Film Comedy

The Cocoanuts is a 1929 pre-Code musical comedy film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo). Produced for Paramount Pictures by Walter Wanger, the film also stars Mary Eaton, Oscar Shaw, Margaret Dumont and Kay Francis. The first sound film to credit more than one director (Robert Florey and Joseph Santley), it was adapted to the screen by Morrie Ryskind from the musical play by George S. Kaufman. Five of the film's tunes were composed by Irving Berlin, including "When My Dreams Come True," sung by Oscar Shaw and Mary Eaton.

A backstage look at the making of Nora Ephron's revered trilogy--When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle--which brought romantic comedies back to the fore, and an intimate portrait of the beloved writer/director who inspired a generation of Hollywood women, from Mindy...

Africa Screams is a 1949 American adventure comedy film starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, directed by Charles Barton and written by Earl Baldwin, that parodies the safari genre.

Charade is a 1963 American romantic screwball comedy mystery film, shot on location in Paris, produced and directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass and Jacques Marin. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance and comedy. Charade was praised by critics for its screenplay and the chemistry between Grant and Hepburn. The following is the audio track of the full feature film.

Married . . . With Children writer-producer Richard Gurman takes us behind the scenes of this boundary-breaking show to reveal how its inner workings were at times as disruptive and contentious—yet at other times, as hysterical and raunchy—as the Bundy family themselves.

India’s greatest film-maker on the art and craft of films. Exactly fifty years ago, in 1955, the release of Pather Panchali heralded the arrival of a master in the world of cinema. Over the next forty years, Satyajit Ray came to be regarded as one of the world’s finest film-makers ever...

The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls "a comic institution himself," the only comedian (twenty-six years in stand-up) to have made Elie Wiesel laugh, as well as having appeared on The Tonight Show (140 times, second only to Bob Hope, but...

Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida in her American debut.

Die Welt scheint sich gegen Emma Corrigan verschworen zu haben. Erst versagt sie bei einem wichtigen Kunden, mit dem ihre Firma eine Kooperation entwickeln wollte, und dann gerät ihr Flugzeug in so heftige Turbulenzen, dass Emma ihr letztes Stündlein gekommen sieht. Aber vor ihrem vermeintlichen Ableben macht sie noch reinen Tisch: Jedes Geheimnis, jede kleine Notlüge, jede Heimlichkeit, derer sie sich schuldig fühlt, bricht aus ihr heraus.

Julie a 30 ans et n'a, jusque-là, jamais rien géré de plus que sa petite vie. Alors qu'elle n'attendait plus de réponse de la part de son prod, celui-ci l'appelle pour lui annoncer une grande nouvelle : "je crois qu'on va le faire ton film !"

Justus Bölling, für seine Freunde, wenn er denn noch welche hätte, einfach nur Böller, ist ein nerdiger Verlierertyp, der in eine tiefe Sinnkrise stürzt. Verantwortlich dafür sind 3 Dinge, sein nahender 40. Geburtstag, der Tod seines Vaters und die Einladung zum Klassentreffen seiner alten Schule. Bisher hat er in seinem Leben noch nicht viel hinbekommen und sich auch deshalb von den Menschen entfernt. Er führt ein einsames Dasein, in seiner begrenzten Welt aus Filmen und Musik.

Aubrey Evans is living every author's dream: Her sizzling romance novel is being turned into a blockbuster film. She would be celebrating this momentous event if she wasn't busy fighting over every tiny production detail with the maddeningly cavalier director, Kole Camden. When news of their heated rivalry hits the gossip columns, drastic measures must be taken to save their sinking project. In an elaborate PR hoax, she is publicly linked to Greyson Meyers, the swoon-worthy star of her movie.

Der nicht mehr blutjunge Schauspieler Jan hat sich bei einer Gala schwer angetrunken schwer daneben benommen...

An ingenious novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 80 movie reviews In near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to a content aggregator. His job is routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film...

Julie a 30 ans et n'a, jusque-là, jamais rien géré de plus que sa petite vie. Alors qu'elle n'attendait plus de réponse de la part de son prod, celui-ci l'appelle pour lui annoncer une grande nouvelle : "je crois qu'on va le faire ton film !"

Man kennt das Gefühl: Du wachst auf und denkst dir - ich bin im falschen Film. Aber nicht einmal das Murmeltier grüßt dich. Deutschland aktuell: ein Land ohne Agenda, eine Regierung ohne Kompass. Ein Regierungsprogramm mit dem Motto: "Scheitern als Chance". Der tägliche Irrsinn in unserer Banaldemokratie der herbeigetwitterten Facebook-Jünger zwischen mehrwertsteuerreduzierten Stundenhotels und westerwellschen Gockeleien - gewogen und zu seicht empfunden.

An example of breaking down a screenplay into 12 beats.