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1. Planet of the Apes (1968)
G | 112 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
Votes: 193,090 | Gross: $33.40M
2. Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
R | 103 min | Comedy
A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Little Richard
Votes: 20,215 | Gross: $62.13M
3. Alice (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Votes: 13,985
4. Don Quixote (2000 TV Movie)
120 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams
Votes: 1,770
5. The Associate (1996)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy
A comedy about making it on Wall Street. Prejudices are hard to break and Laurel Ayres quickly learns that in order for people to take her seriously she has to work for an older white man or be one.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly
Votes: 9,078 | Gross: $12.77M
6. Cousin Bette (1998)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When her sister dies in 1846, Bette moves from the château to Paris to work as a theater seamstress. She helps a handsome, starving artist. When her niece lures him away from her, she plans a devious revenge.
Director: Des McAnuff | Stars: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 2,838 | Gross: $1.20M
7. Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Directors: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood
Votes: 1,116
8. Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
New Orleans, 1951: A law student, working at WXBU radio station, falls in love with his cute aunt, who's looking for a third husband. Then Pedro starts writing radio series at WXBU, stirring up things.
Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Barbara Hershey, Keanu Reeves, Peter Falk, Bill McCutcheon
Votes: 2,015 | Gross: $1.79M
9. Hyenas (1992)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhate, Mamadou Mahourédia Gueye, Djibril Diop Mambéty
Votes: 1,338 | Gross: $0.02M
10. The Balcony (1963)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.
Director: Joseph Strick | Stars: Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Peter Brocco
Votes: 683
11. The Prize of Peril (1983)
98 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier, Bruno Cremer
Votes: 1,323
12. Mack the Knife (1989)
PG-13 | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
In nineteenth century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal, and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves, so her father, "the king of thieves", gets the gangster arrested.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Raul Julia, Richard Harris, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey
Votes: 408
13. Absolument fabuleux (2001)
105 min | Comedy
Patsy has a penchant for alcohol, especially for a famous brand of champagne. Eddie is obsessed with her curves and perpetually electrified by cocaine, soothed by countless different sleeping pills.
Director: Gabriel Aghion | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Nathalie Baye, Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz
Votes: 1,025
14. August (1996)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Chekov's Uncle Vanya, transposed to turn-of-the-century North Wales, where the peace and tranquility of a country house is disturbed by the arrival of the estate's tyrannical owner and his ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Hopkins | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Phillips, Kate Burton, Gawn Grainger
Votes: 870
15. 'Ctyri vrazdy stací, drahousku' (1971)
103 min | Comedy, Crime
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jirina Bohdalová, Iva Janzurová, Marie Rosulková
Votes: 788
16. On the Comet (1970)
74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
When a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people. Among them Angelika, who just escaped from a ruthless weapon ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Magda Vásáryová, Emil Horváth, Frantisek Filipovský, Cestmír Randa
Votes: 687
17. Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina (1994)
106 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Ilin
Votes: 599
18. Det er ikke appelsiner, det er heste (1967)
95 min | Family, Comedy
A pathological liar has a fabulous talent for selling her fantasies and now she has the art community in her sight.
Director: Ebbe Langberg | Stars: Morten Grunwald, Jesper Langberg, Willy Rathnov, Helle Hertz
Votes: 45
19. I Hate Actors (1986)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim
Votes: 259
20. Igraszki z diablem (1979 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Tadeusz Lis | Stars: Marian Kociniak, Magdalena Zawadzka, Marek Kondrat, Barbara Wrzesinska
Votes: 94
21. Romeo y Julieta (1943)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
There have been many versions of Shakespeare's masterpiece, but none like the one starring Cantinflas. This delightful and humorous version also carries a powerful message to today's ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Cantinflas, María Elena Marqués, Ángel Garasa, Andrés Soler
Votes: 217
22. Ten (I) (1971)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The fairy tale in which the hero finds out once that his personal shadow has begun to live own life.
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova | Stars: Oleg Dal, Konstantin Adashevsky, Vladimir Etush, Sergey Filippov
Votes: 326
23. Král Ubu (1996)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Cinematographer F.A. Brabec's directorial debut adapts Alfred Jarry's absurd drama in a manner emphasizing artistic stylization. With the help of a legendary screenwriter Milos Macourek and... See full summary »
Director: F.A. Brabec | Stars: Marián Labuda, Lucie Bílá, Karel Roden, Ivan Zachariás
Votes: 146
24. Ten (1991 TV Movie)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Philosophic fairy tale about kind modest man whose shadow one day leaves him only to come alive and become his sinister treacherous antagonist.
Director: Mikhail Kozakov | Stars: Konstantin Raykin, Larisa Dolina, Marina Dyuzheva, Liudmila Kharechko
Votes: 70
25. The Inspector General (1933)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy
Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever... See full summary »
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Vlasta Burian, Jaroslav Marvan, Václav Trégl, Josef Vosalík
Votes: 145
26. Cirkulæret (1968 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Comedy
The manager is informed that a new office language has been introduced. It's called 'ptydepe', and it's just as incomprehensible as its name. Around this new language there is a power struggle.
Director: Palle Wolfsberg | Stars: Karl Stegger, Morten Grunwald, Erik Paaske, Jørgen Buckhøj
27. A Man of Honor (2007)
14 min | Short, Comedy
Lives are wrecked. A corporate giant is destroyed as the result of one sneeze.
Director: Tatyana Zbirovskaya | Stars: Oleg Atbashian, John Cathey, Brian Distance, Tory Eletto
Votes: 11
28. Videt Salisbury (2022)
117 min | Comedy
The film was filmed based on the play of the same name by Viktor Shenderovich. A black comedy about a striking journey of two agents Tchepigin and Mishkin to the Mother Russia. Former ... See full summary »
Director: Michal Lang | Stars: Jakub Albrecht, Tomás Bukovský, Tomás Dianiska, Vendula Fialová
29. Revizor (1971 TV Movie)
114 min | Comedy
Director: Jan Kacer | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Zdenek Braunschläger, Jana Brezková, Petr Cepek
30. Kissing Hank's Ass (2015)
8 min | Short, Comedy
Two people ring a stranger's doorbell, and you think they want to talk about God, but they actually have a different proposition.
Director: Dmitriy Avdeev | Stars: Alexey Kurban, Alexey Semenov, Anisia Stasevich
Votes: 24
31. Revizor (1998 TV Movie)
145 min | Comedy
Directors: Sergey Fedotov, Pavel Linhart | Stars: Ladislav Frej, Lukás Hlavica, Jana Holcová, Tomás Mechácek
32. Carmen (1943)
96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An employee and an actress start an argument that ends in a strong fight during Carmen's performance. In it, Niní receives a very strong blow and from then on she dreams that she is Carmen, the famous cigarette maker from Seville.
Director: Luis César Amadori | Stars: Niní Marshall, Juan José Padilla, Adrián Cuneo, Manuel Perales
Votes: 25
33. Dedictví na úver (1965 TV Movie)
47 min | Comedy
A married couple lives very modestly. The miserly wife precisely divides the money for necessary expenses into cans intended for this purpose and counts her husband's cigarettes as well. ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Hudecek | Stars: Jaroslava Adamová, Václav Voska
Votes: 13
34. Rozumnost (1979)
Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: Petr Koliha | Stars: Zdenek Bouse, Vladimír Huber, Petr Lébl, Eva Léblová
35. Sirkulæret (1972 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Gerhard Knoop | Stars: Bjarne Andersen, Sigve Bøe, Bab Christensen, Thomas Fasting
36. Král Ubu (1968 TV Movie)
117 min | Comedy
Directors: Jan Grossman, Zdenek Kubecek | Stars: Jirí Krampol, Jan Libícek, Václav Mares, Marie Málková
Votes: 8
37. Vernissage (1980 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Director: Edouard Logereau | Stars: Pierre Arditi, Bernard Murat, Catherine Rich