Top Rated Comedy Movies on Kanopy - Page 88

Never Too Late

2020

Never Too Late

2020
5.8
It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve, so they band together to devise a plan to escape their new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed. In fact, they can’t even remember what they were—and that’s half the problem.
The Devil's Harmony

2019

The Devil's Harmony

2019
5.6
A bullied teenage girl leads a glee club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies.
Golden Arm

2021

Golden Arm

2021
5.8
A tough lady trucker trains her girly best friend to compete in the National Ladies Arm Wrestling Championship.
Chuchotage

2018

Chuchotage

2018
7.4
During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener.
Love by the 10th Date

2017

Love by the 10th Date

2017
6.3
Four friends balance their dating adventures with their career ambitions at an upscale magazine, teaching themselves and each other how to get the most out of love and life.
Top Knot Detective

2017

Top Knot Detective

2017
6.5
In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan Ronin Suiri Tentai (meaning roughly Deductive Reasoning Ronin), it was soon known in the West as Top Knot Detective. The original series was legendary in Japan, a cultural train wreck led by Takashi Tawagoto, a crazy writer, producer, director and lead actor; one who could not act, fight or write at all.
My Friend from the Park

2015

My Friend from the Park

2015
6.4
While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.
Len and Company

2015

Len and Company

2015
5.5
A successful music producer quits the industry and exiles himself in upstate New York, but the solitude he seeks is shattered when his estranged son and the pop star he's created come looking for answers.
ChickLit

2016

ChickLit

2016
5.4
ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control - leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.
To Life

2014

To Life

2014
5.2
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in the waves.
A Full Day's Work

1973

A Full Day's Work

1973
6.4
A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.
Elvis & Madonna

2011

Elvis & Madonna

2011
5.8
In Copacabana, lesbian photographer Elvis is hired to deliver pizzas in the night shift on her motorcycle. Her first assignment is a delivery to the transgender hairdresser Lady Madonna, whom she falls in love with.
Nate & Margaret

2012

Nate & Margaret

2012
4.4
Nate, a 19 year old film student, and Margaret, a 52 year old spinster, are best friends in an odd, quirky, totally working kind of way... until Nate's audacious classmate Darla sets him up on a date with James. Nate's new life shakes apart his friendship with Margaret, just as she is trying to start a career as a stand-up comedian.
Straight-Jacket

2004

Straight-Jacket

2004
5.4
In 1950's Hollywood, movie star Guy Stone must marry a studio secretary in order to conceal his homosexuality. Sally has no idea her marriage is a sham, though, and turns Guy's life upside-down. However, soon after the wedding, Guy develops feelings for a writer named Rick.
Special Treatment

2010

Special Treatment

2010
4.2
Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne Labrune's drama stars Isabelle Huppert and Bouli Lanners as, respectively, Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation.
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil

1986

Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil

1986
5.2
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
Fancy Pants

1950

Fancy Pants

1950
5.6
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.
Blackfly

1991

Blackfly

1991
6.2
A young surveyer, new to Ontario, encounters the blackflies. Over and over again, he encounters those blackflies.
A Samurai in Time

2024

A Samurai in Time

2024
7.4
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
I'll Be Right There

2024

I'll Be Right There

2024
5.6
Wanda wants to take care of everyone in her life. She barely has time for herself, not that she would know what to do with it anyway.