Romantic Comedy
see all genres ›The rom-com, where opposites attract, potential lovers “meet cute” and all is resolved with a perfect match, shows the crazy, blind, humorous ways of love.
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Genres / Comedy / Romantic Comedy
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All About Women
Hong Kong film maestro Tsui Hark is back on top form with this delightfully quirky romantic comedy. Drop dead gorgeous businesswoman Tang (Kitty Zhang), tomboyish rock singer Tie (Guey Lun Mei) and eccentric scientist Fanfan (Zhou Xun) cross paths and eventually come together to carry out their common mission to find Mr....Start your free trial to watch -
Allez Oop
The most obvious parallel to ALLEZ OOP is COLLEGE, where Buster Keaton's attempts at various athletic events are a disaster until his girl is threatened. Then, in a total reversal, he performs the same feats brilliantly while trying to effect a rescue. The girl here is Dorothy Sebastian, his leading lady five years earlier in...Start your free trial to watch
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American Pluck
A princess visiting the US is saved from being arrested in an illegal speakeasy by a prizefighter. They fall in love, but she must go back to her nation to become queen, and can't marry a commoner. Complications ensue in this Chadwick Pictures comedic melodrama from 1925. Please excuse the poor source quality of this film....Start your free trial to watch -
Antisex
This is not a boring story about sexual dysfunction, or a cool erotic movie. This is the funniest fairy tale about love! It's a love story between an ordinary man and a not so ordinary woman and she's not sexless, she's just asexual. It is ASEXUALITY! It's just a movement and you probably heard about it before, but never like...Start your free trial to watch -
Art House
A communal house left in trust many years ago to provide art students support in the way of free housing, ART HOUSE has accumulated its share of legends, lore, art, art junk and a reputation for hard partying. When a university dean and an influential descendant of the original benefactor decide to turn the place into housing...Start your free trial to watch
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Asso
On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local bar, and wins a handy amount of money. As Ace heads home to his waiting bride Silvia (Edwige Fenech), he is killed by a hired gun. When he reappears to see his wife, he has a hard time convincing her...Start your free trial to watch -
Away We Go
Bobby Vernon was a talented comic actor during the silent era, who became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, when the sound era arrived. Here Vernon stars with Duane Thompson, Lila Leslie and Victor Rodman in a 1924 classic originally released as RENO OR BUST.Start your free trial to watch -
The Back of Her Head
Josh Safdie made this assured comedy in and around his apartment building when he was still a film student at Boston University. The dioramic setup plays like a vertical REAR WINDOW: a shy daydreamer (played by Safdie) lives above an older Hindi man who lives above a reckless Brit who lives above a girl...Start your free trial to watch
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Battling Butler
The greatest box-office success of all his independent comedies, BATTLING BUTLER is a rarely-seen gem that mingles Buster Keaton's deadpan demeanor and awesome physical agility with a particularly dramatic storyline. Keaton stars as Alfred Butler, a fragile young man whose father sends him into the country where he hopes...Start your free trial to watch -
Be Yourself
Comic chanteuse Fannie Brice stars as a nightclub singer in love with a thick-witted boxer (Robert Armstrong) in this delightful musical from the dawn of the talkies. Highlighted by five musical numbers co-written by Billy Rose (including "When a Woman Loves a Man"), BE YOURSELF showcases the unique blend of sophisticated...Start your free trial to watch
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Because Why
After five years of traveling abroad, Alex returns home. All he has with him is a back-pack, a skateboard and a slip of paper with an ex-girlfriend's address. When this address turns out to be a demolished building, Alex feels quite... well, lost. His long journey has ended on a pile of rubble. He moves into a neighborhood of...Start your free trial to watch -
Better Behave
Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family. Already pushing forty but impeccably nimble, he plays suitor to beauteous, heavily daddy-guarded Betty (Betty Walsh) and the duo try their hardest to elope. This is an essentially plotless series of gags but...Start your free trial to watch -
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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Blind Love
A blind woman falls in love with a short ventriloquist just by listening to his voice. When she meets him, however, she mistakes the ventriloquist for his much taller assistant. What ensues is a quirky and touching story of mistaken identity and sexual awakening.Start your free trial to watch -
Blues for the Avatar
BLUES FOR THE AVATAR is a comedy about two oddball characters: a man, Cheyenne, and a woman, Mary Jane, caught in the circumstances of being unwanted guests in other people's lives. His propensity for women has landed him in the middle of a horrendous breakup, while her quest for self-discovery leads her...Start your free trial to watch -
Boccaccio '70
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in BOCCACCIO '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET), Federico Fellini (LA DOLCE VITA), Luchino Visconti (THE LEOPARD) and Vittorio De Sica (BICYCLE THIEVES) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through...Start your free trial to watch




