Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Foreign Cinema > Comedy: 78 films to Buy
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
- Dusting off a little–known French spy spoof from the 1960's, this remake upgrades rather than updates the franchise, combining the Bond school…
- DVD $19.95
Priceless (2006)
- Ultra–glamorous French romantic comedy, in which one can gorge on (or gawp at) Riviera culture at its most opulent – the clothes, the…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
Valet, The (La Doublure) (2006)
- Another inspired comic concoction from Francis Veber (dir. of most everything French and funny), that this time follows a meek parking valet who…
- DVD
$20 $15
Agatha and The Storm (Agata e la tempesta) (2004)
- Loosely woven tale of a middle–aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her…
- DVD $24.95
As it is in Heaven (Så som i himmelen) (2004)
- A feelgood arthouse hit about a renowned classical music conductor who rediscovers his roots in the far north of Sweden.
Acquiring a rundown…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
Matando Cabos (2004)
- Energetic Mexican 'farce of errors' in which two teenagers kidnap a coldly ruthless businessman, not realising he is also a coveted prize for a…
- DVD $29.95
Narco: Secret Adventures of Gustav Klopp (2004)
- A narcoleptic comic–book writer finds illusion and reality blurring between his fantastical imagination, a succession of dead–end day…
- DVD
$29.95 $14.95
Unconscious (Inconscientes) (2004)
- Boisterous 'Freudian farce' set amidst the extravagent architecture of Barcelona in 1913, where a disturbed psychiatrist suddenly adandons his…
- DVD
$29.95 $19.95
Spanish Apartment, The (L'Auberge Espagnole) (2002)
- Summery comedy set in a Barcelona apartment, where six international exchange students variously mingle, cavort and fall messily in love.
Although…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
Amelie (2001)
- A charming romantic comedy stamped with the purely cinematic style of dir. Jean–Pierre Juenet, who here remixes intricate set pieces, editing…
- DVD $14.95