Category: Comedy

Comedy

  • I Will Finally Knock You Down, Dad!

    There is an underlying story about a lazy son who knows some kung fu but mostly fakes it to show off. After being exposed he does good by improving his skills to the point where he can finally knock down his kung fu master father.

  • Sixteen Candles

    With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister’s upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.

  • Fine Line

    Lee’s award-winning thesis film for NYU parallels a young man running from the Mafia and a young woman hiding from the INS, and its blend of the comic and the melodramatic sets the tone for the first feature films to follow. The title refers to Manhattan’s Canal Street, which separates Chinatown from Little Italy.

  • Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers

    Two brothers who can feel each others’ pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.

  • Splash

    A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There’s one big complication though; he’s fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.

  • Love on the Ground

    A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part.

  • The Other Side of Gentleman

    As part of a sociology experiment, Brigitte Lin tries to get lower-class playboy Alan Tam to fall in love with her. Not only does he fall for her, but he finds it impossible to return to his playboy life.

  • El Mil Usos II

    Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.

  • This Is Spinal Tap

    “This Is Spinal Tap” shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.

  • Schulmädchen ’84

    A comedy directed by Nikolai Müllerschön.