Genre: Comedy
Comedy is built to make you laugh — through wit, absurdity, timing, and characters whose flaws and schemes keep tripping them up. Underneath the jokes, the best of it still says something true.
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The Holiday (2006)
Two women in unhappy relationships swap homes for Christmas across the Atlantic and find new romance during the holiday. -
Krampus (2015)
A dysfunctional family's hostile Christmas attracts the attention of the anti-Santa demon Krampus, who arrives with monstrous helpers. -
Trading Places (1983)
Two wealthy commodity brokers bet on whether a homeless con artist and an Ivy League executive can switch places, with the climax at the New Year's Eve trading floor. -
Fright Night (1985)
A teenager discovers his new neighbor is a vampire and seeks help from a washed-up TV horror host. -
Beetlejuice (1988)
Tim Burton's comedy about a deceased couple haunting their old house and hiring a deranged bio-exorcist to scare out the living family. -
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
A small-time thief stumbles into an LA acting career and a noir investigation, with Robert Downey Jr. as narrator across the Christmas season. -
Violent Night (2022)
Santa Claus is trapped inside a wealthy family's compound as mercenaries take them hostage on Christmas Eve, and he fights back. -
Evil Dead II (1987)
Sam Raimi's part-remake, part-sequel where Ash returns to the cabin and battles increasingly absurd demonic forces. -
Re-Animator (1985)
Stuart Gordon adapts H.P. Lovecraft's story about a medical student who develops a serum that revives the dead. -
Three Kings (1999)
David O. Russell's 1999 Gulf War heist. Clooney, Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze. Stolen Kuwaiti gold, Iraqi refugee crisis.