Comedy movies after a long week from the 80s and 90s. Includes Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and more, curated by Moviepiq.
Five days of relentless noise, and now this. Finally.
Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
After a long week, a film should feel like something you chose rather than endured. These do that.
Laughing is the fastest way to decompress. These help.
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law - since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo - has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.
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