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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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Hippy Porn
Written, produced and directed by Jon Moritsugu and photographed by Jacques Boyreau in glorious 16mm black-and-white, HIPPY PORN is (according to Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times) "about as adventuresome as feature film-making gets." Or, as Marjorie Baumgarten of the Austin Chronicle claimed (when the film was initially...Start your free trial to watch
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His Wooden Wedding
Unusually for a comedy, this one begins with the wedding. Charley Chase is about to marry his dream girl when her jealous ex-boyfriend, a bootlegger, slips him an improbable note: “Beware! The girl you are about to marry has a wooden leg.” Once Charley imagines peg-legged children, the wedding is off. The...Start your free trial to watch
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House of Fury
Chinese chiropractor Teddy (Anthony Wong) is a widower struggling to raise his sullen teenage son Nicky (Stephen Fung) and his wild daughter Natalie (Gillian Chung). Teddy's kids are deeply embarrassed by their Dad's outlandish tales of his glory days. What they don't know is that their father leads a clandestine life...Start your free trial to watch
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The House on Trubnaya
THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA was Boris Barnet's fourth production and a great hit with audiences. With its vibrant humor and a clever commentary on the historical moment, this film was unusual for the 1920s Soviet cinema. Barnet's heart lay in stories about regular people coming to terms with historical changes....Start your free trial to watch
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The Howl
THE HOWL is a true surrealistic cult classic, filled with jokes, impossible characters, riotous comedy and punk rock music well before its time. A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey through increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animals and...Start your free trial to watch
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I Am Jesus Christ
Jesus is back on Earth at Christmas only to find it’s become less about him and more about Santa and presents. Undaunted, he takes a job as a "Store Santa" to get the true meaning of Christmas out to the kids. But the modern world is no place for an out-of-touch savior. Can Jesus take back his holiday?Start your free trial to watch
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I Think I'm Missing Parts
A woman hits a bump in her station wagon and everything goes subtly haywire from there. Disconnected scenes unfold outside her window: a father struggling to manage his son; a man’s cap floating above his head; a singer performing for a small film crew; a skinny swimmer diving into the reeds. By turns...Start your free trial to watch
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Ichi the Killer
Welcome to a world where violence is a virtue and depravity is a way of life. This is the underside of Shinjuku and the home of Kakihara, a sadistic yakuza killer. He relentlessly tears apart the underworld searching for the man who killed his boss. The mastermind behind the plot is Jijii, and ex-cop bent on turning the...Start your free trial to watch
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Imagination
Karo comes inside from a rainy day to tell Piyobupt about seeing fish swimming in the air. Piyobupt laughs at his friend’s delusion but his own imagination starts working. There’s no such thing as an ordinary thought bubble in Koji Yamamura’s inventive claymation.Start your free trial to watch
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Intolerance I
Phil Mulloy’s acerbic space odyssey kicks off with scientists recovering a roll of celluloid from the distant planet of Zog. The public is warned of the film, “Inevitably, our own notions of what is moral, of what is sexually decent, of what and who we are, are brought into question.” The same might be said of any of Mulloy’s...Start your free trial to watch
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Intolerance II
Phil Mulloy’s multipart sci-fi satire picks up steam as the warring humans and zogs pass each other in outer space en route to their respective invasions. While the human astronauts remain distracted by their girlfriends’ underwear, the zogs touch down on earth and launch a subversive operation seemingly borrowed from THE...Start your free trial to watch
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Irma Vep
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung plays herself in haute auteur Olivier Assayas’ spiky satire of the French film industry. After seeing her in Johnny To’s cult-actioner HEROIC TRIO, past-his-prime director René Vidal (New Wave legend Jean-Pierre Léaud) impetuously casts Cheung as the lead in his remake of the silent classic...Start your free trial to watch
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Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
The "Second Coming" is upon us and Jesus has returned to Earth. But before he can get down to the serious business of judging the living and the dead, he has to contend with an army of vampires that can walk in the daylight. Combining Kung Fu action with Biblical prophecy and a liberal dose of humor, the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Juche Idea
Jim Finn's THE JUCHE IDEA is an uproarious and provocative deconstruction of North Korean propaganda and philosophy. Mixing together eye-popping archival footage with deadpan re-enactments, Finn has created a complex docu-fiction that is equally thought-provoking and entertaining. Translated as "self-reliance," Juche...Start your free trial to watch
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Knuckleface Jones
Hailed as being "wildly surrealist" by Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader and called "a work of demented brilliance" by Dave Nuttycombe of the DC City Paper. KNUCKLEFACE JONES won some big fans at the 2001 Slamdance Film Festival and made a lot of enemies elsewhere. It was partially funded by the...Start your free trial to watch