Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5419 Films to Rent
- Battle of the Sexes, The (2017)
- Dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Feat. Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Sarah Silverman…
- Entertainingly playful telling of the story behind the milestone 1973 tennis match in which the 29–year–old women's champ Billie Jean…
- Baywatch (2017)
- Dir. Seth Gordon
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario…
- Self–referential send–up of the camp 90's TV series, with Zac Efron as a brash new recruit to the lifeguard team headed by Dwayne…
- Big Sick, The (2017)
- Dir. Michael Showalter
Feat. Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter…
- Pakistan–born comedian Kumail Nanjiani (SILICON VALLEY) and Zoe Kazan find the right chemistry in this winning culture clash rom–com that…
- Brad's Status (2017)
- Dir. Mike White
Feat. Ben Stiller, Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer…
- Ben Stiller is well cast as a man living a comfortable but unspectacular life, who begins to have doubts about his happiness and prosperity after a…
- Brigsby Bear (2017)
- Dir. Dave McCary
Feat. Kyle Mooney, Greg Kinnear, Mark Hamill…
- A wonderfully outré yet comedy starring Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney as a young man whose only connection to the world are his eccentric…
- C'est La Vie (Le sens de la fête) (2017)
- Dir. Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Feat. Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve…
- An archetypically bubbly, if not quite champagne quality, French comedy from the creators of THE INTOUCHABLES in which an irritable veteran wedding…
- Crash Pad (2017)
- Dir. Kevin Tent
Feat. Domhnall Gleeson, Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church…
- Awkward rom–com where a hopeless slacker (Dominic Gleeson) falls for an older woman who turns out to be using him to get back at her neglectful…
- Crashing (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Pete Holmes, George Basil
- Comedian Pete Holmes plays a fictionalised version of himself in this series about a New York comic who makes a new start in stand–up after his…
- Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 9 (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman…
- After a six year hiatus, Larry David returns for another season of the noughties TV favourite in which his curmudgeonly alter–ego finds himself…
- Death of Stalin, The (2017)
- Dir. Armando Iannucci
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine…
- Outrageous "comedy of terrors" from the creator of IN THE LOOP and VEEP, set in Moscow in 1953, where Stalin has just dropped dead and his cronies…