Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Foreign Cinema: 603 Films to Buy & Rent
- Force Majeure (Turist) (2014)
- Dir. Ruben Östlund
Feat. Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Kristofer Hivju…
- A barbed and incisive Swedish black comedy of gender politics, centred around a family on a skiing holiday in the French Alps who face a recognizable…
- Get Well Soon (2014)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Gerard Lanvin, Fred Testot, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
- Gentle French comedy about a middle–aged curmudgeon whose enforced stay in hospital forces him to re–evaluate his life.
- Love at First Fight (Les Combattants) (2014)
- Dir. Thomas Cailley
Feat. Adele Haenel, Kevin Azais, Antoine Laurent…
- An intensely physical take on the romantic comedy, with an awkward summer romance taking place at a French survivalist camp between a…
- Mystery of Happiness, The (2014)
- Dir. Daniel Burman
Feat. Guillermo Francella, Ines Estevez, Fabián Arenillas…
- Light comedy that charts the shock waves that result when an outwardly content businessman abandons his wife and best friend.
- Parasyte: Part One (2014)
- Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Shota Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto…
- Based on a long running Manga, this horror–comedy offers up Cronenbergian thrills in a world under attack from parasitic worm–like…
- Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, A (2014)
- Dir. Roy Andersson
Feat. Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom
- Absurdist comedy that follows two hapless novelty salesman on a picaresque tour of the human condition.
- Samba (2014)
- Dir. Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Feat. Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim…
- The creative force behind THE INTOUCHABLES return with this inspirational drama centered on the redeeming relationship between a Senegalese…
- Sex, Love and Therapy (The Missionaries) (2014)
- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Sophie Marceau, Patrick Bruel, Andre Wilms
- Frothy sex comedy with Patrick Bruel as a marriage counsellor and recovering sex addict whose abstinence is tested by the discovery that his new…
- 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The (Hundred Year Old Man, the) (2013)
- Dir. Felix Herngren
Feat. Robert Gustafsson
- A spirited Swedish comedy – think a twilight FORREST GUMP – about a plucky 100–year–old man whose addiction to blowing things…
- Blind Detective (2013)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Yuanyuan Gao
- Dir. Johnnie To has a bob each way with this entertaining policier, effortlessly combining action, comedy and slapstick romance. Andy Lau plays the…