Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1090 Films to Buy & Rent
- Linda Green (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Liza Tarbuck
- Surprisingly endearing comic drama, follows the life of swinging single girl Linda (played by former TV presenter Liza Tarbuck) from work to home to…
- Man Without a Past, The (2002)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen
- Another understated, double–take comedy from Finnish dir. Kaurismaki, making perhaps his most cleverly balanced work yet.
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- Monsieur Batignole (2002)
- Dir. Gerard Jugnot
Feat. Gerard Jugnot
- An ironic comedy set in WW2 Paris, in which the titular butcher helps himself to an apartment vacated by a Jewish family who have been rounded up by…
- Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Stella Gonet, Christopher Plummer, Tom Courtenay…
- Able–handed version of Dicken's classic of Victorian–age injustice, that respects both the comic and tragic sides to the tale.
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- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson…
- The bittersweet dramatics of dir. Meadows (ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS) get a fresh telling in this Nottingham drama, with the added spin of some ironic…
- Ping Pong (2002)
- Dir. Fumisiko Sori
Feat. YĆ“suke Kubozuka, Arata
- A madcap, yet gently humourous Japanese sports tale, set around two table tennis hotshots (Kubozuka and Arata) preparing for a ferocious battle at a…
- Pumpkin (2002)
- Dir. Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Feat. Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn
- Politically–confused blackly comic satire that follows the progress of Christina Ricci's 'inappropriate' romantic fixation with a disabled…
- Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
- Dir. Peter Sollett
Feat. Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte
- A sensitive, appealing urban coming of age story set in a Hispanic New York subculture that rewardingly favours low–key incident over…
- Respiro (Grazia's Island) (2002)
- Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Feat. Valeria Golino
- Highly charged and mostly insightful depiction of a free–spirited woman whose near–psychotic episodes have a profound effect on her small…
- Secretary (2002)
- Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies…
- A spanking good black comedy detailing the bizarre relationship between a peculiar, ill–tempered lawyer and the meek secretary he…