Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Comedy: 606 Films to Buy & Rent
Wedding Banquet, The (1993)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Dion Birney, Jeanne Kuo Chang, Winston Chao…
- A simple white lie gets way out of hand for a gay Chinese–New Yorker when his excited parents fly in from Taiwan to celebrate his 'straight'…
Window to Paris (1993)
- Dir. Yuri Mamin
Feat. Agnes Soral
- A constantly inventive comic fantasy about a group of luckless Russkies who find they can enter gay Paris from a window in their appalling St.…
Accidental Golfer, The (1992)
- Dir. Lasse Aberg
Feat. Lasse Aberg, Jon Skolmen, Mats Bergman
- A redundant factory worker becomes the object of an expensive golfing wager between a millionaire and his mistress. Big Scandanavian hit comes dubbed…
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…
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,…
House of Angels (1992)
- Dir. Colin Nutley
Feat. Helena Bergstrom, Rikard Wolff, Sven Wollter
- Two Harley–riding city slickers descend on a country village and obliviously stir up a hornet's nest among the townfolk. Old–fashioned,…
Johnny Stecchino (1992)
- Dir. Roberto Benigni
Feat. Roberto Benigni
- Celebrated comedian Roberto Benigni, also co–writes and directs this tale of a meek bus–driver mistaken for a notorious gangster. The…
La Crise (1992)
- Dir. Coline Serreau
Feat. Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Zabou
- Another smart comedy of crises from the comedienne director of THREE MEN AND A CRADLE and ROMUALD ET JULIETTE.
A high–powered corporate…
La Vie De Boheme (1992)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Matti Pellonpaa, Evelyne Didi, Andre Wilms
- An achingly deadpan treatment of the book that served as the basis for Puccini's opera. Ironically romantic portrait of deadbeat, impoverished…