Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Comedy: 606 Films to Buy & Rent
Life Coach, The (Le Coach) (2009)
- Dir. Olivier Doran
Feat. Jean-Paul Rouve, Richard Berry, Annie Marivin…
- Affable comedy with a business coach, up to his eyeballs in debt, taking on a most difficult assignment help an irredeemable miquetoast close an…
Look For A Star (Yau lung hei fung) (2009)
- Dir. Wai-keung Lau
Feat. Shu Qi, Andy Lau
- Andy Lau plays an eligible bachelor who can't seem to keep a wife in this captivating rom–com. Despite a convoluted third act, old romantics…
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.…
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…
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…
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
- Dir. Michel Hazanavicius
Feat. Jean Dujardin
- Bumbling intelligence officer and shameless chauvinist, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, returns for Brazilian adventures in this bright and breezy spy…
Over the Hill Band, The (Meisjes) (2009)
- Dir. Geoffrey Enthoven
Feat. Marilou Mermans, Jan Van Looveren
- A modest old age delight centred on recently widowed mother who resolves to kick start her middle–aged son's music career by recruiting the…
Please Please Me! (Fais-moi plaisir!) (2009)
- Dir. Emmanuel Mouret
Feat. Emmanuel Mouret, Judith Godreche, Deborah Francois
- Boudoir laughs a–plenty in this sexy farce from the 'French Woody Allen' as a goofy inventor's date with the President's daughter descends into…