Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Comedy: 69 Films to Rent on VHS
- Big Business (1988)
- Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward…
- Midler and Tomlin play sets of identical twins in this mixed–identity farce.
- Bless This House (1972)
- Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. Sidney James
- Sidney Carry–On James is the long–suffering head of a madcap household, whose constant tomfoolery cause him endless headaches; his…
- Pocket Money (1972)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin…
- Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher. Amiable comedy written by a pre–fame…
- Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1971)
- Dir. Ian Macnaughton
Feat. John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam…
- A particularly surreal later–Python, first released on German television. Features strange and often absurd English subtitles.
- Plaza Suite (1971)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris…
- Walter Mathau takes on three roles in this winning trilogy of one act plys by Neil Simon all set in the same hotel suite.
- Skin Game (1971)
- Dir. Paul Bogart
Feat. James Garner, Louis Jr. Gossett, Susan Clark…
- Beguiling comedy about a pair of con–artists who pose as master and slave to deceive unsuspecting rednecks in the post–civil war era.
- Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970)
- Dir. Hy Averback
Feat. Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette…
- Tensions rise to boiling point between an Army base and a neighbouring redneck town in this off–beat satire.
- Where's Poppa? (Going Ape) (1970)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman…
- George Segal becomes determined to hurry along the demise of his ultra–demanding, super–senile 87 year–old mom (Ruth Gordon). Few…
- Cactus Flower (1969)
- Dir. Gene Saks
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Ingrid Bergman, Walter Matthau
- Broadway adaptation won a supporting actress Oscar for Goldie Hawn, playing second fiddle to Ingrid Bergman for the love of dentist Walter Matthau.…
- Virgin Soldiers, The (1969)
- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport…
- Comdey–drama following a squad of naive young British soldiers in 1950's Singapore who fall for the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major.