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The Butcher Boy
Neil Jordan 1997 1h 50m 8.3

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.

Caddyshack
Harold Ramis 1980 1h 38m 7.4

At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.

La cage aux folles
Édouard Molinaro 1978 1h 32m 6.9

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

Canadian Bacon
Michael Moore 1995 1h 31m 3.0

Canadian Bacon is the only fictitious film from Director Michael Moore. This comedy is about an American president who decides to go to war to bring the public’s opinion of him up during election time. Canadian Bacon is actor John Candy’s last film.

Carry on Cowboy
Gerald Thomas 1966 1h 33m

Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a "sanitary engineer" (plumber) by the name of Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal! Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie ...

Casino Royale
Val Guest, Ken Hughes 1967 2h 11m 7.2

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

The Cat and the Canary
Elliott Nugent 1939 1h 13m

When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.

Catch-22
58.

Catch-22

Mike Nichols 1970 2h 1m 6.6

A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society in general.

Caught in the Draft
David Butler 1941 1h 22m

Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his cor...

Ceremonija
Borivoj Dovniković 'Bordo' 1965 4m

Six people are grouped in front of a wall as if for a photograph. The entire ceremony is supervised by a seventh person, who, like a photographer, looks at the group from different angles and rearranges the group by hand-signals.

C'est arrivé près de chez vous
Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel 1992 1h 36m 8.2

A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.

Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Luis Buñuel 1972 1h 41m 8.0

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Chasing Amy
Kevin Smith 1997 1h 54m 7.4

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is 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.

Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
Tommy Chong 1980 1h 39m

Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot enthusiasts head to the welfare offices where Cheech's girlfriend, Donna, works. Instead of collecting unemployment, they find themselves thrown back on the streets, searching for a way to earn new i...

A Chess Dispute
1903 1m

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the tabl...

Chicken Run
Nick Park, Peter Lord 2000 1h 24m 7.4

Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers and their farm of doom.

City Lights
Charlie Chaplin 1931 1h 27m 8.5

City Lights is the first silent film that Charlie Chaplin directed after he established himself with sound accompanied films. The film is about a penniless man who falls in love with a flower girl. The film was a great success and today is deemed a cult classic.

The Cocoanuts
Robert Florey, Joseph Santley 1929 1h 33m 5.0

During the Florida land boom, the Marx brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

College
69.

College

James W. Horne 1927 1h 5m 6.3

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

Comfort and Joy
Bill Forsyth 1984 1h 46m

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

Comicalamities
Otto Messmer 1928 8m

Comicalamities' starts with a hand drawing an incomplete Felix the cat. Felix is not satisfied with the result so he goes to a man who can fix him (finish his body and give him his black color).

Cops
72.

Cops

Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton 1922 18m

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

A Corny Concerto
1943 8m

Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck.

The Countryman and the Cinematograph
Robert W. Paul 1901 1m

A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.

La crise
75.

La crise

Coline Serreau 1992 1h 35m 7.3

Provetto avvocato si trova di colpo senza moglie e senza lavoro, disperato.

Crocodile Dundee
Peter Faiman 1986 1h 37m 7.0

An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.

A Cure for Pokeritis
Laurence Trimble 1912 13m

This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.

The Cure
78.

The Cure

1917 26m

An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.

Daffy Duck in Hollywood
Tex Avery 1938 8m

Daffy Duck causes trouble on a Hollywood film set.

Dai foo ji ga
Clifton Ko Chi-Sum 1994 1h 34m

This 1994 Chinese New Year offering takes place over a period of time between one Christmas and Chinese New Year's eve. We are introduced to thirteen "Big Rich" people, learn of their particular dispositions and dilemmas, are witness to the former either getting changed or developed and see the latter (re)solved. Teresa Mo as the daughter just r...

81.

Dárek

1947 15m

Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon praised as the Citizen Kane of animation.

A Day at the Races
Sam Wood 1937 1h 49m 8.5

Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Carl Reiner 1982 1h 29m 7.7

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of ...

Demasiado miedo a la vida o Plaff
Juan Carlos Tabío 1988 1h 32m

A superstitious middle-aged woman falls in love with a taxi driver, while trying to learn the identity of the unseen person tossing eggs at her.

Devil May Hare
Robert McKimson 1954 7m

The Tasmanian Devil is on the loose. Bugs offers to help him find his dinner.

Diner
86.

Diner

Barry Levinson 1982 1h 50m 5.5

Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.

The Disorderly Orderly
Frank Tashlin 1964 1h 29m 7.0

Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!

Divorzio all'italiana
Pietro Germi 1961 1h 44m 8.3

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wi...

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Paris Barclay 1996 1h 29m 7.7

When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living t...

Double Crossed
Ford Sterling 1914 10m

Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get involved in burglary in this Keystone from 1914.

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Edwin S. Porter 1906 7m

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the established theme: the “Rarebit Fiend” gorges himself on rarebit and thus suffers spectacular hallucinatory dreams.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick 1964 1h 35m 8.8

An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. A classic black and white war satire from director Stanley Kubrick starring Peter Sellers.

Duck Soup
93.

Duck Soup

Leo McCarey 1933 1h 8m 8.1

Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.

Dumb & Dumber
Peter Farrelly 1994 1h 47m 6.9

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight fo...

East Is East
Damien O'Donnell 1999 1h 37m 6.7

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

Educating Rita
Lewis Gilbert 1983 1h 46m 7.0

Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without downing a bottle or two of whisky. What Fra...

The Erotic Witch Project
John Bacchus 2000 1h 18m

November 1999. Three gorgeous college girls entered the woods of Bacchusville, New Jersey, in search of the legendary Erotic Witch. Two weeks later their footage was found.

Edward Penishands
Paul Norman 1991 1h 23m

A door-to-door dildo saleswoman stumbles across Edward, and upon discovering the advantages of his hand-substitutes, brings him home, where he falls in love with her daughter.

Evergreen
99.

Evergreen

1934 1h 34m

Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.

Explosion of a Motor Car
Cecil M. Hepworth 1900 2m

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.