Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5563 Films to Buy & Rent
Thank You For Smoking (2005)
- Dir. Jason Reitman
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Sam Elliott…
- Smokin' and scathing satire centred on a Big Tobacco lobbyist whose air of smooth earnestness and mastery of rhetorical logic is employed to combat…
Thick of It, The (TV Series) (2005)
- Dir. Armando Iannucci
Feat. Chris Langham, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison…
- Coruscating political satire examines the bumbling drones who work inside government as they blunder their days away under the watchful eye of the…
Thumbsucker (2005)
- Dir. Mike Mills
Feat. Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Keanu Reeves…
- An accomplished, resolutely unconventional drama in which a 17 year–old boy (Pucci) is encouraged, cajoled and medicated into breaking the…
To Die in San Hilario (2005)
- Dir. Laura Mana
Feat. LluĂs Homar
- A light, whimsical tale of redemption, in which an aging gangster on the run seeks refuge in a sleepy backwater, only to be mistaken for a wealthy…
Tokyo Zombie (2005)
- Dir. Sakichi Sato
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta…
- An enormous garbage dump in Tokyo begins to spawl hoards of the walking dead, prompting two dumb–and–dumber garage workers to unleash…
Trailer Park Boys - Season 5 (TV Series) (2005)
- Further episodes from this gratifyingly lowbrow mockumentary series, based around the lives of a set of eccentrically vulgar residents of a trailer…
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes…
- Postmodern comedy adapted from Laurence Stern's 18th century pre–post–modern novel, has dir. Winterbottom depict a few bare events in the…
Tyrannical Love (2005)
- Dir. Scott Boswell
Feat. Stephen Jorgensen, Marcus Maclean
- A homegrown low–budget comedy that follows the romantic manouverings amongst a group of young adults in Pakuranga, Auckland just before the…
Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
- Dir. Nick Park
Feat. Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes
- Triumphant big–screen leap for the amiably English claymation heroes – Wallace and Gromit – with this effort finding them running…
We Can Be Heroes (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Chris Lilley
- Hoisting the tried–and–true "mock–umentary" to new heights, the fiendishly talented Chris Lilley assumes no less than six roles in…