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The teen comedy that became a cult classic: How Gil Junger's 10 Things I Hate About You reinvented high school on the big screen.

Published in 2014, A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman is about a comedy show that is neither funny nor easy.

Doré's artistic fortune focused on the illustrations of classical or contemporary texts. He shows the horror vacui in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Dorohedoro displays a vast amount of characters and storylines entangled in a horror/dark fantasy setting with comedy nuances.

Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down and I’d like to tell you the story of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Midge Maisel is a young jewish girl living in New York. Her life is perfect until it's not. Her husband leaves her for his secretary. She is alone, but with a talent that comes out of nowhere: she's a brilliant comedian.

The Office is the American adaptation of a 2001 BBC series of the same name, and it’s just pure comedy under a mockumentary disguise.

Wag the Dog is a 1997 movie by Barry Levinson, a comedy that tells the fictional story of a scandal in the White House, just months before the Lewinski affair.

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was released in 1950. The movie is about a former silent film actress who lives in regret of the past.

Four vampires (and their familiar) are the subject of a documentary about their lifestyle. They want to join society, but it isn't so simple.

Garth Ennis and other 17 producers and writers try to imagine how regular people would react to gaining powers. This is the animated anthology series of The Boys Present: Diabolical.

Published in 1991 by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho portrays the darkest side of society through the disturbing story of Patrick Bateman.

In the graphic novel Nimona, ND Stevenson explores gender identity and issues through the lens of a shapeshifter.

The Rules of the Game is a war movie without a war that tells about the precariousness of French aristocratic society in the late 1930s.

Created in 2019 by Laurie Nunn, Sex Education speaks about teenagers and sexuality and shows how hard being a normal young adult can be.

There’s a characteristic that struck the viewer since the first episode: Darren Star, in writing it, chose to use a huge amount of clichés. And if their casual dropping usually tends to be annoying, in this case, the result ends up being quite different.

Scott Pilgrim takes the reader through an hilarious coming of age story where video game rules apply and love must be earnt via boss fights.

Directed by Mel Brooks and co-written with Gene Wilder, Young Frankenstein (1974) became a staple in the history of parody cinema.

Hailed as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time, William Wyler's Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, celebrates its 70th anniversary and impressive international legacy.

"Who are you?" This seemingly straightforward question sums up the focal existential issue of this TV show. It's there from from the get-go in Severance, Dan Erikson's acclaimed new offering,…

Shigeru Mizuki's manga Gegege no Kitaro is the unique horror comedy tale behind the popularity of Japanese folklore in modern media.

Rian Johnson's Knives Out reinvents the Whodunit tropes, proposing an unconventional detective figure and reflecting on classism and immigration themes.

In 1998, after the big success of Fargo (1996), directing brothers Joel and Ethan Coen brought to the screen The Big Lebowski, a crime comedy that draws on the noir and Western genres. Despite a lackluster box office and critical reception, the movie has since become the first cult movie of the Internet Era.

GTO is an hilarious social commentary about the shenanigans of Onizuka, former gang member with a pure heart, on his way to become a teacher.

Feel Good is a romantic comedy-drama written by comedian Mae Martin with a simple setting that explores many controversial themes.

Girls and women are the heart and soul of Pixar's 2022 fantasy adventure comedy Turning Red. Protagonist Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), affectionately known as "Mei" to her quirky group of friends, immediately introduces viewers to the colorful life of a pre-teen girl in early 2000s Toronto. Juggling tradition and modernity, Mei goes from fangirling over boy bands to lecturing tourists about her family's heritage. But when that balance begins to unravel, Mei is forced to choose sides.

The latest movie from Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin is a sharp, fun black comedy about the simplest of matters: men's friendship.

Up tells the story of a man's journey into his senior years. The movie mixes various themes that give depth to the adventure and make it relatable for the viewer.

The Goonies (1985) follows the adventures of a group of outcast kids, providing a timeless essay on the power of friendship and imagination.

Between upbeat songs and colorful settings, Encanto discusses generational trauma and the pressure of expectations in a Colombian family.

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a series of twelve stories featuring Scrooge McDuck, the famous uncle of Donald Duck. It bears strong reference to Daniel Defoe's The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Beneath its simple story, Tokyo Godfathers is a movie full of depth. Its narrative presents a complex and realistic depiction of Tokyo and its inhabitants.

Some like it hot by Billy Wilder was released in 1959. The movie tells the story of two musicians who disguise themselves as women to escape malefactors.

In the Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kiyohiko Azuma, the five-year-old girl Yotsuba teaches to live one's emotions fully.

An unusual trio decides to investigate about the murder in their building and turn it into a crime podcast: this is Only Murders in the Building.

Published in 2018, Cinzia by Leo Ortolani is the first graphic novel that tells with its humor a story about acceptance and identity.

Force Majeure by Ruben Östlund enquires the shame of surviving unfulfilled expectations, while diving into gender stereotypes.

The Politician is a satirical melodrama, which analyzes the ugliness of "making politics" and, more broadly, of "being a politician".

Saint Young Men Gods Jesus and Buddha enjoy a relaxing holiday living as two normal human beings in contemporary Japan

City lights (1931) by Charlie Chaplin is a silent movie realized in the period of sound cinema that conquered public and critics.

In Monster Allergy Zick and Elena live adventures between two worlds, the usual human society and the extravagant monster civilization.

The relationship that moves the show is quite ordinary: the one between a mother and a daughter. But they’re best friends, and this element is the topic.

Produced by ABC network in 2015, Galavant is a disrespectful musical comedy that shows a different way to live happily ever after.

The comedy Trying shows the difficult and emotional journey that needs to be accomplished to become foster parents.

Written and directed by Wes Anderson in 2015, Grand Budapest Hotel is surreal crime story set in a fairy tale world.

They made people believe that in the United States there are only Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton. Community has (finally) told a side of America that no one tells, community colleges. Although in reality, this series tells much more.

Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit tells the story of a boy whose best imaginary friend is Hitler and dreams of becoming the best Nazi in the world.

Imagine having it all, a big house, a lot of money, a lot of friends, and then, lost it all. This is Schitt's Creek.

Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet tries to make the video games world more accessible to everyone, by offering a sharp and intelligent comedy.

The strength of this series is first and foremost the basic idea: a parody of all the American crime TV series, often excessively serious.

2020. Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris, making her the first female in the white house. Finally, is no longer fiction, as it is in VEEP.

The very core of The Good Place is actually a philosophical dilemma: is it possible to teach how to be good?

The series revolves around the adventures of an American family, the Smith family.; but unlike all other animated TV series, the focus is shifted to the toxic and hilarious relationship between grandfather and grandson.

Originally broadcast on NBC, this series violated all TV rules until then, this is the show about nothing: Seinfeld.

Desperate Housewives combines comedy, drama, and mystery, creating created a cultural phenomenon that eventually went beyond the screen.

Fleabag is an adaptation from Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman show of the same name, staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013.

Samantha White lives the daily struggle of being a black student in a predominantly white school, and calls out the bias on her radio podcast called ‘Dear White People’.

Selfie is a French anthology film comprising five different tales by five different directors, about the influence of new media on good people.

She-Hulk attorney and superhero, breaks bones and the fourth wall in the legendary action-comedy by John Byrne.

As the star of the sitcom The Nanny, Fran Fine tries in every way to win the love of her employer always remaining herself. Because uniqueness is never for sale.

Aired by CBS from 2005 to 2014, How I Met Your Mother is a sitcom about friendship, past regrets and the search for real love.

Dickinson is a greatly revised and stylized version of the real poet's youth and art. The result is a wacky and explosive half history drama, half teen comedy - with a 21st century soundtrack accompanying a 19th century setting.

In The Big Bang Theory, a group of geek scientist friends learn to improve themselves by expanding their social sphere.

It’s a Sin touches deep chords in the history of gay men. Focusing on the personal stories of a group of friends living in London, it unravels the AIDS most tragic decade.

Created in 2010 by Pendleton Ward, Adventure Time is a 10-season-long children show focusing on adventure, romance and growing up.

In the late 90s Paul Feig, creator, and Judd Apatow, producer, had already understood a secret. The revenge of the nerds would have taken place with the beginning of the new millennium, feeding the imagination of the years to come. The result of their ramblings turned out to be Freaks and Geeks.

A movie about life or about death? 2020's animated movie Soul by Disney Pixar can change the way you look at life, for the better.

Friends: the suspension of disbelief in a coming-of-age story that overcomes the TVs making the spectator laugh and empathize.

This is Us shows how life is a perfect mix of sweet and sour, and we all share the same crazy, hard and exciting journey.

In Captain Fantastic the theme of separation from society, usually analyzed from a lone perspective, is analyzed from the point of view of a family

What if humans are born with a blood alcohol content 0.05% too low? It is the central premise of Thomas Vinterberg’s feature "Another Round."

With Cat In the Wall, Vesela Kazakova and Mina Mileva transport their documentary style and commitment to realism into the world of fiction.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is a comedic science fiction series of books- better, a trilogy in five parts, as Adams and the blurbs declared. The project started as a radio program for BBC Radio 4 in 1978 and was published as a book a year later. The novel owes much to the imaginary built by writers such as Asimov and Bradbury, but it possesses a unique tone. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy nothing is as it appears and having the answers is of no use if the questions aren’t the right ones.

Yorgos Lanthimos is back. Five years after The Favourite (2018), the Greek filmmaker teams up again with Emma Stone and scriptwriter Tony McNamara for his most ambitious film to date. Poor Things is the arthouse counterpart to Greta Gerwig's Barbie. Based on Alasdair Gray's eponymous novel, the movie is a hybrid of genres and tones - to say the least. Everything is held together by the creativity and nerve that always characterized Lanthimos' work. Only this time, thanks to a more upfront feminist attitude, it may finally breach into mainstream audiences.

Pablo Larraín has always found poignant metaphors to describe the darkest years of Chilean history and one of the recurring motifs in his work: Pinochet's military dictatorship. With El Conde (a Netflix production), for the first time he chooses to address the Generalissimo himself, with a metaphor that leaves no room for misinterpretation.

Produced thanks to crowdfunding campaigns, EastSiders tells the story of two young men discovering that real love is a mess.

The Woman in The House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is a dark comedy that plays with mystery's clichés.

Breeders is an American-British parental dark comedy that follows two parents who struggle with parenthood.

Similar to shows like Euphoria and Sex Education, The End of the F***ing World continues the trend of mature and gritty shows about teenagers, exploring every aspect of how these characters deal with love, trauma, and societal expectations.

Succession, gives us the other side of the coin, the real one: for the first time, we can see that money does not buy you happiness.

Pam & Tommy is a fictional tell of the true story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s turbulent love, started with a hasty marriage in 1995.

You is a cross-genre narrative that tears apart the popular imagery of romantic love, romantic hero, and more with biting satire.

In the world of Fargo, the characters are transformed by rediscovering their animal instincts, in a perennial struggle between Good and Evil, between Chance and Inevitability.

Wild at Heart is one of David One of David Lynch's most lively works, but also one of the hardest to grasp, Wild at Heart provides (for those who comply) a cinematic trip that has not lost an ounce of its expressive force to the passing of time. 

A group of common people, The Boys, fight against the most famous superheroes, The Seven, showing the dark side of the so-called heroes but also that of the common people.

With Parasite, Bong Joon Ho constructs a contemporary domestic gothic, a tale of class warfare that implicates all of its characters, and leaves the audience wondering who the title is really describing.

The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous Russian novels. Mikhail Bulgakov continued to amend the novel throughout his life to avoid censorship.

Orange is the New Black explores sexuality, race, and the prison system in the United States with a mix of dark humor and heavy drama. 

Breaking Bad is the journey of an ordinary man into the crazy world of drug dealing - a downward spiral into power, corruption and ultimately, evil.

John Watson is a former military doctor who's looking for a new apartment. When he accepts to live with the detective Sherlock, the real adventures begin. Starting from the logline, the show differs from Doyle's work both in terms of world setting and - although maintaining a background coherence - characters.

Intelligence in recounting the old age - the last stage of life - desecrating and enveloping it with tenderness. This is The Kominsky Method.

Directed by Wes Anderson and based on Roald Dahl's tale, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a story of animal and human and how those opposite can coexist.

Welcome to the NHK! tells the story of the hikikomori Satō, the everyday life rulded by paranoia of a young man secluded from society.

"The person who taught me to be in the world the most is a horse" quotes the Instagram page of Netflix, and fans around the world can only confirm. Bojack Horseman is more human than us.

Killing Eve is a cat-and-mouse game, based on obsession, spies and witty dialogues, that have the power to subvert genres.

Michael Ritchie’s film was defined as a dark political comedy when it was released, yet its satire pales in comparison to the real-world politics happening on TV screens today. Its humor is a nuanced, philosophical kind, perhaps only possible in the moment the movie was written, before the Watergate scandal, before the heavy-handed political satires of the 90s like Wag the Dog or Canadian Bacon, and certainly before the Trump era.

Ratatouille is an animated movie directed by Brad Bird and co-directed by Jan Pinkava. It is produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released in 2007 by Walt Disney Pictures. The movie's title hints at the main character and his pinnacle achievement. Indeed, it is a pun between the word 'rat' in French and the famous dish of stewed mixed vegetables. The movie is a comedy full of funny and out-of-the-box situations, with brilliant dialogues and charismatic characters. It is an ode to the culinary industry that results in a fairy tale in which rats can walk...and even cook.

"Believe" says a hand-written and slightly crooked sign above the door of AFC coach Richmond, and it represents everything that Ted Lasso is. A tireless dreamer that never stops believing.

The Gallaghers are anything but a subversive, numerous, noisy, unconventional, close-knit family. They are simply Shameless.