Comedies

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...

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...