Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Comedy: 1119 Films to Buy & Rent
Varsity Blues (1999)
- Dir. Brian Robbins
Feat. James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight
- Reluctant star quarterback James Van Der Beek (from TV's Dawson's Creek) takes a stand against team coach Jon Voight's voracious pursuit of sporting…
Venus Beauty Institute (Venus Beauty) (1999)
- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou
- A modest beauty salon is the setting for this wry ensemble piece about the vagaries of womanhood, with an engagingly eccentric collection of clients…
An Autumn Tale (1998)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
- Completing his suite of films based on the four seasons, dir. Rohmer provides another mellow, seemingly unplotted comedy, in which Rhone valley…
Butcher Boy, The (1998)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw
- Despairing yet distinctive black comedy depicts the insanity implicit in a boy's view of his small town in Ireland, circa 1962. Adopts a lurid…
Cookie's Fortune (1998)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Glenn Close, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell…
- A satisfying, home–spun Southern patchwork, stuffed with little–biddy–town idiosyncracies and a slightly kooky plot surrounding the…
Girls' Night (1998)
- Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Julie Walters, Brenda Blethyn
- A windfall at the local bingo hall puts air in the wings of forty–something factory gals Julie Walters and Brenda Blethyn, but a wheel of…
Grafters (TV Mini-series) (1998)
- Dir. David Richards, Stephen Whittaker
Feat. Robson Green, Stephen Tompkinson
- Distinct drama series following the misadventures of two brothers forced to work together as builders and renovate a house for a London couple, which…
Higher Love (At Sachem Farm; Uncorked) (1998)
- Dir. John Huddles
Feat. Rufus Sewell, Minnie Driver, Nigel Hawthorne
- Moderately quaffable comedy has a young heir (Sewell) plan to sell his wealthy Californian family's huge wine collection so as make an investment.…
Last Days of Disco (1998)
- Dir. Whit Stillman
Feat. Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale
- Not so much a nostalgia trip as a literate comedy of manners a la 1980s Manhattan, dissecting the sashays on the social dancefloor among a troupe of…
Late August, Early September (Fin août, début septembre) (1998)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, Francois Cluzet…
- Overlooked French drama from prolific and distinctive auteur Olivier Assayas (IRMA VEP, PERSONAL SHOPPER) following a group of friends and lovers as…