Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5465 Films to Rent
Airheads (1993)
- Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler…
- Three frustrated metal–heads hold a radio–station to ransom in a vain attempt to get their music played and become rock stars. The cool…
Amos and Andrew (1993)
- Dir. E. Max Frye
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson
- Cage and Jackson are unwitting abductor and hostage in an exclusive but crazy white neighbourhood. Sharply exacted racial satire is littered with…
Ben Elton Live 1993 & 1997 (1993-1997)
- Feat. Ben Elton
- The genius writer behind BLACK ADDER and THE YOUNG ONES, he attacks performance with his own special style and wit – like "Groucho Marx on…
Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
- Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Buddy Ebsen…
- A hair–brained big–screen remake, which despite being well re–cast, re–works what barely passed for a plot in THE ADDAMS…
Born Yesterday (1993)
- Dir. Luis Mandoki
Feat. Melanie Griffith, John Goodman, Don Johnson
- Remake of the 1950 film of the same name (itself based on the Broadway play by Garson Kanin) starring Melanie Griffith as the ditzy showgirl…
Business Affair, A (1993)
- Dir. Charlotte Brandstom
Feat. Carole Bouquet, Christopher Walken, Jonathan Pryce…
- Would–be writer Carole Bouquet is caught between her husband (another struggling scribe) and publisher Christopher Walken. European…
Calendar (1993)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Atom Egoyan, Arsinee Khanjian
- Dir. Atom Egoyan and his real–life wife Arsinee Khanjian play a romantic–professional couple whose photographic calendar assignment in…
Cemetery Club, The (1993)
- Dir. Bill Duke
Feat. Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello…
- Three Jewish widows in their 60s re–enter the dating game in this light but generally well–regarded comedy. All the cast put in…
Chef! (TV Series) (1993)
- Feat. Lenny Henry
- Comedian Lenny Henry plays a tyrannical Michelin star chef (a la Gordon Ramsey) in this well–received BBC dramedy, remembered for Henry's…
Clerks (1993)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes…
- Made for $27,000 in the convenience store where the director (then) worked, this follows a rude and bizarre day in the lives of two lowly grocery…