Something Like, Something Like It

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular rakugoka, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi.

The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students.

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the beautiful sex worker he meets that day, and a younger high school rakugo aficionado is also vying for his attention. But for clumsy, heart-on-his-sleeve Shintoto, life doesn’t stay rosy for long.

In the late 19th century, rakugo student Taihei gives up hope of making the grade, and his despair leads him to take up residence at a rowhouse in Tokyo's Fukagawa district. There he meets an emotionally distant boy named Sadakichi, and as fate would have it, he ends up teaching him rakugo.

A kidnapped woman will be freed on one condition: She must convince her kidnapper that his life is worth living.

Deborah and Rachid both grew up in a Lyon suburb where everyone knows each other. Their respective religions and cultures weigh on them and forbid their budding love. Two religions that all seem to oppose but ultimately not so different from each other. Braving family and religious prohibitions, they meet again on the evening of a starry night. Treason? The line has been crossed ... from this night of love two twins came into the world.

Alexander Lurie about his wife and sense of humor, youth and feminism, TV channels and social networks, loyalty to the motherland and revelations.

Kirill Sietlov's Divine Comedy is the first independent Russian stand-up concert. Kirill Sietlov with the legendary, fog-covered scenes of the Center. Meyerhold — about his journey to the Dark Forest.

A teacher and garbage collector fall in love.

Mack, an introspective twenty-something, encounters difficulties - even absurdities - at work and in his dating life. He meets a homeless man who considers himself Jesus Christ, and the two develop an odd friendship. Meanwhile, a young monk undergoes struggles similar to Mack's, and their stories increasingly converge.

Old and quarrelsome workers of rural TV channel Youth are conducting the last broadcast before the channel closing. During the broadcast, they are rethinking the last 25 years of their lives.

The film is based on true events - when the controversial RJ Anirudh recorded candid conversations between his celebrity/Bollywood pals at a farmhouse party: their intimate sexual desires, kinks, rivalries, affairs and complaining about Bollywood. The sensational uncensored footage has become India's First Reality Film.

A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.

In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But trouble starts when her boss (William Wright) decides to build her up as a star. One of the many bread-and-butter Columbia productions graced by the contributions of Cole’s in-house dance studio. Cole dances behind Miller in “I’m Gonna See My Baby.” --Museum of Modern Art

Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.

American investment fund buys Austrian companies, but also takes over politics in Vienna. Money still makes the world go round.

Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace has learning disabilities and works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.