Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5540 Films to Buy & Rent
Make The Yuletide Gay (2009)
- Dir. Rob Williams
Feat. Keith Jordan, Adamo Ruggiero, Hallee Hirsh
- Christmas chuckles aplenty as closeted Jordan tries to remain so while holidaying with his parents, unfortunately for him boyfriend Ruggiero has…
Many Kisses Later (Ex) (2009)
- Dir. Fausto Brizzi
Feat. Claudia Gerini, Flavio Insinna, Silvio Orlando
- Breezy rom–com –a smash hit in Italy– follows six couples from Chistmas to Valetine's Day and their various entanglements.…
Marc Pease Experience, The (2009)
- Dir. Todd Louiso
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Ben Stiller, Anna Kendrick…
- Remorseless comedy of the deluded with Schwartzman as a sad–sack limo driver desperate to relive his glory days as a high school music star.…
Margaret Cho: Beautiful (2009)
- Feat. Margaret Cho
- Fearless Comedian Margaret Cho explores the facets of beauty in this bold and raunchy concert film, and classily does so while using almost every…
Matter of Heart, A (Questione di cuore) (2009)
- Dir. Francesca Archibugi
Feat. Antonio Albanese, Kim Rossi Stuart, Micaela Ramazzotti…
- Two men recovering from heart attacks strike up an unlikely friendship in this enjoyably sentimental farce, with much of the humour derived from…
Me Too (Yo, Tambien) (2009)
- Dir. Antonio Naharro, Alvaro Pastor
Feat. Lola DueƱas, Isabel Garcia Lorca, Antonio Naharro
- Affecting tale of a bittersweet friendship between an office worker with Down syndrome and his restless, free–spirited colleague.
Me, Them & Lara (2009)
- Dir. Carlo Verdone
Feat. Carlo Verdone, Laura Chiatti, Anna Bonaiuto…
- Screwy comedy captures the messy familial predicaments a priest encounters upon his return from Africa, his father's new love, his brother's drug…
Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009)
- Dir. Grant Heslov
Feat. George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor…
- George Clooney stars as a tell–all Special Forces operative in this mind–boggling, fact–based military farce based on the U.S.…
Micmacs (2009)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle…
- The dir. of AMELIE and CITY OF LOST CHILDREN stays true to form(ula) with his visual chutzpah lavished upon another idealised scenario that this time…
Middle Men (2009)
- Dir. George Gallo
Feat. Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht…
- Darkly funny drama looks at the unsavoury mix of characters who kicked off the internet porn revolution in the mid–nineties. Stylishly done in…