Comedy Movies

Although he’s only seven, Eddie’s got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she’s not one of…

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married…

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as…

A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter,…

Four women create mayhem as they follow their Navy partners around the Riviera.

Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing…

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the “gangsters” and “philanthropists” end up in the courtroom.

Bastian and Lene are a good couple, as a journalist and press photographer. They take turns to get ideas for how to get a scoop for the magazine “Tit og…

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance “Flubber.” Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting…

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients…

An aspiring astronaut prepares his ship for take-off, plugs in a razor and causes a blackout. In the deep darkness the boy imagines himself meeting the literary characters who have…

A gay take-off on a certain Warner Bros. / Tennessee Williams movie.

An early drag parody of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?.

A quiet little village, and especially a pretty young woman, falls under the spell of a charming, somewhat roguish stranger who suddenly appears one day.

Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

“Waiting for Godot” on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it’s a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking…

A character from a musical film falls into the real world in this short, predating similar films by Woody Allen (The Purple Rose of Cairo) and Wojciech Marczewski (Escape from…

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.

A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.

In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, Ebenezer Scrooge – via Mr. Magoo’s starring performance in a stage production of the classic – doesn’t have a…

A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend’s tycoon father.

Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father’s old uniform and “walks…

The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When…

“Come Tomorrow” (1963), directed by Yevgeny Tashkov, is a much-loved comedy about Frosya Burlakova, a talented young woman from a remote Siberian village who comes to Moscow with dreams of…

A young rock & roll hopeful is given a shot at the big time by the unscrupulous owner of a small record company.

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as…

When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor, Ross Carpenter, has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father…

Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in…

Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented.

In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns…

A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her…

Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less…

A poignant comedy about a mute who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute. Gleason shows his considerable talents as an actor without uttering a sound as he plays…

A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.