Genre: Comedy
Crooklyn
Directed by Spike Lee
Spike Lee’s sentimental remembrance of growing up in 1970s Brooklyn centers on a young girl named Troy (Zelda Harris) as …
The Priest’s Children
Directed by Vinko Brešan
A young Catholic priest takes subversive action to enforce the Church’s position on birth control among his flock and soon …
A New Leaf
Directed by Elaine May
May, as one half of the legendary comedy team Nichols and May, established herself as a comedic powerhouse on stage …
Parks
Directed by Natsuki Seta
Produced to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Inokashira Park in Tokyo, Parks tells the story of three young friends who …
The Magician
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
When a 19th-century traveling medicine show makes its way into town, the locals subject its performers to a battery of …
French Cancan
Directed by Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir’s return to France in the early 1950s, following more than a decade of self-exile, culminated in his first …
Show Me Love
Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Elin (Alexandra Dahlstrom) lives in the unremarkable small town Åmål, a fact over which she despairs to anyone who will …
The Strange Little Cat
Directed by Ramon Zürcher
This droll, comic day-in-the-life chronicles a multigenerational family preparing a dinner in their Berlin apartment. Compared with siblings Karin and …
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 …
Neko Ninja
Directed by Takeshi Watanabe
From the director of Neko Samurai and its sequel Neko Samurai: A Tropical Adventure, a ninja with the stolen ability …
Smiles of A Summer Night
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
The inspiration for Woody Allen’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy and Steven Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, Bergman’s Smiles is …
Ninotchka
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Coming at a time in which Greta Garbo’s career was in sharp decline—her popularity waned in the US, while in …