Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Comedy: 606 Films to Buy & Rent
Police Story 3 (Supercop) (1992)
- Dir. Stanley Tong
Feat. Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh
- Jackie Chan returns as death–defying maverick cop Ka Kui, while Michelle Yeoh offers some savvy sidekick. From the director of Jackie's first…
Schtonk! (1992)
- Dir. Helmut Dietl
- Following the broad outlines of the 1983 'Hitler diaries' case, in which a forgery of the Fuhrer's scatological jottings was 'discovered', this…
Vita Cane (Life's a Bitch aka Vita da Cane) (1992)
- Dir. Carlo Liconti
- An Italian hairdresser plays loverboy with a bevy of clients, but things snowhall hilariously when, to everyone's dismay, he falls in strictly…
Wild Target (1992)
- Dir. Pierre Salvadori
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Depardieu
- Jean Rochefort is a fastidious hitman whose mania for control, both at home and on assignment, is dangerously weakened when he apprentices Gerard…
Great Day On the Beach (1991)
- Dir. Stellan Olssen
Feat. Erik Clausen, Nina Gunke, Benjamin Rothenborg
- A family day at a seaside resort enlightens a six–year–old boy with grand illusions of his extrovert father. A comic, perceptive view of…
Hairdresser's Husband, The (1991)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena
- Everything you may love or loathe about French movies is taken to an (intentional?) extreme in this whimsical venture into the one–track mind…
High Heels (1991)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Victoria Abril
- Victoria Abril finds herself accused of murder while trying to fill the 'high heels' of her glamourous celebrity mum. At once ludicrous and enjoyable.
How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (1991)
- Dir. Ana Belen
Feat. Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines
- Carmen Maura, the morning–star of many an early Almodovar film, enlivens this slight–ish, breezy comedy of domestic meltdown, having to…
Ripoux Contre Ripoux (1991)
- Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand
- Sequel to LES RIPOUX reunites the odd couple of petty corrupt cops for another comic round of mischevious errors.
Tatie Danielle (1991)
- Dir. Etienne Chatiliez
Feat. Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty…
- Brilliantly absurd black comedy about an elderly widow who does her best to make life miserable for her relatives. Tsilla Chelton is irresistible as…