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Award-winning comedian Armando Iannucci directs this dark political satire, set in the corridors of British government. An ensemble of the best British comic actors improvise around scripts based on inside knowledge and leaked revelations of the workings of Westminster. The team at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship find themselves in a world dominated by internal politics, power and the media, where they have no choice but to do as...
3) Almost Royal
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This faux- reality series follows two clueless British aristocrats on a trip to the USA. George and Poppy Carlton enjoy privileged lives as distant descendants of the British royal family. The siblings - 50th and 51st in line to the throne - have agreed to a camera crew following them on their unconventional royal tour. But while the siblings are actually played by comedians, the unsuspecting public have no clue these two aren't for real. Cue bemusement...
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Based on the remarkable true story of a satirical newspaper published on the front lines of World War One, this poignant yet comedic drama revels in the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity. It's 1916 and Captain Fred Roberts (Ben Chaplin), a diamond prospector-turned-soldier, leads a small detachment of British soldiers through the ruins of Ypres, whereupon he and his men make an amazing discovery in...
5) Reality
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Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder stars in this wonderfully weird and hilarious Hollywood satire, featuring a mysterious VHS tape, killer TVs and a giant rat.
6) Kenny
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Mockumentary follows numerous misadventures of a porta-john worker through both his personal and professional life, including an oddly glamorous excursion to the Pumper & Cleaner Expo in Nashville, Tn.
7) We Are Klang
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Original, rude and at times, just a bit odd, We Are Klang are set to pick up where The Young Ones and The League of Gentleman have left off. Bursting into the Edinburgh Festival in 2004, Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood scooped the Spirit of the Fringe award, and have been unstoppable ever since. The series sees all three giving weekly narrative stories, the telling of which is inevitably derailed by songs and stupidity. An enchanted and...
13) The Comedy
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Tim Heidecker stars as an aging hipster testing the limits of acceptable behavior with his like-minded friends in this provocative character study. Nominated for prizes at the **Sundance Film Festival** and the **SXSW Film Festival**. "*Transgressively brilliant... an itchy critique of entitlement starring avant-garde comedian Tim Heidecker as one of Williamsburg's overprivileged.*" - Aaron Hillis, ***Village Voice***
14) Gung ho
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Ron Howard directs and Michael Keaton stars in this classic comedy. Keaton plays wheeler-dealer Hunt Stevenson, who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Thinking he has found a solution, Hunt persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. But it isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their...
16) Razzennest
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A South African bad-boy filmmaker meets with an indie movie critic in Los Angeles to record an audio commentary track for his elegiac documentary RAZZENNEST, but the session devolves into arthouse horror... or is it all a clever meta-satire?
17) Expresso Bongo
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Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the road to stardom. (Nominee: Best British Actor, Best British Screenplay - BAFTA Film Awards, 1960)
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Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla (Barboura Morris), by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate...
20) 3 Beauties
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Perla is obsessed with her two daughters, and she pins them against each other in the hopes of having a beauty queen to honor the family name. She teaches her girls from a young age the rules to becoming beauty queens, and they aren’t child friendly. Plastic surgery, vomiting after eating, and sleeping with older men are all ways to get ahead in the industry according to Perla. However, despite Perla’s dedication, her dreams come crashing down...
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