Comedy - Movies

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Comedy

Tony Award winner Robert Lindsay stars as Bert Rigby, an English coal miner who sees life as one big musical number, emerging from the mineshaft at the end of the day singing the Fred Astaire classic "The Continental," wearing his helmet as a top hat and carrying his pick like a cane in this musical comedy written and directed by Carl Reiner. It all started when Rigby's mother took him to the local cinema. Now he dreams of stardom--a dream for which he crosses the Atlantic. But once in Hollywood, Rigby discovers that the movies have changed since the days of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly and no one wants to cast a man with Rigby's song-and-dance talents.

Phffft!

Comedy

Eminently versatile, two-time Oscar winner Jack Lemmon (1973, Best Actor, Save the Tiger; 1955, Best Supporting Actor, Mister Roberts) was an actor’s actor – the sort who made it look easy as he lit up the screen in everything from powerful dramas to irresistible comedies. When their marriage finally goes “Phffft!”, Nina and Robert get a divorce – only to discover that, like it or not, some people are just meant to be together!

Maisie Gets Her Man

Comedy

Showgirl Maisie Ravier gets mixed up with bookies and a stage-shy entertainer when Maisie Gets Her Man. Ann Sothern teams up with Red Skelton in this episode of Maisie's adventures. Broke and stranded yet again, showgirl Maisie Ravier finds work at the wrong end of a knife-throwing act. While working there she dedicates herself to helping would-be comedian Hap Hixby (Skelton) overcome his debilitating stage fright. Sothern puts on another outstanding portrayal of the luckless, yet always capable, Maisie, and Red Skelton shows he can raise laughs even while playing a character who can't crack a joke.

Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy

Comedy

A comic oratorio inspired by Monty Python's Life of Brian filmed at its only European performance at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2009 to celebrate forty years of Monty Python.

Up the River

Comedy

Two prisoners, Saint Louis and Dannemora Dan, escape during a theatrical production in order to go to the aid of Steve, a former prisoner whose past is about to be exposed by the man who framed a woman unless Steve agrees to help him commit another crime.

Apple Pie

Comedy

Apple Pie is the cult classic from director Howard Goldberg. In this experimental New York fairytale, gangster Jacques "the Ace" Blinbaum (Tony Azito), relates the tale of his first con – faking his own kidnapping to obtain a "ransom" from his father (Brother Theodore). But, as the film spirals more and more into fantasy, it becomes apparent the “gangster” may not be exactly what he seems. Disparate narrative threads converge in a magnificent dance sequence with music by Daryl Hall and John Oates on the streets of New York.

Dov Davidoff: Lower Your Expectations

Comedy

In Dov Davidoff's all new stand-up special, Lower Your Expectations, Dov returns with his one-of-a-kind frenetic style to dissect the hilariously misleading truths in culture and to question the American future.

Movers Ultimate

Comedy

Two best friends working for a moving company must get off work in time to make it to their 10-year high school reunion and reconnect with the girls that got away.

Girl Most Likely

Comedy

Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright who is forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald) after both her career and relationship hit the skids. Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom (Darren Criss) and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that, as part of her rebuilding process, she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she's ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them.

Unicorn City

Comedy

Voss entices local gamers to create a utopia to impress a potential employer, but paradise is disrupted when his nemesis lays claim to the city and Voss’s true love.

Grandma's Boy (2006)

Comedy

Life is sweet for 35-year-old video game tester Alex (Allen Covert), until he's forced to move in with his overbearing grandmother Lilly (Doris Roberts) and her two roommates: oversexed Grace (Shirley Jones) and overmedicated Bea (Shirley Knight). To save face with his much younger co-workers and super-sexy new boss (Linda Cardellini), Alex brags about the "three hot babes" living with him, but soon that cat's out of the bag and the real party at Grandma's house begins!

The Chocolate Soldier

Comedy

To test his wife's faithfulness, the jealous husband of a musical comedy duo impersonates a Russian officer and proceeds to court her in The Chocolate Soldier. Karl Lang (Nelson Eddy--Knickerbocker Holiday, Rosalie) and Maria Lanyi (Risë Stevens) are the musical toast of Vienna. Karl has fame, fortune, success, a beautiful wife... and suspicions. But his ruse to test her loyalty proves a frustrating experience when she keeps him in constant emotional turmoil by alternately accepting and rejecting his advances. Finally, deciding his real self is losing the battle for her affections, Karl drops the dual role... but there are still more surprises in store for him in this romantic musical comedy.

Bachelor In Paradise

Comedy

Oscar-honoree and Golden Globe-winner Bob Hope ("Road to Morocco") stars in this romantic comedy about an advice-columnist who disguises himself and moves into a housing development to study married couples. Co-starring Oscar-nominee Lana Turner ("Peyton Place") and Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Agnes Moorehead ("Johnny Belinda"). Oscar-nominated for Best Song.

Life of the Party (2018)

Comedy

When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna (Melissa McCarthy) turns regret into re-set by going back to college…landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who’s not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna—now Dee Rock— embraces freedom, fun and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.

Empire Waist

Comedy

Lenore Miller is a plus size, insecure teen whose talent for fashion is discovered by her confident, plus-sized classmate, forcing her into the spotlight—and into the path of both bullies and new friends. But her image-conscious mother’s fears and Lenore’s own deep self-loathing prevent her from wearing her own designs. Will Lenore ever feel the self-love she inspires in others?

The Happy Hooker

Comedy

In the first of three films on the life of Xaviera Hollander, the famous hooker from Holland (Lynn Redgrave) traces her career as madam of the biggest and most profitable bordellos in New York.

John Heffron: Middle Class Funny

Comedy

Funny is the only word that truly captures John Heffron (well, messy if you ask his wife). Hailing from the small town of South Lyon, MI (Detroit just sounds tougher), John's middle class upbringing has shaped his comedic voice.

A Dim Valley

Comedy

A curmudgeonly biologist (Robert Longstreet - The Haunting of Hill House, Halloween Kills) and his slacker graduate students (Whitmer Thomas & Zach Weintraub) muddle their way through a summer research project. Deep in the Appalachian woods, they encounter a group of mystical backpackers who disrupt their lives in beautiful and surprising ways. Part hilarious stoner comedy and part transcendental meditation on mysticism and love, A Dim Valley is a delightful ethereal journey into the cycle of love.

Inhumanwich!

Comedy

An experimental space voyage goes awry, fusing astronaut Joe to his Sloppy-Joe sandwich. Returning to Earth, he slowly transforms into a blob of meat that grows larger and larger as he eats everyone he encounters: teenage lovers, lonely farmers, rock n' rollers, kids, dogs and even an entire army platoon. Within days, he'll eat all of Cincinnati – within weeks, the entire world! The daring mission leader, his scientific expert and a blowhard military man lead the charge in fighting back, doing whatever they can to stop Joe and save the Queen City.

La Cage Aux Folles

Comedy

Two of Europe's most virile male stars, Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi, portray two very flamboyant, aging gay gentlemen. Togazzi is the owner of a St. Tropez nightclub where the chief attraction is a drag act performed by his lover, Serrault. Tognazzi has a son from a former marriage who is engaged to the daughter of a politician who is a very active vigilant member of the Union of Moral Order. The son has carefully hidden his father's true profession. But now the upright -and uptight- politician and his wife are coming for a social visit, and the future of Tognazzi's son's marriage is at stake. Tognazzi and Serrault desperately try to "butch up" their home and manners for the ensuing visit. The hilarious complications of the evening are (not quite) beyond belief...

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