Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Foreign Cinema: 606 Films to Buy & Rent
Fallen Leaves (2023)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Jussi Vatanen, Alma Pöysti
- Director Aki Kaurismaki returns with a deadpan romantic crowd–pleaser about two lost souls in Helsinki on a bumpy road to finding each…
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
- Dir. Ariane Louis-Seize
Feat. Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Marie Brassard…
- A delightfully deadpan French–Canadian comedy about a doleful adolescent vampire who is too compassionate to kill for her special dietary…
La Chimera (2023)
- Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
- Another delight from dir. Alice Rohrwacher that completes a trilogy (after The Wonders and Happy as Lazzaro) about Italy's relationship with its…
There's Still Tomorrow (2023)
- Dir. Paola Cortellesi
Feat. Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Vinicio Marchioni
- An audacious, bittersweet comedy–drama that swept the Italian Oscars and broke domestic box–office records.
Directed, co–written…
The Origin of Evil (2022)
- Dir. Sebastien Marnier
Feat. Laure Calamy
- A black comedy thriller from France about riches, bitches and patriarchal pricks, because when it comes to money all bets are off and all knives come…
Two Tickets To Greece (2022)
- Dir. Marc Fitoussi
Feat. Laure Calamy, Olivia Cote, Kristin Scott Thomas
- A sunlit escapist comedy set in Les Cyclades (the original French title) starring Laure Calamy and Olivia Côte as long–estranged childhood…
I'm Your Man (2021)
- Dir. Maria Schrader
Feat. Dan Stevens
- A fabulously entertaining high concept comedy from Germany about a skeptical scientist who agrees to a three week product test of a humanoid robot…
Next Door (2021)
- Dir. Daniel Bruhl
Feat. Daniel Bruhl, Peter Kurth, Rike Eckermann…
- A dark and witty German comedy exploring gentrification and social inequality in Berlin, marking the directorial debut of accomplished actor Daniel…
Worst Person in the World, The (2021)
- Dir. Joachim Trier
Feat. Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum
- Gloriously provocative and richly perceptive comedy drama from talented Norwegian director Joachim Trier (THELMA), which follows an unpredictable,…
A Friendly Tale (Le bonheur des uns) (2020)
- Dir. Daniel Cohen
Feat. Bérénice Bejo, Vincent Cassel, François Damiens…
- A charming four–hander from the director of LE CHEF in which a sparkling cast play two forty–something couples whose professional and…