Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema > Comedy: 70 Films to Rent on VHS
- Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
- Dir. Coline Serreau
Feat. Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, Andre Dussollier
- Hugely successful comedy that spawned the U.S. remake about three domesticated bachelors who grapple with the needs of an infant and an unsolicited…
- Voyeur (Abel) (1985)
- Dir. Alex Van Warmerdam
Feat. Alex Van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Olga Zuiderhoek
- So many windows, so little time! An oddball sex farce in which the director himself plays a binocular–happy mummy's boy who falls in love with…
- Funeral, The (1984)
- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto
- A Buddhist funeral service for a brothel owner makes an ideal vehicle for both fiendish black comedy and social satire. An assured debut from the…
- Ladies On the Rocks (1984)
- Dir. Christian Thomsen
Feat. Gotha Anderson, Bruno Bjorn, Peter Boesen
- Two women cabaret performers win the hearts of provincial audiences with their raucous brand of feminist humour. Ironically, their increasing…
- My New Partner (Les Ripoux) (1984)
- Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte
- The genial Phillipe Noiret plays a slobbish corrupt cop saddled with a straight–laced partner in this hilarious caper comedy. It's a delight…
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Carmen Maura
- Carmen Maura plays a delirious feminist housewife in this early black–comic farce from Almodovar, here working at his freshest and most…
- Labyrinth of Passion (1982)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Cecilia Roth, Luis Ciges…
- A nympho pop singer and her bisexual buddy cruise the decadent nightlife of Madrid, encountering Almodovar's usual slate of deviants –…
- Montenegro (1981)
- Dir. Dusan Makavejev
Feat. Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Marianna Jacobi
- A bored housewife gets caught up in Slavic sex and violence and discovers that she quite likes it. Unpredictable and weird, things become wickedly…
- La Cage Aux Folles 2 (1980)
- Dir. Edouard Molinaro
Feat. Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Galabru
- Cast and crew reunite for this enjoyable sequel to one of the most successful French comedies of all time. This time our two heroes find themselves…
- Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) (1979)
- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet…
- When his lost switchblade turns up as a murder weapon, petty crim Gerard Depardieu goes on the lam in a nightmarish Paris, several disreputable…