Popular Comedy Movies on Kanopy - Page 5

Lez Bomb

2018

Lez Bomb

2018
6.7
A closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming-out efforts thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male roommate.
Downtown '81

2001

Downtown '81

2001
6.7
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Bookworm

2024

Bookworm

2024
6.6
Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
Hurricane Bianca

2016

Hurricane Bianca

2016
6.1
A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.
The Women

1939

The Women

1939
7.1
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Fame

2009

Fame

2009
5.7
At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone their skills as singers, actors, dancers, and more. Over four years, these young men and women will see if they truly have the dedication and talent to achieve success, while still juggling regular schoolwork, feelings of self-doubt, and budding romances.
Mostly Martha

2001

Mostly Martha

2001
6.7
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.
Dear Dictator

2018

Dear Dictator

2018
5.5
When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" in her high school.
Attraction

1969

Attraction

1969
4.8
A married woman's journey through the psychedelic English youth scene awakens her to the carnal offerings of an African-American man.
Mama Weed

2020

Mama Weed

2020
5.8
A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.
Tromeo & Juliet

1996

Tromeo & Juliet

1996
6
All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had! Join Tromeo and Juliet as they travel through Manhattan's underground in search of climactic love, violence and the American Way.
The Little Hours

2017

The Little Hours

2017
5.9
Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.
Oz

1976

Oz

1976
4.9
Teenage groupie Dorothy is riding with a rock band when, suddenly, the van runs off the road, and she hits her head. She awakes in a fantasy world as gritty and realistic as her own and learns that her arrival killed a young thug. A gay clothier, Glyn the Good Fairy, gives her a pair of red heels as a reward to help her see the last concert of the Wizard, an androgynous glam rock star. As she's pursued and sexually threatened by the late thug's brother, she encounters and befriends a brainless surfer, a heartless mechanic, and a cowardly biker.
Perfect Friday

1970

Perfect Friday

1970
6.1
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
42nd Street

1933

42nd Street

1933
6.9
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
Red Dog

2011

Red Dog

2011
7.3
The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
Citizens Of The World

2020

Citizens Of The World

2020
6.7
Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.
Freelance

2023

Freelance

2023
6.4
An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive.
The Oath

2018

The Oath

2018
5.6
In a politically-divided United States, a man struggles to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without destroying his family.
Robots

2023

Robots

2023
5.6
A womanizer and a gold digger trick people into relationships with illegal robot doubles. When they unwittingly use this scam on each other, their robot doubles fall in love and elope, forcing the duo to team up to hunt them down before the authorities discover their secret.