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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* But Were Afraid To Ask!
(1972) [M]

Woody Allen pushes the frontiers of comedy by consolidating his madcap sensibility and wickedly funny irreverance with his developing penchant for visually arresting humour. Giving complete indulgence to the zany eccentricity of his medium, Allen rises to the occasion with several hysterical...  More

Jour De Fete
(1949) [G]

A joyful, almost silent comedy set in the French countryside. Francois, a village postman, zips through his rounds on his bicycle -- the old-fashioned way. But when a traveling carnival comes to town, its proprietors show a film extolling the virtues of modern American mail delivery. Soon the...  More

Mon Oncle
(1958) [G]

Directed by Jacques Tati. Written by Jacques Tati and Jacques Lagrange. Music by Alain Romans and Franck Barcellini. With Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Alain Becourt. France, 1958. Tati's second outing as the amiable Monsieur Hulot, and his first colour film, Mon Oncle is a...  More

Une Parisienne
(1957) [PG]

Une Parisienne is a light, charming, cheeky comedy with the stunning and sexy Brigitte Bardot in flirty form. Brigitte Laurier (Bardot), the spoiled and innocent daughter of a French Ambassador cons one of her father's top aides, Michel (Henri Vidal) into marrying her. Brigitte's brattish ways...  More

La Cage Aux Folles
(1979) [PG]

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

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The Marx Brothers: Animal Crackers
(1930) [G]

Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. A painting displayed at that party is stolen, and the Marx's help recover it. Well, maybe 'help' isn't quite the word I was looking for, this is the Marx Brothers after all...  More

The Marx Brothers: A Night At The Opera
(1935) [G]

The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.  More

Don Camillo (The Little World of Don Camillo)
(1952) [G]

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his...  More

Heavens Above
(1963) [PG]

Oh Brother! Socialist parson Peter Sellers has been appointed to the parish of an upper-class village by mistake. When he converts the aristocrats to ridiculous charity work, the whole country is in an uproar. The bishop must act before the reputation of the church becomes an even bigger laughing...  More

Bananas
(1971) [PG]

Woody Allen's second film as a director, co-writer and star takes parody to the extreme with a brilliant send-up of everything from relationships to dictatorships. An early example of what Allen called his 'slapdash' approach to comedy, Bananas' broad, fast humor and rapid-fire witticisms form a...  More