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American cinema: Comedy
Busy Bodies (1933)
Lloyd French
Stan and Ollie begin their first day's work at a sawmill with a spring in their step. But it isn't long before things start to go wrong...
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Lloyd French
Call Me Madam (1953)
Walter Lang
The United States needs to appoint a new ambassador to the European country of Lichtenburg and who better than the oil tycoon and society queen Sally Adams...
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Walter Lang
Carefree (1938)
Mark Sandrich
In a desperate attempt to get his fiancée Amanda to agree to marry him, Stephen Arden asks his psychiatrist friend, Dr Tony Flagg, to analyse her...
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Mark Sandrich
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Paul Leni
As millionaire Cyrus West nears death, his relatives descend on his ancient mausoleum of a house like cats around a canary...
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Paul Leni
The Cat's-Paw (1934)
Sam Taylor
Ezekiel Cobb is a young American who has spent the last twenty years living in China with his missionary parents. Hoping to carry on his father's good work, Ezekiel agrees to return to his home town, Stockport, to find a suitable American woman to marry...
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Sam Taylor
Charade (1963)
Stanley Donen
Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas... [More...]
Stanley Donen
Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas... [More...]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Tim Burton
Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and four grandparents in a rundown old house, the family barely surviving on the small amount Charlie's father earns at the toothpaste factory... [More...]
Tim Burton
Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and four grandparents in a rundown old house, the family barely surviving on the small amount Charlie's father earns at the toothpaste factory... [More...]
Chickens Come Home (1931)
James W. Horne
Oliver Hardy is the proud proprietor of a thriving fertilizer business. However, his dreams of becoming mayor of his town appear thwarted when an old flame bursts into his office with a photograph that bears witness to their former indiscretions... [More...]
James W. Horne
Oliver Hardy is the proud proprietor of a thriving fertilizer business. However, his dreams of becoming mayor of his town appear thwarted when an old flame bursts into his office with a photograph that bears witness to their former indiscretions... [More...]
Christmas in July (1940)
Preston Sturges
Jimmy MacDonald is a low-paid clerk in the Baxter Coffee House Company. Desperately short of cash, he enters a rival company's slogan competition, and expects to win the $25,000 prize... [More...]
Preston Sturges
Jimmy MacDonald is a low-paid clerk in the Baxter Coffee House Company. Desperately short of cash, he enters a rival company's slogan competition, and expects to win the $25,000 prize... [More...]
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Robert Florey
Mr Hammer is the owner of a Florida beach hotel who, thanks to the housing slump, is having difficulty attracting customers... [More...]
Robert Florey
Mr Hammer is the owner of a Florida beach hotel who, thanks to the housing slump, is having difficulty attracting customers... [More...]
The Comedy of Errors (1983)
James Cellan Jones
When Egeon, a Syracusian merchant, arrives in Ephesus he is arrested and sentenced to death, as a law forbids his countrymen from entering the city... [More...]
James Cellan Jones
When Egeon, a Syracusian merchant, arrives in Ephesus he is arrested and sentenced to death, as a law forbids his countrymen from entering the city... [More...]
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Woody Allen
Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who, despite being a happily married man, has begun an affair with an air stewardess, Dolores Paley... [More...]
Woody Allen
Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who, despite being a happily married man, has begun an affair with an air stewardess, Dolores Paley... [More...]
Dance of the Vampires (1967)
Roman Polanski
For years, Professor Abronsius has devoted himself to obtaining tangible proof of the existence of vampires, and finally he believes he has found just that... [More...]
Roman Polanski
For years, Professor Abronsius has devoted himself to obtaining tangible proof of the existence of vampires, and finally he believes he has found just that... [More...]
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Woody Allen
Harry Block is a writer in crisis. Afflicted with a severe case of writer's block, he is struggling to come up with an original idea for his next novel... [More...]
Woody Allen
Harry Block is a writer in crisis. Afflicted with a severe case of writer's block, he is struggling to come up with an original idea for his next novel... [More...]
Desk Set (1957)
Walter Lang
Bunny Watson runs the reference department of the Federal Broadcasting Network, leading a team that provides answers swiftly and accurately on a whole range of topics to anyone else in the company... [More...]
Walter Lang
Bunny Watson runs the reference department of the Federal Broadcasting Network, leading a team that provides answers swiftly and accurately on a whole range of topics to anyone else in the company... [More...]
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick
Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR... [More...]
Stanley Kubrick
Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR... [More...]
Duck Soup (1933)
Leo McCarey
With Freedonia facing bankruptcy, the wealthy widow Mrs Teasdale agrees to lend 20 million dollars to the exchequer, on condition that her favourite, Rufus T... [More...]
Leo McCarey
With Freedonia facing bankruptcy, the wealthy widow Mrs Teasdale agrees to lend 20 million dollars to the exchequer, on condition that her favourite, Rufus T... [More...]
Father of the Bride (1950)
Vincente Minnelli
Stanley and Ellie Banks are an ordinary middle-class American couple who have lived a well-ordered, trouble-free life - until that awful Earth-shattering day when their daughter Kay announces that she intends to get married... [More...]
Vincente Minnelli
Stanley and Ellie Banks are an ordinary middle-class American couple who have lived a well-ordered, trouble-free life - until that awful Earth-shattering day when their daughter Kay announces that she intends to get married... [More...]
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Vincente Minnelli
With his daughter Kay now happily married, Stanley Banks thinks that his worries are over. How wrong he is. Just when everything appears to be going swimmingly, Kay drops her bombshell - she is expecting a baby... [More...]
Vincente Minnelli
With his daughter Kay now happily married, Stanley Banks thinks that his worries are over. How wrong he is. Just when everything appears to be going swimmingly, Kay drops her bombshell - she is expecting a baby... [More...]
Feet First (1930)
Clyde Bruckman
Harold Horne, a modest sales assistant in a Honolulu shoe store, falls for a girl whom he believes to be his boss's daughter... [More...]
Clyde Bruckman
Harold Horne, a modest sales assistant in a Honolulu shoe store, falls for a girl whom he believes to be his boss's daughter... [More...]
Finian's Rainbow (1968)
Francis Ford Coppola
Finian McLonergan absconds from his native Ireland with a stolen crock of gold, accompanied by his daughter Sharon. He arrives in Rainbow Valley, USA, believing that if he buries the crock near to Fort Knox he will become a wealthy man... [More...]
Francis Ford Coppola
Finian McLonergan absconds from his native Ireland with a stolen crock of gold, accompanied by his daughter Sharon. He arrives in Rainbow Valley, USA, believing that if he buries the crock near to Fort Knox he will become a wealthy man... [More...]
The Flying Deuces (1939)
A. Edward Sutherland
During an enjoyable stay in Paris, Ollie falls in love with Georgette, an innkeeper's daughter. So smitten is he by this object of supreme loveliness that Ollie has resolved to marry her, not knowing that she has fallen for a handsome legionnaire, François... [More...]
A. Edward Sutherland
During an enjoyable stay in Paris, Ollie falls in love with Georgette, an innkeeper's daughter. So smitten is he by this object of supreme loveliness that Ollie has resolved to marry her, not knowing that she has fallen for a handsome legionnaire, François... [More...]
Follow the Fleet (1936)
Mark Sandrich
When his dancing partner, Sherry Martin, declines to marry him, Bake Baker decides to join the navy. Bake soon grows disillusioned with the life of a sailor and, as soon as his ship docks at San Francisco, he heads straight for the nearest nightclub... [More...]
Mark Sandrich
When his dancing partner, Sherry Martin, declines to marry him, Bake Baker decides to join the navy. Bake soon grows disillusioned with the life of a sailor and, as soon as his ship docks at San Francisco, he heads straight for the nearest nightclub... [More...]
The Freshman (1925)
Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lamb can hardly wait to begin his first term as a student at Tate University, one of America's leading educational establishments which prides itself on being a football stadium with a college attached... [More...]
Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lamb can hardly wait to begin his first term as a student at Tate University, one of America's leading educational establishments which prides itself on being a football stadium with a college attached... [More...]
The Freshman (1990)
Andrew Bergman
Clark Kellogg leaves his home in Vermont to study film at New York University. His first week in the city gets off to a promising start when everything he possesses is stolen by crooked taxi driver Victor Ray... [More...]
Andrew Bergman
Clark Kellogg leaves his home in Vermont to study film at New York University. His first week in the city gets off to a promising start when everything he possesses is stolen by crooked taxi driver Victor Ray... [More...]
Funny Face (1957)
Stanley Donen
Fashion magazine editor Maggie Prescott is convinced that the next glamour look will combine beauty with intellect. Dissatisfied with her leading model, she arranges a photo-shoot in a Greenwich Village bookshop with her faithful photographer Dick Avery... [More...]
Stanley Donen
Fashion magazine editor Maggie Prescott is convinced that the next glamour look will combine beauty with intellect. Dissatisfied with her leading model, she arranges a photo-shoot in a Greenwich Village bookshop with her faithful photographer Dick Avery... [More...]
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Mark Sandrich
After a brief stay in Paris, the celebrated American dancer Guy Holden travels to England with his friend, Egbert Fitzgerald, a lawyer who has agreed to temporarily take the reins at his father's London law firm... [More...]
Mark Sandrich
After a brief stay in Paris, the celebrated American dancer Guy Holden travels to England with his friend, Egbert Fitzgerald, a lawyer who has agreed to temporarily take the reins at his father's London law firm... [More...]
The General (1927)
Clyde Bruckman
America, 1861. Train driver Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life - his locomotive, named The General, and his sweetheart, Annabelle Lee... [More...]
Clyde Bruckman
America, 1861. Train driver Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life - his locomotive, named The General, and his sweetheart, Annabelle Lee... [More...]
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Howard Hawks
Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are showgirls who think of nothing but catching the man of their dreams. Lorelei believes she has already landed her man, a wealthy heir named Gus Esmond who can't help showering her with expensive presents... [More...]
Howard Hawks
Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are showgirls who think of nothing but catching the man of their dreams. Lorelei believes she has already landed her man, a wealthy heir named Gus Esmond who can't help showering her with expensive presents... [More...]
Gigi (1958)
Vincente Minnelli
Paris, 1900. The wealthy man of leisure, Gaston Lachaille, is bored with society women - unlike his ageing uncle Honoré, who has lost none of his enthusiasm for playing the field... [More...]
Vincente Minnelli
Paris, 1900. The wealthy man of leisure, Gaston Lachaille, is bored with society women - unlike his ageing uncle Honoré, who has lost none of his enthusiasm for playing the field... [More...]