Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5540 Films to Buy & Rent
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
- Dir. Ariane Louis-Seize
Feat. Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Marie Brassard…
- A delightfully deadpan French–Canadian comedy about a doleful adolescent vampire who is too compassionate to kill for her special dietary…
La Chimera (2023)
- Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
- Another delight from dir. Alice Rohrwacher that completes a trilogy (after The Wonders and Happy as Lazzaro) about Italy's relationship with its…
No Hard Feelings (2023)
- Dir. Gene Stupnitsky
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Matthew Broderick, Natalie Morales…
- Jennifer Lawrence produces and stars in this sweet–natured sex comedy spiked by more than a few laugh–out–loud moments and at least…
Problemista (2023)
- Dir. Julio Torres
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Julio Torres
- Character comic Julio Torres directs and stars as an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to break out in New York city. As time on his…
Red, White and Brass (2023)
- Dir. Damon Fepulea’i
Feat. John-Paul Foliaki, Haanz Fa’avae-Jackson, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi…
- John–Paul Foliaki leads a lovable ensemble cast in this joyous, uplifting comedy set in the Tongan community of Te…
There's Still Tomorrow (2023)
- Dir. Paola Cortellesi
Feat. Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Vinicio Marchioni
- An audacious, bittersweet comedy–drama that swept the Italian Oscars and broke domestic box–office records.
Directed, co–written…
Uproar (2023)
- Dir. Paul Middleditch, Hamish Bennett
Feat. Julian Dennison, Rhys Darby, Minnie Driver…
- Set in Dunedin in 1981, a rugby–obsessed country is divided over the arrival of the South African Springboks team, sparking nationwide…
Allelujah (2022)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Jennifer Saunders, Russell Tovey, David Bradley…
- An adaptation of the play by Alan Bennett, set in a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital that is threatened with closure. The hospital…
Babylon (2022)
- Dir. Damien Chazelle
Feat. Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva Hernandez…
- Director Damien Chazelle's epic set in 1920s Los Angeles tells a tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of…
Flux Gourmet (2022)
- Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Fatma Mohamed, Gwendoline Christie , Asa Butterfield…
- Required viewing for those with an interest in the machinations of the Arts, director Peter Strickland steps up as the rightful heir to British…