The Origins of Wit and Humor

Lage Raho Munna Bhai

2006

Lovable goon Munna falls for a morning radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who also runs an elders' home which an unscrupulous builder seeks to attain. In order to gain Jahnvi’s attention, he cheats his way to winning a Mahatma Gandhi radio quiz. When Jahnvi consequently expresses interest in Munna, he and his best friend Circuit attempt to keep up the facade.

Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home

2003

Maher addresses contemporary political, social and cultural topics -- Iraq, President Bush and the so called Axis of Evil. The opinionated Maher said about Victory Begins at Home: "We've heard everything about the War on Terrorism except what we can actually do to help win it. The government used to do that for us through propaganda (the positive kind) posters, so taking my cue from the great old posters of World War I and World War II ('Loose Lips Sink Ships,' 'Buy War Bonds,' 'Plant a Victory Garden,' etc.) I commissioned artists to paint the posters our government today should be putting out to help us win this war."

Thunderpants

2002

An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.

Un anuncio y cinco cartas

1937

An honest man puts an ad looking for a room to rent in an honest house and receives five peculiar answers.

Vance and the Afterlife

Invalid Date

Vance and the Afterlife is a short film about a corporate stiff named Vance who dies and ends up in his own imagination... or lack thereof.

Trotín Troteras

1962

Trotín Troteras is the disinterested witness of the absurd situations lived first by a lecturer and then by a soldier with an umbrella, which opens when it stops raining and closes when it rains…

Thanks for the Tip

1997

The story of an odd family in which two uncles, apparently bachelors, play the role of mother and father for their two orphan nephews in the Valencia of the 1960s and 70s.

From Kuleshov to Berlanga

2004

Las sirvientas calientes

2019

A domestic worker who became pregnant with her employer's child is unexpectedly reunited with the father of her child.

Las sirvientas calientes 3

2019

Two stories full of sensuality with fun entanglements between the servants and their bosses.

Allegro non troppo

1976

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).

Fleur de cactus

2017

Beat the Devil

1953

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

A Useful Ghost

2025

March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing the vacuum cleaner. Being disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject the unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.

Cream

2016

The time has come for CREAM - the latest product that will fix your life. This is the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius, who after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world’s problems.