Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy-drama film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to adopt a new identity as a woman to land a job. The movie stars Dustin… Continue Reading
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie… Continue Reading
Teemu Niukkanen’s Saatanan Kanit (Fucking Bunnies in the english version) is an absurd comedy about a “normal” man pushed too far and the limits of tolerance, but aside from its themes, it is also just a guaranteed good time. With a… Continue Reading
Four Rooms is a 1995 American anthology comedy film co-written and co-directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino, each directing a segment of it that in its entirety is loosely based on the adult short fiction writings of Roald Dahl, especially “Man from the South”… Continue Reading
The Hero is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed and edited by Brett Haley and written by Haley and Marc Basch. Lee Hayden is an aging Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old… Continue Reading
Husbands and Wives is a 1992 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film opens with upper-middle class Manhattan couple Sally and Jack announcing to their best friends, the Roths, that they are splitting up. Gabe Roth and his wife Judy… Continue Reading
After a young man makes a shocking discovery about his recently deceased father, he must decide whether he can accept the truth about who (or what) his dad really loved. Babs, directed by Logan George and Celine Held, examine’s a familiar… Continue Reading
In the middle of the Winter, on the frozen Saguenay river in Quebec, Canada, Guillaume goes back to old traditions to try to get his honor back. Destrier, by director Philippe David Gagné, playfully uses an anachronism to create a short… Continue Reading
Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes (Water Drops on Burning Rocks in the english version) is a 2000 French drama film directed by François Ozon. The film is based on a German play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Tropfen auf heisse Steine. The film is divided in 4 acts. Germany… Continue Reading
Graham Parkes delivers a hit of stoner short film comedy spiked with some mad paranoia in Craig’s Pathetic Freakout. It is the tale of one man and how he completely loses his shit after smoking some weed. Parkes and his team… Continue Reading
Krishna and Garfield wake up after a boozy night out, hungover and confused. Guarded, the two awkwardly dance around each other and the events of the previous evening, with pieces of the puzzle slowly added to paint a fuller picture of how… Continue Reading
The Lost Boys is a 1987 American horror comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, and Corey Feldman between others. The film is about two brothers who move to California and end up fighting a gang of young vampires. The film blends horror, humor, and… Continue Reading
Hot Seat is a coming-of-age story written and directed by Anna Kerrigan, that blends diverse genres in a unusually thoughtful way. Set at a birthday party populated by teens from an all-female school, the film plays with “Mean Girls” social hierarchies… Continue Reading
Just One of the Guys is a 1985 comedy film, directed by Lisa Gottlieb. Terri Griffith (Joyce Hyser) is an aspiring teenage journalist living in Phoenix, Arizona who feels that her teachers don’t take her school newspaper articles seriously because of her good looks. After failing to get… Continue Reading
Toni Erdmann is a 2016 German-Austrian comedy-drama film directed, written and co-produced by Maren Ade in which a practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO’s life coach. It stars Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller. The… Continue Reading
Mermelada is a comedy/drama short film directed by Benjamín Rojo, about the inner world and fantasies of a woman, striving to escape from her routine.
Bad Boy Bubby is a 1993 Australian-Italian black comedy/drama film written and directed by Rolf de Heer. Bubby is a 35-year-old man who has never set foot outside his mother’s dingy apartment in the back of a printing press in an industrial area of… Continue Reading
Tod den Hippies!! Es lebe der Punk (Death to the hippies !! Long live the Punk) is a comedy drama placed in 1980, in which 19 year old Robert, fed up with hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for… Continue Reading
Raising Arizona is a 1987 American crime comedy film directed, written, and produced by the Coen brothers, in which a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family’s quintuplets and their lives become more complicated than they… Continue Reading
The Toxic Avenger is a 1984 American superhero horror comedy film directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman (credited as Samuel Weil) and written by Kaufman and Joe Ritter. Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat… Continue Reading
Er ist wieder da (Look Who’s Back in the english version) is a best selling German satirical novel about Adolf Hitler by Timur Vermes, published in 2012 by Eichborn Verlag. The novel was adapted into a German movie of the same name, which was released in 2015. In 2011,… Continue Reading
Diner is a 1982 American comedy-drama written and directed by Barry Levinson. The film is Levinson’s screen directing debut, and the first of Levinson’s four “Baltimore Films” set in his hometown during the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. Set in the northwest section of Baltimore, Maryland, during the… Continue Reading
Ummah under Freunden (Ummah among friends in the english version) is a 2013 Comedy-Drama film. After killing two skinheads in a failed operation against NeoNazis, young undercover intelligence agent Daniel finds a hiding place and new friends in Berlins Turkish-Arab community.… Continue Reading
Top Secret! is a 1984 action comedy film directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, whose previous picture had been Airplane! It stars Val Kilmer (in his first feature film), Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif,Peter Cushing, Michael Gough and Jeremy Kemp. Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid… Continue Reading
In Bruges is a 2008 British-American crime-black comedy film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two Irish hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss. The film takes place, and was filmed, in the Belgian city of Bruges. In Bruges was the opening night film of… Continue Reading
Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe. The screenplay was written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his… Continue Reading
Hesher is a 2010 American dark comedy/drama film co-written and directed by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, Natalie Portman (who also produced the film) and Devin Brochu. Following the loss of his mother in a car crash, T.J. (Devin Brochu) falls into a state of depression. He… Continue Reading
The Woman in Red is a 1984 romantic comedy film starred and directed by Gene Wilder, who wrote the script, adapting it from the Yves Robert film Pardon Mon Affaire. San Francisco ad man Teddy Pierce (Wilder) is amused by, then obsessed with, a beautiful woman (Kelly LeBrock)… Continue Reading
Les petits mouchoirs (Little White Lies in the english version) is a 2010 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Guillaume Canet. In a Parisian nightclub, party man Ludo (Jean Dujardin) takes off late at night on his scooter, where he’s blindsided by… Continue Reading