Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5505 Films to Buy & Rent
- Animals (2019)
- Dir. Sophie Hyde
Feat. Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat
- Raucous comedy with Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat brilliant together as best friends living in Dublin, whose hard partying lifestyle comes under…
- Art of Self-Defense, The (2019)
- Dir. Riley Stearns
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots
- Black comedy thriller from the director of the underseen FAULTS, with a mild mannered accountant (Jesse Eisenberg) questioning the meaning of…
- Babyteeth (2019)
- Dir. Shannon Murphy
Feat. Eliza Scanlen, Toby Wallace, Michelle Lotters…
- Australian coming–of–age drama marking the feature debut for director Shannon Murphy (KILLING EVE), from a screenplay by Rita Kalnejais,…
- Bellbird (2019)
- Dir. Hamish Bennett
Feat. Marshall Napier, Cohen Holloway, Annie Whittle
- Charming and quietly restrained comedy drama set on a Northland NZ dairy farm, where a third generation farm owner struggles to cope with the loss of…
- Births, Deaths & Marriages (2019)
- Dir. Beatrice Joblin
Feat. Geraldine Brophy, Tess Jamieson-Karaha, Sophie Hambleton…
- A cancelled wedding in Upper Hutt in 1994 sets the scene for this chaotic yet surprisingly deft domestic farce made on a credit–card…
- Blue Moon (2019)
- Dir. Stefen Harris
Feat. Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy, Olivia Hadlow
- Shot on entirely on an iphone in and around a Motueka petrol station, this twisty thriller from enterprising indie Mainlander Stefen Harris follows a…
- Booksmart (2019)
- Dir. Olivia Wilde
Feat. Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein
- Sensational directorial debut for actor Olivia Wilde, who transforms the High School coming–of–age comedy into a riotous celebration of…
- Brown Boys (2019)
- Dir. Hans Masoe
Feat. Hans Masoe, Lagi Farani
- A comedic coming–of–age film about six Samoan men (Peter the Player, Kiligi the Bad Influence, Magele the Tough Guy, Luka the Drunken…
- Butt Boy (2019)
- Dir. Tyler Cornack
Feat. Angela Jones, Tyler Cornack, Kristina Clifford
- Pulpy crime comedy boasting an outrageously vulgar gag as it's premise: a hard–working, hard–drinking detective discovers that a suspect…
- Catch-22 (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Dir. Grant Heslov, George Clooney
Feat. Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Daniel David Stewart…
- Updated six–part adaptation of the difficult–to–adapt classic Joseph Heller novel, a WWII satire which was formerly adapted as a…