Movies: Deadpan comedy

In this mystery-comedy, a young chauffeur investigates the disappearance of a client. He is aided by his Italian teacher, a homeless estate agent, and an artist who uses random stock photos to illustrate her dreams. Everything seems like a clue in th...

As Pavithran and Haripriya's marriage withers away, he plans a trip to bring things back on track. But his marital bliss is threatened by a bunch of nutjobs....

Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that's now in his dad's shed. Gavin seeks his dad's understanding but he's uninterested in modern art and refuses to participate in the documentary....

Ciko, a film editor, faces a major dilemma when tasked with cutting several scenes of the lead actor due to acting flaws. Secretly, Jagad, the director, asks Ciko to edit the actor out of the film entirely, without the knowledge of Tasya, the produce...

In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog....

Stand-up comedian Brent Weinbach covers a variety of pop culture topics such as identity, lifestyle, and Michael Jackson, all through his deadpan, absurd style and incorporating physical humor, impressions, wordplay, and music....

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple wit...

Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections....

Todd Barry is back with a brand new stand up special from The Den Theater in Chicago....

The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her...

On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue is an idiotic manchild....

On December 17th 2019, I, James Acaster, filmed my 2019 tour show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 at EartH in Hackney. It was a show about the best year of my life (1999) and the worst year of my life (2017), I wore a very nifty jacket for it and I loo...

Stupid Little Golf Video (released as Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video in the United States) is the third and last of the how-to-golf-badly trilogy. (The other two are Bad Golf Made Easier and Bad Golf My Way.) It is the only one that is rel...

After distancing himself from his off-screen boyfriend, an IT graduate (and wannabe painter) finds himself on a suburban odyssey to get his best friend's laptop fixed, his only company being his imaginary friend (a walking talking goldfish)....

An introverted office drone tries to navigate through corporate America, and one tragic day he meets his match. He then realizes he needs to play the capitalistic game in order to survive. His pain and confusion is your laughter....

Unsure of how to navigate a recent breakup, Penelope turns to a local community group for support. She soon discovers, however, that this eclectic mix is anything but normal, and everyone grieves in their own way....

The story of two inseparable friends born on the same day of the same year. As they grow up, their unique, idyllic world—understood only by them—begins to crumble when one of them finds a boyfriend....

When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different ways they have chosen to live their lives....

Chalkboy Chad, a man with a one of a kind personality, tries to take hold of his surreal, mysterious life while also figuring out the unexpected cause of his grandmother’s death....

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