Comedies

Four years after BREATHLESS, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with BAND OF OUTSIDERS. In it, two restless young men (SWEET MOVIE'S Sami Frey and EYES WITHOUT A FACE's Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their...

Follow the quest of a young swashbuckler (Cary Elwes) to rescue the beautiful title heroine (Robin Wright) from her sinister husband-to-be (Chris Sarandon), in director Rob Reiner's fun and fetching fairy tale for the whole family. Along the way, our...

Harold Lloyd's biggest box-office hit was this silent comedy gem, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student. Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman's careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be...

The movie that inhales is a fractured farce set on the last day of school in 1976 in which a diverse group of Austin, Texas, high school students get stoned, partake in hazing pranks, find romance, and contemplate the future. Writer/director Richard...

In early-'60s Chicago, an education was supposed to be your way out of the projects, but the class wasn't made that wannabe writer Preach Jackson (Glynn Turman) and girl-chasing jock Cochise Morris (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) couldn't figure out how to cut...

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For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his...

The dazzling sophomore film from Wes Anderson (FANTASTIC MR. FOX) is equal parts coming-of-age story, French New Wave homage, and screwball comedy. Tenth grader Max Fischer (THE DARJEELING LIMITED Jason Schwartzman) is Rushmore Academy's most...

Lonely Utah civil servant Charles Richardson (John Heard) worked up the nerve to ask out recently separated coworker Laura Connolly (Mary Beth Hurt), and a romance quickly blossomed. However, his adoring fixation with her might combine with her own...

Susan Seidelman established her distinctive vision of 1980s New York with this debut feature, the lo-fi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves. After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren (Susan Berman) a...

As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch (TROUBLE IN PARADISE) stars Jack Benny (THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM) and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard (MY MAN GODFREY) as husband-and-wife thespians in...

With this blisteringly funny, unapologetically confrontational satire, writer-director Spike Lee examined the past, present, and future of racism in American popular culture, issuing a daring provocation to creators and consumers alike. Under pressure to...