The Last Shot (2004)
Comedy
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Tony Shalhoub, Calista Flockhart, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: Jeff Nathanson
Fletch Lives (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery
The wise-cracking reporter retires to the deep south where he is caught up in a murder plot.
Starring: Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini, Randall Cobb
Director: Michael Ritchie
Honkytonk Man (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Western
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Verna Bloom, Matt Clark, Barry Corbin
Director: Clint Eastwood
What About Bob? (1991)
Comedy
Bob Wiley has a habit of clinging to his therapists. His last one sends him to Dr. Leo Marvin, to whom Bob develops an attachment after just one session. When the doctor leave to spend the rest of the summer with his family, Bob tracks him down, with surprising results.
Starring: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe, Tom Aldredge
Director: Frank Oz
Quick Change (1990)
Comedy | Crime
Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.
Starring: Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards, Tony Shalhoub, Philip Bosco
Director: Howard Franklin, Bill Murray
Mr. Coconut / Hap ga foon (1989)
Comedy
Mr. Coconut, who arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. Mr. Coconut has finally reunited with his family, as he endures Hong Kong Streets of the late 1980s, filled with stock and property gamblers, heavy mobile phones and everything.
Starring: Michael Hui, Bak-Ming Wong, Olivia Cheng, Joey Wang, Maria Cordero, Ricky Hui
Director: Clifton Ko
La famille Bélier / The Bélier Family (2014)
Comedy
A girl, who lives with her deaf-mute parents, discovers that she has the gift of singing.
Starring: Karin Viard, François Damiens, Eric Elmosnino, Louane Emera
Director: Eric Lartigau
The A-List (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Alyson Stoner (Step Up films, "Phinneas & Ferb"), Hal Sparks ("Lab Rats" "Queer as Folk") and Skyler Vallo ("True Blood") costar in this hilarious comedy. Eric Schultz (Hudson Thames, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager") is the coolest student at Lake Odell High School. He has the looks, the girl, and the popularity. Even the school newspaper has turned into a gossip blog about his personal life. His guidance counselor, Sylvia Martin (Elizabeth Bond), is just as in awe of him as everyone else is. Being a nerd back in her day, Sylvia has always wished she could have done the things that come so easily to Eric. When she discovers he is missing one class to graduate, she makes a deal with him. If Eric completes a list of 5 things she always wanted to do in High School (like date the quarterback and be a cheerleader) she will fudge his transcript and allow him to graduate!
Starring: Alyson Stoner, Hal Sparks, Skyler Vallo, Elizabeth Bond, Hudson Thames
Director: Will Bigham
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Julchen und Jettchen, die verliebten Apothekerstöchter / The Amorous Sisters / Come Play with Me 3 (1982)
Comedy
Comedy about some schoolgirls being taught anatomy (of the sexual nature) by the sexually frustrated Barbara Moose. In bed at nighttime the girls practice their daily lessons on each other and on any unsuspecting visitors of the night. When they're not in class they enjoy frolicking around outside (naked most of the time!) experiencing the joys of nature.
Starring: Brigitte Lahaie, Flore Sollier, Jane Baker
Director: Erwin C. Dietrich
Being Canadian (2015)
Comedy | Documentary
BEING CANADIAN chronicles the real-life quest of Robert Cohen, a proud Canadian, who left his hometown of Calgary and moved to the U.S. to start a career as a TV comedy writer. He started noticing how people outside Canada knew very little about his beloved homeland. After decades of ignorance, insults, and indifference, he decides to do something about it. Rob sets off on an epic personal quest, driving across Canada from East to West, to confirm the country he's been fighting for is still what he remembers. Interwoven with this journey are interviews with a variety of famous Canadians, along with people he meets along the way. His deadline? Midnight on Canada Day, in Vancouver. Imagine 'Sherman's March', but wearing a toque!
Starring: Cobie Smulders, Ben Stiller, Seth Rogen, Nathan Fillion, Michael J. Fox, Mike Myers, Kim Cattrall
Director: Robert Cohen
Outsourced (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker
Director: John Jeffcoat
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Sport
When a publicity stunt brings the New York Rangers and the national spotlight to Mystery, Alaska for a game with the local team of weekend warriors, the town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime!
Starring: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack, Burt Reynolds, Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich
Director: Jay Roach
Head Above Water (1996)
Comedy | Thriller
In this dark comedy, a supreme court judge (George) and his very young wife (Nathalie) are on vacation at her family's summer home on an island. When the caretaker, her childhood pal, Lance, takes George on a fishing trip an old flame (Kent) shows up to surprise Nathalie while she's alone. After a night of drinking Nathalie awakes to find Kent, naked and dead in her bed, just as her husband and Lance are arriving. Panicked, Nathalie hides the body but as everyone finds out it just leads to more trouble as they try to dispose of the body and eventually discover what really happened to her ex.
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Cameron Diaz, Craig Sheffer, Billy Zane
Director: Jim Wilson
Teen Witch (1989)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
A sweet young teenage girl wants to get the most popular boy in school to notice her, but how? All the hair-dos and hip clothes in the world don't work. It may just take some of that old black magic to get him 'neath her spell.
Starring: Robyn Lively, Dan Gauthier, Joshua John Miller, Caren Kaye, Dick Sargent, Lisa Fuller
Director: Dorian Walker
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
Comedy | Drama
The movie is based on the young adult book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Anne Brashares. As four best friends spend their first summer apart from one another, they share a magical pair of jeans. Despite being of various shapes and sizes, each one of them fits perfectly into the pants. To keep in touch they pass these pants to each other as well as the adventures they are going through while apart.
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd, Bradley Whitford
Director: Ken Kwapis
Fandango (1985)
Comedy | Drama
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards
Director: Kevin Reynolds
The Big Bang Theory (TV Series 2007-2019)
Comedy | Romance
Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are brilliant physicists, the kind of "beautiful minds" that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon, Leonard's roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow CalTech scientists Howard Wolowitz and Raj Koothrappali. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities… including love.
Starring: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Melissa Rauch, Mayim Bialik
Creator: Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady
Love Is Love / Wang fu cheng long (1990)
Comedy | Romance
Shing plays tyrant father to Ti (Sandra Ng) and orphan Shui (Stephen Chow). When he finds out that they are actually a couple, he banishes Shui from his habitat but true love has Ti following him. They try to make it on their own, and through both of their hard work, Shui becomes a marketing executive and his attitude begins to change. A charming film.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Sandra Ng, Fui-On Shing, Suki Kwan
Director: Tommy Leung
Chicken and Duck Talk / Gai tung ngap gong (1988)
Comedy
A Hui (Michael Hui) is a petty, stingy man who owns a restaurant specializing in a certain kind of duck dish. Although the restaurant is filthy, thanks in part to the unspeakable habits of its chef, and the service is awful, the food is good, and he has a loyal clientele. That is, until an international chain opens up a fried chicken restaurant across the street, and hires his admittedly incompetent headwaiter to parade back and forth across the street in a chicken costume to advertise the place. Now his customers are departing in droves. In this comedy, this classic tightwad is forced to take notice and meet the challenge of his competition.
Starring: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui, Sylvia Chang, Lowell Lo, Wing-Cho Yip
Director: Clifton Ko
12 in a Box / Twelve in a Box (2007)
Comedy
At a school reunion dinner in a remote country mansion, a dozen people are offered the chance to collect a million pounds each if they can stay on the estate, cut off from the outside world, for 96 hours. With deaths, sexual intrigue, kidnapping, and spiraling levels of farce and confusion, the action barely pauses for breath as it heads towards its "Will they or won't they succeed" climax.
Starring: Katy Wix, Kenneth Collard, Belle Mary Hithersay, Brian Mitchell, Jane Mcdowell
Director: John McKenzie
