Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5459 Films to Rent
Used Cars (1980)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jack Warden, Kurt Russell
- Two sibling used car dealers (both played by Jack Warden) take their rivalry and sales gimmicks to a bad–taste extreme. Good script elevates…
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
- Dir. Art Linson
Feat. Bill Murray, Peter Boyle
- In a piece of dream–casting, Bill Murray plays 'gonzo' journalist Hunter S Thompson, with Peter Boyle as his lawyer sidekick having a series of…
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)
- Dir. Tony Wharmby
Feat. James Warwick, Francesca Annis, John Gielgud…
- A classic Agatha Christie TV adaptation in which a vicar sets out to discover the meaning behind "Why didn't they ask Evans?", the last words spoken…
Yes Minister (TV Series) (1980-1982)
- Dir. Sydney Lotterby
Feat. Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds, Nigel Hawthorne
- The excellent, mildly pointed satire on British politics in Whitehall, with aristocratic bureaucrats Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds gently guiding…
10 (1979)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews
- The cuddly charms of Dudley Moore lift this light comedy out of the saccharine. Moore plays a successful composer falling in love with gorgeous Bo…
1941 (1979)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Toshiro Mifune
- The dir.’s only real commercial failure, this loose slapstick comedy, set in a Californian seaside town visited by a Japanese submarine in 1941,…
Amour en fuite, L' (Love on the Run) (1979)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier
- The fifth and final entry in dir. Truffaut's loosely autobiographical 'Anoine Doinel' series. Here, the footloose hero reaches his 30s and a new…
Animal House (1979)
- Feat. John Belushi, Donald Sutherland, Karen Allen…
- National Lampoon's frat–house classic with a grossly hilarious Belushi.
Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) (1979)
- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet…
- When his lost switchblade turns up as a murder weapon, petty crim Gerard Depardieu goes on the lam in a nightmarish Paris, several disreputable…
Cactus Jack (1979)
- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kirk Douglas
- A fledgling Arnie and Kirk Douglas square–up in this comic take on the Old West.