Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)

Mr. Saturday Night (1992)

Summary: The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.

Release Date: September 25, 1992

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Billy Crystal

Writers: Billy Crystal

, Lowell Ganz

, Babaloo Mandel

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Castle Rock Entertainment, Face Productions, New Line Cinema

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, PolyGram Video, Warner Bros. Television, MGM Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 43,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,351,357

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Summary: A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.

Release Date: June 01, 1957

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Elia Kazan

Writer: Budd Schulberg

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Newtown Productions

Distributor: Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

For Me and My Gal (1942)

Summary: Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Release Date: August 02, 1943

Genres: Musical, Romance, War

Director: Busby Berkeley

Writers: Howard Emmett Rogers

, Richard Sherman

, Fred F. Finklehoffe

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 802,000

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)

Summary: About a man who has trouble with his job, trouble with women, and uses food to deal with it all.

Release Date: April 28, 2006

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Jeff Garlin

Writer: Jeff Garlin

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: 3 Arts Entertainment, Sawin' & Puddin' Productions LLC, The Weinstein Company

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Domestic: $ 194,568

The Tall Guy (1989)

Summary: A nasty comedian's assistant has allergy induced sneezes, giving problems at work, et cetera. He accepts weekly injections after seeing the cute nurse. After a dozen injections, he finally asks her out.

Release Date: September 21, 1990

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Mel Smith

Writer: Richard Curtis

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: London Weekend Television (LWT), Virgin Vision, Working Title Films, Virgin Vision

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, Miramax, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 510,712

The Front (1976)

Summary: In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Release Date: January 13, 1977

Genre: Drama

Director: Martin Ritt

Writer: Walter Bernstein

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, Devon/Persky-Bright, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Rollins-Joffe Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Twilight Time, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, GoodTimes Home Video, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Funny Bones (1995)

Summary: An unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.

Release Date: March 31, 1995

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Peter Chelsom

Writers: Peter Chelsom

, Peter Flannery

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hollywood Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Mill Creek Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 532,268

Richard Pryor... Here and Now (1983)

Summary: Part live stand-up performance, part documentary, this film is one of comedian Richard Pryor's later stand-up performances. As foul-mouthed as ever, Pryor touches on most of the same topics as in his previous live shows.

Release Date: October 28, 1983

Genre: Comedy

Director: Richard Pryor

Writers: Paul Mooney

, Richard Pryor

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Delphi Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 16,156,776

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The Red Chapel (2009)

Summary: Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a vaudeville act.

Release Date: December 29, 2010

Genres: Comedy, Documentary

Director: Mads Brügger

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Danmarks Radio (DR), Film i Väst, Zentropa Productions

Country: Denmark

Language: Danish

Domestic: $ 6,196

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)

Summary: After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.

Release Date: May 02, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Richard Pryor

Writers: Rocco Urbisci

, Paul Mooney

, Richard Pryor

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Delphi V Productions

Distributor: The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000

Domestic: $ 18,034,150

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Radioland Murders (1994)

Summary: A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

Release Date: October 21, 1994

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Mel Smith

Writers: George Lucas

, Willard Huyck

, Gloria Katz

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Lucasfilm

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Starz, Image Entertainment, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Home Box Office (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,316,865

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Billy Liar (1963)

Summary: A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.

Release Date: December 16, 1963

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: John Schlesinger

Writers: Keith Waterhouse

, Willis Hall

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Vic Films Productions, Waterhall Productions

Distributor: Republic Pictures Home Video, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 236,809

The Aristocrats (2005)

Summary: One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.

Release Date: September 02, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Documentary

Directors: Penn Jillette

, Paul Provenza

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mighty Cheese Productions

Distributor: THINKFilm, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, National Film Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 6,377,461

International: $ 431,628

Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Summary: A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

Release Date: September 18, 1974

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Jacques Rivette

Writers: Juliet Berto

, Dominique Labourier

, Bulle Ogier

Runtime: 3 h 13 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Action Films, Les Films 7, Les Films Christian Fechner, Saga, Simar Productions, V.M. Productions

Distributor: The Criterion Channel

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 31,452

Funny Money (2006)

Summary: When Henry Perkins accidentally trades his briefcase with a man, he finds a million dollars inside. However, the cash draws in Mr. Big, who wants to reclaim his money.

Release Date: January 26, 2007

Genre: Comedy

Director: Leslie Greif

Writers: Harry Basil

, Leslie Greif

, Ray Cooney

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Castel Film Romania, FWE Picture Company, Thinkfactory Media, Tobebo Filmproduktions

Distributor: THINKFilm

Countries: Germany, Romania, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,844

International: $ 28,446

Talk to Me (2007)

Summary: The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.

Release Date: August 03, 2007

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Writers: Michael Genet

, Rick Famuyiwa

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Mark Gordon Productions, Pelagius Films

Distributor: Shout Select, Shout! Factory, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,533,261

International: $ 245,115

Stan & Ollie (2018)

Summary: Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song: a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain.

Release Date: January 11, 2019

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Jon S. Baird

Writers: Jeff Pope

, 'A.J.' Marriot

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Entertainment One, BBC Films, Sonesta Films, Baby Cow Productions, Laurel and Hardy Feature Productions, Left Bank Pictures, S&O, Sierra / Affinity

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,470,235

International: $ 18,950,688

A King in New York (1957)

Summary: A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.

Release Date: September 23, 1957

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Charles Chaplin

Writer: Charles Chaplin

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: G

Production: Attica Film Company

Distributor: Key Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, Image Entertainment, MK2 Diffusion, Warner Home Video, RBC Film Group, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English