Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1115 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Shameless (TV Series, US) (2011)
- Feat. William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin
- Watchable, surprisingly insightful remake of the hit British series attempts to three–dimensionalize the 'trailer park' stereotype in its…
Something Borrowed (2011)
- Dir. Luke Greenfield
Feat. Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield…
- Modest wedding drama with the appealing Goodwin testing the boundaries of friendship after sleeping with her best friend's fiance.
Source, The (La Source des femmes) (2011)
- Dir. Radu Mihaileanu
Feat. Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass
- A dashing feminist dramedy sprung from the male bias in the Middle East, about a village of women who take up a 'sex strike' after their husbands…
Spark of Life, The (As Luck Would Have It) (2011)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Jose Mota, Salma Hayek, Blanca Portillo…
- An aggressive media satire centred around the frenzied bidding war that erupts for a permanently and publicly immobile man's story, with the man…
Suits (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams
- Smart, sassy lawyer show where a brilliant college drop–out with a photographic memory is hired by one of Manhattan's top corporate firms,…