Genre: Comedy

Army of Darkness
Directed by Sam Raimi
Happy-go-lucky S-Mart employee Ash is ripped from his 1990s existence and transported back to medieval times, where he must struggle …

Ave Maria
Directed by Basil Khalil
The silent routine of five nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks …

Awaara
Directed by Raj Kapoor
Known as “The Showman” by his contemporaries, Raj Kapoor produced, directed and starred in some of the most lasting classics …

Baby Face
Directed by Alfred E. Green
One of the most historically renowned pre-code films, Baby Face is the type of film Warner Bros. was so good …

Bachelor’s Affairs
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
With a nod to his offscreen playboy persona, debonair star Adolph Menjou plays an aging, wealthy lothario who is railroaded …

Ball of Fire
Directed by Howard Hawks
In this atypical Hawksian broad comedy, a group of nebbish roommate-intellectuals—led by young man of the group Bertram Potts (the …

Band of Outsiders
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
“After the first eight minutes of Band of Outsiders, the narrator (Godard) dryly offers a recap: ‘A pile of money. …

Barefoot
Directed by Jan Svěrák
Based on his father’s coming-of-age memoir set during the waning years of World War II, Svěrák’s (Koyla, The Elementary School, …

Bear Story
Directed by Gabriel Osorio
An old, melancholy bear tells his life story through a mechanical diorama.

Being There
Directed by Hal Ashby
In one of his most memorable roles, Peter Sellers plays Chance, a hermetic housekeeper at a wealthy man’s sprawling, lavish …

Bellissima
Directed by Luchino Visconti
One of Luchino Visconti’s (The Leopard, Death in Venice) little seen films—not in distribution in the US—Bellissima is a sly …

Big in Japan
Directed by John Jeffcoat
“Real-life Seattle rockers Phillip A. Peterson, David Drury, and Sean Lowry, known collectively as Tennis Pro, play reasonable facsimiles of …