Comédie américaine

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows comédie américaine

poster The Gorilla

The Gorilla

68mn - Horror, Thriller, Comedy

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we di…

poster Jury Duty: The Comedy

Jury Duty: The Comedy

94mn - Comedy, Short

Mild and meek accountant Sanford Lagelfost has been charged with embezzling $3 million dollars from Trout Industries. A decidedly mixed bag of jurors are chosen to serve on the case, including Eddie, a wa…

poster Borrowed Wives

Borrowed Wives

Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

poster The Masquerader

The Masquerader

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.

poster The Big Combo

The Big Combo

87mn - Drama, Action, Thriller

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

poster Clancy in Wall Street

Clancy in Wall Street

Clancy and MacIntosh are a pair of stock comedy Irish and Scottish plumbers who have been partners for twenty years; but when Clancy accidentally buys some shares on margin, MacIntosh's Scotch thrift rebe…

poster Carnival Lady

Carnival Lady

When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.

poster Springtime in the Rockies

Springtime in the Rockies

91mn - Music, Romance, Comedy

Broadway partners split when jealousy over womanizing threatens their romance, leading to a colorful musical chase through the Canadian Rockies in this vibrant Technicolor classic.

poster Coney Island

Coney Island

Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.

poster The Frozen North

The Frozen North

17mn - Comedy, Western

This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he think…

poster Highway Dragnet

Highway Dragnet

70mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller

A wrongly accused Korean War veteran flees from a murder charge and hitches a ride with a female photographer and her model, but as the police dragnet closes in across the desert highways, dangerous secre…

Police

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

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