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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Flirty Four-Flushers
Ambitious diner waitress Aggie (Madeline Hurlock), "weary of carving her career out of T-bone steaks," wins $500 in an essay contest by waxing eloquent on "how to disguise corned-beef hash." She decides to invest that bankroll posing as a debutant at an upscale resort in order to bag a millionaire....Start your free trial to watch -
Freezer Burn
Virgil is a thirty-year-old scientist developing technology to permanently preserve human organs for transplant. However, his obsession with his work takes a toll on his marriage. Virgil’s only distraction is Emma, a fourteen-year old student in his wife’s high school art class. His sanity hangs in the balance as he struggles...Start your free trial to watch -
I fuorilegge del matrimonio
Omnibus features were particularly popular Italian exports in the 1960s as they gave audiences a sampler plate of exciting foreign directors, stars, perspectives and oft-racy themes in one easily digestible package. This rare, star-studded curio waxes very cheeky about the Catholic Church's iron-clad hold...Start your free trial to watch
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The Gay Shoe Clerk
This film is often noted as an early example of the interpolated close-up. However, while the action moves smoothly across the shots, attentive viewers will notice a remarkable set of discontinuities. The woman's underskirts are white in the close up but dark in the long shot. The shot in the cross-cutting...Start your free trial to watch -
The General
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing. Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marian Mack), young Johnnie Gray (Keaton)...Start your free trial to watch -
Getting Acquainted
Charlie (Charles Chaplin) and Mabel (Mabel Normand) escape their spouses (Phyllis Allen and Mack Swain) to flirt in a park in this one-reel comedy. His final effort for Keystone, GETTING ACQUAINTED was filmed in Westlake Park in one day. Despite its similarity to earlier park comedies, it is nonetheless...Start your free trial to watch
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The Girl Swappers
A free-wheeling Air Force corporal has a series of romantic flings while stationed in England. His love for gambling on the horses lands him in big trouble when he racks up enormous debts. The only way to pay them is to go AWOL but, in doing so, knocks out a sergeant. Believing he killed him, he takes off...Start your free trial to watch -
Going Places
A shockingly hilarious sex comedy, GOING PLACES exposes the outrageous desires of a pair of perpetually horny twenty-something brutes. Jean-Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) live on instinct, spending their days harassing women and committing petty crimes. Their amorous adventures lead them to a frigid...Start your free trial to watch -
Goodbye Baby
When Melissa Brooks discovers she can’t afford college, she moves to New York City and gets a job as a waitress at a comedy club. Over the coming days and weeks, Melissa tries to raise the nerve to get on stage to delve into comedy, all the while watching and learning from other professional comics (including Donnell...Start your free trial to watch
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Grandma's Boy
One of Harold Lloyd’s personal favorites of his films, GRANDMA'S BOY is a beautiful tale of self-discovery with a bounty of comic overtones. Sonny is a self-professed coward who balks at the sight of the town tramp (Dick Sutherland). Armed with a lucky charm given to him by his grandmother (Anna Townsend), he defeats the...Start your free trial to watch -
Happy Birthday, Harris Malden
Harris Malden is the neighborhood darling, but he has an idiosyncrasy: he tries to pass off his facial hair as real to his friends and family. The mustache is a big bold lie affixed right above his lip and it isn't fooling anyone but himself. The small community that shelters Harris supports his curious...Start your free trial to watch -
Happy Funeral
Generation Y's infatuation with romance, growing pains and Facebook are explored in this delightful sequel to the sleeper hit TRUTH OR DARE: 6TH FLOOR REAR FLAT (though the story is self-contained; it isn't essential to see the first). This time, the rental unit at 6th floor rear flat is occupied by six new youngsters who...Start your free trial to watch
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Hawaiian Birds
This Fleischer Studios “Color Classic” finds a couple of island birds' habitats briefly invaded by some “Big City Orioles” who act like a big band. The lady of one of the pair is seduced away to the promise of stardom, requiring her mate follow to the mainland to reclaim his by-now-disillusioned love. During the Great...Start your free trial to watch -
Hayseed Romance
The obvious parallel to HAYSEED ROMANCE is Buster Keaton's 1922 silent short, MY WIFE'S RELATIONS. Jane Jones is similar in build to Kate Price, Buster's memorable mother-in-law in the earlier film. Their rough handling of him is similar in both films. A plate-smashing sequence was also featured in the Stan Laurel and Oliver...Start your free trial to watch -
Hearts and Diamonds
A short entitled HEARTS AND DIAMONDS? It certainly isn't a reference to playing cards (although some "playing" will be involved). Instead, the diamonds are on the baseball field and there will be a bit of romance involved, too. When a fellow is told that his intend paramour has an interest in sport, what...Start your free trial to watch
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The High Sign
THE HIGH SIGN was Buster Keaton's first independent effort but he believed the film retained too much of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's style of comedy and not enough of his own. He shelved the film and made ONE WEEK instead. THE HIGH SIGN was released only after Keaton broke his ankle and Joseph M. Schenck needed a film to...Start your free trial to watch -
His Picture in the Papers
Douglas Fairbank's third film, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS, was a significant achievement in the development of his comedies. Fairbanks plays Pete Prindle, the health food-loathing son of a health food magnate. The sort of fellow who follows a family vegetarian dinner with a clandestine dessert of a juicy...Start your free trial to watch



