Directed by Frank Capra • 1938 • United States
Starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart

Frank Capra’s irresistible adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize–winning stage hit by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart is perhaps the most bighearted and optimistic comedy from a filmmaker who speciali...

Directed by George Cukor • 1954 • United States
Starring Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon

Screenwriter Garson Kanin and director George Cukor presciently satirize the rise of “famous for being famous” celebrity culture in this irresistible romantic comedy. With her career going nowhere,...

Directed by Frank Capra • 1931 • United States
Starring Jean Harlow, Robert Williams, Loretta Young

Written to showcase Jean Harlow’s talent and charm, this romantic comedy from director Frank Capra is a glorious spoof of the newspaper business in New York City during the Depression. After marry...

Directed by John Ford • 1935 • United States
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur

Edward G. Robinson spoofs his own tough-guy image in this lively gangster farce, one of director John Ford’s rare forays into straight comedy. In a delightful double role, Robinson plays mild-mannered office cl...

Directed by Mark Robson • 1954 • United States
Starring Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson

After several years of domestic squabbles, the marriage of Nina (Judy Holliday) and Robert Tracey (Jack Lemmon) goes “phffft!” Upon receiving their divorce papers, Nina and Robert are certain that the...

Directed by Noel Black • 1968 • United States
Starring Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland

“I met you on Monday, fell in love with you on Tuesday, Wednesday I was unfaithful, Thursday we killed a guy together. How about that for a crazy week?” Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld make for...

Directed by Glenn Barit • 2019 • Philippines
Starring Ianna Taguinod, Leomar Baloran, Julian Narag

At a Catholic high school in the Philippine city of Tuguegarao, a rambunctious batch of students rebel against all expectations to be clean: a germaphobe is tested by a bout of uncontrollable diarr...

Directed by Frank Tashlin • 1955 • United States
Starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine

Former Looney Tunes animator Frank Tashlin brings his cartoon-crazy sight gags, eye-popping Technicolor art direction, and absurdist pop-culture commentary to perhaps the finest of the collaborat...

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet • 2001 • France, Germany
Starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus

The Gallic sensation that charmed the world, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s irresistible cinematic soufflé introduces us to the unforgettable Amélie (Audrey Tautou in the role that made her an internat...

Directed by George Cukor • 1950 • United States
Starring Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden

Judy Holliday pulled off one of the greatest upsets in Oscar history when she beat out both Bette Davis in ALL ABOUT EVE and Gloria Swanson in SUNSET BOULEVARD for the Academy Award for bes...

Directed by Doug Liman • 1999 • United States
Starring Sarah Polley, Timothy Olyphant, Katie Holmes

Director Doug Liman’s follow-up to SWINGERS is a hyperkinetic, MDMA-fueled cult joyride that bounces, with whiplash-inducing abandon, between a coterie of twentysomething Californians chasing drug...

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell • 2001 • United States
Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt

With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie...

Directed by Michael Roemer • 1969 • United States
Starring Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods

A treasure of American independent filmmaking that was neglected for decades until its triumphant rediscovery, writer-director-producer Michael Roemer’s feature follow-up to his landmark NOTHING BUT ...

Directed by Hal Ashby • 1979 • United States
Starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies....

Directed by Billy Wilder • 1963 • United States
Starring Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi

Director Billy Wilder reunited with THE APARTMENT stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine for this enchanting, Paris-set comedy of sex and mistaken identity. Meet Nestor (Lemmon), a young French pol...

Directed by Spike Jonze • 2002 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep

This brilliantly inventive head trip from the feverish imaginations of director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman stars Nicolas Cage as . . . Charlie Kaufman, a successful yet insecure screenwr...

Directed by Billy Wilder • 1960 • United States
Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

Jack Lemmon stars in one of Billy Wilder’s most beloved films as C. C. Baxter, a company man anxious to please his superiors at the New York insurance firm where he works—enough to let his boss...

Directed by Timothy Carey • 1962 • United States
Starring Timothy Carey, Gil Barreto, Betty Rowland

Timothy Carey—the unforgettable character actor whose weird, wiggy energy brought a manic edge to classics like THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY—wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this outrag...

Directed by George Roy Hill • 1979 • United States, France
Starring Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard

When Lauren (Diane Lane), a thirteen-year-old American girl living in Paris, meets Daniel (Thelonious Bernard), a thirteen-year-old French boy, on the set of a film, these two kid...

Directed by Richard Linklater • 2011 • United States
Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey

A stranger-than-fiction true story provides the basis for this arrestingly offbeat black comedy from Richard Linklater. Bernie (a marvelous Jack Black) is a much-loved mortician in sma...

Directed by Hugh Wilson • 1994 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton

After the president of the United States dies in office, the country’s favorite First Lady, Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine), retires to her sleepy Ohio hometown, where one of the few constan...

Directed by Ronald Neame • 1966 • United States
Starring Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom

Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine are perfectly matched in a delightful but deadly game of international cat and mouse. The fast-paced caper takes off in Hong Kong where a dapper English cat bu...

Directed by Mike Nichols • 1990 • United States
Starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid

Mike Nichols’s alternately witty and poignant adaptation of Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical novel (inspired by her relationship with her famous mother, Debbie Reynolds) stars Meryl Streep as Su...

Directed by Jackie Chan • 1989 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Gua Ah-leh

Jackie Chan pays homage to classic Hollywood spectacle in this 1930s-set gangster-musical romp. An inspired reworking of a Damon Runyon story (previously filmed twice by Frank Capra as LADY FOR A DAY and POCKE...