Comedies

A 27-year-old black London optometrist decides to seek out the woman who gave her up for adoption after she was born. The search leads to a surprising discovery: her mother is a white factory worker living in the city's grimy East End. Their emotional...

Tired of churning out lightweight comedies, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (The Palm Beach Story's Joel McCrea) decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou? a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his producers point out that...

Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece. The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is...

The landmark "exercise in poor taste" from writer/director John Waters that still fascinates and repels moviegoers. From a trailer hideout near Baltimore, "filthiest person alive" Divine and her demented family defend her title from would-be usurpers...

Director Jacques Rivette's hypnotic and surreal drama, based in part on the writings of Henry James, follows flamboyant nightclub magician C?line (Juliet Berto) and withdrawn librarian Julie (Dominique Labourier) on a strange visit to a country mansion,...

Stodgy, affianced paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) had his worries between finding the last bone for a brontosaur skeleton and wheedling a six-figure grant for his museum. He then caught the interested eye of flighty, fun-loving society gal Susan...

Amid the filth and muck of England in the Dark Ages, a fearsome dragon stalks the land, casting a shadow of terror upon the kingdom of Bruno the Questionable. Who should emerge as the town's only possible savior but Dennis Cooper (Michael Palin), an...

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes before being spat out on the...

The second selection of restored Hal Roach "Our Gang" talkie comedy shorts includes "Pups Is Pups" (1930), "Teacher's Pet'" (1930), "School's Out" (1930), "Helping Grandma" (1931), "Love Business" (1931), "Little Daddy" (1931), "Bargain Day" (1931), "Fly...

This fifth set of handsomely restored Roach "Our Gang" talkie comedy shorts includes "Anniversary Trouble" (1935), "Beginner's Luck" (1935), "Teacher's Beau" (1935), "Sprucin' Up" (1935), "Little Papa" (1935), "Little Sinner" (1935), "Our Gang Follies of...

A fourth foray of restored Hal Roach "Our Gang" talkie comedy shorts includes "The Kid from Borneo'" (1933), "Mush and Milk" (1933), "Bedtime Worries" (1933), "Wild Poses" (1933), "Hi, Neighbor" (1934), "For Pete's Sake" (1934), "The First Round-Up"...

This third round of restored Hal Roach "Our Gang" talkie comedy shorts includes "Readin' and Writin'" (1932), "Free Eats" (1932), "Spanky" (1932), "Choo-Choo!" (1932), "The Pooch" (1932), "Hook and Ladder" (1932), "Free Wheeling" (1932), "Birthday Blues"...