Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- Dir. Lowell Sherman
Feat. Mae West, Cary Grant
- A raucous comedy success, debuting Mae West as a bawdy bar room entertainer with a penchant for vulnerable men (namely, Cary Grant).…
Sons of the Desert (Fraternally Yours) (1933)
- Dir. William A. Seiter
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
- A 24–carat Laurel and Hardy classic sees the boys wanting to attend a fraternal organisation shindig, but having to deceive their wives to do…
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hania
- Renoir's joyfully anarchic attack on the bourgeoisie in which vagrant Michel Simon wreaks emotional havoc in the orderly household that have offered…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 8 (Movie Crazy, Welcome Danger) (1932)
- Dir. Clyde Bruckman
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Two classic Harold Lloyd features. Includes MOVIE CRAZY, arguably the comedian's best sound film, about making it in Hollywood; and WELCOME DANGER,…
Horse Feathers (1932)
- Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…
- Marxist malarkey in which the crazy quartet engage in a college football conspiracy. Their wildest screen outing.
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis
- Perhaps dir. Lubitsch's most celebrated comedy, this concerns a pair of endearing swindlers (Marshall and Hopkins) whose partnership in romance and…
A Nous la Liberte (1931)
- Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy
- Pre–dating – and disputedly influencing – Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES by some years, this is both more lyrical and whimsical in its…
City Lights (1931)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow
- Chaplin's most melancholy and beautiful film revolves around his love for a blind flower girl and his on–off relationship with a drunkard…
Marius (1931)
- Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis…
- Based on the play by revered French writer Marcel Pagnol, this is the first film in the Marseille Trilogy featuring the characters of Marius (Pierre…
Monkey Business (1931)
- Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…
- The four Marx Brothers stowaway, crash a society party and manage to hatch a few crooks in the process. Another exercise in breathlessly sustained…