Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Foreign Cinema: 603 Films to Buy & Rent
- Room in Rome (Habitación en Roma) (2010)
- Dir. Julio Medem
Feat. Elena Anaya, Natasha Yarovenko, Enrico Lo Verso…
- Erotic chronicle of a brief encounter between two women set almost entirely within the confines of a hotel room. More porno–profundity from…
- Simple Simon (2010)
- Dir. Andreas Öhman
Feat. Bill Skarsgård, Martin Wallström
- Sensitive feel–good romantic–comedy of an Asperger's sufferer whose brother sets out to find him a new girlfriend. Eccentric Swedish…
- Vincent Wants to Sea (2010)
- Dir. Ralf Huettner
Feat. Florian David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth, Heino Ferch…
- Likeable though lightweight road comedy in which a Tourette's sufferer escapes from a clinic with two others (an obsessive and an anorexic) and…
- Welcome to the South (2010)
- Dir. Luca Miniero
Feat. Claudio Bisio, Aleesandro Siani, Angela Finocchiaro…
- Spirited remake of the French hit 'Welcome to the Sticks' has a hapless postal employee dispatched to the Mezzogiorno.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A Matter of Size (2009)
- Dir. Erez Tadmor, Sharon Maymon
Feat. Itzik Cohen, Dvir Benedek, Alon Dohan…
- Sweet comedy about four overweight men fed up with the pressure of losing weight who decide to take their girth where it's appreciated, into the…
- All's Well, End's Well (Ga Yau Hei Si 2009 ) (2009)
- Dir. Vincent Tak-Chiu
Feat. Sandra Ng, Raymond Wong Pak-Ming, Louis Koo
- Passable remake of the 1992 rom–com follows the a girl who, frustrated at the stubborn temperament of her older sister, employs a 'Casanova' to…
- Baaria (2009)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Raoul Bova, Margareth Made, Francesco Scianna…
- Giuseppe Tornatore directs an autobiographical saga covering sixty years of turmoil through the eyes of three generations of a peasant family. Those…