Chris Gethard: Career Suicide

Lolita

June 1962 •English

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

La Chinoise

August 1967 •French

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Bread and Tulips

March 2000 •Italian

An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.

The Rules of Attraction

October 2002 •English

The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.

Nowhere

May 1997 •English

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.

Tony Baker's Scaredy Cat

January 2020 •English

Tony Baker takes us on a journey through his fears in his first-ever stand-up comedy special, filmed live in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Reclaim Your Brain

September 2007 •German

Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.

Janeane Garofalo: HBO Comedy Hour

August 1997 •English

Comic Janeane Garofalo gives a performance in New York City.

The Long Goodbye

March 1973 •English

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Man on the Moon

December 1999 •English

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

This Filthy World

November 2006 •English

In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters' popular one-man show, the Pink Flamingos and A Dirty Shame director takes the stage to discuss everything from his early influences, fondest career memories, and notorious struggles against the MPAA rating system. Part endearing memoir and part hilarious lecture, This Filthy World touches on everything from the insanity of contemporary pop culture to the director's unforgettable early collaborations with inimitable Pink Flamingos star Divine.

Pettersson & Bendel

September 1933 •Swedish

The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.

Radioactive Dreams

September 1986 •English

After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.

Max et Charlie

April 1998 •French

La chambre mandarine

July 1980 •French

Faut-il tuer le clown ?

April 2002 •French

Ma belle mère et moi... 9 mois après

January 2017 •French

Intimate Affairs

April 2002 •English

Edgar organizes a salon on the topic of sexuality and arranges to use the lavish estate of Faldo as a venue. In light of the overwhelming brilliance of the luminaries in attendance, Edgar secures two comely stenographers to transcribe their intellectual discussion. But, as the conversation unfolds, the stenographers find it increasingly difficult to remain casual observers.

Fear of Fear

July 1975 •German

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.

Happiness

October 1998 •English

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.