Comedies

This loving farce from Fran?ois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) about the joys and turbulence of moviemaking is one of his most beloved films. Truffaut himself appears as the harried director of a frivolous melodrama, the shooting of which is plagued by the...

Peter Falk (A Woman Under the Influence) and Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) make for a hilarious dream team in this beloved American sidesplitter. Directed by Arthur Hiller (Love Story) from an ingenious script by Andrew Bergman (Blazing Saddles), The...

Stanley Kubrick's painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther) plays three wildly different roles: Air...

After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he's just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall...

Drawn ashore in 1980s Warsaw by the sounds of a nightclub band-and transforming into young women-mermaid siblings Silver (Marta Mazurek) and Golden (Michalina Olszanska) are taken in by the club owner, at first intrigued by their charisma and unusual...

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning (Ohayo) tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking as an act of resistance after their parents refuse to buy a...

A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, Here Comes Mr. Jordan stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident. He finds...

In exchange for their promotion, beautiful albeit bickering influencers Yaya (Charlbi Dean) and Carl (Harris Dickinson) were invited aboard a luxury cruise where the one-percenter guests had their every whim addressed by the put-upon crew. After a power...

In LIFE DURING WARTIME, independent filmmaker Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE) explores contemporary American existence and the nature of forgiveness with his customary dry humor and queasy precision. The film functions as a distorted mirror image...

It's 1964... and The Beatles are about to make their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Six teenagers from New Jersey-with motivations ranging from obsessed fandom to all-out sabotage-embark on a hilarious, trouble-filled pilgrimage to New York...

Classic baseball comedy stars Kevin Costner as "Crash" Davis, a veteran minor league player who is hired by a class-A North Carolina team to catch and mentor a cocky young pitching phenom (Tim Robbins). As Crash tutors the rookie about the game and life,...

Director Stanley Kramer assembled a veritable "Who's Who" of film comedy for this slapstick extravaganza about a group of strangers who learn about $350,000 in hidden loot from a dying gangster and set off on a madcap cross-country race to find it...