Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5445 Films to Rent
Undercover Brother (2002)
- Dir. Malcolm D Lee
Feat. Ed Griffin, Billy Dee Williams
- Over–played but sometimes hilarious spoof of blaxploitation movies and honky pop culture too, the super–elastic Eddie Griffin plays…
Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
- Dir. Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Feat. William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell…
- A comic 'heist' satire in which Luis Guzman and his girlfriend land in a snowballing mess when trying to spring him from prison to do a big…
Who is Cletis Tout? (2002)
- Dir. Chris Ver Wiel
Feat. Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Portia de Rossi…
- Shifty, light–headed crime caper features Christian Slater as a grifter mistakingly earmarked for death after he assumes the alias of a…
Wild West (TV Series) (2002-2004)
- Feat. Dawn French, Catherine Tate, Bill Bailey
- Quirky and understated comedy series concerning two 'lesbians of convenience' (French and Tate) living in the fictitious Cornwall town of St. Gweep,…
40 Days and 40 Nights (2001)
- Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon
- 'Troubled' by the fallout from his last break–up Josh Hartnett decides that to break out of serial monogamy he must abstain from sex for Lent…
8 Women (8 Femmes) (2001)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart…
- In the classic whodunnit mould, this whimsical French "thriller" starts with a man’s dead body in a snowbound Alpine manse in the 1950s, and eight…
All Over the Guy (2001)
- Dir. Julie Davis
Feat. Richard Ruccolo, Dan Bucatinsky, Adam Goldberg…
- An indie gay homage to generic Hollywood romancers, centred round the crack–up of Richard Ruccolo and Dan Bucatinky’s stilted…
Always Greener (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. John Howard, Anne Tenney
- Whimsical Australian 'dramedy' follows the mis/fortunes of two related families – the Taylors from suburban Sydney, and the Todds from rural New…
Amelie (2001)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz
- A charming romantic comedy stamped with the purely cinematic style of dir. Jean–Pierre Juenet, who here remixes intricate set pieces, editing…
America's Funniest Comedians (2001)
- Feat. Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Carrey…
- Broad, retrospective compilation of live stand–up routines from America’s crème de la crème of comedy talent.
Volume 1 – Adam Sandler,…