Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Independent: 263 Films to Buy & Rent
Viva Las Nowhere (Dead Simple) (2000)
- Dir. Jason Bloom
Feat. Daniel Stern, Patricia Richardson, Lacey Kohl…
- Checking into a deserted motel in the “geographical centre of the USA” run by luckless, aspiring country–songwriter Daniel Stern, this darn…
WayDownTown (Way Down Town) (2000)
- Dir. Gary Burns
Feat. Don McKellar, Fabrizio Filippo
- An imaginative low–budget comedy, has office workers in Calgary, Canada running a wager to see who can avoid going into the outside world the…
20 Dates (1999)
- Dir. Myles Berkowitz
- Queasily, both a documentary and 'mockumentary'; the director set out to make a movie and find himself a girlfriend at the same time, organising 20…
Bedrooms and Hallways (1999)
- Dir. Rose Troche
Feat. Kevin McKidd, Hugo Weaving, Jennifer Ehle…
- Utterly delightful relationship comedy about men, and gay men in particular, but appealing to human beings of any of the three sexual orientations…
Daddy and Them (1999)
- Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Laura Dern, Kelly Preston…
- Low–key, quirky and casually paced, dir. Thornton's tribute to his roots unfolds as an Arkansas clan draw together to support their imprisoned…
Dogma (1999)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Kevin Smith, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck…
- Eccentric meditation on Roman Catholicism in a modern–day context from writer/director Kevin Smith (CHASING AMY), that's just as bizarre as it…
Elephant Juice (1999)
- Dir. Sam Miller
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Sean Gallagher, Daniel Lapaine
- The makers of the cult late–night TV–series ‘This Life’, extract a similar blend of drama, ennui and pathos from the lives of…
Go (1999)
- Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr…
- The director of SWINGERS switches focus to the reckless chic of LA's twentysomething rave scene, brandishing a slew of racy taboos, an impossibly…
Human Traffic (1999)
- Dir. Justin Kerrigan
Feat. John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes…
- A son–of–TRAINSPOTTING London dance–club odyssey, whose drug–fuelled vitality, street–patter and ultra–hedonism…
It's the Rage (1999)
- Dir. James D. Stern
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Gary Sinise…
- This caustic, precocious black comedy/satire of America's obsession with guns is a roundelay of violent and volatile confrontations that eventually…