Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Jakob the Liar (1999)
- Dir. Peter Kassovitz
Feat. Alan Arkin, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Robin Williams
- In this second version of Jurek Becker's novel, Robin Williams plays a café–owner in Nazi–occupied Poland who capitalises on an unearned…
Jerry and Tom (1999)
- Dir. Saul Rubinek
Feat. Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy…
- Adding mileage to the crime–caper genre, Joe Mantegna plays a hitman who puts used–car salesman Sam Rockwell (LAWN DOGS) through a droll…
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
- Dir. Harmony Korine
Feat. Ewen Bremner, Chloe Sevigny, Werner Herzog…
- Experimental melodrama from notorious indie film–maker Harmony Korine (GUMMO) following a man with schizophrenia and his dysfunctional family.…
Just the Ticket (1999)
- Dir. Richard Wenk
Feat. Andie MacDowell, Andy Garcia
- One for Andie MacDowell and Andy Garcia fans this, a popcorn–y comedy which sees the ill–matched duo strive for harmony by scalping…
Kikujiro (Kikujiro no Natsu) (1999)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano
- An uncharacteristically easy–going, episodic road movie from one–man movie machine, Beat Takeshi, whose impassive screen persona snugly…
King of Comedy (Choi kek ji wong) (1999)
- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao), Karen Mok
- Hong Kong’s king–of–parody Stephen Chow ironically casts himself as a luckless movie extra who fumbles his way to leading man status…
L.A. Without a Map (1999)
- Dir. Mika Kaurismaki
Feat. David Tennant, Vincent Gallo, Julie Delpy…
- A young Scottish undertaker (Tennant) follows an aspiring American actress back to La–la land, where he competes with the shallow excesses and…
League of Gentlemen, The (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Steve Bendelack
Feat. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
- Ghoulishly black comedy set in the sinister village of Royston Vasey, where two visiting hikers suffer a plague of Northern English foul urges and…
League of Gentlemen, The - Christmas Special (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith…
- A full–length special set in the sinister village of Royston Vasey, putting a ghoulish spin on the festive season.
Let Them Eat Cake (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Alison Steadman
- A BLACKADDER–style spoof of the French Revolution with Jennifer Saunders playing the Comtesse de Vache, with Dawn French as her maid.
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