Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy > Foreign Cinema: 70 Films to Rent on VHS
- Wild Target (1992)
- Dir. Pierre Salvadori
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Depardieu
- Jean Rochefort is a fastidious hitman whose mania for control, both at home and on assignment, is dangerously weakened when he apprentices Gerard…
- Great Day On the Beach (1991)
- Dir. Stellan Olssen
Feat. Erik Clausen, Nina Gunke, Benjamin Rothenborg
- A family day at a seaside resort enlightens a six–year–old boy with grand illusions of his extrovert father. A comic, perceptive view of…
- How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (1991)
- Dir. Ana Belen
Feat. Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines
- Carmen Maura, the morning–star of many an early Almodovar film, enlivens this slight–ish, breezy comedy of domestic meltdown, having to…
- Ripoux Contre Ripoux (1991)
- Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand
- Sequel to LES RIPOUX reunites the odd couple of petty corrupt cops for another comic round of mischevious errors.
- Volere Volare (1991)
- Dir. Maurizio Nichetti
Feat. Maurizio Nichetti
- From the director of THE ICICLE THIEF comes another enjoyable comic fantasy inter–relating real and fictional worlds. Nichetti himself plays a…
- Chinese Ghost Story 2 (1990)
- Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung
- The original cast return for another surreal, big–budget fantasy that delivers as much as the first one, with more of a comedic slant.
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- Elementary School, The (1990)
- Dir. Jan Sverak
Feat. Jan Triska, Zdenek Sverak, Libuse Safrankova
- Sly comedy in which a class of badly behaved Czech schoolboys drive away their timid teacher and learn to love her uniformed, baton–weilding…
- Everybody's Fine (Stanno Tutti Bene) (1990)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni
- Marcello Mastroianni plays a fiercely proud but distanced father who embarks unwittingly on a voyage of discovery when he sets out on a surprise…
- God of Gamblers (1990)
- Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat
- Chow Yun–Fat plays a gambling king who is de–throned by amnesia, then embraced by a petty hustler who discovers he can trigger his memory…
- A World Without Pity (Un Monde Sans Pitie) (1989)
- Dir. Eric Rochant
Feat. Hippolyte Girardot, Mireille Perrier, Yvan Attal
- A young Parisian slacker falls in love with an ambitious, bright student but finds the tables turning on his egocentric existence. Rochant's debut…