Category: Comedy
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The Black Marble
When alcoholic homicide investigator Valnikov is transferred to a burglary case that seems to involve a creepy dogcatcher, he’s also given a new partner — the pragmatic Sgt. Natalie Zimmerman, who’s experiencing a midlife crisis and does not welcome Valnikov’s company. But as these emotionally bruised cops are drawn deeper into the bizarre world of…
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My American Uncle
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover…
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Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Theodor Guschlbauer conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera in this lavish staging of Johann Strauss’s operetta. Recorded in 1980, the production features some of the leading performers of their day, including Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberova, Bernd Weikl, Walter Berry and Brigitte Fassbaender.
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Shaaban Below Zero
(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his family search for one from his town or any relatives so that they can seize his inheritance. They reach where Shaaban lives, who is from the town of the millionaire. Ghatrifi family make a deal with Shaaban to assume the identity…
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Part-Time Work
A comedy of everyday life problems of a “temporary” teacher who leads a very “temporary” life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother’s-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He’s a school teacher for a definite…
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Return to the 36th Chamber
The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert from the temple of Shaolin. The factory owner proves the actor…
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What Girls Want
Layla refuses to get married because she believes all men are liars especially after her sister’s tragic suicide on her wedding day when her fiancé left her. Layla’s father decides to put an end to her stubbornness and sends a letter that explains her problem to Ahmed who works as an editor for the local…
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Dot Dot Comma Dash
Various events of importance to the nation and to individual persons during the cold war and from about 1960 emerge as fragments of the memory of a little boy learning about life, about divorce, military occupation, the Beatles, little girls and death.
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Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen
A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world wants to get hold of the product.
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La Cage aux Folles II
In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe – dressed as a woman – hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier…
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The Garden of Eden
A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. He falls in love with her and lures her to deserted strip of beach where he pretends his stolen motorbike has broken down and they are stranded. An unlikely romance follows.
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At a Lame Pace
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
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Something Like It
Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the beautiful sex worker he meets that day, and a younger high school rakugo aficionado is also vying for his attention. But for clumsy, heart-on-his-sleeve…
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A Bachelor’s Pad For Ten
To make some easy money, Stamatis rents Chroni’s house to his womanizer boss Soultanoglou but also to his other boss’s wife, Dora, who decided to cheat on her husband … So, Chroni’s house turns into a double love nest for cheating couples, without him having any clue.
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My Wife Goes Back to School
Aristide Buratti is a wealthy grocer married to attractive Valentina. Although they seem to have a happy marriage, Valentina feels herself culturally inferior because she is a high school dropout. Despite her husband’s objections, she enrolls at a private boarding school.
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Full Moon High
High-school quarterback Tony Walker is bitten by a werewolf and transforms into a growling beast that hungrily chases down beautiful girls.
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Women Joke Seriously
A lyrical comedy in three parts linked by a voice-over monologue of the protagonist, telling about three Zhenyas – three lovers, in each of whom he was looking for the dream of his post-war childhood.