Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
Ooh, You Are Awful (1972)
- Dir. Cliff Owen
Feat. Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser
- Cheeky Brit comedy focused on a con–man (Emery) who swindles an Italian millionaire out of a large sum of cash, only to have it deposited into…
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page…
- Bittersweet character story of a smarmy rogue and an aging virgin who get married despite fundamental differences which remain unaltered nine years…
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
- Probably Woody Allen's funniest film is this tale of a nerdish film critic who is aided by the ghost of Bogart to find love after his wife divorces…
Pocket Money (1972)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin…
- Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher. Amiable comedy written by a pre–fame…
Pulp (1972)
- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander…
- After completing the phenomenal GET CARTER Caine and dir. Hodges reteamed for this lightweight, yet highly watchable comedy thriller.
Caine plays…
Rentadick (1972)
- Feat. Richard Briers, James Booth, Richard Beckinsale…
- From a screenplay by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rentadick, a band of private detectives, are hired to protect a rich scientist's business as…
Savages (1972)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine…
- Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Seduction of Mimi, The (1972)
- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
- Satirical comedy taking plenty of shots at Italianisms, about a poor labourer who is forced to leave his family in Sicily to take an illegal factory…
Shelley (TV Series) (1972-1992)
- Feat. Hywel Bennett
- Classic British comedy series revels in one of the more unlikely deadly sins: sloth. University graduate James Shelley (Bennett) is a cynical,…
Sleuth (1972)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier
- A supremely cunning, self–reflexive mystery satire based on the hit West End play, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine as affable…