Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Independent: 263 Films to Buy & Rent
Tiny Furniture (2010)
- Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Alex Karpovsky…
- A prototype for Lena Dunham's hugely successful HBO series GIRLS, this smart–funny indie finds the talented actress/director mining the…
Adam (2009)
- Dir. Max Mayer
Feat. Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher…
- Moon–faced Rose Byrne warms to her Asperger's–afflicted neighbour (Dancy) in this unlikely, heartfelt romance.
Distracting subplots…
Adventureland (2009)
- Dir. Greg Mottola
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds…
- Low–key indie comedy set in 1987 where a virginal high–school grad gets a summer job at a local amusement park and finds unlikely…
Breaking Upwards (2009)
- Dir. Daryl Wein
Feat. Daryl Wein, Zoe Lister Jones, Julie White…
- Skittish romantic comedy in which a couple attempt to end their moribund relationship gradually, beginning with three days off each week.
Drawing…
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)
- Dir. John Krasinski
Feat. Julianne Nicholson, Ben Shenkman, Timothy Hutton…
- A graduate student copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.
Ill–conceived and messy adaptation of David Foster…
City Island (2009)
- Dir. Raymond De Felitta
Feat. Andy Garcia, Julianne Margulies, Steven Strait…
- Winning ensemble stars Andy Garcia as a would–be actor–cum–corrections officer who brings a young ex–con home from work, much…
Cold Souls (2009)
- Dir. Sophie Barthes
Feat. Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn, Lauren Ambrose…
- A existentialist tragi–comedy in which Paul Giamatti plays himself, a New York actor in crisis, who literally has his soul extracted, only to…
Humpday (2009)
- Dir. Lynn Shelton
Feat. Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmor…
- Though easily mistaken for another Judd Apatow dude comedy, this hilarious indie bromance about two macho BFs engaged in a dare to go ‘beyond…
Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, The (2009)
- Dir. David Russo
Feat. Marshall Allman, Vince Vieluf, Natasha Lyonne
- Pleasingly off–kilter indie comedy bares witness to the spiritual crisis of an office clerk who joins a posse of bohemian night janitors who…
Marc Pease Experience, The (2009)
- Dir. Todd Louiso
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Ben Stiller, Anna Kendrick…
- Remorseless comedy of the deluded with Schwartzman as a sad–sack limo driver desperate to relive his glory days as a high school music star.…