The Origins of Wit and Humor

Experience America's failing drug war through the magic of song!

When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.

Alex is the smart one who claims first place in every human endeavor. To be true, he really excels in all forms of gambling. Alex likes to help people. Thus, when his old friend Fung is jilted by a rich girl, he immediately takes Fung to a slave auction in the Philippines. There, Fung buys a woman of beauty and femininity. Alex himself falls in love with Mina, who is deadly against gambling. She would break ties with anyone found to be gambling...

Ben goes to audition for Joey's film after learning Joey is not who he says he is.

Upon breaking up with her boyfriend, Leyla goes back to her couch surfing lifestyle as she struggles to juggle her personal life, aspiring career as an artist and her need for stability.

Struggling director Sing is forced to make a Category III film for a triad boss who wants his girlfriend to star, leading to conflicts over artistic integrity, nudity, and his relationship with his own girlfriend.

An everyday man goes on an unexpected journey when he finds out he has the thing everyone wants.

An exhausted doctor with years of experiences in abortion surgery are caught in a quirky conversation with his patient, a struggling feminist novelist. From the conversation both manages to discovered something about each other and themselves.

Central America in 1915. It is the age of revolutions, tyranny, captains and colonels in a small provincial town that is often invaded by some revolutionary group or other. There is a brothel of which the Madame Simone and most of the girls, are French. Many of the girls are in love with rebel leader Carlos Ribas and when government troops re-occupy the area, they hide him. When the soldiers discover him, they take both him and the girls prisoner. The governor sends the girls out in a cart to amuse the troops, but they manage to escape along the way and take refuge in a convent where they take over the nuns.

The wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies.

A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.

Stephen is a lonely man. As all that is good in his life turns to tragedy, Stephen is confronted with an enigmatic visitor that could mark the next step in human evolution.

In the quiet, parched summer of rural Kerala, the death of Korappan, the aged patriarch of a sprawling joint family, becomes the catalyst for a poignant reckoning. As family members rejoins for the death ceremonies for 16 days, several tension arises between them regarding property, consumption of water from a family well, love relationships and social tensions.

A recovering kleptomaniac plots an impromptu Christmas dinner with her unconventional family to win back her ex-boyfriend, but an unexpected proposal reveals old habits die hard.

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

Comedy icon Dave Chappelle makes his triumphant return to the screen with a pair of blistering, fresh stand-up specials. Filmed at The Palladium in Los Angeles, California, in March 2016.