Comedies

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...

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...