comedy-of-manners movies

Annie Hall (1977)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Keaton, Diane | Roberts, Tony | Kane, Carol | Simon, Paul | Duvall, Shelley | Margolin, Janet | Dewhurst, Colleen | Walken, Christopher | Symington, Donald | Ludlam, Helen | Lawner, Mordecai | Neuman, Joan | Munk, Jonathan | Volner, Ruth
Directors: Allen, Woody
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Poitier, Sidney | Hepburn, Katharine | Houghton, Katharine | Kellaway, Cecil | Richards, Beah | Glenn, Roy | Sanford, Isabel | Christine, Virginia | Hay, Alexandra | Randolph, Barbara | Martin, D'Urville | Heaton, Tom | Gaynor, Grace | Martin, Skip
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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Joey Drayton brings her fianc?, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | Peppard, George | Neal, Patricia | Ebsen, Buddy | Balsam, Martin | Villalonga, Jos? Luis de | McGiver, John | Reed, Alan | Whitney, Dorothy | Powers, Beverly | Adams, Stanley | Stroud, Claude | Allman, Elvia | Orangey | Rooney, Mickey
Directors: Edwards, Blake
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Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly’s lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they’re alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Garson, Greer | Olivier, Laurence | Boland, Mary | Oliver, Edna May | O'Sullivan, Maureen | Rutherford, Ann | Inescort, Frieda | Gwenn, Edmund | Morley, Karen | Angel, Heather | Hunt, Marsha | Lester, Bruce | Ashley, Edward | Cooper, Melville | Lamont, Marten
Directors: Leonard, Robert Z.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

Emma (1996)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Paltrow, Gwyneth | Cosmo, James | Scacchi, Greta | Cumming, Alan | Hawthorne, Denys | Thompson, Sophie | Northam, Jeremy | Collette, Toni | Byron, Kathleen | Law, Phyllida | Woodall, Edward | Miley, Brett | Capron, Brian | Westwood, Karen | Williamson, Paul
Directors: McGrath, Douglas
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Emma is a very beautiful young woman who decides to devote her life in finding the right mate for the people around her. But, her cause will come to contestation when she will find love in the face of a much sought after man.

Road to Wellville, The (1994)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Fonda, Bridget | Broderick, Matthew | Cusack, John | Carvey, Dana | Lerner, Michael | Meaney, Colm | Neville, John | Boyle, Lara Flynn | Lind, Traci | Manheim, Camryn | Brocksmith, Roy | Weisser, Norbert | Parker, Monica | Reynolds, Jacob
Directors: Parker, Alan
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In Welville, at Battle Creek, eccentric rich Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (a historical figure) runs a stylish health farm for the wealthy, an idea ahead of his time, based on extreme vegetarianism, neither sex, masturbation or even sensual stimulation, but laughing therapy and purging the ‘polluted’ body, mainly by exercises, often in open air, vicious diet, his invention corn flakes, laxatives, anal yogurt cure, enemas and brutal mechanical cleansing. Eleanor Lightbody drags her sickly, incredulous husband Will along to the therapy; the couple is almost immediately separated and getting horny for more available members of the opposite sex. Kellogs stubbornly willful adopted son (among over 30 kids) George is a filthy embarrassment, paid off just to stay away. Charles Ossining panics when arriving in Battle Creek he finds his aunt’s fortune made him partner in the empty shell- health food company Per-fo, not the planned corn-flakes factory; however with a former Welville-employee and George’s name they hope to get rich from their own cornflakes brand. When an electric therapy goes fatally wrong and several other patients die, Will’s incredulous reluctance turns to panic…

Trading Places (1983)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Denholm | Aykroyd, Dan | Woods, Maurice | Fisher Jr., Richard D. | Gallagher, Jim | DiSabatino, Anthony | Behrend, Bonnie | Merrill, Sunnie | Newell, James | St. John, Mary | Tremena, Bonnie | Schwartz, David | Bellamy, Ralph | Ameche, Don | Degidon, Tom
Directors: Landis, John
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Knightley, Keira | Riley, Talulah | Pike, Rosamund | Malone, Jena | Mulligan, Carey | Sutherland, Donald | Blethyn, Brenda | Blakley, Claudie | Morand, Sylvester | Woods, Simon | Reilly, Kelly | MacFadyen, Matthew | Torrens, Pip | Whiteside, Janet | Matthews, Sinead
Directors: Wright, Joe
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The story is based on Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.

Divorce, Le (2003)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Hudson, Kate | Lhomme, Jean-Marie | Watts, Naomi | Buchet-De?k, Esm?e | Pivert, Jean-Jacques | Poupaud, Melvil | Samie, Catherine | Labarthe, Samuel | Caron, Leslie | Thierry Lhermitte | Richard, Nathalie | Gruen, Samuel | Wyckoff, Peter | Lonnoy, Sandrel | Close, Glenn
Directors: Ivory, James
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French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.