Film Index
American cinema: Comedy
Casino Royale (1967)
Val Guest
Against his will, the original James Bond is brought out of retirement to foil a dastardly plot by SMERSH, an enemy organisation run by the evil Dr Noah...
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Val Guest
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...
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Stanley Donen
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...
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Tim Burton
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...]
The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
Jacques Tourneur
In a New England town in the late 1800s, Waldo Trumbull is a crooked undertaker who has failed to make a success of the business he has taken over from his step-father, Mr Hinchley... [More...]
Jacques Tourneur
In a New England town in the late 1800s, Waldo Trumbull is a crooked undertaker who has failed to make a success of the business he has taken over from his step-father, Mr Hinchley... [More...]
The County Fair (1920)
Maurice Tourneur
Sally Greenway and her aged aunt Abigail live a dull but contented life in the sleepy hamlet of Somerset, Massachusetts. Threatened with eviction from their ample farm by the cold-hearted money lender Solon Hammerhead, Sally has no option but to consent to marry Hammerhead's equally odious son, Bruce... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
Sally Greenway and her aged aunt Abigail live a dull but contented life in the sleepy hamlet of Somerset, Massachusetts. Threatened with eviction from their ample farm by the cold-hearted money lender Solon Hammerhead, Sally has no option but to consent to marry Hammerhead's equally odious son, Bruce... [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...]
Curtain Call (1940)
Frank Woodruff
Helen Middleton is an aspiring young writer who has just written a play, 'The End of Everything' which she believes will bring her fame and fortune... [More...]
Frank Woodruff
Helen Middleton is an aspiring young writer who has just written a play, 'The End of Everything' which she believes will bring her fame and fortune... [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...]
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Richard Fleischer
In 1845, Dr John Dolittle decides to give up treating the human residents of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, and instead devotes himself to the well-being of animals... [More...]
Richard Fleischer
In 1845, Dr John Dolittle decides to give up treating the human residents of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, and instead devotes himself to the well-being of animals... [More...]
Double Dynamite (1951)
Irving Cummings
Johnny Dalton, a lowly bank employee, is in love with his colleague Mildred Goodhue but he knows that, on his present salary, marriage is out of the question... [More...]
Irving Cummings
Johnny Dalton, a lowly bank employee, is in love with his colleague Mildred Goodhue but he knows that, on his present salary, marriage is out of the question... [More...]
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Robert Fuest
England, 1928. Three years after his campaign to slaughter those responsible for his wife Victoria's death, Dr Anton Phibes awakes from suspended animation, to find that his London mansion has been destroyed... [More...]
Robert Fuest
England, 1928. Three years after his campaign to slaughter those responsible for his wife Victoria's death, Dr Anton Phibes awakes from suspended animation, to find that his London mansion has been destroyed... [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...]
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Mel Brooks
In the 1890s, estate agent Thomas Renfield undertakes the long and hazardous journey from London to Transylvania to conclude the sale of Carfax Abbey to a certain Count Dracula... [More...]
Mel Brooks
In the 1890s, estate agent Thomas Renfield undertakes the long and hazardous journey from London to Transylvania to conclude the sale of Carfax Abbey to a certain Count Dracula... [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...]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Woody Allen
This helpful guide to sex will address some of the burning questions you have long pondered but have been too nervous to seek answers to... [More...]
Woody Allen
This helpful guide to sex will address some of the burning questions you have long pondered but have been too nervous to seek answers to... [More...]
Family Plot (1976)
Alfred Hitchcock
Anxious to find an heir for her vast fortune, the aged Miss Julia Rainbird hires psychic Blanche Tyler to track down her long-lost nephew... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Anxious to find an heir for her vast fortune, the aged Miss Julia Rainbird hires psychic Blanche Tyler to track down her long-lost nephew... [More...]
Father Goose (1964)
Ralph Nelson
Walter Eckland has turned his back on the world and plans to sit out WWII in peace in the South Pacific. Unfortunately, Fate has other ideas... [More...]
Ralph Nelson
Walter Eckland has turned his back on the world and plans to sit out WWII in peace in the South Pacific. Unfortunately, Fate has other ideas... [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...]