Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When a Russian circus saxophonist defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.
Starring: Robin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey, Saveliy Kramarov, Elya Baskin, Oleg Rudnik
Director: Paul Mazursky
101 Dalmatians (1996)
Adventure | Comedy
A woman kidnaps puppies to kill them for their fur, but various animals then gang up against her and get their revenge in slapstick fashion.
Starring: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie, John Shrapnel
Director: Stephen Herek
Samurai Cat / Neko zamurai (2014)
Comedy
Kyutaro is a swordsman who was feared by people at one time. Now, he is poor and lives alone quietly. Kyutaro doesn‘t know how to earn money without using his sword. By chance, Sakichi happens to see Kyutaro‘s swordsmanship and offers to hire him for a job. Sakichi wants Kyutaro to kill a white cat named `Tamanojoh` which his boss Yozaemon is fascinated by. According to Sakichi, after Yozaemon began to raise the cat, he changed to a childlike person. Kyutaro initially turns him down thinking its an absurd request, but decides to take the job for the money. When Kyutaro opens the door to where the cat is, he sees the lovely white cat.
Starring: Kazuki Kitamura, Misako Renbutsu, Yasufumi Terawaki, Yôsuke Asari, Shigeyuki Totsugi, Yoriko Dôguchi, Yôichi Nukumizu, Kanji Tsuda, Megumi Yokoyama
Director: Takeshi Watanabe, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
Le pont du Nord / North Bridge (1981)
Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery
Marie is a claustrophobic ex-con who, shortly after wandering into Paris, encounters the wild and potentially troubled young woman Baptiste. Baptiste accompanies Marie on her quest to solve the mystery behind the contents of her former lover's suitcase.
Starring: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-François Stévenin
Director: Jacques Rivette
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob / The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Comedy
In this French comedy, Louis de Funès stars as Victor Pivert, a hopelessly bigoted man. Victor loves people, as long as they're Caucasian, French, and Catholic. But when it comes to foreigners, Victor draws the line. His ultimate nightmare becomes a reality the day of his daughter's wedding, when he stumbles across a group of Arab revolutionaries and is forced into hiding as a rabbi. Gerard Oury's film features an onslaught of hilarious chase sequences.
Starring: Louis de Funès, Suzy Delair, Claude Giraud, Miou-Miou, Marcel Dalio
Director: Gérard Oury
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair's exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper- middle-class Indian family's only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches-Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she's never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father's hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck-as well as buried family secrets. But Nair's celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Roshan Seth
Director: Mira Nair
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Comedy | Music
A rock and roll adventure that follows "a day in the life" of those four lads from Liverpool who made music history as The Beatles. This musical "mockumentary" leads us into the madness of the fab four's everyday lives where the simple act of traveling from Liverpool to London for a television performance involves escaping from the invasion of a mob of fainting teenagers, outwitting a hungry pack of newspaper reporters, and stopping Paul's meddlesome grandfather from breaking the band apart. Cus' you know, you can't do that.
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington
Director: Richard Lester
The Lizzie McGuire Movie / Lizzie in Rome (2003)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Music | Romance
Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And what was supposed to be only a normal trip, becomes a teenager's dream come true.
Starring: Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Hallie Todd, Robert Carradine, Jake Thomas, Alex Borstein
Director: Jim Fall
Big Bad Wolves / Mi mefahed mezeev hara (2013)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings – a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.
Starring: Lior Ashkenazi, Rotem Keinan, Tzahi Grad, Doval'e Glickman, Menashe Noy, Dvir Benedek
Director: Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado
Happy Christmas (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Irresponsible 20-something Jenny arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff, a young film-maker living a happy existence with his novelist wife Kelly and their two-year-old son. Jenny's arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson instigate an evolution in Kelly's life and career. Meanwhile, Jenny strikes up a rocky relationship with the family's baby sitter-cum-pot dealer.
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, Joe Swanberg
Director: Joe Swanberg
Saving Face (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.
Starring: Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen
Director: Alice Wu
Bring It On: In It to Win It /Bring It on 4 (2007)
Comedy | Sport
Southern California high school senior Carson arrives at the all-important "Cheer Camp Nationals" determined to lead her squad, the West High Sharks, to victory. But chic New Yorker Brooke and her team, the East High Jets, are equally steadfast in their pursuit of the competition's coveted "Spirit Stick." As tension mounts between the two rival squads, Carson falls for fellow cheerleader Penn, not realizing he's a Jet. When Brooke discovers the budding romance, she raises the stakes by challenging Carson to a one-on-one cheer-off. A spectacular "cheer fighting" sequence erupts into a no-holds-barred brawl and cheerleaders on both sides are suspended from the competition. With their dreams of taking home the top prize all but shattered, the leaders of both squads realize they'll have to take drastic measures to stay in the game.
Starring: Ashley Benson, Cassandra Scerbo, Noel Areizaga, Jennifer Tisdale, Kierstin Koppel, Anniese Taylor Dendy, Michael Copon
Director: Steve Rash
Bring It on Again / Bring It on 2 (2004)
Comedy | Sport
A group of new college students, spurned from the official college cheerleading team. Rather than give in to defeat, the students band together and form their own cheer squad, but can they win the cheer-off.
Starring: Anne Judson-Yager, Bree Turner, Kevin Cooney, Faune A. Chambers, Bryce Johnson, Richard Lee Jackson, Bethany Joy Lenz
Director: Damon Santostefano
Emoticon 😉 (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Trying to navigate love and intimacy in the digital age, a woman and her boyfriend's teenage children become unlikely guides in each others relationships.
Starring: Livia De Paolis, Michael Cristofer, Carol Kane, Sonia Braga, Diane Guerrero, Miles Chandler, Christine Ebersole
Director: Livia De Paolis
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15 North (2013)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Ben, a 25 year-old with anxiety and OCD, still living with his Mom, is forced to embark on a road trip with his only friend Richardson, an unambitious model. They are asked to drive to Salt Lake City to help Ben's angry great uncle move out of a retirement community and into his own home. In this take on modern young adulthood, we follow Ben and Richardson over the course of their enlightening three day road-trip that results in a series of fascinating encounters and the sort of banter that only occurs between two mismatched friends.
Starring: Ben Faigus, Alex Schemmer, Peter Paull, K. Harrison Sweeney, Michelle Page, Nikki BreAnne Wells
Director: Aaron Fradkin
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Hoser / The Dick Knost Show (2013)
Comedy | Drama
After Dick Knost, an arrogant sports radio host, finds himself in hot water for defending violence in sports, he ironically suffers a nasty concussion which he refuses to treat. As the brain injury affects his job and his snarky attitude affects his friendships, Dick must decide whether to make a change or stick with the outrageous behavior that made him famous.
Starring: Tom Scholte, Gabrielle Rose, Jillian Fargey, Tom Butler
Director: Bruce Sweeney
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The Woman Chaser (1999)
Comedy
Set in 1950s Los Angeles, Richard Hudson (Patrick Warburton) is a shrewd car dealer who moves from San Francisco and sets up a used-car dealership. Tiring of this job, he turns the lot over to an assistant and starts writing his first movie, The Man Who Got Away. It turns out to be an uncommercial picture chronicling the story of a truck driver who goes berserk, runs over a little girl and dies fending off a platoon of police officers. In making his film, Richard enlists the help of his father-in-law, Leo (Paul Malevitz), a washed-up former film director whose notable possession is a Rouault painting of a clown. Through Leo, Richard pitches his idea to the Man (Ernie Vincent), the chief executive of Mammoth Pictures who green-lights the project. Conflict inevitably arises when Richard's obsession for making the movie his way clashes with the Man. Other kooky characters include Richard's mother (Lynette Bennett), a former ballerina who lures her hirsute lug of a son into a comic pas de deux; Richard's sexually curious stepsister, Becky (Marilyn Rising), who seduces him; and his secretary, Laura (Emily Newman), whom he impregnates with a boorish indifference.
Starring: Patrick Warburton
Director: Robinson Devor
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Muppets Most Wanted / The Muppets… Again! / The Muppets 2 (2014)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Musical
Whilst on a grand world tour, the Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit lookalike.
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey, Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Dave Goelz
Director: James Bobin
Good Sam (1948)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need–like a house.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe, Joan Lorring, Clinton Sundberg
Director: Leo McCarey
Chasing Amy (1997)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Best friends Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards are enjoying success as the creators of the cult comic book 'Bluntman and Chronic.' When they meet fellow comic book artist Alyssa Jones, Holden's desire for the beautiful charmer is immediate. Alyssa, however, has set her romantic sights elsewhere but decides, nevertheless, to pursue a friendship with Holden. This presents Holden with a dilemma: feeling the way he does, can he merely be friends with this woman? Banky, who knows Holden best, doesn't think so. As the friendship deepens, so do Holden's affections for Alyssa. And cautiously, yet effortlessly, so do Alyssa's for him. With their relationship strugging to define itself, Banky grows more and more frustrated at the notion of losing his best friend to emotional adulthood.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Casey Affleck
Director: Kevin Smith
