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Anarchic Comedy
see all genres ›These crazy comedies embrace chaos and freely indulge the wild side of human (mis-)behavior.
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Genres / Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
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Con Man
Film producer Sy Lerner (expertly played by the great Seymour Cassel) makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A cabby who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and...Start your free trial to watch
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Crash My Funeral
CRASH MY FUNERAL is a surreal comedy about a scriptwriter's block. In an attempt to pull his movie back on track he employs drastic measures; trying out impossible dialogue on a pizza delivery man, wandering around the neighborhood to scare up new characters and scenes, hoping for inspiration from every...Start your free trial to watch
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The Craven Sluck
An unhappy housewife seeks solace in the arms of a stranger in this underground film from Mike Kuchar. Adele (Floraine Connors) loathes her husband and fantasizes about starring in a movie called THE CRAVEN SLUCK. Bumping into a dashing suitor while out walking her dog, Adele thinks she may have finally...Start your free trial to watch
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Cruzando
Many earnest films have been made recently about the struggles of Latin American migrants trying to cross into the U.S. for a better tomorrow; CRUZANDO isn't one of them. A madcap adventure following the journey of two Mexican no-hopers, CRUZANDO chronicles the real-life hazards of such a trip. About a week before the birth...Start your free trial to watch
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Dancing on the Moon
The opening shot echoes the Georges Méliès classic A TRIP TO THE MOON. But, in the case of this Fleischer Studios cartoon, the moon-bound rocket is the “Honeymoon Express.” A zoologically diverse assortment of newlyweds dance their way to a space vacation (except Mr. Cat is left playing solitaire when he...Start your free trial to watch
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Dark Star
In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. DARK STAR is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the darkest reaches of space on a mission to...Start your free trial to watch
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Darkness Light Darkness
A corporeal and Kafkaesque claymation from Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer. Two hands find each other in a room and begin molding themselves into a human figure. Different body parts come knocking, some more insistently than others, until the small space is stuffed with the finished man. Whether viewed as...Start your free trial to watch
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The Deli
THE DELI is an enchanting slice-of-life comedy about a hard luck gambler who gets in over his head when he starts putting his store's profits on the line. Mike Starr plays Johnny Amico, a delicatessen owner who plays the same numbers in the lottery every week for his mother. The one week he doesn't play, his mother's numbers...Start your free trial to watch
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Delirium in a Studio
Only a small portion of this film survives but the extant fragment proves a strong dose of Georges Méliès-style imaginative slapstick. We enter mid-hallucination, as a painter's assistant chases a live concubine back into her portrait. When the artist wakes up and sees his hired hand bashing the canvas, he...Start your free trial to watch
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The Design
Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta’s ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor...Start your free trial to watch
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Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS chronicles the rise and fall of Bunny, Kitty, and Patch (Hilary Rubens, Jennifer Schwartz, and Janet Housden), three teenage runaways who form an all-girl rock group, The Lovedolls. Their rise to fame from a nowhere, drug-filled street life, is overnight thanks to the sleazy...Start your free trial to watch
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Down Among the Z Men
An absent minded professor loses a top secret formula in the grocery shop. When it is found by "Bats of the Yard," he proudly attempts to return it to the professor. Crazy comedy ensues. Starring the legendary Goons (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine).Start your free trial to watch
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Drama at the Puppets' House
As the title suggests, DRAMA AT THE PUPPETS’ HOUSE is one of Émile Cohl’s more theatrical animated shorts. The chalked forms are arranged as a cast, with two stick figures vying for the affection of a third and a stern policeman patrolling the frame. Cohl’s sly animation sends up propriety and honor even...Start your free trial to watch
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Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend: The Pet
Winsor McCay, renowned for such comic strips as "Little Nemo in Slumberland," earlier explored dream imagery with his 1904 strip "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" in which a character claims his horrible nightmares are caused by eating Welsh rarebit. In 1911, McCay began doing film animation, personally drawing...Start your free trial to watch
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Dynamite Brothers
Before RUSH HOUR there was DYNAMITE BROTHERS, the first movie to team an African-American action star and an Asian Martial Arts star! It's action all the way from the ghettos of L.A. to the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown as Larry Chin and Stud Brown blast apart the secrets of the syndicate. Gang...Start your free trial to watch
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Embrace of the Irrational
EMBRACE OF THE IRRATIONAL begins as what appears to be an hour long educational video written and directed by the fictitious Martin Thebes. It centers around a meditation on the Romantics' ideal of emotional confusion as a way to find truth. Then the film slowly unravels as the production becomes mired in...Start your free trial to watch
