Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Comedy: 608 Films to Buy & Rent
Shoot the Pianist (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger…
- Part homage to Hollywood film noir, part love story and part and parcel of the new wave, a down–on–his–luck pianist is drawn into…
Zazie Dans Le Metro (Zazie in the Underground) (1960)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret
- Anarchistic comedy drops the impudent 11yr old Zazie into the care of Uncle Phillipe Noiret and the whirlygig chaos of modern Paris.
Adapted from…
Good Morning (Ohayo) (1959)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Shimazu Masahiko, Koji Shidara, Chishu Ryu…
- Ozu’s most accessible and scathing film amuses with its deceptively light–hearted tale of two boys’ vow of silence after being refused a…
Giants and Toys (1958)
- Dir. Yasuzo Masumura
Feat. Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe
- Japanese satirical comedy about an advertising war between three candy production companies, and a teenage girl who becomes a celebrity after one of…
Mon Oncle (1958)
- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati
- Monsieur Hulot returns in another gag–laden adventure. His whimsical ways endear him to his nephew, but leave the boy's trendy parents cold.…
Une Parisienne (1957)
- Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer
- Dated yet enjoyably fluffy Bardot comedy, with the sex kitten playing the mischief–making daughter of the French Premier who seduces a cabinet…
Elena and Her Men (Paris Does Strange Things) (1956)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer
- Ingrid Bergman plays a Polish princess torn between marrying for love, or wealth, in this slinky, sweet–natured comic romance. Mel Ferrer, Jean…
Her Bridal Night (Mariée est trop belle, La) (1956)
- Dir. Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Micheline Presle, Louis Jourdan
- Light comedy dating from Brigette Bardot's early years in which she plays a country girl who gets 'discovered' by the Parisian fashion industry and…
Naughty Girl (Cette Sacree Gamine) (1956)
- Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Francoise Fabian
- A con–artist father leaves his devious minx of a daughter in the hands of a performer who discovers the girl is bent on disrupting his life the…
Plucking the Daisy (Mademoiselle Striptease) (1956)
- Dir. Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Roger Vadim
- One of the Brigitte Bardot/Roger Vadim light comedies that relies on Bardot's charms rather more than the simple story of a smalltown woman who is…