Improvisation Movies

Several comic greats pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded by Budd Friedman in 1963.

Ten groups of kids from various parts of Finland, aged between 12 and 15, improvise an episode each based on one of the Bible's Ten Commandments.

Two friends resort to playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, flipping a coin, and detailed, yet petty analyzation of their friendship to determine which of th...

Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wif...

A filmmaker and rapper duo revive Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” protocols - a set of filmmaking “rules” with which groups of strangers can conceive...

The Improv All Stars Games Night is an improvised show where 2 teams compete in a fun games night styled Improv battle. Everything is made up on the s...

In 1989, a collective of young hip hop artists gathered at a health food café in South Central Los Angeles. Their mandate? To reject gang culture and...

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup company, he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina, as her nerves are already on the ed...

Tairo, a young lion-tamer, is unhappy. Losing his lucky charm gives him a reason to set off for a journey across Italy in search of Arthur Robin, a fo...

Harrison tries to bake a batch of cookies for his roommates without a recipe.

Jean-Jacques Garbo is deeply dismayed by his wife's infidelity when he suddenly has inklings of another love affair.

Betty Boop and some friends go to Grampy's house for a party.

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern mu...

Stuck in a room where everything is nothing in a place that is nowhere.

Housecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue!

In this prequel to FERN, Bill Verne attempts to climb the cut-throat corporate ladder of Mammon Incorporated, only to find that his pursuit of wealth...

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy are prevented by a thunderstorm from going to the carnival. Inventive Grampy devises a substitute.

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings. Int...

An intimate documentary portrait of world-class improvisational and traditional pianist Mike Garson as he tours, performs, and teaches.