Dressage

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Dressage is available on streaming right now. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. Its 5/10 TMDB score, built from 13 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Véronique Catanzaro's performance alone is worth the time investment. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Dressage earns its spot. Dressage does what great comedies rarely manage — it is actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. At a gathering of would-be society debauchees, the Baron Plessis de Regard and the attractive young Nathalie hatch their individual plans to use sex to respectively ruin and punish their selected enemies. The Baron's plan is to scupper the political ambitions of right-wing parliamentary candidate Colonel Montvilliers by setting him up with a female companion and publicly exposing his new-found vices. Nathalie's quest is of a more personal nature, to destroy her estranged father Charles Leroy-Merville by corrupting his innocent 17-year-old daughter Sophie, a task she intends to achieve by securing employ as the girl's summer tutor. Véronique Catanzaro and Patrick Guillemin lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was released in 1986. The real test of any comedy is whether it is still funny once you know all the jokes, and Dressage holds up on rewatch in a way that separates it from one-off curiosities. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Comedy fans looking for a reliably funny watch will find it in Dressage. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. The complete film is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Véronique Catanzaro's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.