Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5541 Films to Buy & Rent
Crying... Silicon Tears (Klama) (2001)
- Dir. Thanassis Papathanassiou
- One of the biggest hits of recent Greek cinema, this is a lavish parody of 1960s Greek movie melodramas, mixing musical, comedy and suspense into a…
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 2 (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Larry David
- More episodes in the quirky celebrity–studded comedy. Celebrities appearing this season include Jason Alexander, Brad Hall, Julia…
Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The (2001)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Dan Aykroyd…
- Woody comfortably ambles through this genial spoof of a 40s detective film, playing a renowned insurance investigator who falls prey to a…
Doc Martin (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Martin Clunes
- Martin Clunes plays a luckless obstetrician who leaves his unfaithful wife in London to become the local doctor in a small Cornish fishing…
Double Whammy (2001)
- Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. Denis Leary, Steve Buscemi, Luis Guzman…
- Indie twist on classic genre material by dir. Dicillo (LIVING IN OBLIVION), with ‘rotten–luck’ cop Denis Leary enduring dodgy partners…
Drole de Felix (The Adventures of Felix aka Funny Felix) (2001)
- Dir. Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
Feat. Sami Bouajila
- Seeking to meet his father for the first time, HIV–positive Sami Bouajila journeys across France from Dieppe to Marseille in a tour of…
Ellen Show, The (TV Series) (2001-2002)
- Feat. Ellen DeGeneres, Cloris Leachman, Martin Mull…
- America's most mainstream lesbian Ellen DeGeneres puts her comic talents to use in her own TV series about a successful big city entrepreneur tempted…
Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
- Dir. Alan Taylor
Feat. Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny…
- Moderately noteworthy, this historical conceit has the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte switch identities with a commoner in order to escape St Helena,…
Everybody Famous (2001)
- Dir. Dominique Deruddere
Feat. Josse De Pauw, Eva van der Gucht, Werner De Smedt…
- A hit in the Netherlands and at festivals, this half–sweet, half–cringe–inducingly sour satire, sees truly mediocre singer Eva Van…
Evolution (2001)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore…
- An attempt to replicate the jokey sci–fi formula of MEN IN BLACK by the same producers, has alien bacteria riding a meteor and crashing on…