Comedies

This moving film from Mike Leigh (TOPSY-TURVY) is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a...

In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther) plays the pure-hearted Chance, a gardener forced out of moneyed seclusion and into the urban wilds of Washington, D.C., after the death of his employer. Shocked to discover...

Even among cinemas greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like...

Diahann Carroll is radiant in an unforgettable, Oscar-nominated performance as Claudine, a strong-willed single mother, raising six kids in Harlem, whose budding relationship with a gregarious garbage collector (an equally fantastic James Earl Jones) is...

For two weeks every six months, single dad Lenny (Ronald Bronstein) gets custody of "the guys"-his 7- and 9-year-old sons (Frey Ranaldo, Sage Ranaldo). Unfortunately for Lenny and his children, he can't figure out if he is supposed to act like a father...

The neurotic, maladjusted Keith Sontag (Dore Mann) ekes out his daily existence by selling coupons door to door in New York City while navigating painfully awkward relationships with his girlfriend (Mary Wall) and his caustic and disapproving roommate...

Director/writer Noah Baumbach's light, black-and-white-shot farce follows the many and memorable miscues of Frances (Greta Gerwig, who co-scripted), a twentysomething NYC ballet understudy who's forced to rethink her flighty and largely aimless existence...

The gloriously grotesque second feature directed by John Waters (Hairspray) is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters native Baltimore,...

Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout STRANGER THAN PARADISE with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in America. When fate lands three hapless menan unemployed disc jockey (SHORT CUTS' Tom Waits), a small-time pimp...

IF, directed by Lindsay Anderson (THIS SPORTING LIFE), is a daringly chaotic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in a CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Malcolm McDowell made a hell of an...

Director/co-writer/star Robert Townsend skewers racial stereotyping in show biz with his acclaimed independent comedy. Would-be actor Bobby Taylor (Townsend) struggles to find serious roles in a white-run Hollywood that only offers blacks "pimp and hood"...

Mob boss Fats Murdock (Edmond O'Brien) leaned on press agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) to ignite the pop singing career of his reluctant arm candy Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield), but Fats won't be pleased when the campaign strikes romantic sparks instead...