20 movies like The Last Laugh, ordered by similarity : No Home Movie(2015), Against the Tide(2009), The Aristocrats(2005), Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart(2014), The Accountant of Auschwitz(2018), The Devil's Horn(2016), Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story(2018), The British Guide to Showing Off(2011), Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie(2003), Dying Laughing(2016), No Stone Unturned(2017), Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love(2019) ...
Documentary
USA
2016
88 Minutes
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World-famous comedians including Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, and Gilbert Gottfried pitch in with their own views on the boundaries of comedy.
Documentary
Belgium|France
2015
115 Minutes
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Chantal Akerman films her mother, an old woman of Polish origin who is short lifetime, in her apartment in Brussels. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
2009
102 Minutes
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'Against The Tide' examines the conflict that erupted in the American Jewish community over the best means to rescue the European Jews trying to escape the Holocaust. It tells the little ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
2005
89 Minutes
Chris Albrecht Steven Banks
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One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.
Documentary
USA
2014
98 Minutes
Nicole Kidman Joaquin Phoenix Helen Hunt Matt Dillon Joyce Maynard Stanley M. Brooks Joyce Chopra
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A small-town murder in New England became one of the highest-profile cases of the twentieth century. As the first fully televised court case, the Pamela Smart trial rattled the ... See full summary »
Documentary
Canada
2018
78 Minutes
Oskar Gröning Alan Dershowitz Lawrence Douglas Benjamin Ferencz Ursula Haverbeck Eva Mozes Kor
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Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Documentary
Canada
2016
86 Minutes
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An exploration of the seemingly mythological hold the saxophone has had on those who've played it, including Adolphe Sax, the man who invented it in 1840.
Documentary, Music
UK
2018
100 Minutes
Johnny Vegas Ross Noble John Cooper-Clarke Mark Radcliffe John Thomson Mike Joyce
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It's a documentary about the life of eccentric comedian Frank Sidebottom who wore a huge papier-mache' head and whose true identity was a closely guarded secret until after he died. The ... See full summary »
Documentary, Comedy, Biography, Drama
UK
2011
98 Minutes
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British artist and living legend Andrew Logan, loved the world over by celebrities and misfits alike, takes us under his glittering wing and inside his outrageous, anarchic and spectacular ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
2003
105 Minutes
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The comedic stylings of four sort-of famous funnymen are brought to the big screen courtesy of this 2002 documentary.
Documentary
UK|USA
2017
111 Minutes
Emma Rogan
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An in-depth look at the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre, where six Irishmen were murdered, presumably by a Unionist paramilitary group, while watching the World Cup at the local pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland.
Biography, Documentary, Music
Canada|UK
2019
97 Minutes
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An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen.
Documentary, Drama, History
UK
2015
104 Minutes
Peter Shilton Viv Anderson Colin Barrett Larry Lloyd Trevor Francis Peter Withe
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The story of the history-making Nottingham Forest team that won back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980, led by the mercurial Brian Clough and his assistant Peter Taylor.
Comedy, Documentary
2016
96 Minutes
Tim Story Ed Helms David Meunier Joey Wells Richardson Jones Magali Amadei
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Comic Kevin Hart performs his stand-up routine in front of 50,000 people at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
Documentary
UK|USA
2014
105 Minutes
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. Seymour Amster Laverne Peters Margaret Prescod
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Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.
Documentary
USA|France
2017
100 Minutes
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A star-studded roster of interviewees (including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal) pay tribute to the legendary, multi-talented song-and-dance man.
Documentary, Music
Germany
2017
103 Minutes
Steve Ignorant Andrew Fearn Iggy Pop Steve Underwood Jason Williamson
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British punk duo Sleaford Mods have been called "the voice of Britain" by their fans, "Britain's angriest band" by the Guardian and "The world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" by Iggy Pop. "... See full summary »
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
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It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Documentary
USA
2018
116 Minutes
Lewis Black Elayne Boosler Billy Crystal Pam Dawber Whoopi Goldberg Bobcat Goldthwait
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An intimate look into the life and work of the revered master comedian and actor, Robin Williams.
Documentary
Italy
2018
107 Minutes
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In this documentary, the hotshot director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, now 83 years old, is interviewed about his career,and a number of his colleagues and admirers weigh in with reminiscences and tributes.