Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1966 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner

Francis Ford Coppola’s oft-overlooked second feature is a zanily offbeat entry in the 1960s sex-comedy canon. Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner), a naive nineteen-year-old virgin li...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1968 • United States
Starring George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman

Director Sidney Lumet made his first foray into comedy with this wildly irreverent farce, rich in 1960s New York City flavor and Borscht Belt humor. When their buddy, the writer Leslie Braverman (“...

Directed by Alan Arkin • 1971 • United States
Starring Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia

The black-comic stage play by writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer provides the basis for Alan Arkin’s directorial debut, a surreal satire of urban alienation and the sensele...

Directed by Woody Allen • 1971 • United States
Starring Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán

Writer-director Woody Allen’s supremely silly third feature channels the absurdity of the Marx brothers for a side-splitting satire of Cold War politics and American imperialism. He stars as bumb...

Directed by Glenn Barit • 2019 • Philippines
Starring Ianna Taguinod, Leomar Baloran, Julian Narag

At a Catholic high school in the Philippine city of Tuguegarao, a rambunctious batch of students rebel against all expectations to be clean: a germaphobe is tested by a bout of uncontrollable diarr...

Directed by Michael Roemer • 1969 • United States
Starring Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods

A treasure of American independent filmmaking that was neglected for decades until its triumphant rediscovery, writer-director-producer Michael Roemer’s feature follow-up to his landmark NOTHING BUT ...

Directed by Lone Scherfig • 2000 • Denmark, Sweden
Starring Peter Gantzler, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anders W. Berthelsen

Director Lone Scherfig brings the naturalistic, defiantly DIY principles of the Dogme 95 movement to a buoyant romantic comedy in this uplifting portrait of seven strangers on...

Directed by Timothy Carey • 1962 • United States
Starring Timothy Carey, Gil Barreto, Betty Rowland

Timothy Carey—the unforgettable character actor whose weird, wiggy energy brought a manic edge to classics like THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY—wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this outrag...

Directed by Jackie Chan • 1989 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Gua Ah-leh

Jackie Chan pays homage to classic Hollywood spectacle in this 1930s-set gangster-musical romp. An inspired reworking of a Damon Runyon story (previously filmed twice by Frank Capra as LADY FOR A DAY and POCKE...

Directed by Elliott Hong • 1982 • United States
Starring Johnny Yune, John Louie, Bill Capizzi

This unabashedly goofball martial-arts spoof gave an Asian American comedian a rare chance in the spotlight. Stand-up comic Johnny Yune stars as a Korean immigrant living in California whom everyone ca...

Directed by Todd Rohal • 2014 • United States
Starring Eddie Rouse, Steve Little, Margie Beegle

A Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator, hired to visit with a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself delivering last rites at the boy’s bedside.

Directed by David Rathod • 1987 • United States
Starring Ashutosh Gowariker, Heidi Carpenter, Pearl Padamsee

Handsome and broke, Vikram (played by Ashutosh Gowariker, future director of the Oscar-nominated LAGAAN: ONCE UPON A TIME IN INDIA) arrives from Bombay to find his college plans have fall...

Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1922 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend

This early feature-length silent comedy pushed the form forward by balancing slapstick hilarity with more serious character development. Using the extended running time to further develop his pop...

Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1921 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young

Though originally intended as a two-reel short, A SAILOR-MADE MAN wound up becoming Harold Lloyd’s first feature—simply because there were too many good gags to cut! Here, our bespectacled hero play...

Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

A salesman makes trouble at his sweetheart’s department store—but winds up an unexpected hero.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

A flirty photographer incurs the wrath of a jealous husband—and tries to pass the blame to an unsuspecting stooge.

Directed by Harry Kerwin • 1963 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd

In 1966, Harold Lloyd created a theatrical program entitled HAROLD LLOYD’S FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. The program presented THE FRESHMAN together with a brief on-camera introduction by Lloyd and a clip reel from his body of work, bot...

Directed by J. Farrell MacDonald and Harold Lloyd • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard

Harold Lloyd’s “Glasses Character” makes his debut in a tale of baseball hijinks.

Directed by Gilbert Pratt • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

A newlywed husband, en route to his honeymoon, scrambles to find the train tickets he lost.

Please be advised: this film contains scenes involving blackface.

Directed by Hal Roach • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, ‘Snub’ Pollard

A bicycle messenger wreaks havoc in a girls’ seminary.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Bebe Daniels

It’s trouble on the water when a man tries to woo his sweetheart by pretending to be a lifeguard.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

A man pretends to have a wife and family in order to claim an inheritance.

Directed by Hal Roach • 1920 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Fred McPherson

A new automobile owner’s car troubles may doom his chance at romance.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ’Snub’ Pollard, Bebe Daniels

Marital mayhem ensues when a poor boy attempts to woo the daughter of a wealthy man.