Comedies

Nominated for four Academy Awards½ including Best Director, Seven Beauties (1975) stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off the profits of his seven sisters...

Manhattan psychiatrist Mildred Watson (Joanne Woodward) took on a most intriguing case: evaluate Justin Playfair (George C. Scott), a retired, wealthy judge who believes he's Sherlock Holmes-and whose grasping family wants control of his holdings...

Great Smokey Roadblock Aka Last Of Cowboys (1977) Blu-Ray

At once an homage to classical Hollywood thrillers and a playful riff on the newly-popular James Bond films, Attack of the Robots (Cartes sur table) stars Eddie Constantine as a wise-cracking superspy investigating a series of assassinations being...

Insightful social satire stars Beau Bridges as Elgar Enders, a sheltered rich kid who wants to prove his financial savvy by buying a Brooklyn tenement in order to gentrify the neighborhood. Instead, he finds himself assimilating into the lives of the...

The Parker family celebrates a warmer but no less festive season in My Summer Story, a sequel to A Christmas Story starring Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard), Charles Grodin and Kieran Culkin. The laughs are hardier and the adventures more adventurous...

Charlie Chan & Curse Of The Dragon Queen (1981) Blu-Ray

Zany visit to a California school for driving violators stars John Murray (Bill's younger brother) as leader of a group of loopy leadfoots who go up against crooked officials who're out to make fast cash out of their impounded cars. Full-stop farce from...

The rise and fall of those in the spotlight - politicians, athletes and entertainers - is the stuff of great drama, and in the case of Mr. Saturday Night, great comedy as well. Director and star Bill Crystal traces the trajectory of stand-up comedian...

It's a grand and spectacular horseless carriage - a shiny yellow 1905 Winton Flyer automobile. It's owner is Mississippi plantation owner Boss (Will Geer, Jeremiah Johnson), who has left it sitting unattended. But hired hand Boon (Steve McQueen, Junior...

Can speechwriters on opposite sides of the political fence find love and happiness in the heat of an election season? This is the comic premise of Speechless, starring Michael Keaton (Birdman) and Geena Davis (Thelma and Louise) as Kevin Vallick and...

It was the early '60s, and four teenage SoCal buddies (Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, John P. Navin, Jr.) piled into a Bel Air convertible to head down to Tijuana for adventure, laughs, and, hopefully, to lose their virginity. Once over...