Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Foreign Cinema: 598 Films to Buy & Rent
- Mystery of Happiness, The (2014)
- Dir. Daniel Burman
Feat. Guillermo Francella, Ines Estevez, Fabián Arenillas…
- Light comedy that charts the shock waves that result when an outwardly content businessman abandons his wife and best friend.
- Parasyte: Part One (2014)
- Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Shota Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto…
- Based on a long running Manga, this horror–comedy offers up Cronenbergian thrills in a world under attack from parasitic worm–like…
- Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, A (2014)
- Dir. Roy Andersson
Feat. Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom
- Absurdist comedy that follows two hapless novelty salesman on a picaresque tour of the human condition.
- Samba (2014)
- Dir. Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Feat. Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim…
- The creative force behind THE INTOUCHABLES return with this inspirational drama centered on the redeeming relationship between a Senegalese…
- Sex, Love and Therapy (The Missionaries) (2014)
- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Sophie Marceau, Patrick Bruel, Andre Wilms
- Frothy sex comedy with Patrick Bruel as a marriage counsellor and recovering sex addict whose abstinence is tested by the discovery that his new…
- 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The (Hundred Year Old Man, the) (2013)
- Dir. Felix Herngren
Feat. Robert Gustafsson
- A spirited Swedish comedy – think a twilight FORREST GUMP – about a plucky 100–year–old man whose addiction to blowing things…
- Blind Detective (2013)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Yuanyuan Gao
- Dir. Johnnie To has a bob each way with this entertaining policier, effortlessly combining action, comedy and slapstick romance. Andy Lau plays the…
- Brats, The (Les gamins) (2013)
- Dir. Anthony Marciano
Feat. Alain Chabat, Max Boublil, Sandrine Kiberlain…
- Something of a French take on the Judd Apatow school of middle–aged stupor, this finds a dissatisfied married man bromancing his daughter's…
- Chinese Puzzle (2013)
- Dir. Cedric Klapisch
Feat. Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cecile De France…
- Cédric Klapisch's cosmopolitan trilogy wraps up with this breezy reunion of the characters first introduced in THE SPANISH APARTMENT, now…
- Cupcakes (2013)
- Dir. Eytan Fox
Feat. Efrat Dor, Dana Ivgy
- Six Tel Aviv friends who delight in ridiculing the Eurovision song contest video a parody of themselves performing a make–believe number, only…