Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5536 Films to Buy & Rent
Rosalie Blum (2016)
- Dir. Julien Rappeneau
Feat. Noemie Lvovsky, Alice Isaaz, Kyan Khojandi
- An intriguing and relatable French rom–com that tells the same story of romantic serendipity from three different points of view. Based on a…
Saint Amour (2016)
- Dir. Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde, Gerard Depardieu
- Warm–hearted road movie following a disheartened cattle breeder who embarks on a wine trail through France with his father (Depardieu) and a…
Sausage Party (2016)
- Dir. Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon
Feat. Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill…
- Impressively crude animation with Seth Rogen as a sentient sausage who leads an assortment of groceries on a quest to discover the awful truth of…
Search Party (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Alia Shawkat, John Early
- A dark comedy with Alia Shawkat as a unfulfilled Brooklyn NY resident whose friend goes missing, inspiring her to launch a private investigation with…
Shared Rooms (2016)
- Dir. Rob Williams
Feat. Daniel Lipshutz, Alex Neil Miller, Enzo Nova
- Queer rom–com telling three interconnected stories of gay men seeking love during the holiday season.
A married couple take in a teenage…
Sing Street (2016)
- Dir. John Carney
Feat. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Aidan Gillen…
- A more commerical but no–less–engaging Irish music film from the dir. of ONCE, about a boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s who…
Slack Bay (Ma Loute) (2016)
- Dir. Bruno Dumont
Feat. Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
- In a Northern French coastal town in 1910, a family of bourgeois eccentrics are holidaying in a picturesque cliff–top villa. But when tourists…
Spaghettiman (Spaghetti Man) (2016)
- Dir. Mark Potts
Feat. Benjamin Crutcher, Winston Carter
- An absurdist, no–budget superhero spoof centred around a cynical super–slacker whose microwave mishap inadvertently turns him into a man…
Street Cat Named Bob, A (2016)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt
- A sweet and poignant comedy–drama based on the life (and best–selling autobiography) of James Bowen, a young homeless London busker and…
Suicide Squad (2016)
- Dir. David Ayer
Feat. Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto…
- Warped action from the DC Comics stable has a team of incarcerated super–villains recruited by a secret government agency to prevent the…