Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Foreign Cinema: 606 Films to Buy & Rent
Aurore (I Got Life!) (2017)
- Dir. Blandine Lenoir
Feat. Agnes Jaoui, Thibault de Montalembert, Pascale Arbillot
- Actress and co–writer Jaoui is the heart and soul of this witty if overly–familiar rom–com as the eponymous 50–year–old…
Back to Burgundy (Ce qui nous lie) (2017)
- Dir. Cedric Klapisch
Feat. Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot, François Civil
- Sumptuous French family saga which will be a special treat for oenophiles, as three siblings attempt to save the family vineyard in picturesque…
C'est La Vie (Le sens de la fête) (2017)
- Dir. Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Feat. Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve…
- An archetypically bubbly, if not quite champagne quality, French comedy from the creators of THE INTOUCHABLES in which an irritable veteran wedding…
Dr. Knock (Doctor Knock) (2017)
- Dir. Lorraine Levy
Feat. Omar Sy
- Popular French actor Omar Sy (THE INTOUCHABLES) stars in this feelgood comedy about a former thug turned doctor who moves to a small French town and…
Just To Be Sure (Otez-moi d'un doute) (2017)
- Dir. Carine Tardieu
Feat. François Damiens, Cecile De France, Andre Wilms
- A delightful French comedy–of–errors following a grounded 45–year old widower whose life changes abruptly when he learns that the…
Mr. Stein Goes Online (Un profil pour deux) (2017)
- Dir. Stéphane Robelin
Feat. Pierre Richard
- Old–fashioned French farce where a reclusive widower enters the world of online dating, using the profile photo of his young computer tutor to…
One Cut of the Dead (Kamera wo tomeruna!) (2017)
- Dir. Shinichiro Ueda
Feat. Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama
- Ridiculously fun and gleefully inventive movie–within–a–movie where the crew of a low–budget zombie film are terrorised by…
Other Side of Hope, The (2017)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Ville Virtanen…
- This Finnish take on the European migrant crisis – proclaimed to be last directed by auteur Aki Kaurismäki – is a poignant yet typically…
Pop Aye (2017)
- Dir. Kirsten Tan
Feat. Thaneth Warakulnukroh
- Quietly uplifting road trip dramedy following a disillusioned Bangkok architect who embarks on a trek across the idyllic Thai countryside with the…
See You Up There (Au revoir là-haut) (2017)
- Dir. Albert Dupontel
Feat. Albert Dupontel, Nahuel Pérez Biscayar, Laurent Lafitte…
- French film adaptation of the ambitious novel set a few days before the 1918 Armistice, where, among the ruins of WWI, a genius draftsman and a…