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American cinema: Comedy/Thriller

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Charles Crichton

London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West...   [More...]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis

David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors...   [More...]

And Then There Were None (1945)
René Clair

Eight men and women, all unknown to each other, accept a mysterious invitation to an island estate. They are welcomed by two domestic servants, Mr and Mrs Rogers, who appear to be as ignorant of the reason for the meeting as the guests are...   [More...]

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Frank Capra

Mortimer Brewster returns to Brooklyn to visit his elderly aunts Abby and Martha with the news that he has just got married...   [More...]

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Jay Roach

In 1967, Britain's top secret agent and number one hipster, Austin Powers, is on the trail of his deadly archenemy Dr Evil, the world's greatest criminal mastermind...   [More...]

Beat the Devil (1953)
John Huston

Billy Dannreuther and his wife Maria are on their way to make their fortune in Africa, but are held up in an Italian port whilst their steamboat undergoes some repair work...   [More...]

Brazil (1985)
Terry Gilliam

Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information...   [More...]

The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Paul Leni

As millionaire Cyrus West nears death, his relatives descend on his ancient mausoleum of a house like cats around a canary...   [More...]

Charade (1963)
Stanley Donen

Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas...   [More...]

Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick

Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR...   [More...]

The Freshman (1990)
Andrew Bergman

Clark Kellogg leaves his home in Vermont to study film at New York University. His first week in the city gets off to a promising start when everything he possesses is stolen by crooked taxi driver Victor Ray...   [More...]

High Anxiety (1977)
Mel Brooks

Dr Richard H. Thorndyke, an esteemed Harvard psychiatrist, is proud to take up the post of director at the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous...   [More...]

His Kind of Woman (1951)
John Farrow

In Naples, Dan Milner, an unsuccessful gambler, is offered 50,000 dollars if he agrees to undertake a special assignment for a mysterious client...   [More...]

The Invisible Man (1933)
James Whale

One winter's day, a stranger arrives at a small village inn and demands a room. His appearance causes consternation amongst the locals...   [More...]

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Roger Corman

Gravis Mushnick is the mean-spirited owner of a cheap florist's shop in Skid Row, New York. He has two assistants, the simple-minded Audrey and the inept Seymour, but even with their combined efforts he has difficulty attracting customers...   [More...]

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Leigh Jason

Early one morning, Manhattan debutante Melsa Manton is out walking her dogs when she sees a playboy acquaintance, Ronnie Belden, run out of a house belonging to the wealthy financier George Lane...   [More...]

Midnight Run (1988)
Martin Brest

One-time cop Jack Walsh has turned bounty hunter after a run-in with Los Angeles mobster Jimmy Serrano, which robbed him of his career and his family...   [More...]

The Old Dark House (1932)
James Whale

Philip and Margaret Waverton are on their way to Shrewsbury by car with war veteran Roger Penderel when they are caught in a violent rainstorm...   [More...]

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Blake Edwards

Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position...   [More...]

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Quentin Tarantino

When a group of drugs dealing college kids attempt to double cross him, Los Angeles gangster boss Marsellus Wallace sends two of his henchmen, Jules and Vincent, to pay them a house call and collect a mysterious briefcase...   [More...]

Shadows and Fog (1991)
Woody Allen

In the 1920s, a town swathed in fog is terrorised by a mysterious serial killer who roams the streets, strangling men and women unlucky enough to cross his path...   [More...]

The Sting (1973)
George Roy Hill

Illinois, 1936. Johnny Hooker, a small time con artist, finds himself out of his league when he pilfers a wad of cash belonging to one of Chicago's biggest racketeers, Doyle Lonnegan...   [More...]

Topkapi (1964)
Jules Dassin

Elizabeth Lipp and her lover Walter Harper plan to steal a priceless emerald-encrusted dagger from the Topkapi museum in Istabul...   [More...]

The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
John Ford

Arthur Ferguson Jones is a mild-mannered office clerk whose closest companions are his cat and his canary. For months, he has had a secret crush on one of his colleagues, Miss Clark, but he is too shy to speak to her...   [More...]

Young Frankenstein (1974)
Mel Brooks

Dr Frederick Frankenstein is a medical school lecturer who just happens to be the grandson of the mad scientist Baron von Frankenstein, whose monster-making exploits have been widely reported in books, films and comic books by irresponsible sensationalists...   [More...]

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