Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1090 Films to Buy & Rent
- Italian Film Festival Collection, The - 2011 (2011)
- Comprehensive box–set collection of 11 of the best Italian films featured at the 'Italian Film Festival 2011' spread over 5 discs.
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- Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)
- Dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Feat. Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon…
- The Duplass brothers follow–up the formidable CYRUS with another deep–centred comedy about the crises of two stagnant adult siblings; one…
- Le Havre (2011)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin…
- An old–time shoe–shiner befriends a young African refugee in hiding from immigration authorities in this soft–centred comedy from…
- Midnight in Paris (2011)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates…
- High class whimsy from Woody Allen with Woody–surrogate honours going this time to Owen Wilson as a frustrated hack screenwriter magically…
- Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
- Dir. Philippe Falardeau
Feat. Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nelisse, Emilien Neron…
- An asylum seeking Algerian attempts to pass himself off as teacher in a Canadian school bereft after the suicide of a popular teacher.
- My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011)
- Dir. Roseanne Liang
Feat. Michelle Ang, Matt Whelan, Kenneth Tsang…
- Dir. Roseanne Liang adapts her winning documentary (BANANA IN A NUTSHELL) on the struggle to get her traditional Chinese parents to accept her Kiwi…
- Nothing Trivial (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Shane Cortese, Tandi Wright, Blair Strang…
- An agreeable and endearingly performed 'singles' comedy by way of modern day Auckland, centred on the romantic hang ups of five friends who compete…
- Oranges, The (2011)
- Dir. Julian Farino
Feat. Leighton Meester, Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener…
- Two upper–middle class New Jersey families are split apart when the father of one (Laurie) falls in love with the daughter of the other…
- Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen…
- Light comedy about an uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas
- Lasse Hallstrom directs this light–headed romantic comedy about a British businesswoman and a doctor recruited to project manage a Sheikh's…