Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Foreign Cinema: 614 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Volere Volare (1991)
- Dir. Maurizio Nichetti
Feat. Maurizio Nichetti
- From the director of THE ICICLE THIEF comes another enjoyable comic fantasy inter–relating real and fictional worlds. Nichetti himself plays a…
Chinese Ghost Story 2 (1990)
- Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung
- The original cast return for another surreal, big–budget fantasy that delivers as much as the first one, with more of a comedic slant.
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Elementary School, The (1990)
- Dir. Jan Sverak
Feat. Jan Triska, Zdenek Sverak, Libuse Safrankova
- Sly comedy in which a class of badly behaved Czech schoolboys drive away their timid teacher and learn to love her uniformed, baton–weilding…
Everybody's Fine (Stanno Tutti Bene) (1990)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni
- Marcello Mastroianni plays a fiercely proud but distanced father who embarks unwittingly on a voyage of discovery when he sets out on a surprise…
God of Gamblers (1990)
- Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat
- Chow Yun–Fat plays a gambling king who is de–throned by amnesia, then embraced by a petty hustler who discovers he can trigger his memory…
Match Factory Girl, The (1990)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Kati Outinen, Elina Salo
- Aki Kaurismaki concludes his "Proletariat Trilogy" with this bleakly ironic fable following the drab fortunes of a factory–worker (Kati…
Nasty Girl, The (1990)
- Dir. Michael Verhoeven
Feat. Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Muller, Monika Baumgartner
- Poignant comedy about an essay prize–winning scholar who creates community havoc when she decides to write about her home town during the Third…