🎉 Special Day: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

▶️ Meet Clark, the American dad who wants to give his loved ones (=family) a “fun old-fashioned family Christmas”. Unfortunately for him, doing that proves quite difficult when so many things go wrong. Watch this hilarious (=very funny) holiday classic from around the time of Home Alone.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #movie #american_films #comedy

#49 Movie Time: A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

▶️ Today’s film is a 🇬🇧British comedy from the Monty Python group of comedians. Watch the exciting and incredibly funny plot (=story of a film or novel) that unfolds after a semi-successful bank robbery (=stealing money from the bank). A classic!

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #comedy

#51 Movie Time: Idiocracy (2006)

▶️ Today’s film is a comedy set in the future. The basic idea is that in our present times intelligent, educated people tend to have less children than unintelligent people. This means that in the future there will be less and less intelligent people. Watch just how bad things could turn out (=become) for humanity.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #comedy #future

#52 Movie Time: Rush Hour 1 (1998)

▶️ Today’s film is an action comedy with 🇭🇰Hong Kong martial arts superstar Jackie Chan and 🇺🇸Afro-American comedian Chris Tucker as a police officer dream team (=people working together very well). It’s the first movie of the Rush Hour trilogy (=series of three movies or novels).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #international_films #comedy

#53 Movie Time: Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

▶️ Today’s film is a romantic comedy from the 🇬🇧UK. It’s about a charming young lady who in her early 30s and still can't decide who she wants to be with. Watch how she keeps getting into embarrassing situations and finally chooses the right guy.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #international_films #comedy

#54 Movie Time: Don’t Look Up (2021)

▶️ Today’s film is a black comedy (=making fun of serious problems) about the end of the world caused by an approaching (=coming closer) comet (=large rock flying in space). Scientists are trying to warn humanity but media and government create one big mess and mankind goes to the dogs (=falls into a bad condition, becomes ruined).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #comedy

#56 Movie Time: Rush Hour 2 (2001)

▶️ Today’s film is the second movie of the Rush Hour trilogy (=series of three movies or novels) with 🇭🇰Hong Kong martial arts superstar Jackie Chan and 🇺🇸Afro-American comedian Chris Tucker.

Watch Rush Hour 1

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #international_films #comedy

#57 Movie Time: Chicken Run (2000)

▶️ Today's film is a 🇬🇧British cartoon classic about a bunch (=large group) of rebellious (=protesting, taking the power) chickens trying to escape from their farm. Watch how they team up (=cooperate) and do it!

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #international_films #comedy #cartoon

#59 Movie Time: Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

▶️ Today’s film is the third in the Johnny English trilogy (=a series of 3). Rowan Atkinson, better known as Mr Bean, saves the world yet again with a mixture of catastrophic mishaps (=sth goes wrong), impossibly lucky coincidences (=sth comes together unplanned), and sheer (=plain, pure) 🇬🇧Britishness.

Watch Johnny English 2.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #comedy

#61 Movie Time: The Intern (2015)

▶️ Today’s film is a comedy-drama with Robert de Niro as a 70-year-old widower (=a man whose wife has died) who starts a new career at an online fashion company in New York. Watch how his life experience and charming style save his boss from the malice (=evilness) of the corporate world (=the private sector of the economy; private companies).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #drama #comedy

Movie Time #62: The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

▶️ Today’s film is a comedy-drama about an 🇮🇳Indian family of chefs that ends up (=get an unplanned result) somewhere in the 🇫🇷French countryside. Watch how good food transcends (=goes beyond, overcomes) cultural differences and leads to a happy multicultural ending.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #comedy #drama #european_films #international_films

Movie Time #63: A Man Called Otto (2022)

▶️ Today’s film is a comedy-drama about a grumpy (=in a bad mood) old American man played by Tom Hanks. See what a difference good neighbours can make!

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #comedy #drama #american_films

▶️ Afandi English is over 3 years old now and there’s a ton of stuff you’ve missed. Here are some hashtags for posts about movies & videos:

#american_films
Pick your favouries from the home country of movies.

#british_films
Feel very British with the best of British cinema.

#cartoon
Let yourself be entertained and watch cartoons in English.

#comedy
Learn English while laughing!

#documentary
Get knowledge and academic vocab at the same time.

#drama
Stay closer to real life with dramas.

#european_films
Realise that Europeans make great movies, too.

#good_laugh
Watch the funniest of them all.

#international_films
Check out movies from all corners of the globe!

#karaoke
Use the most enjoyable way to learn English.

#movie
Don’t be choosy and watch them all. With subtitles.

#must_watch
Make sure you don’t miss out.

#short_film
Watch movies even when you don’t have time.

#special_day
Enjoy festivals with Afandi English.

#youtube
Get the most out of YouTube with channel recommendations.

Movie Time #64: You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

▶️ Today's movie is about an American family faced with (=having to deal with) the devastating (=destroying) effects of white lies (=small lies to please people). It's a good glimpse (=insight) into contemporary (=of today) American culture in which you always have to look enthusiastic (=positive and energetic) and say positive things, even when you have negative thoughts.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #comedy #drama #american_films

Movie Time #68: Welcome to the Sticks (2008)

▶️ Today’s film is a 🇫🇷French comedy about a man from sunny Southern France who has to move to the North of France where it always rains, where people eat bad food, speak a strange dialect and are unsophisticated (=simple, not clever). Watch how he slowly accepts his fate and falls in love with the place.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #comedy #european_films

Movie Time #69: Catch Me If You Can (2002)

▶️ Today’s film is a true story of a master con artist (=impostor, sb who tricks people) who successfully poses (=acts) as a pilot, doctor and lawyer. Watch how he manages to escape arrest every time. Best acting by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #comedy #american_films

Movie Time #73: Ghosted (2023)

▶️ Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy this fast-paced romantic action comedy about a farmer who falls in love with a spy.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #action #comedy #american_films

Movie Time #77: Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)

▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇩🇪German comedy about a school full of troublesome teenagers. Watch how a criminal teacher-by-accident gives the kids just what they need.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

🗣 Do you speak German? Then watch this movie with German subtitles.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #comedy #european_films