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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
(1953) [G]

Jacques Tati, master of his own idiosyncratic genre of cinematic slapstick, followed up his acclaimed debut JOUR DE FETE with the equally ingenious MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY. Five years in the making, the film marks the debut of Tati's altar ego, Mr. Hulot, a gangly and awkward Frenchman, perpetually...  More

The Delicate Delinquent
(1957) [G]

Imagine calling the cops to restore law and order - and Jerry Lewis shows up? In his first film without longtime partner Dean Martin, Lewis plays Sidney Pythias, a bumbling janitor caught up in the middle of a gang rumble. Mistaken for a member of the switchblade set, Sidney is encouraged to...  More

George and Mildred (The Movie)
(1980) [PG]

Television’s most famous bickering couple, George & Mildred Roper, graduate to the big screen in the 1980 feature-length comedy starring Yootha Joyce & Brian Murphy. Mildred’s planned wedding anniversary celebrations hilariously go sour when George is mistaken for a vicious hit man leading to...  More

The Green Man / School for Scoundrels
(1960) [G]

School For Scoundrels: Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) tries hard to impress but always loses out to that rotter Delauney (Terry Thomas). Then he enrols at the wacky College of Lifemanship run by "professor" Potter (Alastair Sim) and discovers the secrets of success: how to seduce women, how to...  More

A Countess from Hong Kong
(1967) [PG]

Charlie Chaplin’s final film is a delightful romantic comedy, filled with the clever touches for which he’s famous. Written, directed and composed by Chaplin, it revolves around Russian emigre countess Natascha (Sophia Loren), forced into prostitution in Hong Kong, who stows away in wealthy...  More

The Blackadder (Series 1)
(1983) [M]

Throughout the ages men of flair, faculty and outstanding courage have contributed to England's glorious heritage. Others, like the snivelling worm Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh, the bitter and twisted son of a medieval king, have emerged from the dust of dodgy documents to claim their wrongful...  More

General, The (1927)
(1927) [G]

Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marian Mack), young Johnnie Gray (Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war with his cherished locomotive. What follows is, without exaggeration, probably the most cleverly choreographed comedy...  More

Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life
(1983) [M]

Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin have returned to explain The Meaning Of Life. These naughty Britons offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favourite bodily...  More

Laurel & Hardy: Way Out West
(1937) [G]

Stan and Ollie are asked to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. However, they'll have to contend with her evil guardian Mickey Finn who is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon singer wife Lola.  More

Let's Make Love
(1960) [G]

LET’S MAKE LOVE was Marilyn Monroe's 27th picture and George Cukor’s first film with the star who was then at the height of her career. In this film, his third musical, Cukor made skillful use of color and camera movement to illustrate one of his favorite themes: the magic of show business....  More