Comedy Movies

“Touring makes you crazy,” Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by…

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly…

The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang…

During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and…

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children’s initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact…

A sexually voracious young woman receives a dirty phone call from a stranger; so satisfied by the experience, she sets out to find him somewhere in New York City.

Known to her clients as Dagmar, she’s a classy Swedish call girl in Copenhagen. After two years, she’s ready quit, and we follow her on what she hopes is her…

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War…

The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.

a hardcore ‘sex education’ film exposing the lovemaking habits of contemporary Black couples in Chicago through a series of vignettes.

A collection of Monty Python’s Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.

The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.

When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher begins to feel pressure to move out of the house he shares with the family of his son, he opts to embark on a road…

While on vacation, a woman’s husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for…

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.

An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.

A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her…

When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This…

Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.

A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer.

A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club’s slaughter.

The budding sexual urges of young women cause themselves and others trouble.

The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.

A perennial Chang Cheh favorite, Anonymous Heroes focuses on two vagabond brothers, Meng Kang and Tieh who, in the search for fame and fortune, join in a rebellion against a…

Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means…

Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket…

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people–and the law–tell him he has to.

Hugely successful but impossibly neurotic songwriter Georgie Soloway is sliding into a mid-life crisis. He believes that all of his past romantic relationships have been destroyed not by his own…

Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn’t know whether to stay with him or leave him. And…

After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, even dressing like the character….

Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get…

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he’s a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out…

To replace Hector Grofenol, the tyrannical boss of the “Tout pour le camping” factory, who has been put out of action, a group of employees call on his cousin Achille,…

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife’s operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York’s Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In…

Six rough and tumble motor cyclists meet at the side of an empty highway to plan their adventurous excursion cycling to Los Angeles. The burly bunch are Michael (John Alderman),…

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions)….