Movies and TvShows featuring "european-screwball-comedy" theme.
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.
Valentin Dobrotivý is a charming and naive man who wins the lottery, becoming an instant millionaire. However, his life takes a wild turn when his friends and family start taking advantage of his newfound wealth. As he navigates through a series of hilarious misadventures, Valentin learns valuable lessons about love, friendship, and the true meaning of happiness.
A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.
Marta (Jana Brejchová) and Viktor (Vlastimil Brodský) celebrate the tenth anniversary of their wedding half-heartedly. They both think they don't suit together. While visiting Marta's friend Alena (Iva Janzurová), who just got married for the third time, they learn an interesting thing. It was a computer which selected a husband for Alena and she claims she is happy. The couple gets off after certain hesitation to a cybernetic institute, where the computer tells them that living together is a risk for them. At the same time the computer selects them ideal partners - Mrs Tuchlová, a doctor for Viktor, and Petr Karát, a music composer for Marta. By a coincidence Viktor and Marta meet wrong people.
A head waiter pretends to be his own twin brother in order to keep his secret identity as a travel agent hidden from his wife, leading to humorous misunderstandings and a forgotten wedding anniversary.
Two kind but foolish sisters live together in their villa in a small town in South Bohemia. Fany (Natasa Gollová) has never married and Andelka (Eva Svobodová) is a widow. In the morning, the two sisters go into town. They need to buy fuel oil, put money in the bank and give plums to the teller. In the meantime an smallish orange Skoda MB car parks at their house, with Hermínka (Iva Janzurová), the old ladies' niece, and her fiancé Michal (Jirí Hrzán) in it. Michal has forgotten to bring flowers and has to go into town to fetch them. At the bank, Fany wants to deposit money but the minute the teller opens the safe, a thief arrives. He knocks the teller and Fany unconscious and runs away with the money. When Fany comes to her senses again, she sees Michal and accuses him of being the thief.
Saturnin is a comedy movie set in Prague, Czech Republic. It revolves around the lives of an old man, his nephew, and their eccentric household staff. The story is based on a novel and features humorous situations and family relationships during the 1930s and 1940s. The movie explores themes of upper-class society, employment dynamics, and the dynamics between different generations.
A husband and wife innkeeper in Central Europe face rivalry and conflict between brothers while dealing with a domineering wife and running their guesthouse. Based on a novel from the 1940s, this film showcases European humoristic literature.
Wealthy and ill Petr Kornel (Karel Hasler) is not pleased with the carousing lifestyle of his nephew. He stops supporting him financially and demands that he change his name. Out of gratitude Kornel bequeaths a substantial sum of money to his nurse Alice (Adina Mandlová) with the condition that she marries. Petr Suk (Hugo Haas), as the nephew is now named, visits the doctor. In the waiting room his X-ray is mistakenly switched with one of another patient's. On the basis of this he presently learns that he is seriously ill and has only one day of life left to him.
In this Czech screwball comedy, a hotel squatter and a mistaken wedding ceremony lead to hilarious misunderstandings and chaos. With a female protagonist at the helm, the story takes place in the Blue Star Hotel and explores themes of inheritance, mistaken beliefs, and humorous twists.
A man pretends to be someone else in order to attend a wedding and chaos ensues.
Young music composer Viktor Honzl in vain looks for work. He is prevented from committing suicide by a technician of the gasworks who shortly beforehand has disconnected his gas due to past due bills. In the disguise of an older, serious, musical scholar Viktor obtains work in a music publishing house.
In Eva Fools Around, a teenage girl gets into an awkward situation when she accidentally steals a birthday cake and has to come up with a cover identity to avoid getting caught. With mistaken identities, drunkenness, and humoristic situations, this screwball comedy takes audiences on a hilarious ride.