Car Wash (1976)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Michael Schultz directed this kinetic, hyperventilating comedy concerning the crazed events that go on within a single 10-hour period at a Los Angeles car wash.
Starring: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Antonio Fargas, Clarence Muse
Director: Michael Schultz
100 Yen Love / Hyakuen no koi (2014)
Comedy
Kazuko (Sakura Ando) lives at her parents' home. She rarely hangs out with other people. Things change when her younger sister divorces and moves back with her child. Kazuko and her sister's relationship goes bad, causing Kazuko to move out and live alone. What brings happiness to Kazuko is to watch a middle-aged boxer (Hirofumi Arai) practice at a boxing gym. The boxing gym is located between the 100 yen shop where she works and her home. One day, Kazuko and the middle-aged boxer meet and they begin to live together.
Starring: Sakura Andô, Hirofumi Arai
Director: Masaharu Take
River's Edge: The Ohkawabata Detective Agency / Reverse Edge: Ohkawabata Tanteisha (TV Mini-Series 2014)
Comedy
Set along the Sumida river, there is a company by the name of "Ookawabata Tanteisha". It is a small private investigators' agency, run by 3 people. Specializes in strange cases.
Starring: Jô Odagiri, Maya Koizumi, Renji Ishibashi
Creator: Hitoshi Ohne, Kôji Shintoku
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Children's television star Rainbow Randolph is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by Smoochy, an idealistic purple rhinoceros. When Randolph discovers that Smoochy is also having an affair with Randolph's ex-lover Nora, a top programming executive at the network, he plots his revenge.
Starring: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Danny DeVito, Jon Stewart, Pam Ferris
Director: Danny DeVito
Other People's Money (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Larry's never met a debt-free corporation he didn't want to devour but he may think twice about New England Wire & Cable. Its ramrod like patriarch (Gregory Peck) has been a fighter all his long life. And to arm against takeover, he's hired a lawyer (Penelope Ann Miller) whose style and cunning rival Larry's.
Starring: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie, Dean Jones, R.D. Call
Director: Norman Jewison
Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
Adventure | Comedy
Phyllis Nefler, a soon to be divorced Beverly Hills society wife is determined to prove to her husband Freddy and herself that she can finish what she starts out to do. She soon realizes that being a Wilderness Girls' den mother to a troop of Beverly Hills-bred girls is not as easy as buying cookies.
Starring: Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Stephanie Beacham, Audra Lindley
Director: Jeff Kanew
Alias Jesse James (1959)
Comedy | Western
Inept insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a $100,000 policy. When his boss learns the man was Jesse James he sends Milford after him with money to buy back the policy. After a masked Jesse robs Milford of the money, Milford's boss heads out with more money. Jesse learns about it and plans to rob him, have Milford dressed as him get killed in the robbery, and then collect the $100,000.
Starring: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Gloria Talbott, Jim Davis, Will Wright, Mary Young
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)
Comedy | War
During World War II, the Army recruits Navy Officer Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon) to command a battered old Schooner for a top secret mission. Masquerading as a Japanese fishing boat, this nautical nightmare must smuggle a spy through the mine-infested waters of the South Pacific. Unfortunately for Crandall, he has inherited a wild crew of butter-fingered landlubbers, including First Officer Tommy Hanson (Ricky Nelson).
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully, Joby Baker
Director: Richard Murphy
Hibi Rock: Puke Afro and the Pop Star / Hibi rokku (2014)
Comedy
Takuro Hibinuma had no talent for sports or aptitude for studying throughout high school and never had a girlfriend. However, he found his true calling when he began playing rock music. While in high school, he formed a rock band named Rock 'n' Roll with his friends. After graduation, they move to Tokyo and begin playing live shows. One day, at a live house, Takuro meets a world-renowned idol singer named Saki Utagawa and his fate is irrevocably altered when she asks him to write her a song.
Starring: Shûhei Nomura, Fumi Nikaidô, Tomoya Maeno, Keisuke Okamoto, Motoki Ochiai, Tomoko Mariya, Naoto Takenaka
Director: Yû Irie
Fotograf (2015)
Biography | Comedy
The story is freely inspired by the life and work of Jan Saudek, who is probably the most well-known Czech photographer internationally and has indisputably been involved in the development of international photography. He has exhibited and sold his work in the largest galleries and art houses, he has earned international recognition and awards, he enjoys great popularity and interest – he is a true phenomenon.
Starring: Karel Roden, Jenovéfa Boková, David Cerný, Vilma Cibulková, Patrik Dergel, Lukás Juza, Marie Málková
Director: Irena Pavlásková
5 to 7 (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
An aspiring novelist has an extramarital affair with a French diplomat's wife.
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Olivia Thirlby, Bérénice Marlohe, Lambert Wilson, Frank Langella, Glenn Close
Director: Victor Levin
We're No Angels (1989)
Comedy | Crime
Ned and Jim, two escaped convicts on the run, find refuge with the Catholic Church when they are confused for and pose as priests.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby, Ray McAnally
Director: Neil Jordan
The Last Time (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Thriller
A cynical New York salesman finds his scornful ways unexpectedly softened upon falling for the fiancée of his new business partner, a Midwest transplant attempting to find his footing in the city, in screenwriter-turned-director Michael Caleo's feature directorial debut. The Bindview Company is a firm comfortably nestled in a corporate park that specializes in a highly profitable product. Ted is a former Northwestern University literature professor who has since found his calling in sales. When fresh-faced Ohio native Jamie arrives at Bindview eager to acclimate to life in the big city, cynical Ted greets the cub salesman with a palpable sense of scorn. Though Jamie is currently engaged to be married to the pretty Belisa, the bride-to-be is beginning to view her prospective spouse as something of a loser, and soon sets her sights on his reluctant mentor Ted.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser, Amber Valletta, Daniel Stern, Richard Kuhlman, Alexis Cruz
Director: Michael Caleo
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
When ruthless landlord Max Devlin is struck by a bus, he meets a diabolical "soul manager" with an offer he can't refuse. Max can return to life on earth if he can convince three innocent people to sign their souls over to the devil within two months. In a riotous race against time, all his targets have other ideas.
Starring: Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Susan Anspach, Julie Budd, Sonny Shroyer, Chuck Shamata
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
The Big Kahuna (1999)
Comedy | Drama
Three salesmen wait in the company's hospitality suite at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli
Director: John Swanbeck
Superdad (1973)
Comedy | Family
Charlie McCready haplessly invites punishment by trying to keep up with his daughter's rowdy teenage friends in volleyball, waterskiing… and even bodysurfing! His overprotective meddling soon drives her away from Bart, her beach-bum boyfriend, right into the arms of a crazed beatnik painter.
Starring: Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Barbara Rush, Joe Flynn, Kathleen Cody, Joby Baker
Director: Vincent McEveety
Smokey and the Bandit 2 / Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Action | Comedy
The Bandit goes on another cross-country run transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. With, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice hot on his tail.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Paul Williams
Director: Hal Needham
Punchline / Punch Line (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Field plays a housewife and mother who suddenly develops the urge to be a comedienne. Her comic instincts are on target, but her timing and delivery stinks. Tom Hanks, a stand-up comic with a few years' experience under his belt, offers to teach Field the ropes.
Starring: Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Mark Rydell, Kim Greist, Paul Mazursky
Director: David Seltzer
Phat Girlz (2006)
Comedy
Two plus-sized ladies meet the men of their dreams in the most unexpected of ways.
Starring: Mo'Nique, Godfrey, Joyful Drake, Ion Overman
Director: Nnegest Likké
Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)
Action | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Just when things are quieting down in Riverton, everything goes wrong. Inspector Gadget is put on probation. Claw stages a daring escape from prison and plots a new "Crime of the Century." And the Mayor unveils a new and improved G2 — an all-robot, all-tech, all-female gadget! Could it get any worse for our hero?
Starring: French Stewart, Elaine Hendrix, Caitlin Wachs, Sigrid Thornton, Bruce Spence, Mungo McKay
Director: Alex Zamm
