is a dental assistant working at Dr. Pain's dental office. He arrives at work where the patients are already waiting.
Tiyanaks (2007)
Horror
A school organization heads off to a Holy Week retreat, led by their religion professor. Before long, they realize they have lost their way due to misdirection and have no choice but to stay the night in a desolate house, with only a mother Mildred and her son Biboy living in the house. The boy has three playmates who become jealous when the boy declines to join them in play, which angers them, and they seek vengeance on the newcomers.