Comedy
Carlos Mencia’s 2011 Comedy Special
Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of divorce with his wife, and his relationship with his college-student daughter isn’t exactly smooth sailing. One day, he decides to drop in to Tokyo’s old-timey district to visit his mother Fukue. However, things seem a little off. His mother used to be always working with an apron on, but now she’s covered in stylish clothes, looking livelier than ever, and even in love! Akio becomes perplexed, feeling out of place in his own mother’s home, but after encountering kind, warm—and almost nosey—neighbors and a side of his mother he’d never seen before, Akio gradually starts to discover something he had lost sight of.
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
Bored Private Investigator, Harry Bates, goes on a wild adventure when an alluring new client, Allie Glades, hires him to find her brother that just might be their sleepy small Florida town’s mythical monster, “The Crocodylus” in this comedy-horror that is like Ace Ventura mixed with Monty Python.
Sile gets out of jail and has the idea to get rich by mining cryptocurrency. Together with Dinel and Pompiliu he meets Ionuţ, the smartest guy in town, who helps them mine six million euros worth of crypto which they store on an USB drive. Dinel is responsible of keeping the drive safe, but he manages to lose it pretty quick, so the three of them start on a quest to recover the lost drive.
Four teens encounter a Psychotic Truck driver and have to escape The Mother Trucker’s clutches along with the Torture Chamber in the back of his Murder Bus. Will Detective Ford and Cooper get there in time to save them or will it be too late?
Louise, an aimless, 28 year-old Brooklynite, recently single, sort of a musician, depressed without admitting to it, drunkenly falls while doing something stupid and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age. There, she meets Antonina – a cranky elderly Polish woman, who speaks no English. Louise gets a job caring for her. Neither woman loves the arrangement but it’s time to face the truth about aging. We all have to grow up sometime.
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin remains in awe of these summer sirens while his dionysiac cousin throws himself into their carnal delights with euphoria. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright simmer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub (‘destiny’ in Arabic) can decide.
While his parents are on holiday, Huey and his buddies borrow their car and go out. After pursuing a gang of girls, Huey crashes the car, and discovering that the repairs will cost a small fortune, the boys must get jobs to pay for the repairs before Huey’s parents get home. The boys all land jobs as porters in the Beachfront Hotel, where their minds are taken off their problems by girls!!
Taylor is a man who has no problems with women. So confident is he that he accepts a challenge from his friends: he has to secure proposals of marriage from three women of their choice.
A tennis player incurs his pushy divorced parents’ displeasure when he pretends to fall for a struggling model.
A couple of con-men decide to grab a rare eagleandapos;s egg thatandapos;s being transferred from the Ramat Gan Safari Park to a venue on the Golan Heights so it can be added to a dish on a cooking competition, and win a big prize.
Aliza mizrahi, the building cleaner, solves a murder where the police fails
Erich „Rickerl“ Bohacek is a likeable loser who on the one hand tries to build up a music career and on the other still wants to be a good father for his little son.
A nerdy director and his crazy crew are filming for a reality show a glittery singer who stays for a week at the house of Charlie, the head of a brutal crime family. The world of entertainment meets the world of crime. Charlie and his family manipulate the camera crew and the young star and drag them into their dark and deadly world.
A couple want to find out the dirt about each other. She decided to do a project about her best friend, trying to find true love for him. Until his soul mate hits him in the middle of the street.
A family together with their grandpa go on a vacation, when their new car won’t stop and it nearly escapes crashing into a hundred cars.
In this original CG short, a Rock Giant literally holds in his hands the fate of a small coastal village. Can he forgive and forget?
In today’s metropolitan life, with the rise of nuclear family, a child grows slowly but learns quickly. He learns that he has to study, build his career and survive in this competitive world. His parents makes him learn that he has to win the rat race but fails to teach that even by winning the race, he will still remain a rat. A child grows without love, attention and company of his parents as they are busy making money. They substitute love with computer and video games. But deep inside we all know that a child needs his share of love, care and attention for his complete development. And this is his basic right.
Upon discovering she’s haunted, he ventures into the haveli to prove the ghost’s non-existence but instead encounters it. This confrontation challenges his skepticism and stirs genuine emotions for her.
Recent college graduate Herman Schumacher has just taken up residence in an apparently great house with apparently great roommates. But all is not well. Why did the roommate Herman replaced leave all of his stuff behind, as though he never really left? And why do the rest of the roommates “assume” he joined a cult? And why is there a makeshift tombstone with his name on it in the backyard? And what’s the deal with the monster that’s stealing Herman’s socks and living in a giant labyrinth under the house? As Herman searches for the answers he’ll learn that they can only be found on a path that leads to sex, murderous murder, hole-digging, and a BATTLE TO THE DEATH!
Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: they are in the fall of their lives and they all feel how ruthless old age can be. Marie is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, and her entire identity as part of a happy family crumbles. Berling is the eternal “bachelor” who outwardly denies her age and lives the sweet life, but in the backdrop she is affected by a complicated relationship with her daughter. Vanja lives in the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on. The three travel to Italy together to attend a food course in Puglia, where they each have an opportunity to redefine themselves.
Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d’Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques’ own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez, Jacques and Pierre discuss marriage and being parents. Then, in a wild moment at a nighttime party, Françoise starts playing with Pierre, and one thing leads to another: they become lovers. After a couple of trysts, Pierre wants out, but Françoise declares her love for him and wants to tell her father about it. She does, but leaves out Pierre’s name, so Jacques enlists Pierre’s help in identifying who seduced his daughter. What will Pierre do?
An outrageous road movie about The Old Man and his grandkids in a 24 hour race against time to stop a milky madman hell bent on killing his prized cow to save the world.
A bold anthology feature film made by an all-female creative team and cast. Based on the popular play of the same name the 80-minute movie follows 10 women scorned as they directly address their exes’ new wives and lovers at an open mic night in Los Angeles. Created by a dynamic group of emerging filmmakers at a time when audiences are demanding films made both by and for women, the project taps into a social and political climate that’s left women poised to take back their voices and be heard.
See what happens when the student bodies of an all-vampire school and an all-werewolf school integrate with Monster High.
An attractive and successful doctor places a personal ad in a newspaper to try to meet (and eventually marry) Mr. Right. A succession of blind dates ensues, featuring men who are lonely, desperate, dangerous and perverted.
The Czech romantic comedy hit “Love is Love” tells the story of Maruska, a blind girl and student at the Conservatory of Music who dreams of love and having a family despite her blindness. Her dream guy has curly blonde hair and blue eyes but she ends up falling in love with the dark eyed, swarthy Marek. Maruska lives with her overly protective grandfather whom is preocupied with his long-lost love. Maruska’s neighbor and best friend is constantly struggling with his headstrong mother as she refuses to accept that her son is gay. She blames everyone else – even her husband – for her son’s “deviation.” The fate of all main characters is unexpectedly intertwined and told through humorous and touching situations laced with subtle irony and hyperbole. Just as in life, with its funny situations and difficult tests, unexpected revelations and surprising twists, all characters will experience times when they behave blindly and forget to listen to their hearts.
Ilana Glazer: The Planet is Burning features Ilana’s thoughts on homophobes and Nazis, how crappy women’s razors are, and what a joke the patriarchy is.
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he’s severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles in school.
In the Martini family, chaos has four names: Livi, Tessa, Malea and Kenny. Just in time, Pinguin Paul finds these four on the run from his kidnappers. But on their mission to save Paul from the nasty magician duo Mary & Marc, only one thing will help this time: working together!
Charandas, a young man in a village has no aim in life except to be a pehelwaan (wrestler). He takes an oath that he will not court or marry a girl until he hits the age of forty. But things changes when Charandas meets Chameli and falls in love with her. A hilarious take on the caste system of India, as both of them come from different castes and try hard to marry each other.
Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner’s family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo’s evolution.
The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem’s Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva’s rabbi, who is Meir’s father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: “a barren woman is no woman.” Rivka’s sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular. The rabbi arranges Malka’s marriage to Yossef, whose agitation when fulfilling religious duties approaches the grotesque. Can the sisters sort out their hearts’ desires within this patriarchal world? If not, have they any other options?
Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo discover aliens who plan to conquer Earth.
Dr. Shuki Chaftziva is a ballroom dancing instructor who tries his hand at match-making. He follows the obituaries and takes his client, Zigi Fuchsman, an auto mechanic and childhood friend, to comfort the mourners and check out the widow and her property. At the same time, Ben Gurion Shemesh, a grease monkey who wants to be a singer, tries to win the heart of Dina, the disco floozy and also Zigi’s daughter
A once successful novelist tries to revive his fading career by launching a highly inventive scam. He recruits a reckless actress and trains her to assume the somber identity of a lit Masters student. Their lives will alter forever.
A dramatic, neo-realist Moroccan-speaking comedy, centered on the Vaknin family – a Moroccan Jewish family that immigrated to the picturesque town of “Bab El Ward” (an imaginary town symbolizing the whole periphery).
The Electrifiers won the 1984 Best New Artist Award for a smash hit which no one remembers, and have been stuck in traffic on the fast track to international stardom ever since. Thirty years later, the band members continue to drag themselves between gigs at nursing houses and cheap B&Bs while their lead singer still believes he is a 20-year-old rocker. But just as everyone is about to become completely fed up with him, a surprising opportunity presents itself, which could propel the Electrifiers straight to the top.
