Fiction films about Comics & Cartoonists
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1. Tatsumi (2011)
Not Rated | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A story based on the life and short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a mangaka known for his gekiga style of alternate Japanese manga.
Director: Eric Khoo | Stars: Tetsuya Bessho, Motoko Gollent, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Mike Wiluan
Votes: 854
2. Virus tropical (2017)
97 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
Paola is born in a traditional Colombian family, or at least that is what they try to be. Her father is a priest, her mother is a "psychic" and her sisters are not what their parents ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Caicedo | Stars: María Cecilia Sánchez, Martina Toro, Alejandra Borrero, Diego León Hoyos
Votes: 1,123
3. Ghost World (2001)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
Two eccentric best friends graduate high school and respond to a man's romance-seeking newspaper ad as a gag, only to find their lives becoming increasingly complicated.
Director: Terry Zwigoff | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro
Votes: 126,851 | Gross: $6.22M
4. American Splendor (2003)
R | 101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose
Votes: 52,375 | Gross: $6.00M
5. Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (1911)
Not Rated | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.
Directors: Winsor McCay, J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Winsor McCay, John Bunny, Maurice Costello, George McManus
Votes: 1,849
6. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)
R | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Director: Angela Robinson | Stars: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton
Votes: 28,652 | Gross: $1.59M
7. Unbreakable (2000)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Spencer Treat Clark
Votes: 441,970 | Gross: $95.01M
8. Art School Confidential (2006)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Director: Terry Zwigoff | Stars: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 17,720 | Gross: $3.30M
9. Animation Legend: Winsor McCay (1993)
Unrated | 100 min | Animation
Video collection of every surviving film ever made by Winsor McKay.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 65
10. Silent Romance (1984)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Dumb Boy, a deaf and dumb, yet a brilliant cartoonist whose current publication has been ignored by his readers. When Cactus, a night club hostess, walks into his life, he silently and secretly falls in love with her.
Director: Frankie Chan | Stars: Frankie Chan, Shu-Chun Ni, Ching Wong, Charlie Cho
Votes: 18
11. Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry (2007)
97 min | Drama
Story of a young caricaturist who works in an opposition newspaper and his relations with his father, Imam of the Great Mosque of Conakry.
Director: Cheick Fantamady Camara | Stars: Alex Ogou, Tella Kpomahou, Balla Moussa Keita, Jeannot Coker
Votes: 76
12. La gatta da pelare (1981)
91 min | Comedy
A cartoonist overcomes his jealousy towards his wife's psychoanalyst by killing him in one of his strips. When the doctor is found dead, the police start an investigation and seek the cartoonist first.
Director: Pippo Franco | Stars: Pippo Franco, Janet Agren, Daniela Poggi, Franco Bisazza
Votes: 57
13. Sexyrella (1968)
85 min | Comedy
Olivier Larry, a young cartoonist, is looking for a woman to symbolize all the avowed or secret desires of today's public. He visits the abstract painter Salvador Dalloz and inspects his ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Mulot | Stars: Jean-Pierre Honoré, Véronique Beauchêne, Roger Lumont, Velly Beguard
14. People Places Things (2015)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing parenting his young twin daughters and a classroom full of students while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.
Director: Jim Strouse | Stars: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams, Stephanie Allynne
Votes: 10,998
15. The Missing Girl (2015)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
THE MISSING GIRL tells the story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, and Ellen, the emotionally disruptive, aspiring graphic novelist he's hired. The story ... See full summary »
Director: A.D. Calvo | Stars: Robert Longstreet, Alexia Rasmussen, Eric Ladin, Thomas Jay Ryan
Votes: 122
16. Artists and Models (1955)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 4,384 | Gross: $9.35M
17. How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Approved | 118 min | Comedy
A dedicated bachelor drunkenly marries a young woman and immediately lives to regret it.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff
Votes: 6,953 | Gross: $12.47M
18. The War Between Men and Women (1972)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A sarcastic, near-sighted cartoonist averse to commitment, falls for an eye-catching brunette single mother of three, the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions, and eventually moves in with her and proposes.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards, Herb Edelman
Votes: 835 | Gross: $1.40M
19. The Story of Machiko Hasegawa: The Day Sazae-san Was Born (2013 TV Movie)
Biography
Director: Yoshito Katô | Stars: Machiko Ono, Fumino Kimura, Keiko Matsuzaka, Tomokazu Miura
20. The Killing Game (1967)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it... See full summary »
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger, Michel Duchaussoy, Eléonore Hirt
Votes: 307
21. Clerks (1994)
R | 92 min | Comedy
A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Lisa Spoonauer
Votes: 232,410 | Gross: $3.15M
22. Bakuman (2015)
119 min | Comedy
Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high student, forgets his notebook in class. His classmate Akito Takagi, notes Mashiro's drawings in it and asks him to become a manga artist to his stories. ... See full summary »
Director: Hitoshi Ône | Stars: Takeru Satoh, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nana Komatsu, Hirofumi Arai
Votes: 1,822
23. I Am a Hero (2015)
TV-MA | 126 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A manga artist assistant is surprised by a zombie apocalypse.
Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Yô Ôizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Masami Nagasawa, Hisashi Yoshizawa
Votes: 7,783
24. Kaasan Mom's Life (2011)
114 min | Comedy
Reiko is a mother of two children and works as a cartoonist. She divorces her alcoholic husband, but when she finds out that he's seriously ill, she decides to take him back.
Director: Shôtarô Kobayashi | Stars: Kyôko Koizumi, Masatoshi Nagase, Shinta Furuta, Akira Hokuto
Votes: 74
25. Condorman (1981)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton
Votes: 5,406
26. Mr. Freedom (1968)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime
Mr. Freedom is an all-American superhero that destroys everyone who even remotely disagrees with imperialism. The film accounts his latest assignment to save France from being taken over by the commies.
Director: William Klein | Stars: John Abbey, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasence, Jean-Claude Drouot
Votes: 1,261
27. Next Year If All Goes Well (1981)
R | 95 min | Comedy
Story of a cartoonist who decides to get married and have a family.
Director: Jean-Loup Hubert | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Thierry Lhermitte, Bernard Crombey, Antoinette Moya
Votes: 435
28. Kamisama no Beretbô ~ Tezuka Osamu no Black Jack Sôsaku Hiwa (2013 TV Movie)
Biography
Director: Yoshishige Miyake | Stars: Yôsuke Asari, Yumi Asô, Fumiyo Kohinata, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Votes: 7
29. Creepshow (1982)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
"Creepshow" is a 1982 movie that tells five grisly tales from a children's comic book: a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 53,254 | Gross: $21.03M
30. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 666,659 | Gross: $42.34M
31. Tokiwa-so no seishun (1996)
110 min | Drama
A look at the youthful beginnings of manga giants Motoo Abiko, aka Fujiko Fujio, Fujio Akatsuka and Hiroo Terada, when they all lived in the same, dingy apartment building -- named Tokiwa-so -- in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district.
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Sadao Abe, Satoko Abe, Arata Furuta
Votes: 130
32. Breathing Room (1996)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
She's Kathy, a comix cartoonist; he's David, teaching English to new immigrants. It's New York City, with 29 shopping days left until Christmas, and they're in love. Or are they? Their ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Sherman | Stars: Susan Floyd, Dan Futterman, Joanna Chang, Jianzhung Gu
Votes: 154
33. Comic Book Villains (2002 Video)
R | 92 min | Comedy
A guy dies after collecting comic books for decades. His mom inherits them and she ain't selling. Owners of 2 comic book stores want the collection. Their scheming gets ever more desperate.
Director: James Robinson | Stars: Donal Logue, Cary Elwes, Michael Rapaport, Natasha Lyonne
Votes: 2,417
34. Cellar Dweller (1987)
R | 77 min | Fantasy, Horror
A comic book artist Whitney Taylor is doomed to repeat history in a most grotesque way when she unleashes a demon after drawing it.
Director: John Carl Buechler | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Debrah Farentino, Brian Robbins, Pamela Bellwood
Votes: 3,027
35. One Crazy Summer (1986)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
Director: Savage Steve Holland | Stars: John Cusack, Demi Moore, Linda Warren, Joel Murray
Votes: 16,757 | Gross: $13.43M
36. Petty Romance (2010)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Romance
A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition.
Director: Jeong-hoon Kim | Stars: Lee Sun-kyun, Choi Kang-hee, Oh Jung-se, Ryu Hyun-kyung
Votes: 792
37. Funny About Love (1990)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
NYC cartoonist Duffy meets the bad cappuccino maker, chef Meg, and falls in love. She moves in with him, marries him - but they have problems having a baby.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky
Votes: 1,572 | Gross: $8.14M
38. Hero Tomorrow (2007)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
David, a struggling comic book creator from Cleveland, spends his days cutting grass and his nights smoking it while desperately trying to keep his superhero fantasies alive. When Robyn, ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Sikora | Stars: Perren Hedderson, Jocelyn Wrzosek, Bryan Jalovec, Shelley Delaney
Votes: 40
39. Once a Hero (1987)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy
A comic book creator struggles with declining sales until his superhero Captain Justice crosses into the real world, renewing interest. Inspired, the creator revamps the storylines, convincing the owners to continue the comic.
Stars: Josh Blake, Jeff Lester, Robert Forster, Caitlin Clarke
Votes: 47
40. Zoom (2015)
Not Rated | 96 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
Director: Pedro Morelli | Stars: Tyler Labine, Alison Pill, Michael Eklund, Mariana Ximenes
Votes: 3,011
41. Heavy Traffic (1973)
R | 77 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
An underground cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his art.
Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova, Terri Haven
Votes: 3,715 | Gross: $1.34M
42. Fallen Cape (2013)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Magno, the Great Spanish superhero, vanished from public life after his implication in a child molestation scandal. 20 years have passed and now a documentary filmmaker follows the trail of the fallen hero to make a movie about him.
Director: Santiago Alvarado Ilarri | Stars: Juanjo Pardo, Rafa Delacroix, Josep Seguí, Francesc Pagès
Votes: 72
43. Brenda Starr (1989)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A comic book artist struggling with his "Brenda Starr" strip decides to draw himself into it when his comic book character is disappointed and leaves the strip.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck, Diana Scarwid
Votes: 1,261 | Gross: $0.07M
44. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.
Director: Peter Care | Stars: Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Emile Hirsch, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 14,183 | Gross: $1.78M
45. Uzbudljiva ljubavna prica (1989)
6 min | Animation, Short
A man visits the panels of a comic page-like world in search for his loved Gloria.
Director: Borivoj Dovnikovic-Bordo
Votes: 64
46. Mother (2014)
83 min | Horror
This is an autobiographical flick that details incidents that occur even as a publishing company is working on a book on Umezu' s life.Chief editor,Sakura, is aware of the overwhelming ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuo Umezu | Stars: Ainosuke Kataoka, Kimie Shingyôji, Mimi Maihane, Shôko Nakagawa
Votes: 25
47. 37 Seconds (2019)
115 min | Drama
Yuma is a young Japanese woman with cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, she struggles to lead a self-determined life.
Director: Hikari | Stars: Makiko Watanabe, Nanami Kawakami, Eita Okuno, Yuka Itaya
Votes: 3,116
48. Killer Toon (2013)
104 min | Horror, Thriller
Popular horror web-comic artist Ji Yoon finds life imitating her own work when her publisher turns up dead in a way, precisely mirrors the images in her latest comic.
Director: Yong-gyun Kim | Stars: Lee Si-young, Uhm Ki-joon, Lee Do-yeop, Oh Gwang-Rok
Votes: 2,267
49. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
R | 114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black
Votes: 30,674 | Gross: $1.44M
50. The Comic Artist and Assistants (2014– )
TV-14 | 13 min | Animation, Comedy
A hilarious slice of life comedy that leisurely depicts the day-to-day life of manga artist Aito Yuuki and his assistant, Ashisu Sahoto.
Stars: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Arisa Noto, Saori Hayami, Rie Kugimiya
Votes: 419
51. Chasing Amy (1997)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Ethan Suplee, Scott Mosier
Votes: 143,830 | Gross: $12.02M
52. Petrov's Flu (2021)
Unrated | 145 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov, Yuri Kolokolnikov
Votes: 3,029
53. Playlist (2021)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Sophie lands a job with a comic book publisher despite being unqualified for the position. However, her newfound security is threatened when she breaks up with her boyfriend, the father of the child she is carrying.
Director: Nine Antico | Stars: Sara Forestier, Laetitia Dosch, Bertrand Belin, Pierre Lottin
Votes: 789
54. The Ambulance (1990)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A comic-book artist meets a woman on the NYC streets, but after a quick flirtation, she suddenly collapses and is picked up by an old ambulance. He checks all the hospitals in the area, but the woman has disappeared.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons
Votes: 4,188
55. Germán, últimas viñetas (2013– )
130 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
German Oesterheld who wrote The Eternauta goes to apply a new job in the most prolific argentine publisher on those days. The comics of this publisher are simple and plain in style with a ... See full summary »
Stars: Paula Reca, Miguel Ángel Solá, Claudio Rissi, Gustavo Pardi
Votes: 39
56. Station Eleven (2021–2022)
TV-MA | 51 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A post apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines, telling the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel, Matilda Lawler, David Wilmot
Votes: 34,839
57. I Want to Go Home (1989)
100 min | Comedy
A grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Laura Benson, Adolph Green, Linda Lavin, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 810
58. El arte de frío (2020)
70 min
Director: Ander Duque | Stars: Felipe Almendros, Laura Almendros, Alexandra Cuba, Ander Duque
Votes: 6
59. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
Director: Winsor McCay | Stars: Winsor McCay, George McManus, Roy L. McCardell, Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan
Votes: 3,655
60. Morgue Story: Sangue, Baiacu e Quadrinhos (2009)
78 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A comic book artist, a life insurance salesman and a coroner meet in a morgue under a very unusual circumstance.
Director: Paulo Biscaia Filho | Stars: Leandro Daniel, Mariana Zanette, Anderson Faganello, Cléber Borges
Votes: 82
61. Xi lu xiang (1950)
80 min | Drama
The English was actually The Kid.
Director: Fung Fung | Stars: Bruce Lee, Chau-Shui Yee, Hoi-Chuen Lee, Fung Fung
Votes: 171
62. The Great Vazquez (2010)
106 min | Biography, Comedy
Is it possible to live aside of the system, thinking only about the present and oneself? A feature film about Manuel Vázquez, the best comic book author in Barcelona during the sixties, but... See full summary »
Director: Óscar Aibar | Stars: Santiago Segura, Mercè Llorens, Álex Angulo, Enrique Villén
Votes: 1,121
63.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
The Comic Strip Murder
(1949)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Julia, the model for a character in her husband's comic strip, informs a police detective that her spouse is going to murder her. He bumped off her "twin" in that morning's strip and she's ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Donald Briggs, King Calder, John Hudson
Votes: 57
64. Ninjababy (2021)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Astronaut, forest-keeper, cartoonist. Young Rakel has a whole lot of other plans than becoming a mother. She would rather party, get drunk or stoned instead of sitting hours on the toilet. But she can't ignore it. Is it her or the baby?
Director: Yngvild Sve Flikke | Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Arthur Berning, Nader Khademi, Tora Christine Dietrichson
Votes: 3,267
65. A Cartoonist's Nightmare (1935)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A cartoonist falls victim to the very villains he has drawn. It's up to Beans the Cat to save the day.
Director: Jack King | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond, Jack Carr, Harry Stanton
Votes: 272
66. That Certain Feeling (1956)
103 min | Comedy
Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan is hired as a ghost-writer by pompous client Larry Larkin who happens to be the fiancé of Dignan's ex-wife.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey
Votes: 419
68. Real (2013)
127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man decides to use a new technology to go inside the mind of his comatose lover.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Takeru Satoh, Haruka Ayase, Joe Odagiri, Shôta Sometani
Votes: 1,121
69. The Worst Person in the World (2021)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, Hans Olav Brenner
Votes: 97,577
70. El cuenco de las ciudades mestizas (2009)
46 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A corrupt politician orders a hit on a kid who used to work for him and is drawing too much attention to himself. Somewhere else in the neighborhood, an artist is starting to suspect his comic books can predict the future.
Director: Alexis Fusario | Stars: Sergio Altes, Eduardo Balán, Esperanza Callejera, Miguel Cantero
71. Paul à Québec (2015)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Paul is a cartoonist who lives with his girlfriend and their little daughter in Montreal in the summer of 1999. His in-laws, the Beaulieus, are a large, joyful clan composed of siblings, ... See full summary »
Director: François Bouvier | Stars: François Létourneau, Gilbert Sicotte, Julie LeBreton, Louise Portal
Votes: 671
72. Gegege's Wife (2010)
119 min | Drama
Follows the life of relationship between Shigeru Mizuki and Mura Nunoe, who encountered many difficulties before Shigeru Mizuki became a successful manga artist.
Director: Takuji Suzuki | Stars: Kaho Minami, Kankurô Kudô, Tasuku Emoto, Maki Sakai
Votes: 48
73. My Husband is a Cartoonist (2010)
Biography, Drama, Romance
A morning drama from NHK, it tells the story of manga artist, Shigeru Mizuki and his wife. Mizuki's most famous work was Gegege no Kitaro and the drama takes it name from this, substituting... See full summary »
Stars: Nao Matsushita, Osamu Mukai, Yôko Nogiwa, Takumi Saitô
Votes: 37
74. Kiiroi namida (2007)
128 min | Drama
They famously say that all the hippies of the '60s ended up becoming nothing more than bankers. Amidst a resurgent Japan of the 1960s four young men aspire to respectively become a singer, ... See full summary »
Director: Isshin Inudô | Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Masaki Aiba, Satoshi Ohno, Shô Sakurai
Votes: 269
75. Il ragazzo più felice del mondo (2018)
90 min | Comedy
Graphic novel author Gipi investigates on a mysterious man who, since 20 years, is sending requests of drawings from other artists always pretending to be a teenager.
Director: Gian Alfonso Pacinotti | Stars: Gero Arnone, Davide Barbafiera, Francesco Daniele, Gian Alfonso Pacinotti
Votes: 172
76. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Meloni
Votes: 33,569 | Gross: $1.48M
77. The Hand (1981)
R | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, Bruce McGill
Votes: 6,708 | Gross: $2.45M
78. Blue Desert (1990)
R | 97 min | Thriller
Two men rattle a comic-book artist who has moved to a desert town after her trauma in New York.
Director: Bradley Battersby | Stars: D.B. Sweeney, Courteney Cox, Craig Sheffer, Philip Baker Hall
Votes: 620
79. Funny Pages (2022)
R | 86 min | Comedy
A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.
Director: Owen Kline | Stars: Daniel Zolghadri, Matthew Maher, Miles Emanuel, Maria Dizzia
Votes: 3,647
80. The Boyfriend School (1990)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
Cartoonist Gus has survived cancer treatment and now his romance novelist sister tries to find him a woman and guide him. Will they succeed?
Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Jami Gertz, Shelley Long, Kyle MacLachlan
Votes: 3,266 | Gross: $1.17M
81. Mr. & Mrs. '55 (1955)
Not Rated | 157 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young woman must be married to claim her inheritance; her misandrist aunt uses the newly-passed 1955 divorce bill to find her a temporary husband.
Director: Guru Dutt | Stars: Madhubala, Guru Dutt, Lalita Pawar, Johnny Walker
Votes: 662
82. Piccadilly Jim (1936)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
In London, an American street caricaturist falls in love with a young woman who suddenly disappears, prompting him to develop a comic strip based on a "From Rags to Riches" family, that he does not know is hers, causing her embarrassment.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore
Votes: 448
83. The Girl Next Door (1953)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird (June Haver) buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Dan Dailey, June Haver, Dennis Day, Billy Gray
Votes: 307
84. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
80 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
"What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?" a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Dana Medrická, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová, Juraj Visny
Votes: 1,156
85. '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: 789
86. Clash of the Families (2011)
118 min | Comedy, Romance
When cartoonist Hyun-joon (Song, Sae-Byeok) falls in love with Da-hong (Lee, Si-young), one of his fans, it sets up the archetypal battle between their two families, who are from rival ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Jin Young | Stars: Song Sae-byeok, Lee Si-young, Baek Yun-shik, Kim Su-Mi
Votes: 264
87.
Easy (2016–2019)
Episode:
Art and Life
(2016)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
A middle aged graphic novelist who mines his personal life for material gets a taste of his own medicine when he meets a photography student.
Director: Joe Swanberg | Stars: Jane Adams, Andrew Bachelor, Marc Maron, Alexandra Marzella
Votes: 753
88. Tove (2020)
103 min | Biography, Drama
Depiction on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.
Director: Zaida Bergroth | Stars: Alma Pöysti, Krista Kosonen, Shanti Roney, Joanna Haartti
Votes: 3,803
89. Nina (2004)
85 min | Drama, Animation, Thriller
Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Director: Heitor Dhalia | Stars: Guta Stresser, Myrian Muniz, Juliana Galdino, Sabrina Greve
Votes: 1,003
90. Testosterone (2003)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dean has been stumped for some time in his attempt to produce a follow-up to "I was a Teenage Speed Freak," his incredibly successful graphic novel. His fans expect great things from him ... See full summary »
Director: David Moreton | Stars: David Sutcliffe, Celina Font, Antonio Sabato Jr., Jennifer Coolidge
Votes: 1,272 | Gross: $0.03M
91. Supercon (2018)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy
A rag-tag group of former TV stars and comic book artists, who make their living working at conventions, decide to steal the loot from a crooked promoter and an overbearing former TV icon.
Director: Zak Knutson | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Russell Peters, Maggie Grace, Brooks Braselman
Votes: 1,044
92. This World Can't Tear Me Down (2023)
TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
When an old friend returns to the neighborhood, Zerocalcare wants to help him find his place back in the world. But what's the right thing to do?
Stars: Zerocalcare, Valerio Mastandrea, James Acaster, Adam Rhys Dee
Votes: 3,617
93. Tear Along the Dotted Line (2021)
TV-14 | 20 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city.
Stars: Zerocalcare, Valerio Mastandrea, Wayne Forester, Adam Rhys Dee
Votes: 12,465
94. Breccia x cuatro (1988)
Documentary
Director: Marcelo Schapces | Stars: Alberto Breccia, Cristina Breccia, Enrique Breccia, Patricia Breccia
Votes: 7
95. My Life Me (2010–2011)
TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The teen slice-of-life comedy follows Birch Small, a manga and anime fan with aspirations of being a comic artist, as she tries to survive high school.
Stars: Mark Hauser, Justin Bradley, Stéfanie Buxton, Sara Camacho
Votes: 397
96. The Comic Book Lady (2008)
100 min | Comedy
In this tale of sexual dysfunction and unhappiness, a lady tries her best to manage her comic book business and her most unusual marriage. The daily grind is sometimes too much as eccentric... See full summary »
Director: Shayne Barker | Stars: Mike Adkins, Matthew Belville, Jim Branham, Danny Cantrell
97. A Short Film About John Bolton (2003)
Not Rated | 27 min | Short
A documentary film crew takes a look at the inspirations behind artist John Bolton's paintings.
Director: Neil Gaiman | Stars: John O'Mahony, Marcus Brigstocke, Carolyn Backhouse, Jonathan Ross
Votes: 285
98. The Comic Book (2018)
20 min | Short, Drama
Felix is looking for the most wanted comic book ever, the Noir Comics #50, but his quest becomes a personal search to find himself.
Director: Joe Arjona | Stars: Antonio Velasco, Erik Rodriguez, Juan Antonio Quintana, Karola Sánchez
99. Tragicomic (2018)
Mystery
Lovesick, isolated, and venting her feelings through her comics, Hannah is on a quest to discover what really happened to her absent father. All the while uncovering a secret from her ... See full summary »
Stars: Nova Moala-Knox, Tracey Savage, Sarah May, Dylan Horrocks
100.
Yes, Dear (2000–2006)
Episode:
Hooked on Comics
(2003)
TV-PG | Comedy
Greg's parents visit. Since his father's retirement, he has taken to collecting comic books and dressing up as a super hero.
Stars: Anthony Clark, Jean Louisa Kelly, Liza Snyder, Mike O'Malley
Votes: 33
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