Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Romance: 694 Films to Buy & Rent
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
- Dir. Joel Zwick
Feat. Nia Vardalos, John Corbett
- Surprise hit comedy written by its lead performer, Nia Vardalos, marries her own experience growing up a “plain Jane” in a Greek immigrant family…
One and Only, The (2002)
- Dir. Simon Cellan Jones
Feat. Justine Waddell, Richard Roxburgh
- Based on a 1999 romantic comedy by Susanne Bier (OPEN HEARTS), this relocates the original film’s star–crossed predicament to Newcastle,…
Pipe Dream (2002)
- Dir. John C Walsh
Feat. Martin Donovan, Mary-Louise Parker, Rebecca Gayheart
- Snubbed as a serious romantic partner because he is a plumber, Martin Donovan decides to masquerade as a film director in order to attract women and…
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
- Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Popular mainstream comic Adam Sandler takes a left turn for the director of MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS in this doggedly off–beat yet beguiling…
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
- Dir. Peter Sollett
Feat. Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte
- A sensitive, appealing urban coming of age story set in a Hispanic New York subculture that rewardingly favours low–key incident over…
Secretary (2002)
- Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies…
- A spanking good black comedy detailing the bizarre relationship between a peculiar, ill–tempered lawyer and the meek secretary he…
Sex, Politics and Cocktails (2002)
- Dir. Julien Hernandez
Feat. Julien Hernandez, Marisa Petroro
- West Hollywood’s gay dating scene is the setting for this comedy–romance of queer encounters.
Julien Hernandez takes on the acting,…
Spanish Apartment, The (L'Auberge Espagnole) (2002)
- Dir. Cedric Klapisch
Feat. Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Judith Godreche…
- Summery comedy set in a Barcelona apartment, where six international exchange students variously mingle, cavort and fall messily in love.
Although…
Summer Things (Embrassez qui vous voudrez) (2002)
- Dir. Michel Blanc
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Carole Bouquet…
- Rom–com with an ensemble cast led by Charlotte Rampling as an unhappily married woman who is off to stay at a seaside resort, where she…
Tadpole (2002)
- Dir. Gary Winick
Feat. Aaron Stanford, Sigourney Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth…
- Slight but bright “indie” comedy about a precocious, Voltaire–reading 15–year–old with misplaced romantic designs on his…