Film Index
American cinema: Comedy
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
William Keighley
A critic, public speaker and bon vivant, Sheridan Whiteside is one of America's top radio personalities. During a busy lecture tour, he allows himself to be talked into having dinner at the house of a prominent Ohio family, the Stanleys...
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William Keighley
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Tim Burton
With the Earth surrounded by an armada of Martian flying saucers, American President James Dale spots an immediate opportunity to boost his popularity rating...
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Tim Burton
Max in a Taxi (1917)
Max Linder
When he returns home drunk, Max is thrown onto the street by his outraged father. Homeless and hungry, Max decides to kill himself by lying on a railway track and waiting for a train to run him over...
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Max Linder
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Vincente Minnelli
In 1903, St Louis is home to the Smith family, a typical middle-class American household which comprises successful business man Alonzo Smith, his wife Anna, their grown-up son Lon and four daughters, Rose, Esther, Agnes and Tootie...
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Vincente Minnelli
The Merry Widow (1934)
Ernst Lubitsch
Madame Sonia is not only the wealthiest person in the remote East European country of Marshovia, she is also the most beautiful...
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Ernst Lubitsch
Midnight Run (1988)
Martin Brest
One-time cop Jack Walsh has turned bounty hunter after a run-in with Los Angeles mobster Jimmy Serrano, which robbed him of his career and his family... [More...]
Martin Brest
One-time cop Jack Walsh has turned bounty hunter after a run-in with Los Angeles mobster Jimmy Serrano, which robbed him of his career and his family... [More...]
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Woody Allen
Lenny Weinrib is a Manhattan sportswriter who is happily married to Amanda, a career-minded art gallery curator. Over dinner one evening, Amanda admits to wanting to have a child of her own but is unwilling to give up work and so raises the possibility of adoption... [More...]
Woody Allen
Lenny Weinrib is a Manhattan sportswriter who is happily married to Amanda, a career-minded art gallery curator. Over dinner one evening, Amanda admits to wanting to have a child of her own but is unwilling to give up work and so raises the possibility of adoption... [More...]
The Milky Way (1936)
Leo McCarey
Burleigh Sullivan is a timid, inoffensive milkman who wouldn't harm a fly, yet one evening he somehow manages to knock out a man who had been antagonising his sister... [More...]
Leo McCarey
Burleigh Sullivan is a timid, inoffensive milkman who wouldn't harm a fly, yet one evening he somehow manages to knock out a man who had been antagonising his sister... [More...]
Monkey Business (1931)
Norman Z. McLeod
Four brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo, stowaway on a ship bound for New York. As they try to elude the ship's First Mate, the brothers find themselves embroiled in the machinations of two rival gangs... [More...]
Norman Z. McLeod
Four brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo, stowaway on a ship bound for New York. As they try to elude the ship's First Mate, the brothers find themselves embroiled in the machinations of two rival gangs... [More...]
Monkey Business (1952)
Howard Hawks
Dr Barnaby Fulton is a brilliant research chemist who, to his wife's dismay, has become obsessed with developing a drug that will throw the ageing process back into reverse... [More...]
Howard Hawks
Dr Barnaby Fulton is a brilliant research chemist who, to his wife's dismay, has become obsessed with developing a drug that will throw the ageing process back into reverse... [More...]
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Charles Chaplin
For thirty years, Frenchman Henri Verdoux has endured the monotonous life of a bank clerk so that he can provide for the wife and child he adores... [More...]
Charles Chaplin
For thirty years, Frenchman Henri Verdoux has endured the monotonous life of a bank clerk so that he can provide for the wife and child he adores... [More...]
The Moon Is Blue (1953)
Otto Preminger
Patty O'Neill is an aspiring young actress who puts up no resistance when architect Don Gresham attempts to chat her up on top of the Empire State Building... [More...]
Otto Preminger
Patty O'Neill is an aspiring young actress who puts up no resistance when architect Don Gresham attempts to chat her up on top of the Empire State Building... [More...]
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Alfred Hitchcock
David and Ann Smith have been happily married for three years and so the latter is mildly surprised when, one day, the former admits that he would have preferred to have stayed single if they had their time over again... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
David and Ann Smith have been happily married for three years and so the latter is mildly surprised when, one day, the former admits that he would have preferred to have stayed single if they had their time over again... [More...]
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
H.C. Potter
Tired of living in his cramped Manhattan apartment with his wife and two teenage daughters, advertising executive Jim Blandings is smitten by the dream of owning a house in the country... [More...]
H.C. Potter
Tired of living in his cramped Manhattan apartment with his wife and two teenage daughters, advertising executive Jim Blandings is smitten by the dream of owning a house in the country... [More...]
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Henry Koster
One summer, Mr Hobbs, a hardworking banker, is looking forward to a relaxing holiday with his wife in some exotic clime. What he gets is something very different - the holiday from Hell with his huge extended family... [More...]
Henry Koster
One summer, Mr Hobbs, a hardworking banker, is looking forward to a relaxing holiday with his wife in some exotic clime. What he gets is something very different - the holiday from Hell with his huge extended family... [More...]
Mr. Lucky (1943)
H.C. Potter
Small-time swindler Joe Adams avoids being called up to join the army in WWII by taking the identity of one of his henchmen, Joe Bascopolous, who is unfit for active service... [More...]
H.C. Potter
Small-time swindler Joe Adams avoids being called up to join the army in WWII by taking the identity of one of his henchmen, Joe Bascopolous, who is unfit for active service... [More...]
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Kenneth Branagh
In Sicily, the nobleman Don Pedro receives a hero's welcome from Leonardo, the Governor of Messina, having thwarted an uprising led by Don John, his bastard half-brother... [More...]
Kenneth Branagh
In Sicily, the nobleman Don Pedro receives a hero's welcome from Leonardo, the Governor of Messina, having thwarted an uprising led by Don John, his bastard half-brother... [More...]
Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
Lloyd Corrigan
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers is taking a short flight to Catalina Island when she witnesses a fellow air passenger suddenly drop dead... [More...]
Lloyd Corrigan
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers is taking a short flight to Catalina Island when she witnesses a fellow air passenger suddenly drop dead... [More...]
The Music Box (1932)
James Parrott
With their combined savings of three dollars and eighty cents Stan and Ollie set themselves up in business as removal men... [More...]
James Parrott
With their combined savings of three dollars and eighty cents Stan and Ollie set themselves up in business as removal men... [More...]
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Elliott Nugent
Ronnie Jackson is a baby photographer who dreams of becoming a private detective, like Mr McCloud, the man in the office next to his... [More...]
Elliott Nugent
Ronnie Jackson is a baby photographer who dreams of becoming a private detective, like Mr McCloud, the man in the office next to his... [More...]
My Favorite Wife (1940)
Garson Kanin
Ellen Arden returns to her family home to find that her husband Nick has just married another woman, Bianca. Nick is under the misapprehension that Ellen is dead, having drowned seven years ago during a nature expedition... [More...]
Garson Kanin
Ellen Arden returns to her family home to find that her husband Nick has just married another woman, Bianca. Nick is under the misapprehension that Ellen is dead, having drowned seven years ago during a nature expedition... [More...]
My Life with Caroline (1941)
Lewis Milestone
Anthony Mason is a successful publisher who, far from being concerned about his wife Caroline's dalliances with other men, positively relishes the challenge of winning her back to him... [More...]
Lewis Milestone
Anthony Mason is a successful publisher who, far from being concerned about his wife Caroline's dalliances with other men, positively relishes the challenge of winning her back to him... [More...]
My Little Chickadee (1940)
Edward F. Cline
Saloon bar singer Flower Belle Lee is on her way to visit her relatives in Lower Bend when her stagecoach is halted by a masked bandit... [More...]
Edward F. Cline
Saloon bar singer Flower Belle Lee is on her way to visit her relatives in Lower Bend when her stagecoach is halted by a masked bandit... [More...]
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
John Landis
Faber College, 1962. Two freshman, Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman, roam their campus in search of a fraternity that will accept them... [More...]
John Landis
Faber College, 1962. Two freshman, Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman, roam their campus in search of a fraternity that will accept them... [More...]
Ninotchka (1939)
Ernst Lubitsch
The Soviet Union is in desperate need of hard cash to buy tractors and other farm equipment from the West. For that reason, three loyal communists, Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski, are sent to Paris to sell a collection of jewels that were seized during the Russian Revolution... [More...]
Ernst Lubitsch
The Soviet Union is in desperate need of hard cash to buy tractors and other farm equipment from the West. For that reason, three loyal communists, Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski, are sent to Paris to sell a collection of jewels that were seized during the Russian Revolution... [More...]
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Jerry Lewis
Professor Julius Kelp is an accident-prone and socially inept chemistry professor at an American university. When he is picked upon by one of his more muscular students, Kelp makes up his mind to build himself up, but his visits to the gym prove disastrous... [More...]
Jerry Lewis
Professor Julius Kelp is an accident-prone and socially inept chemistry professor at an American university. When he is picked upon by one of his more muscular students, Kelp makes up his mind to build himself up, but his visits to the gym prove disastrous... [More...]
Oklahoma! (1955)
Fred Zinnemann
Oklahoma, in the early 1900s. Curly, a cowboy who lives with his aunt Eller, is in love with Laurey, and has offered to take her to the Skidmore dance... [More...]
Fred Zinnemann
Oklahoma, in the early 1900s. Curly, a cowboy who lives with his aunt Eller, is in love with Laurey, and has offered to take her to the Skidmore dance... [More...]
The Old Dark House (1932)
James Whale
Philip and Margaret Waverton are on their way to Shrewsbury by car with war veteran Roger Penderel when they are caught in a violent rainstorm... [More...]
James Whale
Philip and Margaret Waverton are on their way to Shrewsbury by car with war veteran Roger Penderel when they are caught in a violent rainstorm... [More...]
The Old Dark House (1963)
William Castle
American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day... [More...]
William Castle
American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day... [More...]
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Roy Del Ruth
Within hours of the Winfield family moving into their new house in a small Indiana town, the daughter, Marjorie, has struck up a romance with the boy across the road, Bill Sherman... [More...]
Roy Del Ruth
Within hours of the Winfield family moving into their new house in a small Indiana town, the daughter, Marjorie, has struck up a romance with the boy across the road, Bill Sherman... [More...]