Comedies

Director Tony Richardson and scripter John Osborne's sprawling, bawdy romp through 18th-century England earned four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Albert Finney stars as the titular hero, a charming country boy whose beguiling manner gets him...

Blowing his stack after losing a coveted promotion, L.A. adman David Howard (Albert Brooks, who co-wrote and directed) sells his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty) on quitting work, liquidating their assets, and hitting the open road in a Winnebago. Once they...

In his carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political repartee, all set to Nino Rota's...

In his frontier town, hapless Harold Hickory (Harold Lloyd) was used to life in the long shadow of his legendary sheriff dad (Walter James) and strapping siblings. But when unknown scoundrels abscond with municipal funds and make his pop the fall guy,...

In the Darjeeling Limited, from director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox), three estranged American brothers reunite for a meticulously planned, soul-searching train voyage across India, one year after the death of their father. For reasons...

The third filming of Arthur Richman's 1922 Broadway play is a charm, with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne portraying Jerry and Lucy Warriner, a bickering married couple who've lost trust in each other. After agreeing to a trial divorce, Jerry and Lucy realize...

Lena Dunham got her start making YouTube videos, but she emerged as a major talent thanks to the breakthrough success of this exceptionally sharp comedy, which garnered the twenty-four-year-old writer-director-actor comparisons to the likes of Woody...

Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra (IT'S a WONDERFUL LIFE), about a spoiled runaway socialite (THE PALM BEACH STORY's Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (GONE WITH THE WIND's...

This masterpiece of black humor, beloved in Spain but too little seen elsewhere, threads a scathing critique of Franco-era values through a macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner's daughter and reluctantly takes over her father's...

Blu-ray. Directed by Whit Stillman, the movie stars Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman and Mira Sorvino. The main character in Barcelona is a Chicago salesman named Ted Boynton, who lives and works in the eponymous Spanish city in the early 1980s. Ted's...

After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the 1955 comedy SMILES OF a SUMMER NIGHT (SOMMARNATTENS LEENDE) at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman (THE SEVENTH SEAL, WILD STRAWBERRIES). in turn-of-the-century Sweden,...

In the 1970s, the name James L. Brooks (THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, TAXI, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, THE SIMPSONS) was synonymous with intelligent television comedy his shows were insightful about work and love and always tapped into the zeitgeist. With his...