Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Comedy: 1119 Films to Buy & Rent
Winter Passing (2005)
- Dir. adam rapp
Feat. Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell…
- Lyrical, character driven drama offering humour tinged ruminations on loneliness and yearning. Zooey Deschanel provides an arresting lead…
Alfie (2004)
- Dir. Charles Shyer
Feat. Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Omar Epps…
- Slicked back remake of the Michael Caine original, here translated to contemporary Manhattan, with Jude Law playing the Cockney skirt–chaser on…
As it is in Heaven (Så som i himmelen) (2004)
- Dir. Kay Pollak
Feat. Michael Nyqvist
- A feelgood arthouse hit about a renowned classical music conductor who rediscovers his roots in the far north of Sweden.
Acquiring a rundown…
Blackpool (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Coky Giedroyc, Julie Ann Robinson
Feat. David Morrissey, Sarah Parish, David Tennant
- Cocky and entertaining mini–series concerns the rise and fall of a Blackpool gambling entrepeneur, played with broad intensity by the excellent…
Bombon (El Perro) (2004)
- Dir. Carlos Sorin
Feat. Juan Villegas
- A middle–aged man (Villegas), struggling to maintain his meager lifestyle working as a mechanic in remote Patagonia, and selling knives on the…
Boston Legal - Season 1 (TV Series) (2004-2005)
- Feat. James Spader, William Shatner, Monica Potter…
- Irreverent spinoff to THE PRACTICE adds a thwack of biting comedy to some familiar courtroom antics, chiefly courtesy of star turns from James Spader…
Calcium Kid, The (2004)
- Dir. Alex de Rakoff
Feat. Orlando Bloom
- A perky, earnest mockumentary in which a weedy amateur boxer (Bloom) – in daily life a milkman – finds himself in an unlikely bout with…
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Roberto Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop…
- A compendium of whimsical b&w shorts from lapsidaisical indie auteur Jim Jarmusch, set around various celebrity encounters over nicotine and…
Criminal (2004)
- Dir. Greg Jacobs
Feat. John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- A reasonably successful American replay of the Argentian thriller NINE QUEENS, this sees a con artist (Reilly) take an apprentice (Luna) under his…
Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 1 (2004)
- Feat. Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross…
- A wildly popular "super–soap" which explores the secrets, neuroses, affairs and generally intriguing lives of a group of middle–aged…