Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5536 Films to Buy & Rent
Wild Target (2010)
- Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint…
- Bumbling Brit comedy of a middle–aged assassin (Nighy) who spares the life of one of his targets (Blunt), only to attract the attention of a…
Woman of My Dreams, The (La donna della mia vita) (2010)
- Dir. Luca Lucini
Feat. Alessandro Gassman, Luca Argentero
- Astute romantic comedy about the big and little lies people tell in their search for love, following the fallout of a friendship between two brothers…
Yogi Bear (2010)
- Dir. Eric Brevig
Feat. Tom Cavanagh, Anna Faris, David Ackroyd…
- Innocuous family comedy hodgepodge of live–action and computer animation, with Dan Ackroyd and Justin Timberlake voicing Yogi and Boo Boo…
You Again (2010)
- Dir. Andy Fickman
Feat. Kristen Bell, Odette Yustman, Sigourney Weaver…
- Frothy comedy with Kristen Bell horrified to discover her brother is about to marry her high–school nemesis, and that the unlikely connection…
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin…
- Not so much a serious Woody Allen film as a funny one without any jokes. An ensemble of fine actors stumble through a series of scenes with only a…
1000 Euro Generation (2009)
- Dir. Massimo Venier
Feat. Alessandro Tiberi, Valentina Lodovini, Carolina Crescentini…
- Affable comedy about the life of a young underemployed physicist struggling with romantic entanglements and just managing to eke out a living in…
17 Again (2009)
- Dir. Burr Steers
Feat. Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann
- Time–twisting comedy in which washed–up middle–ager Matthew Perry gets another chance when he is miraculously turned back into his…
3 Idiots (2009)
- Dir. Rajkumar Hirani
Feat. Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sharman Joshi
- Lively college romp is a fine vehicle for Indian superstar Aamir Khan, here playing one of three larrikin engineering students on campus, whose…
30 Rock (TV Series) - Season 4 (2009)
- Feat. Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan…
- Further episodes of the critically acclaimed TV satire captained by the brilliant Tina Fey, here playing the besieged head writer of a comedy variety…
500 Days Of Summer (2009)
- Dir. Marc Webb
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend…
- This twee romantic comedy couples indie kids Joseph Gordon–Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in a failed 500–day romance, chronicled through a…