Genre "Comedy of Manners" Movies
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| 1. A Good Year (year: 2006) |
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Gladiator duo Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe re-team for this adaptation of author Peter Mayle's best-selling novel about a London-based investment ba ...
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| 2. About Schmidt (year: 2002) |
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Jack Nicholson plays retiring insurance actuary Warren Schmidt in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Schmidt has settled into a dormant life. He has an ...
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| 3. Alfie (year: 1966) |
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| 4. Annie Hall (year: 1977) |
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Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Si ...
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| 5. Back To School (year: 1986) |
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| 6. Blast from the Past (year: 1999) |
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In 1962, Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) was a brilliant but somewhat paranoid scientist living with his Donna Reed-esque wife, Helen (Sissy Spacek ...
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| 7. Borat (year: 2006) |
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Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen hits the road to explore America as the crude Kazakstani reporter Borat in a feature mockumentary that brings one ...
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| 8. Born Yesterday (year: 1993) |
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This 1993 remake of the 1950 film Born Yesterday (based on the 1946 Garson Kanin stage play) was retooled as a star vehicle for then-marrieds Melanie ...
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| 9. Breakfast at Tiffany's (year: 1961) |
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In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives ...
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| 10. Bring It On (year: 2000) |
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The hard work, dedication, and personal politics behind "rah rah rah!" and "sis boom bah!" go under the microscope in this engagin ...
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| 11. Carnal Knowledge (year: 1971) |
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"Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love." With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols's Carnal ...
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| 12. Caro Diario (year: 1994) |
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Writer/director/actor Nanni Moretti offers a three-part film diary which takes a sharply satiric look at Italian life.
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| 13. Coming to America (year: 1988) |
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Coming to America casts comedian Eddie Murphy as pampered African prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a ...
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| 14. Doc Hollywood (year: 1991) |
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A big city doctor is stranded in a small rural town, where he finds love, professional challenges, and a pet pig, in this comedy. Fresh out of residen ...
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| 15. Don Juan DeMarco (year: 1995) |
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A psychiatrist treats a most unusual patient, only to find that the doctor is the one who gains the most from their sessions in this philosophical rom ...
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| 16. Down and Out in Beverly Hills (year: 1986) |
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills is an updated remake of the 1932 Jean Renoir film Boudu Saved By Drowning. Philandering businessman Dave Whiteman (Richa ...
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| 17. Fierce Creatures (year: 1997) |
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The starring cast of the hit A Fish Called Wanda reunited for this farcical comedy, which star and co-screenwriter John Cleese described as "not ...
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| 18. Gamers (year: 2006) |
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Kelly LeBrock, William Katt, John Heard, and Beverly D'Angelo star in this comedy about four lifelong gamers - and the obsessive intruder - who attemp ...
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| 19. Georgy Girl (year: 1966) |
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Georgy Girl is a bittersweet comedy drama about Georgy (Lynn Redgrave), a slightly overweight, working-class virgin in her early twenties who shares a ...
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| 20. Going Greek (year: 2001) |
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A shy freshman doesn't take long to warm up to fraternity life in this college comedy following in the tradition of Animal House and PCU. Reserved col ...
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| 21. Guarding Tess (year: 1994) |
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A man trained for a life of excitement and danger is given a new and unexpected challenge — minding a grouchy old woman — in this ...
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| 22. Guess Who (year: 2005) |
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A man gets a very big surprise when he meets his prospective son-in-law in this comedy. Percy Jones (Bernie Mac) is the understandably proud father of ...
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| 23. Harvey (year: 1950) |
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| 24. High Fidelity (year: 2000) |
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A man discovers that there's more to love than a good mixed tape in this dramatic comedy about music and relationships. Rob (John Cusack), an obsessiv ...
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| 25. How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (year: 2000) |
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Somewhere in L.A., Peter (Kenneth Branagh), a washed-up British playwright, struggles to duplicate his past glory as he surfs a foul-smelling tide of ...
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| 26. In Good Company (year: 2004) |
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A middle-aged man finds a callow twentysomething usurping his professional life and worming his way into his family in this alternately funny and poig ...
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| 27. Junebug (year: 2005) |
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Phil Morrison, who collaborated with screenwriter Angus MacLachlan for his acclaimed 1990 short, Tater Tomater, joins forces with MacLachlan again for ...
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| 28. Kicking and Screaming (year: 1995) |
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Inspired by the advent of Seattle's grunge music sound and popular films such as Slacker (1991) and Singles (1992), the Generation X comedy-drama was ...
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| 29. King Ralph (year: 1991) |
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Sometimes a family title, among the nobility of England, goes to the "collateral" heirs — people not in the direct line of decent, ...
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| 30. Last Holiday (year: 2006) |
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A woman learns to love life when she finds out she won't be around long in this comedy. Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) lives in New Orleans, where she w ...
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| 31. Legally Blonde (year: 2001) |
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| 32. Local Hero (year: 1983) |
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Bill Forsyth's whimsical tale of sweet-natured corporate rapacity features standout performances by Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert. Lancaster plays ...
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| 33. Lost in Translation (year: 2003) |
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After making a striking directorial debut with her screen adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola offers a story of love and friendship bloom ...
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| 34. Made in America (year: 1993) |
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Richard Benjamin directed this farce that plays like "Guess Who's Coming for Insemination?" Whoopi Goldberg stars as Sarah Matthews, who run ...
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| 35. Malibu's Most Wanted (year: 2003) |
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A rich kid who likes to pretend he's from the wrong side of the tracks gets a taste of the real thing in this comedy. Brad Gluckman (Jamie Kennedy) is ...
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| 36. Mallrats (year: 1995) |
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Kevin Smith's follow-up to his unexpected hit Clerks details the pointless story of T.S. (Jeremy London) and Brodie (Jason Lee), two suburban New Jers ...
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| 37. Manhattan (year: 1979) |
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On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan continued ...
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| 38. Marci X (year: 2003) |
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Paul Rudnick provides the script for the Scott Rudin-produced comedy Marci X, directed by Richard Benjamin. The new song "Shoot Ya' Teacha" ...
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| 39. Mean Girls (year: 2004) |
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Tina Fey from Saturday Night Live wrote and appears in this comedy about the alternately funny and terrifying pecking order among teenage girls. Cady ...
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| 40. Melinda and Melinda (year: 2004) |
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While Woody Allen has long fused comedy and drama in his films, he embraces the two styles in a new and unusual way in this feature. Sy (Wallace Shawn ...
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| 41. Mon Oncle d'Amerique (year: 1980) |
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Alain Resnais' Mon Oncle D'Amerique is presented in the form of a "case history," replete with a pedantic narrator, played by real-life beha ...
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| 42. My Cousin Vinny (year: 1992) |
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When sweet Northern college kid Bill (Ralph Macchio) and his buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) are picked up and thrown into the slammer in a hick South ...
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| 43. Passion Fish (year: 1992) |
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With his trademark emphasis on character development and dialogue, writer/director John Sayles tells the story of May-Alice Culhane (Mary McDonnell), ...
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| 44. Pride & Prejudice (year: 2005) |
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Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. Th ...
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| 46. Prime (year: 2005) |
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Two women get a new and unusual perspective on the doctor/patient relationship in this romantic comedy. Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) is a woman in her mi ...
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| 47. Roger Dodger (year: 2002) |
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Writer/director Dylan Kidd got a chance to make his script for Roger Dodger into a feature film when he boldly approached Campbell Scott in a cafe in ...
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| 48. Savages (year: 1972) |
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| 49. Saving Grace (year: 2000) |
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Waking Ned Divine (1998) meets Up in Smoke (1978) in this wacky British comedy about growing marijuana. Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn is a cheerful ...
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| 50. School for Scoundrels (year: 2006) |
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Old School director Todd Phillips takes the reins for an updated remake of the 1960 comedy, this time starring Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder as Roger, ...
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