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Santa Claus Is a Stinker

January 1985 •French

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.

Adieu Berthe

March 1970 •French

Le Comique

April 2009 •French

Tel chi el telùn

May 1999 •Italian

A comedy show.

Der Blunzenkönig

August 2015 •German

'The Blunzen King,' a long-established master butcher in a rural idyll, sees time-honored traditions and his son Franzl's envisioned future in jeopardy when Charlotte, a vegetarian from the city, enters Franzl's life. Values ​​are turned upside down, arguments ensue, and then reconciliations are made – after all, 'if you don't move with the times, you'll be left behind!'

Why Must The Show Go On?

February 2010 •English

A documentary crew detail the struggle of Unbelievable Productions' visionary leader, Madeleine LaRoy, to stage a revolutionary reboot of Shakespeare's MACBETH (in space), with the help of her faithful best friend/choreographer/costume & set designer/tea lady/everything else, Deirdre Snowflake Fleckman. Madeleine enlists young drama school graduate Scott Johnson and alcoholic veteran of the stage Desmond Darke to help her mount her astounding vision.

Nô

May 1998 •French

A Canadian actress phones her boyfriend from 1970s Japan to find him immersed in politics and terrorism.

Oscar

December 2008 •French

An authoritarian, paranoid CEO goes head-to-head with his right-hand man in a merciless duel, all the while trying to get him to marry his pregnant daughter.

Cimrman in the World of Music

December 2006 •Czech

The original score was in a sorry state: the notes were carelessly marked, the lines were broken, and the paper was covered in smudges. I took the utmost care in reconstructing it: I erased the smudges, traced the lines with a ruler, blackened the bellies of the quarter notes, and added tails to the eighth and sixteenth notes. I believe that today's version of the work will stand up to even the most rigorous standards.

An Evening with Quentin Crisp

January 1980 •English

In this witty monologue, Quentin Crisp advises and opines about personal style (with a few digressions).

She Loves Me

June 2016 •English

Amalia and Georg work together at a modest Hungarian perfumerie, and have disliked each other from the very beginning. He thinks she's stuck up, and she thinks he's arrogant and mean. But each rapturously writes to a lonely hearts pen pal when the workday is done, and it doesn't take long for the audience to see that they're in love without realizing it. Originally live-streamed by BroadwayHD, then broadcast as an episode of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 45, episode 3).

Le gai mariage

September 2015 •French

Henry de Sacy, inveterate Don Juan, learns that he will inherit a million euros from his old aunt, on condition that he gets married within the year. As he refuses to depart from his love of women, his friend Norbert, a lawyer, offers him to marry a man. Thus he would respect his aunt's last wishes without losing his freedom. Seduced, Henri offers this unusual contract to his friend Dodo who is single and unemployed. But this marriage for the better will quickly turn into a nightmare...

See How They Run

September 2022 •English

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.

Cash-Cash

December 1971 •French

Lady Oscar

June 2012 •French

Monty Comes Back

September 2016 •English

After fighting with his boss and losing his job, Monty, a semi-successful thespian, flees back home to live with his parents under false pretenses. His old friends and family are left to deal with his inflated ego, while he comes to terms with the fact he isn't as 'great' as he may believe.

The Phantom of the Operetta

December 1960 •Spanish

Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.

La vie est une fête

September 2023 •French

Company

June 2011 •English

Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.

I dur och skur

May 1953 •Swedish

"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.