Comedies
90 Episodes
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09:57Episode 1
A Gasoline Wedding
Episode 1
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ’Snub’ Pollard, Bebe DanielsMarital mayhem ensues when a poor boy attempts to woo the daughter of a wealthy man.
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25:31Episode 2
Haunted Spooks
Episode 2
Directed by Hal Roach and Alfred J. Goulding • 1920 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace HoweA hapless young man is roped into an arranged marriage to help a girl claim her inheritance: a haunted house!
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10:33Episode 3
Spring Fever
Episode 3
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsA beautiful spring day tempts a bookkeeper to play hooky from the office.
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09:42Episode 4
The Big Idea
Episode 4
Directed by Gilbert Pratt and Hal Mohr • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsAn employee at a struggling antiques store gets creative in order to save the business.
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10:53Episode 5
A Sammy in Siberia
Episode 5
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub PollardA bumbling American soldier saves a Russian girl from a band of drunken Bolsheviks.
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2:18:56Episode 6
Cyrano de Bergerac
Episode 6
Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau • 1990 • France
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent PerezGérard Depardieu delivers a towering performance as the immortal hero of hopeless romantics everywhere—he of the legendary long schnoz who selflessly uses his verse to help a friend woo the wom...
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1:46:40Episode 7
Abigail’s Party
Episode 7
Directed by Mike Leigh • 1977 • United Kingdom
Starring Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine DuvitskiMike Leigh’s filmed version of his acclaimed stage play is a brilliantly biting comedy of manners that lays bare the bourgeois affectations and sexual frustrations of a young suburban couple. Abig...
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1:34:30Episode 8
The Lady Eve
Episode 8
Directed by Preston Sturges • 1941 • United States
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles CoburnBarbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoonworthy romance. Aboard a cr...
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1:28:16Episode 9
The Palm Beach Story
Episode 9
Directed by Preston Sturges • 1942 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary AstorThis wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, fin...
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1:45:20Episode 10
It Happened One Night
Episode 10
Directed by Frank Capra • 1934 • United States
Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter ConnollyOpposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark...
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1:31:05Episode 11
The Awful Truth
Episode 11
Directed by Leo McCarey • 1937 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph BellamyIn this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each oth...
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1:32:25Episode 12
His Girl Friday
Episode 12
Directed by Howard Hawks • 1940 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph BellamyOne of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, HIS GIRL FRIDAY stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in fo...
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16:49Episode 13
Bad Night for the Blues
Episode 13
Directed by Chris Shepherd • 2010 • United Kingdom
It’s a holiday to remember—or not—when a young man joins his dotty elderly aunt for a Christmas party at her local Conservative Club, where the wine is flowing, the bingo is heated, and the cracks in the genteel facade start to show.
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1:44:20Episode 14
The More the Merrier
Episode 14
Directed by George Stevens • 1943 • United States
Starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles CoburnJean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and Charles Coburn find that three’s a crowd in this delightful screwball romp. Set during the 1940s wartime housing shortage, THE MORE THE MERRIER stars Arthur as Washin...
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1:34:14Episode 15
Theodora Goes Wild
Episode 15
Directed by Richard Boleslawski • 1936 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas MitchellIrene Dunne established herself as one of screwball’s brightest comedic talents with this exuberant tale of a small-town girl living a double life as the secret author of a scandalous bes...
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1:31:23Episode 16
Twentieth Century
Episode 16
Directed by Howard Hawks • 1934 • United States
Starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter ConnollyCarole Lombard established her genius for screwball comedy with this madcap classic, which practically set the template for the genre. Scripted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (adapting th...
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1:41:07Episode 17
Hail the Conquering Hero
Episode 17
Directed by Preston Sturges • 1944 • United States
Starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William DemarestToo embarrassed to admit to his family and friends that he was discharged from World War II because of hay fever, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) is befriended by a group...
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Tampopo
Episode 18
Directed by Juzo Itami • 1985 • Japan
The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous "ramen western" by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft...
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1:27:07Episode 19
The Daytrippers
Episode 19
Directed by Greg Mottola • 1996 • United States
Starring Parker Posey, Hope Davis, Liev SchreiberWith its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie film scene....
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Amarcord
Episode 20
Directed by Federico Fellini • 1973 • France, Italy
This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director's youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, an...
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1:27:38Episode 21
A Hard Day’s Night
Episode 21
Directed by Richard Lester • 1964 • United Kingdom
Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A HARD DAY’S...
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1:34:38Episode 22
Good Morning
Episode 22
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1959 • Japan
Starring Masahiko Shimazu, Koji Shidara, Kuniko MiyakeA lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, GOOD MORNING tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after t...
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1:41:56Episode 23
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Episode 23
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar • 1990 • Spain
Starring Antonio Banderas, Victoria AbrilPedro Almodóvar’s colorful and controversial tribute to the pleasures and perils of Stockholm syndrome, TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! is a rambunctious dark comedy starring Antonio Banderas as an unbalanced but alluri...
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Mon oncle
Episode 24
Directed by Jacques Tati • 1958 • France, Italy
Starring Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne ServantieSlapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old-fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, oppressively ultramodern home of his brother-in-law,...