Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5452 Films to Rent
Class Act (1992)
- Dir. Randall Miller
Feat. Meshach Taylor, Rick Ducommun
- Funky feature with HOUSE PARTY rap act Kid 'n' Play as a straight–A student and street–wise homeboy who have their identities switched at…
Complete Denis Leary Live, The (Lock 'n' Load, No Cure for Cancer) (1992-1997)
- Dir. Ted Demme
Feat. Denis Leary
- Collection of 'Shock' comedian Denis Leary's best live gigs; also an actor, he makes comic hay of non–smokers, PC society and various other…
Dear Diary (Caro Diario) (1992)
- Dir. Nanni Moretti
Feat. Nanni Moretti
- Often hilarious and inspiring film travelogue follows the endearing Nanni Moretti's personal experiences over 18 months. Over three chapters, he…
Death Becomes Her (1992)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn
- Streep, Willis and Hawn turn in spot–on performances for this hilarious send–up of Tinseltown's obsession with youth. The zany plot…
Delicatessen (1992)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Feat. Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Karin Viard…
- Two former Ad–men splash down with an audacious, darkly comic masterpiece set in a vegetarianist, post–apocalyptic future. Consumed with…
Discrete, La (1992)
- Dir. Christian Vincent
Feat. Fabrice Luchini, Judith Henry, Maurice Garrel…
- Things don't go to plan for a philandering writer who refuses to commit emotionally. A literary yet accessible essay on sexual game–playing,…
Distinguished Gentleman, The (1992)
- Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Eddie Murphy
- Perennial con–man Eddie Murphy wangles his way to Washington and discovers his petty untruths are small potatoes compared to the corruption…
Ed and His Dead Mother (1992)
- Dir. Jonathan Wacks
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty
- Steve Buscemi distinguishes this otherwise routine comedy–horror about about a mommie's boy who can't sever the apron strings, even after…
Encino Man (California Man) (1992)
- Dir. Les Mayfield
Feat. Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore
- Debut vehicle for MTV guru Shore about a youthful cave–man who becomes an unlikely fraternity hero when he is awakened in contemporary L.A.
Favour, The Watch and the Very Big Fish, The (1992)
- Dir. Ben Lewin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson…
- In gay Paris, Bob Hoskins plays a frustrated photographer whose life complicates after friend Jeff Goldblum asks a most unusual favour.