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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Bursting with mordant wit and alive with urgent real-life dramatic energy, Rashid Masharawi's Laila's birthday is a "fleet, dark urban comedy," (New York Times) that "moves at a brisk clip, ticking incidents like a meter on overtime" (Time Out New York).
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Seven comedies, including four restored from turn of the century Italy and France, a recently-discovered nitrate negative of Charlie Chaplin's first appearance in his tramp attire, a frenetic Mack Sennett gag fest replete with tin lizzies, and The pest (1922), starring a pre-Hardy Stan Laurel.
Publisher
ODK Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
4 different couples spend one romantic week together over New Year's Eve. Both coming out of failed marriages, Ji-ho and Hyo-young are not open for the possibilities of new love. Heartbroken after being dumped, Jin-ah heads to the other side of globe and encounters Jae-hun who also has left Seoul behind. Yong-chan and Yaolin are an international couple soon to get married, but their already-growing marriage blues begin to get worse as Yong-chan is...
4) Between us
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
In this darkly comedic drama, two couples reunite over two incendiary evenings where anything can happen. Grace and Carlo are a newly married New York couple who visit their old friends Sharyl and Joel in their huge Midwestern home. Despite their wealth, the hosts are in a bitterly destructive marriage. A few years later, the couples reunite in New York, only to find tables turned.
5) The general
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The general is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing.
6) Barbershop
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve and Cedric the Entertainers star in this bust-a-gut, hit comedy about a Chicago barbershop where razor-sharp comedy never goes out of style! Calvin (Ice Cube) is a would-be entrepreneur with big plans…and running his family's barbershop isn't one of them. But, when he impulsively sells the shop to a shady loan shark, he soon realizes just how important the neighborhood parlor is to him…and just...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Owing to a genetic mix-up involving stem cell research, the recently founded company INFINITY BABY is able to offer a service for aspiring parents who never want to leave the baby bubble - infants that do not age.Official Selection at the SXSW Film Festival and San Francisco International Film Festival.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
The buzz is back in Barbershop 2. Calvin (Ice Cube) is struggling to keep his father's shop alive, this time against urban developers looking to replace "mom & pop" establishments with name-brand chains. The world changes, but some things never go out of style -- you can still say anything you want at the barbershop! Queen Latifah, Eve, Michael Ealy, Troy Garity and Cedric the Entertainer co-star.
Publisher
Gravel Road Africa
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Three longtime friends band together to set up SIDECHIC GANG, an agency dedicated to exposing cheating husbands and boyfriends, and clamping down the side chick menace. While initially only servicing female clientele, a potentially lucrative opportunity presents itself when a rich businessman wants to hire them to confirm his suspicions.
10) Fits and Starts
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
David Warwik (Wyatt Cenac) is a struggling writer who has been toiling away at the same novel for years. His wife Jennifer (Greta Lee) is a hot young literary figure, who has just released a new masterpiece. When her publisher invites the couple to an artists' salon at his home in Connecticut, the pair embark on a twisted journey, and David must face his demons and try to "not be weird" among the waspy salon guests and competitive artists in attendance....
11) Operator
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Joe (Martin Starr, Silicon Valley) is a programmer with a crippling anxiety problem who is unable to deal with uncertainty. At work he is tasked with creating an interactive call center answering machine that can convey empathy. Joe recruits his wife Emily (Mae Whitman, Arrested Development) who has the perfect voice for the system.
12) Frances Ferguson
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Nick Offerman's narration adds savor to Bob Byington's bone-dry comedy about a Nebraska substitute teacher (Kaley Wheless) whose crushing discontent drives her to an ill-advised transgression. This SXSW Audience Favorite also stars David Krumholtz and Martin Starr.
14) Basmati Blues
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
An idealistic scientist goes to India to sell genetically modified rice, but things change when she falls in love a local farmer and the locale, in this musical romantic comedy.
15) The Switch
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Jennifer Aniston stars alongside Jason Bateman in this offbeat comedy as Kassie, a smart, fun-loving single woman who decides to have a baby, with hysterical consequences.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
his record-breaking comedy smashed the box office in France, where it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Cesar Awards. Although living a comfortable life in a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, her husband Philippe tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town on the French Riviera, at any cost. When Philippe is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector he is immediately...
18) Lost In Paris
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond.
19) Alps
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Yorgos Lanthimos's follow-up to his Academy Award nominee (and cult sensation) Dogtooth is another darkly comic, absurdist vision of (in)human relationships, focusing on a mysterious underground organization that helps mourners get over their losses by impersonating the deceased.
20) Casanova '70
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, Casanova '70 is a raucously funny sex romp starring Marcello Mastroianni at his charismatic peak. Packed with bed-hopping hijinks, a parade of gorgeous actresses, and Mastroianni's hilariously dry wit, Casanova '70 is a colorfully ribald gem from the Golden Age of Italian comedy.
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