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Dysfunctional Family
see all genres ›No family in the history of movies has ever been fully functional, lest they bore us to death. Dysfunction is funny as well as freaky and relatable.
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Animalada
Argentinean writer/director Sergio Bizzio directs ANIMALADA, the extremely bizarre and horrific black comedy about a man who falls in love with Fanny, a sheep at his family’s vacation ranch. Distracted and unhappy with his current marriage, Alberto (Carlo Roffe) seeks comfort with Fanny in a nearby barn. He tries to hide his...Start your free trial to watch
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Beeswax
From director Andrew Bujalski (MUTUAL APPRECIATION), BEESWAX revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren (played by extraordinary newcomers Tilly and Maggie Hatcher) living in Austin, Texas. Jeannie co-owns a bright, candy-colored vintage clothing store. When a conflict with...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Eyes
As the feature film was becoming dominant over the course of 1915, Edison, like other American producers, had clearly mastered the one reel format (as BLACK EYES demonstrates). This is an enjoyable domestic comedy about marital discord and reconciliation. Nothing is allowed to get too serious and all ends happily. The story...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cameraman's Revenge
After filming several live-action documentaries for the Natural History Museum in Kono, Lithuania, Ladislas Starewicz started a film about fighting stag beetles but was frustrated when the insects refused to perform under lights. Starewicz decided to recreate the fight by articulating dead beetles in...Start your free trial to watch
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Cast Me If You Can
Hiroshi is an actor who always plays supporting roles and lives in the shadow of his famous playwright father. Often mistaken for someone else, even for a kidnapper, Hiroshi struggles daily with his marginalized existence. But one day, his luck changes. Hiroshi meets his muse, aspiring actress Aya, who...Start your free trial to watch
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Corky of Gasoline Alley
How long can a cousin visit? That's the question for Corky (Scotty Beckett) when his wife's cousin (Gordon Jones) makes himself an unwanted houseguest, begins telling Wallet family members how to run their businesses and blows up one of Corky's restaurant ranges AND one of Skeezix's (Jimmy Lydon) cars!...Start your free trial to watch
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Dead Long Enough
DEAD LONG ENOUGH is the comedic story of Ben Jones (Jason Hughes). Ben is a worn out, depressed Welsh lawyer who lives in the shadow of his larger than life, promiscuous TV celebrity brother Harry Jones (Michael Sheen). Ben hankers after his lost love, the fiery red headed Irish colleen Sinead (Angeline...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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Edison and Leo
A magnetic, amoral and womanizing genius inventor's world threatens to fly apart at the seams. His son, who has electricity crackling through his veins due to an accident in his father's laboratory, discovers that his father had an unwitting hand in both his mother's early death and his electrical ailment.Start your free trial to watch
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Emerald Cities
Produced in 1983, "EMERALD CITIES features Ed Nylund as an alcoholic, part-time Santa who runs a cafe in Death Valley with his actress daughter (Carolyn Zaremba). When the daughter runs off to San Francisco with a punk (Ted Falconi of Flipper), Ed follows. He encounters a politician who wants the country to be one big...Start your free trial to watch
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Erotikon
Labeled an "insolent romp" by the Village Voice and praised for its "risqué wit and cheerful amorality" in John Wakeman's "World Film Directors," EROTIKON is quite possibly the cinematic granddaddy of all sophisticated comedies and one of the finest achievements of Swedish director Mauritz Stiller. EROTIKON surely pushed the...Start your free trial to watch
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Fanny, Annie and Danny
Everyone's worst fears are realized when three adult siblings are forced by their powerful mother to reunite for Christmas dinner. An anti-Rockwellian portrait of an American Christmas, FANNY, ANNIE AND DANNY is hilarious, heartbreaking and completely original.Start your free trial to watch
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Fatty's Spooning Days
Fatty Arbuckle stars as an incorrigible husband who begins by flirting with the maid and ends up chasing after another man’s wife in the park. The other husband spots Fatty’s wife (Mabel Normand) unattended and so the marriage circle goes round and round. Those indefatigable Keystone Kops disrupt the...Start your free trial to watch
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Gasoline Alley
The popular Frank O. King comic strip characters go from newspaper page to screen in this 1951 feature film from legendary comedy director Edward Bernds (of Three Stooges and Bowery Boys fame). Scotty Beckett and Jimmy Lydon are Corky and Skeezix, half-brothers who find themselves in the restaurant business until...Start your free trial to watch
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The Good Luck of a Souse
In this fragment of a short by Georges Méliès, a construction worker gets a surprise in the basket he carries on his back: the daughter and wife of a drunkard, ejected out of a window. The commotion attracts a milling crowd. While the interior of the drunk's apartment is little more than a painted...Start your free trial to watch
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Grandma's Child
"Some people have bright futures; others are married," says an opening title even before we glimpse the protagonists illustrating that bleak sentiment in this nonetheless frantic silent comedy. Bobby Ray stars as the husband whose mutual sub-bliss with a blonde flapper wife is sustained by her mother's cheques (which were...Start your free trial to watch
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Her Torpedoed Love
Keystone comedienne Louise Fazenda plays another hick with a heart of gold, one ill-used by her layabout husband but fully appreciated by the elderly invalid who employs her as his cook. When it's discovered the latter will leave her his considerable fortune, his scheming butler (Ford Sterling) plots to...Start your free trial to watch