Top Rated Comedy Movies on Kanopy - Page 77

Broadway Jones

1917

Broadway Jones

1917
An arrogant young man leaves his Ohio home to make it big on Broadway in New York City when he inherits the family business and $1-million. However, things don't go quite according to his plans. After he blows most of the money, he returns to Ohio to try to sell the family business to raise more money, but complications ensue.
Trust Me

1992

Trust Me

1992
Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.
Bagdad Cafe

2021

Bagdad Cafe

2021
Smack bang in the middle of nowhere (or was it somewhere on the legendary Route 66?) two women are thrown together by chance. Stranded tourist Jasmin stumbles out of her unhappy marriage and finds herself at Brenda’s remote cafe and motel. Ordinarily, no one would choose to stay at the Bagdad Cafe but in the dust and isolation, unexpected and extraordinary friendships begin to blossom. The lost are found as individuals transform into an eclectic community bound by music, magic and some very strong coffee.
History Bites Back

2021

History Bites Back

2021
Trisha Morton-Thomas teams up with Elaine Crombie and Steven Oliver to bite back at negative social media comments and steer the conversation towards the historical context of the fortunes and misfortunes of Indigenous Australians – from social security, citizenship and equal wages to nuclear bombs and civil actions.
National Theatre Archive: I Want My Hat Back

2015

National Theatre Archive: I Want My Hat Back

2015
Bear's hat is gone. He loves his hat. He wants it back. He asks all the animals in the forest, but no one has seen it. WAIT. He has seen it somewhere.
Probability

1985

Probability

1985
"Probability" (1985) presents a series of handmade signs featuring wild headlines taken from the tabloid "Weekly World News". Stark temporarily intervenes into the everyday scene of a bustling corner of San Francisco’s Financial District where he held a day job.
Game Face

2020

Game Face

2020
Winning isn't everything.
Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive

2015

Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive

2015
Ronen Matalon, born and raised in Jerusalem. He start make a tour guide. His tour, called "From Trauma to Fantasy" leads people in the footsteps of terrorist attacks on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, and attempts to touch upon the collective trauma of those days.
Harry the Dirty Dog

1987

Harry the Dirty Dog

1987
Harry, a white dog with black spots runs away from home because he hates getting a bath. After many adventures and visits to dirty places, Harry returns home only to be recognized as a black dog with white spots.
What Tomorrow Brings

2020

What Tomorrow Brings

2020
Three stories take place simultaneously as a mystery unfolds.
The Spirit Compendium

2008

The Spirit Compendium

2008
Tom’s girlfriend dies in a tragic accident and he plunges into depression. May is shunned by the people around her because she claims she can see spirits. Sam is an expert masseuse and gives Tom great massages. Sam’s family loses their fortune and is forced to move in with his friend Tom, sleeping naked on the same bed. The three friends embrace on a journey that begins with the mysterious disappearance of Tom’s father, who leaves Tom with only a spiritual book and an ancient Tibetan Dzi Bead. It is not until Sam is trapped in a spiritual realm that they realise the importance of the items.
Hard to be a Vampire

2017

Hard to be a Vampire

2017
Vladimir is tired of being a vampire, he feels lonely and depressed, so he will try to reinsert himself into society, get a job and recover his human life.
American Marriage

2018

American Marriage

2018
Leonardo, an Italian immigrant living in New York, marries a Latin American woman, Nikki, to obtain the greencard. In the process the two really fall in love, but it seems that "Uncle Sam" will be the last to laugh.
Love the Sinner

2019

Love the Sinner

2019
11-year-old Joanna tries to understand grief through her mother’s reaction to Princess Diana’s death.
Her Second Mother

1940

Her Second Mother

1940
A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the police.
Ups and Downs

2019

Ups and Downs

2019
A young man with Down's Syndrome tricks his sister into a road trip to go to a concert, while being pursued by their mum. With no phones, no money and no plan, can they make it?
Carmelita Tropicana

1994

Carmelita Tropicana

1994
Performance artist, Carmelita Tropicana, lives in Manhattan's East Village, by Hamilton Fish Park. After a performance one night, she's mugged by a knife-wielding thief. The next day, in a clash with anti-abortion protesters in front of a woman's health clinic, Carmelita is arrested, along with her lively friend Orchida and her sort-of up-tight and wannabe-wealthy sister, Sophia. They're placed in a cell with another woman, who turns out to be last night's mugger, a down-and-out young woman named Cordelia (Dee). Relationships between each pair of women and among the four of them go through changes as the afternoon passes.
Time Traveller

2018

Time Traveller

2018
A 'Back To The Future'-obsessed traveller boy strives to finish building his own DeLorean replica before his family are evicted from their halting site.
Open Wide

2018

Open Wide

2018
Mr. Karobka hadn’t visited his dentist for a long while. In his absence, the clinic had adopted a new routine procedure.
Falling

2018

Falling

2018
A man unable to walk is assured by a doctor that he is fine, a woman on a date is told she is acting crazy and a young black man is stuck in a standoff with a man who is confident he is not racist.