Comedies

Carole Lombard and William Powell dazzle in this definitive screwball comedy, directed by Gregory La Cava a potent cocktail of romantic repartee and Depression-era social critique. Irene (Lombard), an eccentric Manhattan socialite, wins a society-ball...

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin was the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd the modern guy striving for success is us. And with it's torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, SAFETY LAST!...

A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air. One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in...

Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors for these transitory tales of urban displacement and existential angst, all staged as encounters between cabbies and their fares. Spanning time zones, continents, and languages, Night...

When a crotchety Izu oldster (Hideji Otaki) abruptly dies, his daughter (Nobuko Miyamoto) and son-in-law (Tsutomu Yamazaki)-both TV actors-drop everything to ensure he receives a proper Buddhist funeral. However, the privileged pair don't have the first...

With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for offbeat Americana. Structured as a series of black and white vignettes, Stranger Than...

In San Francisco's Chinatown, middle-aged cabbie Jo (Wood Moy) and his nephew/partner Steve (Marc Hayashi) discover that their recent acquaintance, Taiwanese businessman Chan Hung, is nowhere to be found-and neither is the four grand they gave him for a...

Sweeping Douglas Sirk melodrama traces the lives, loves, and tragedies of a Texas oil family. Rock Hudson stars as Mitch Wayne, the "adopted son" whose attraction to Lucy Hadley (Lauren Bacall), the wife of a spoiled scion (Robert Stack), leads to a...

Deceased turn-of-the-century playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter through the gates of hell. Though the devil doubts that Henry's sins qualify him for...

A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Lola, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul). Casting himself against type, the director plays a...

When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan (Melanie Mayron), trying to become a gallery artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan's Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love...

Speedy was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd (Safety Last!)-and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character," this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his...