Defending Your Life (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Starring: Albert Brooks, James Eckhouse, Rip Torn, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Lee Grant
Director: Albert Brooks
Best Night Ever (2013)
Comedy
Claire is about to get married and she goes to Las Vegas with her sister and two friends for her bachelorette party. Things quickly spiral out of control.
Starring: Desiree Hall, Samantha Colburn, Eddie Ritchard, Crista Flanagan
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
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Putzel (2012)
Comedy | Romance
For Walter Himmelstein, a young man endearingly known as Putzel, life literally doesn’t go beyond his family's fish store on the upper west side of Manhattan. In this heartwarming romantic comedy about sex, love and smoked fish, Walter's aspirations of taking over his uncle's fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally, who becomes romantically involved with his about-to-retire and very-married uncle. While Walter tries to thwart their romance in order to ensure his taking over the business, he finds his circumscribed life thrown off kilter, and, after years of being undermined by his family and friends, finally starts to realize that he’s more than a Putzel.
Starring: Jack Carpenter, Melanie Lynskey, John Pankow, Susie Essman
Director: Jason Chaet
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Black Coffee (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Robert (Henson) picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out – until Morgan (Dennis) enters into his life. Just as things start to heat up between them, trouble brews as Morgan's ex-husband (Rucker) vows to get her back and Robert's gold-digging ex-girlfriend (Hubbard) returns with an agenda of her own. With the help of his cousin (Keyes), Robert's about to find out how much good can come out of a bad situation in this charming romantic comedy that's good to the last drop.
Starring: Christian Keyes, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Gabrielle Dennis, Erica Hubbard, Lamman Rucker
Director: Mark Harris
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Je'Caryous Johnson's Men, Money and Gold Diggers / Men, Money & Gold Diggers (2014)
Comedy
Caleb Peterson has it all-a great job, plenty of money, and a fine fiancée in former model Paisley Terrell. They're all set to get married just as soon as she signs a prenuptial agreement, but there's just one problem…"Paisley don't do pre-nups!" As war wages and trusts start to crumble, it turns into a battle of the sexes.
Starring: Patrice Fisher, Omar Gooding, Je'Caryous Johnson, Jill Marie Jones, Vanessa Williamss, Malik Yoba
Director: Roger Melvin
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Conte de printemps / A Tale of Springtime (1990)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Jeanne is open and even-tempered, a philosophy teacher at a lycée. Her fiancé is away and she doesn't want to stay at his messy flat; she's loaned hers to a cousin, so she accepts the invitation of Natasha, a music student whom she meets at a party, to sleep in her father Igor's bedroom because he's always with his young girlfriend, Eve. Natasha tells Jeanne a story of a missing necklace and her suspicions of Eve. They all meet at dinner, then again at Igor's country house. Is Natasha scheming to get Igor and Jeanne together alone? Once alone, what determines how they choose to act? And the necklace, what of it?
Starring: Anne Teyssèdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel, Eloïse Bennett, Sophie Robin, Marc Lelou, François Lamore
Director: Eric Rohmer
La grande bellezza / The Great Beauty (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Jep Gambardella, a 65-year-old journalist and once promising novelist, lives his easy life among Rome’s decadent high society in a swirl of rooftop parties and late-night soirees. But when he learns of the death of his friend's wife – a woman he once loved as an 18-year-old – his life is thrown into perspective and he begins to see the world through new eyes.
Starring: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Vernon Dobtcheff
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Hot Dog… The Movie (1984)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
A hopeful young American hot-dogger goes pole-to-pole with an arrogant Austrian pro on the slopes as the pro's ex-girlfriend sets her eyes on the new blood.
Starring: David Naughton, Patrick Houser, Tracy Smith, John Patrick Reger, Frank Koppala, James Saito, Shannon Tweed
Director: Peter Markle
In the Company of Men (1997)
Comedy | Drama
Director Neil LaBute's debut film is the wildly controversial story of two angry young businessmen who set out to destroy a naive secretary by pretending to fall in love with her. Chad (Aaron Eckhart), furious about the way women are ruining his man's world, enlists his wishy-washy co-worker (Matt Malloy) in a callous plan to date then dump a vulnerable secretary (Stacy Edwards). Both horrifying and hilarious, IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is a "brilliant black comedy…sure to be one of the best pictures of the year. This is a movie event."
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy
Director: Neil LaBute
Modern Family (TV Series 2009- )
Comedy | Family | Romance
This mockumentary explores the many different types of a modern family through the stories of a gay couple, comprised of Mitchell and Cameron, and their daughter Lily, a straight couple, comprised of Phil and Claire, and their three kids, Haley, Alex, and Luke, and a multi-ethnic couple, which is comprised of Jay and Gloria, and her son Manny.
Starring: Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Ty Burrell, Rico Rodriguez, Nolan Gould, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons
Creator: Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd
My Life as a Dog / Mitt liv som hund (1985)
Comedy | Drama
A twelve-year old Swedish boy is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in a country village after his mother becomes ill.
Starring: Anton Glanzelius, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Kicki Rundgren, Tomas von Brömssen, Ralph Carlsson
Director: Lasse Hallström
Což takhle dát si špenát / What Would You Say to Some Spinach? (1977)
Comedy | Sci-Fi
The heroes of this absurd comedy full of breakneck twists, confusions, commotion and disentanglement are the moonlighters Jarda Zemanek and Franta Liska, whom nothing is sacred. As soon as they get out of prison, where they were due to attempted theft of spirit, they are involved in another swindle. Both scoundrels are hired by the owner of a beauty salon in the Hotel Imperial, who is in league with Professor Mlejnek from the Research Institute, where they just invented a device to regenerate old cows. He wants them to get an exact copy of the device, which would return lost youth to rich ladies. But it has a catch. Who wants to undergo the treatment must not eat spinach at the critical time, because it magnifies the effects of the device…
Starring: Vladimír Mensík, Jirí Sovák, Iva Janzurová, Michal Kocourek, Ondrej Hach, Frantisek Filipovský
Director: Václav Vorlícek
Family United / La gran familia española (2013)
Comedy
During the final of the World Cup in South Africa celebrated a wedding. That day, while Spain freezes whole, a family with five children biblical names (Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel and Ephraim) also faces the biggest game of his life.
Starring: Verónica Echegui, Antonio de la Torre, Raúl Arévalo, Quim Gutiérrez, Alicia Rubio, Arantxa Martí, Sandra Martín, Patrick Criado, Roberto Álamo, Héctor Colomé, Miquel Fernández
Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Ninja Kids!!!: Summer Mission Impossible / Ninja Kids!!! 2 / Nintama Rantarô: Natsuyasumi shukudai daisakusen! no dan (2013)
Action | Comedy
At a time when nations are warring, a sword with mysterious power called "Heaven's Sword" is stolen. The sword is said to give its wielder the power to conquer the world. Various ninja all over Dokutake Castle and beyond also manuevering for this sword of immense power. Rantaro and his classmates are assigned to retrieve the stolen sword, their first real ninja mission.
Starring: Seishirô Katô, Roi Hayashi, Roy Hayashi, Juri Shingetsu, Hiroki Uchi
Director: Ryuta Tazaki
Rozmarné léto / Capricious Summer (1968)
Comedy
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine… A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance… Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness…
Starring: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Frantisek Rehák, Míla Myslíková, Jana Preissová, Jirí Menzel
Director: Jirí Menzel
The Stuff (1985)
Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
A delicious mysterious goo that oozes from the Earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation. But the sugary treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers begin infesting the world.
Starring: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Danny Aiello
Director: Larry Cohen
Půl domu bez ženicha / Half a House Without a Groom (1981)
Comedy
A bittersweet comedy about the dreams of parents and children being rarely the same. The hero of the story is Franc, father of Olina and Jirina, who decided that he will build a huge and luxurious villa for them as a wedding gift. He isn't interested in opinion of his daughters on their future life one bit
Starring: Vladimír Mensík, Václav Vydra, Veronika Freimanová, Ivan Vyskocil, Marta Malá
Director: Hynek Bocan
Kulový blesk / Ball Lightning (1979)
Comedy
A comedy about an exchange of twelve apartments that its organizer, lawyer Radost, rightfully called Ball Lightning Event. To prepare, organize and carry out exchange of twelve apartments is a work worthy of the master. That's also who Dr. Radosta, who is excellently played by Rudolf Hrusinsky, is.
Starring: Rudolf Hrusínský, Karel Kalas, Josef Abrhám, Daniela Kolárová, Bedrich Prokos, Zita Kabátová, Milada Jezková
Director: Zdenek Podskalský, Ladislav Smoljak
Když rozvod, tak rozvod / When Divorce, So Be It! (1982)
Comedy
Young couple Hynek and Pavla are being divorced. The main reason seems to be Hynek's mother, who constantly meddles into young family's life and shows Pavla her antipathy. Suddenly they receive telegram which announces arrival of Pavla's father. Pavla doesn't want to tell him about divorce and Hynek is also afraid of hot-tempered father, so there's only one solution – to pretend functioning marriage.
Starring: Vladimír Mensík, Jan Censký, Veronika Zilková, Blanka Bohdanová, Ladislava Kozderková, Marcela Martínková
Director: Stepán Skalský
Goodbye World (2013)
Comedy | Drama
James and Lily live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its way across the country, triggering a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack, their home transitions from sheltered modern oasis to a fortress for the estranged old friends that show up at their door for protection and community.
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Gaby Hoffmann, Kerry Bishé, Ben McKenzie, Mark Webber, Caroline Dhavernas, Scott Mescudi
Director: Denis Hennelly
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