Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5452 Films to Rent
Odd Couple, The (TV Series) (1970)
- Feat. Jack Klugman, Tony Randall
- Spinning off from the feature film based on Neil Simon's Broadway play, this small screen version winningly supplants the Lemmon–Matthau double…
Out-of-Towners, The (1970)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis
- Playing on the prejudices of 'ordinary folk' towards the Big Bad City of New York, writer Neil Simon cranks out a series of escalating indignities…
Owl and the Pussycat, The (1970)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Allen Garfield…
- Callgirl Barbra Streisand has a uniquely nutty affair with George Segal.
Partridge Family, The (TV Series) (1970-1974)
- Feat. Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey…
- A TV series that became a cause celebre, this concerns a struggling family who dream of becoming pop musicians, and using their combined talents hit…
Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The (1970)
- Dir. Kevin Billington
Feat. Peter Cook, John Cleese, Harold Pinter…
- Follow the meteoric rise of one Michael Rimmer, an entry–level ad exec. who turns a fledging agency into an industry heavyweight, graduates to…
Simon Simon (1970)
- Feat. Graham Stark
- Short but farcical 'sound–effect' comedy, featuring a host of cameo appearances from the comedians and actors of the day, including Michae…
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
- Dir. Bud Yorkin
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Gene Wilder, Hugh Griffith…
- Cult favourite has Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder playing identical twins in pre–revolution France.
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970)
- Dir. Hy Averback
Feat. Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette…
- Tensions rise to boiling point between an Army base and a neighbouring redneck town in this off–beat satire.
There's A Girl In My Soup (1970)
- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Diana Dors…
- Romantic comedy set around the unpredictable frission between a ladykilling TV personality (Sellers) and a kooky young thing (Hawn). A bit…
Things of Life, The (Les Choses De La Vie) (1970)
- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise
- Golden Palm nominated French comedy focusing on the life of a fatally injured man who upon seeing his life flash before his eyes realizes he must…