Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5434 Films to Rent
Divine Intervention (2002)
- Dir. Elia Suleiman
Feat. Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader
- A rare cinematic glimpse into life in Ramallah, on the Palestine–Israel border, with its daily challenges presented through a series of…
Don't Ask Don't Tell (2002)
- Feat. Peter Graves
- A sci–fi spoof that re–dubs minor 50's B–movie "Killer from Space" with new dialogue and a plot concerning a military scheme to…
Down With Love (2002)
- Dir. Peyton Reed
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Renee Zellweger, Tony Randall
- Entertaining homage to the early 1960s comedies of Doris Day and Rock Hudson, where a 'love advice' columnist is slyly seduced by a playboy…
Dummy (2002)
- Dir. Greg Pritikin
Feat. Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas…
- Unusual, mostly effective comedy has unemployed clerk Brody take up his ventriloquism hobby fulltime. With yiddish sidenotes, simmering romance and…
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
- Dir. Ellory Elkayem
Feat. David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson
- Every decade produces at least one eight–legged monster movie, and this one for the CGI generation comes courtesy of Kiwi ‘bug…
Elvira's Haunted Hills (2002)
- Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Cassandra Peterson, Richard O'Brien
- "Mistress of the Dark" Elvira returns – paying homage to the Corman–Poe horrors with a camped–up musical set in 1850s…
Flyfishing (2002)
- Dir. David L. Williams
Feat. Helen Baxendale, Kate Ashfield, Frances Barber
- A nicely bumbling comic farce, in which various Londoners – housewives, gigolos and yuppies – trip over each other's private lives in the…
Footballers' Wives (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Christian Solimeno, Zoe Lucker, Gary Lucky
- Compulsive campy drama about women married to members of a fictional English Premiership soccer team.
At heart this is soap opera of the highest…
Full Frontal (2002)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny…
- Director Stephen Soderbergh calls on the favours of famous friends for a makeshift, semi–improvised poke at the film industry that only a…
Funny Ha Ha (2002)
- Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Kate Dollenmayer
- Less 'funny ha ha' than funny peculiar drama about a young woman's desultry efforts to move on in life after completing her university degree. Its…