Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5465 Films to Rent
Chicken (1996)
- Dir. Grant Lahood
Feat. Cliff Curtis, Bryan Marshall, Martyn Sanderson…
- Blackly comic farce about an middle–aged ex–pop–star–turned–fast–food–proprietor who is being stalked by a…
Children of the Revolution (1996)
- Dir. Peter Duncan
Feat. Judy Davis, Richard Roxburgh, Sam Neill
- An eclectic, ambitious black comedy based on a highly fictional premise – Stalin's son rises through the ranks in Australian politics.…
Citizen Ruth (1996)
- Dir. Alexander Payne
Feat. Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz
- When chronic solvent–abuser Laura Dern becomes pregnant, then gets arrested again, she strays into the idealogical thicket of the abortion…
Class Act (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner
- Joanna Lumley plays a fallen aristocrat who turns to burglary and deception after a stint in jail for fraud in this savvy British sitcom. 14 episodes.
Cold Comfort Farm (1996)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen…
- A beguiling comedy transpires when a penniless woman of society is forced to live with her yokel cousins. Full of eccentric dialogue and characters,…
Cold Feet (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson…
- Highly infectious and candid look at the lives of six thirty–something Brits, which gets to the sharp end of careers, love and sex in the…
Couch in New York, A (1996)
- Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Juliette Binoche, William Hurt, Richard Jenkins…
- Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman directs this Stateside curiosity, with Juliette Binoche as a Parisian dancer who swaps apartments with a New York…
Dating the Enemy (1996)
- Dir. Megan Simpson Huberman
Feat. Guy Pearce, Claudia Karvan
- Daft Oz fantasy works surprisingly well as camp–king Guy Pearce and Claudia Karvan mysteriously swap bodies, leading to some dicey…
Denise Calls Up (1996)
- Dir. Hal Selwen
Feat. Alannah Ubach, Tim Daly
- Twee New York low–budget indie in which six people, most of whom have never met, conduct the gamut of human relations using only the telephone.…
Different for Girls (Crossing the Border) (1996)
- Dir. Richard Spence
Feat. Rupert Graves, Stephen Mackintosh
- Trans–genderism gets an affectionate workout when estranged schoolboys resume their friendship years later as man and woman! Like BEAUTIFUL…