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  • For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close

    Directed by Heather Ross • Documentary • With Michaela Watkins, James Urbaniak, Matt Walsh, Patton Oswalt, Paul Sheer • 2020 • 88 minutes

    Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us through sewers, me...

  • Girls Always Happy

    Directed by Yang Mingming • Drama • With Yang Mingming, Nai An • 2018 • 116 minutes

    Rising Chinese director Yang Mingming both directs and stars in GIRLS ALWAYS HAPPY – a mother-daughter story that goes for the jugular.

    Wu (Yang Mingming) and her mother (Nai An) live in a Beijing hutong – an ol...

  • At Last the 1948 Show Season 1

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    “Pre-Python comedy gold!” – The Daily Mail

    “Essential viewing for any Python fanatic.” – Variety

    This ground-breaking, splendidly silly and surreal comedy sketch series, written and performed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, was a major milestone on the road ...

  • Ashkan, The Charmed Ring & Other Stories

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    Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's first feature is a delightfully offbeat B&W mystery / comedy about the mysterious workings of Fate, played out in deadpan Jim Jarmusch-meets-Tarantino vignettes.

  • Freckled Max And The Spooks

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    A bittersweet, slapstick cross between MONSTER SQUAD, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and the Island of Misfit Toys, FRECKLED MAX is a nostalgic Gothic fairytale from acclaimed Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko about a young orphan Max who runs away and hides out in the ruins of nearby Frankenstein's castle. Th...

  • The Libertine

    Directed by Gabriel Alghion • Drama • With Vincent Perez, Fanny Ardant • 2000 • 100 minutes

    France, late 18th Century. The State, in alliance with the Church, has forbidden the publication and distribution of Diderot’s Encyclopædia. Meanwhile, Diderot and his family are holed up with some friend...

  • Ham on Rye

    Directed by Tyler Taormina • Drama • With Haley Bodell, Audrey Boos, Danny Tamberelli • 2020 • 85 minutes

    Ham on Rye, a coming-of-age comedy centered on the nervous excitement of youth and the strange horror of entering adulthood uses an expansive ensemble of over one hundred performers, includi...

  • A Man Called Ove

    Directed by Hannes Holm • Drama • With Rolf Lassgard, Bahar Pars, Ida Engvoll • 2015 • 116 minutes

    Stepping from the pages of Fredrik Backman’s international best-selling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, who sp...

  • Do Not Adjust Your Set (series)

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    With Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band • 1967

    Written by and starring the future members of Monty Python, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Eric Idle, DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET was broadcast on British TV in 1967, envisaged as a children’...

  • Datsche

    Directed by Lara Hewitt • Drama • With Zack Segel, Kunle Kuforiji • 2020 • 93 minutes

    Valentine, a New York actor, inherits a 'datcha' on a garden allotment in East Germany and goes to spend the summer there. In ist attic he finds Adam, a refugee hiding from deportation. Valentine promises to ke...

  • Last Cab to Darwin

    Directed by Jeremy Sims • Drama • With Michael Caton, Jacki Weaver, Ningali Lawford-Wolf, Emma Hamilton, Mark Coles Smith • 2014 • 123 minutes

    Rex is a cab driver who has never left the mining town of Broken Hill in his life. When he discovers he doesn’t have long to live, he decides to drive t...

  • The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle

    Directed by David Russo • Drama • With Marshall Allman, Jeanette Maus • 2009 • 97 minutes

    After losing his cubicle job as a data manager in Seattle, spiritually confused Dory feels like his life is going down the drain. He plummets from white collar to brown collar when he is forced to take a jo...

  • Le Week-End

    Directed by Roger Michell • Drama • With Jim Broadbent, Lindsey Duncan, Jeff Goldblum • 2013 • 93 minutes

    Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (IRIS, TOPSY-TURVY, ANOTHER YEAR) and Lindsay Duncan (ABOUT TIME, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, MANSFIELD PARK) give exquisite performances as Nick and Meg, a long-...

  • Fric-Frac

    Directed by Maurice Lehmann • Drama • With Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty, Hélène Robert • 1939 • 106 minutes

    Fernandel was a 20th-century French phenomenon – once he emerged from supporting roles in the early ‘30s, with his inimitable equine mug, enormous incisors and friendly eyes, he comman...

  • Green White Green (Abba T. Makama)

    Directed by Abba T. Makama • Drama • With Samuel Abiola Robinson, Dabis Christopher • 2016 • 102 minutes

    Shot on location in Lagos, and playing like a cross between American Graffiti and Be Kind Rewind, in this richly textured and frequently funny look at Nigeria's next generation, a group of yo...

  • Kin-dza-dza!

    Directed by Georgiy Daneliya • Drama • With Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze • 1986 • 133 minutes

    Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky circa Solaris directing Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and you'll come close to the existential weirdness of this loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy. Two...

  • The Art of Nothing

    Directed by Stefan Liberski • Drama • With Benoit Poelvoorde, Camille Cottin • 2025 • 110 minutes

    "Tabula rasa and vita nova," exclaims artist Jean-Yves Machond (Benoît Poelvoorde). "A clean slate and a new life." Leaving Brussels and his job as a professor to settle in Normandy, Machond searche...

  • Drug Stories!

    Directed by Max Miller • Documentary • 2022 • 80 minutes

    A compilation of educational anti-drug and anti-alcohol short films from the 1960s and the 1970s.

  • Teat Beat of Sex (series)

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    In fifteen two-minute episodes, a woman reveals her most secret thoughts on intimate matters. In a humorous style that is both educational and shocking, these short animations on sex from a woman’s point of view manage to be both erotic and entertaining. Find out if “size really matters” and lear...

  • Bubble Bath

    Directed by György Kovásznai • Animation • With Vera Venzcel, Kornél Gelley • 1979 • 80 minutes

    A truly unique and surreal animated musical comedy from Hungary by György Kovásznai about a high-strung window decorator about to be married who bursts into the apartment of his fiancée's best friend ...

  • Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

    Directed by Oldřich Lipský • Drama • With Rudolf Hrušínský , Olga Schoberová, Miloš Kopecký • 1978 • 102 minutes

    Czech director Oldřich Lipský's beloved cult hit about a handsome but bumbling detective and a man-eating plant is an irresistible slapstick combination of 19th century James Bond gad...

  • I'm Fine (Thanks For Asking)

    Directed by Kelley Kali, Angelique Molina • Drama • With Wesley Moss, Kelley Kali • 2021 • 86 minutes

    This is post-pandemic America and everyone is struggling to get by. In this exhilarating debut feature Danny, played by co-director Kelley Kali in a star-making performance alongside Deon Cole, ...

  • How to Tell You're a Douchebag

    Directed by Tahir Jetter • Drama • With Charles Brice, DeWanda Wise • 2016 • 75 minutes

    A controversial blogger in New York finds himself in hot water when he messes with the wrong woman.

  • Visitors From the Arkana Galaxy

    Directed by Dusan Vukotic • Documentary • With Lucie Zulová, Ksenia Prohaska, Zarko Potocnjak • 1981 • 89 minutes

    A truly gonzo 1980s Croatian sci-fi / fantasy / comedy about a struggling writer, Robert (Zarko Potocnjak), who dreams up a story of gold-skinned alien androids named Andra, Targo an...