Comedies

Comedies

A selection of films sure to leave you laughing.

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Comedies
  • Beeswax

    Directed by Andrew Bujalski | 100 mins | 2009
    One of the acclaimed writer-director’s unsung gems is a casually nuanced portrait in contrasts between twenty-something twin sisters, Jeannie and Lauren, in Austin, Texas. While Jeannie (who’s paraplegic) keeps a steely eye on her vintage shop, Lauren...

  • Boyfriends and Girlfriends

    Directed by Éric Rohmer | 103 mins | 1987
    Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis” (“the friends of my friends are my friends”) in the final episode of his “Comedies and Proverbs” series. Taking an i...

  • Exit Elena

    Directed by Nathan Silver | 72 mins | 2012
    One of the great under-the-radar debuts, Silver’s sly comedy drops a twenty-something nursing aide (Kia Davis) into a suburban house where her kibitzing employer—played by the director’s scene-stealing mom—keeps drawing her into drama and chit chat. Show...

  • Friends And Strangers

    Directed by James Vaughan | 81 mins | 2021
    In writer/director/editor Vaughan’s ennui-drenched feature debut, molehill difficulties—an impromptu camping trip, an ill-fated wedding video—take on mountainous significance for Ray, an Australian twentysomething living a cushioned life in affluent Sydn...

  • Hyenas

    Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty | 110 mins | 1992
    One of the treasures of contemporary cinema, Senegalese master Mambéty made his long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki with this hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit. In Mam...

  • La Chinoise

    Leaving November 1

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 96 mins | 1967
    Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, and Anne Wiazemsky co-star in Godard’s rouge-tinted, slogan-splattered political comedy concerning five innocents passing their summer vacation in a shared apartment by discoursing on Mao, performing...

  • P. P. Rider

    Directed by Shinji Sômai | 118 mins | 1983
    Adapted from a story by Leonard Schrader—yes, Paul’s brother—"P.P. Rider" is a cheeky, playful, and consistently surprising adventure yarn about three young friends who, having witnessed the kidnapping of their school bully, set out on a journey across J...

  • The Aviator's Wife

    Directed by Éric Rohmer | 106 mins | 1981
    The inaugural film of Éric Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, The Aviator’s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis that finds the director exploring the possibilities of handheld camerawork in following a narrative expression of the opening ...

  • Claire's Camera

    Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 68 mins | 2017
    Isabelle Huppert re-teams with the Korean master for a light-footed comedy about a Polaroid-wielding schoolteacher visits Cannes and befriends a newly jobless woman (Kim Minhee). Their quick friendship sheds light on the meddlesome reasons for her firing,...

  • Viola

    Directed by Matías Piñeiro | 60 mins | 2012
    A group of actresses who are putting on all-female Shakespeare productions find that the theatrical swirl of frisky intrigue is blurring the boundaries between onstage and off. Filmed with a witty feel for the ongoing dance of social life, Piñeiro’s ele...

  • Rock 'n' Roll High School

    Directed by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante | 93 mins | 1979
    The moptop Ramones liberate a school from killjoy Principal Togar (Mary Woronov) in this sweetly rambunctious romp starring P.J. Soles (Halloween) as lead rebel of the student body. The innocent music-fueled anarchy (directed by a veteran of...