Category
page 1American comedy-drama films

Beauty and the Beast
1991 animated film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise

Brave
2012 American computer-animated fantasy film

Birdman
2014 film by Alejandro González Iñárritu

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996 animated film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise

The Truman Show
1998 film directed by Peter Weir

Lilo & Stitch
2002 animated film directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is a 2019 period action comedy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and China. It features an ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie. Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the film follows a fading actor and his adrenaline junkie stunt double as they navigate the rapidly changing film industry with the threat of the Tate murders looming.

The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. The screenplay is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, but includes contributions from other writers. The film stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg.

The Terminal
2004 film directed by Steven Spielberg

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1977 animated film directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and John Lounsbery

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 film directed by Wes Anderson

The Devil Wears Prada (film)
The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman. The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, is based on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger. The film stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt. It follows Andy Sachs (Hathaway), an aspiring journalist who gets a job at a fashion magazine but finds herself at the mercy of her demanding editor, Miranda Priestly (Streep).

Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 American comedy film directed by Chris Columbus

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 film directed by Martin McDonagh

Anora
Anora is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva, a lap dancer from New York who marries the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch played by Mark Eydelshteyn. The supporting cast includes Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Darya Ekamasova, and Aleksei Serebryakov.

The Descendants
2011 film directed by Alexander Payne

Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 film by Woody Allen

Up in the Air
2009 comedy-drama film by Jason Reitman

Blue Jasmine
2013 film by Woody Allen

Ed Wood
1994 film by Tim Burton

Network
1976 film by Sidney Lumet

Limelight
1952 film by Charlie Chaplin

Adaptation
2002 film directed by Spike Jonze

Gordy
Gordy is a 1994 American family comedy-drama film directed by Mark Lewis, about a livestock piglet named Gordy who searches for his missing family (who are taken away to a slaughterhouse in Omaha, Nebraska). He experiences the lives of others who are part of the film's side plots, including traveling country music singers Luke McAllister and his daughter, Jinnie Sue; and lonely boy Hanky Royce whose mother, Jessica, is engaged to a sinister businessman named Gilbert Sipes. Gordy changes lives for the people he encounters due to their ability to understand him. The film was distributed by Miram

Julie & Julia
2009 film by Nora Ephron

Joy
2015 film directed by David O. Russell

Wonka
2023 film directed by Paul King

Saving Mr. Banks
2013 film directed by John Lee Hancock

The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 film by Wes Anderson

Peter Rabbit
2018 film directed by Will Gluck

A Serious Man
2009 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

Marley & Me
2008 American film directed by David Frankel

28 Days
2000 film directed by Betty Thomas

The Disaster Artist
2017 film directed by James Franco

Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

Monsieur Verdoux
1947 film by Charlie Chaplin

Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 film by Woody Allen

The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 film by Martin McDonagh

The Kids Are All Right
2010 film by Lisa Cholodenko

We Bought a Zoo
2011 film directed by Cameron Crowe

Belfast
2021 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

Carnage
2011 film by Roman Polanski

Big Daddy
1999 film directed by Dennis Dugan

His Girl Friday
1940 film by Howard Hawks

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2011 film directed by John Madden

Man on the Moon
1999 film by Miloš Forman

Celebrity
1998 film directed by Woody Allen

Instant Family
2018 film directed by Sean Anders

Magic Mike
2012 American film directed by Steven Soderbergh

Captain Fantastic
2016 film by Matt Ross

The Rum Diary
2011 film by Bruce Robinson

Burnt
2015 film by John Wells

Being There
1979 film by Hal Ashby

Vice
2018 film directed by Adam McKay

Next Gen
2018 computer-animated science fiction film directed by Kevin R. Adams and Joe Ksander

October Sky
1999 film by Joe Johnston

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010 film directed by Woody Allen

The French Dispatch
2021 film directed by Wes Anderson

Anomalisa
Anomalisa is a 2015 American adult animated film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson from a screenplay by Kaufman, based on his 2005 audio play of the same name that explores the Fregoli delusion, a term Kaufman used as a pen name for himself. It incorporates elements of psychological drama, romantic comedy, and self-reflexive fiction, in a similar vein as Kaufman's film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Anomalisa follows the British middle-aged customer service expert Michael Stone (David Thewlis), who perceives everyone (Tom Noonan) as identical except for Lisa Hesselman (Jenni

A Man Called Otto
2022 film directed by Marc Forster