Tragi-comedy
  • Life picture
    Movies

    Life (1999)

    Wrongly convicted of murder, two men (Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence) become close friends during...

  • A Wedding picture
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    A Wedding (1978)

    Friends and family of the bride (Amy Stryker) and groom (Desi Arnaz Jr.) carry on at a mansion...

  • The World According to Garp picture
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    The World According to Garp (1982)

    John Irving's novel about the son of an unmarried nurse whose career is overshadowed by his mother's...

  • Running with Scissors picture
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    Running with Scissors (2006)

    A man looks back on his unusual childhood, his mentally ill mother (Annette Bening) and her...

  • Country Dance picture
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    Country Dance (1970)

    A Scottish woman (Susannah York) finds incest and madness when she leaves her husband (Michael...

  • The Living End picture
    Movies

    The Living End (1992)

    After a chance meeting, two aimless young men, both HIV-positive, embark on a casual affair, then go...

  • Garbo Talks picture
    Movies

    Garbo Talks (1984)

    A New Yorker's (Anne Bancroft) son (Ron Silver) tries to grant her last wish: to meet elusive movie...

  • Hoffman picture
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    Hoffman

    A lonely Englishman (Peter Sellers) blackmails a young secretary (Sinead Cusack) into moving into...

  • The Front picture
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    The Front (1976)

    A man acts as a front for renowned television writers politically blacklisted during the McCarthy...

  • Some Kind of Hero picture
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    Some Kind of Hero (1982)

    A Vietnam P.O.W. returns home to a hero's welcome, but quickly forgotton making him realize how hard...

  • Men Cry Bullets picture
    Movies

    Men Cry Bullets (1999)

    A young man witnessnes his mother's death at the hands of his father, and becomes a female...

  • Adam & Paul picture
    Movies

    Adam & Paul

    Two addicts (Mark O'Halloran, Tom Murphy) encounter lowlifes while trying to find drugs in Dublin,...

  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz picture
    Movies

    The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

    Mordecai Richler's Jewish hero (Richard Dreyfuss) tries to get rich quick in 1940s Montreal.

  • Breakfast of Champions picture
    Movies

    Breakfast of Champions (1999)

    An unhappy car dealer (Bruce Willis) believes that a dime-store author/philosopher (Albert Finney)...

  • Jakob the Liar picture
    Movies

    Jakob the Liar (1999)

    A Jew (Robin Williams) gives hope to others in a Polish ghetto by saying he has a radio which gives...

  • Elementarteilchen picture
    Movies

    Elementarteilchen

    Follows two half-brothers, Michael and Bruno, through the second half of the 20th century. Michael,...

  • Wise Blood picture
    Movies

    Wise Blood (1979)

    Flannery O'Connor's Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) becomes the Deep South evangelist of a church without...

  • We Think the World of You picture
    Movies

    We Think the World of You (1988)

    A middle-aged homosexual (Alan Bates) in postwar Britain forms a bond with his ex-lover's (Gary...

  • Pasqualino Settebellezze picture
    Movies

    Pasqualino Settebellezze (1976)

    A gangster's will to survive battles with his conscience.

  • Nina's Tragedies picture
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    Nina's Tragedies (2005)

    The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd...

  • Stroszek picture
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    Stroszek (1977)

    In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a...

  • Toto the Hero picture
    Movies

    Toto the Hero (1992)

    A middle-aged man, suspecting that he was accidentally switched at birth and a poorer man because of...

  • The Zeros picture
    Movies

    The Zeros

    A slightly futuristic dark comedy about a young man who finds out he is dying, and goes in search of...

  • Zombie and the Ghost Train picture
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    Zombie and the Ghost Train

    A young musician called Zombie wanders around aimlessly, from Helsinki to Istanbul, trying to find...

  • Law of Desire picture
    Movies

    Law of Desire (1987)

    A film makers sexual disorientation jepordizes his latest project.

  • Halbe Treppe picture
    Movies

    Halbe Treppe

    An intimate look at two couples living on the German-Polish border whose lives are turned upside...

  • Prick Up Your Ears picture
    Movies

    Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

    As British playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) gains fame, the relationship with his homosexual lover...

  • Kilometre Zero picture
    Movies

    Kilometre Zero

    A Kurdish soldier (Nazmi Kirik) seeks escape from Saddam Hussein's army.

  • Everybody's Fine picture
    Movies

    Everybody's Fine (1991)

    A retired man visits his five grown children.

  • Fuse picture
    Movies

    Fuse

    Bosnians scramble to make their town presentable for President Bill Clinton.