Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Home Sweet Home (1982)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Timothy Spall, Frances Barber
- Postmen, social workers, and desperate housewives converge in this biting Mike Leigh feature, one of the director’s early achievements. Originally…
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret
- A Hollywood writer whose career is in freefall has his life made even more complicated when his estranged daughter turns up at his door demanding a…
Impossible Kid, The (1982)
- Dir. Eddie Nicart
Feat. Weng Weng, Romy Diaz, Nina Sara
- Chop–socky sequel with world's smallest spy again coming up another baddie intent to destroy the world. Comical dialogue, and more ball busting…
Irish R. M., The (1982-1985)
- Dir. Robert Chetwyn
Feat. Peter Bowles, Beryl Reid, Niall Toibin…
- Classic Irish comedy–drama series following a retired English army officer living in turn–of–the–century West Ireland. Based…
Labyrinth of Passion (1982)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Cecilia Roth, Luis Ciges…
- A nympho pop singer and her bisexual buddy cruise the decadent nightlife of Madrid, encountering Almodovar's usual slate of deviants –…
Last Horror Film, The (1982)
- Dir. David Winters
Feat. Caroline Munro, Joe Spinell, Filomena Spagnuolo…
- Horror comedy filmed on location at the Cannes Film Festival, where a New York City taxi driver is trying to fulfill his dream of directing a film…
Le Bal (1982)
- Dir. Ettore Scola
- A unique ‘concept ballet’, where a revolving cast of dancers wordlessly act out the 20th century history of France in a ballroom.
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Losing Ground (1982)
- Dir. Kathleen Collins
Feat. Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones
- Noted as the first feature–length drama directed by a black American woman since the 1920s – a semi–autobiographical story of a…
Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Jose Ferrer…
- A breezy romp in the fresh fields of a country estate with three ill–assorted couples at the turn of the century. Under–rated Woody Allen…
Missionary, The (1982)
- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard…
- Jolly Brit comedy sees Palin as the Rev. Charles Fortesque, recalled to England from missionary work in Africa to minister London's prostitutes,…