Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Foreign Cinema: 603 Films to Buy & Rent
- Italian Film Festival Collection, The - 2012: Volume Two (2012)
- Comprehensive box–set collection of 14 of the best Italian films featured at the 'Italian Film Festival 2012' spread over 5 discs.
Films…
- Le Chef (Comme un chef) (2012)
- Dir. Daniel Cohen
Feat. Jean Reno, Michael Youn, Santiago Segura…
- Tangy French comedy, with Jean Reno as a pretentious culinary master whose renowned restaurant is threatened by a young chef specializing in…
- Le Grand Soir (The Big Night) (2012)
- Dir. Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Yolande Moreau…
- A wrinkling middle–aged punk and his soon–to–be–unemployed middle–class brother attempt to spark a cultural revolution…
- Looking for Hortense (2012)
- Dir. Pascal Bonitzer
Feat. Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Carré…
- This bittersweet comedy of manners finds familiar May–December pleasures in the mid–life journey of an unhappily married professor who…
- On Air (Parlez-moi de vous) (2012)
- Dir. Pierre Pinaud
Feat. Karin Viard, Nicolas Duvauchelle
- A solid character vehicle for French mainstay Karin Viard, here playing the sophisticated host of a radio talkback show, whose knack for delivering…
- Paris-Manhattan (2012)
- Dir. Sophie Lellouche
Feat. Alice Taglioni, Patrick Bruel
- A Woody Allen–obsessed pharmacist employs the philosophies of her nebbish movie hero in life and in love. Typically, inconsequentially French,…
- Populaire (2012)
- Dir. Régis Roinsard
Feat. Romain Duris, Deborah Francois, Bérénice Bejo
- Full of colour and quick–witted style, this French period comedy plays up the vintage appeal of the 1950s through rose tinted glasses. Deborah…
- Reality (2012)
- Dir. Matteo Garrone
Feat. Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone
- A working class scam artist tries out for 'Big Brother' in this bustling, Fellini–esque satire of unrealised dreams from dir. Matteo Garrone…
- Rita (TV Series) (2012-2015)
- Feat. Mille Dinesen, Lise Baastrup, Carsten Bjørnlund…
- Danish comedy series following the life of a defiantly outspoken school teacher and single mother who excels in her teaching but struggles in her…
- Vulgaria (2012)
- Dir. Pang Ho-Cheung
Feat. Chapman To, Dada Chan, Suet Lam
- Amusingly scattershot showbiz satire of a struggling film producer who turns to making pornography under the financing of a twisted triad…