Delicatessen Jeunet and Caro's endlessly inventive and wildly enjoyable post-apocalyptic black comedy, about a sinister butcher and the circus clown who becomes his nemesis. Comedy Fantasy 1990 100 mins Jean-Pierre Jeunet Computer Chess Andrew Bujalski’s hilarious and surreal comedy about the birth of computer culture, set in an early 1980s conference where primitive programmers take on chess masters. Comedy 2013 91 mins Andrew Bujalski Blithe Spirit A séance results in a man’s first wife returning from the dead in Noël Coward’s wonderful comedy. Comedy Fantasy 1945 96 mins David Lean The General Buster Keaton's masterpiece is widely and rightly regarded as one of the greatest comedies ever made. Comedy Period drama 1926 79 mins Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman Steamboat Bill, Jr. Waterway hi jinks abound in this Buster Keaton classic, in which he plays the reluctant heir to his father's paddle steamer business. Comedy 1928 71 mins Charles F. Riesner Sherlock Jr. Buster Keaton's superb, sophisticated silent comedy in which he dreams himself into the movie he's watching, in order to win back his girl. Comedy 1924 45 mins Buster Keaton The Woodsman and the Rain A redneck lumberjack is recruited to work on a rookie producer's inane zombie movie, in this hilarious movie-making satire. Comedy 2011 128 mins Shûichi Okita The Living Wake Accompanied by his faithful assistant Mills (Jesse Eisenberg), self-proclaimed genius K. Roth Binew (Mike O’Connell) decides to go out in style following a terminal prognosis – staging a living wake. Comedy 2007 92 mins Sol Tyron Dogtooth Yorgos Lanthimos' scary, witty tale of a dysfunctional Greek family is original, ingenious and sadly relevant as a study of parent-child relationships Drama 2009 93 mins Yorgos Lanthimos Vulgaria Ho-Cheung Pang's wild, ribald comedy about a Hong Kong movie producer who will do anything to get his projects off the ground. Comedy 2012 93 mins Pang Ho-Cheung For Love's Sake Takashi Miike's awesome riff on Romeo and Juliet, done as a pop musical stuffed with golden oldies from the 60s. Musical Romance 2012 134 mins Takashi Miike The Wayward Cloud Ming-Liang Tsai's outrageous blend of sex, comedy, musical and drama is a daring, controversial and hilarious smorgasbord from one of Taiwan's most acclaimed directors. Comedy Musical 2004 114 mins Tsai Ming-liang Marriage Italian Style Sophia Loren and Marcelo Mastroianni are irrepressible as a long-married couple in this exquisite and timeless comedy of our all-too-human foibles. Comedy 1964 97 mins Vittorio De Sica Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Irrepressible Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves) directs this Oscar-winning film of three comic tales of love and sex in three cities. Comedy Drama 1963 118 mins Vittorio De Sica Boccaccio '70 Four of the greatest Italian directors – Fellini, Visconti, De Sica and Monicelli – join forces with show-stoppers Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider in a carousel of sex and satire mocking the mores of Italian '60s society. Anthology 1962 204 mins Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti & 2 others Listen Up Philip Jason Schwartzman is a hotshot writer with pathological intimacy problems in this caustic comedy of over-achievement. Drama 2014 109 mins Alex Ross Perry Who Loves the Sun Lukas Haas and Adam Scott play two old friends with a tempestuous history in this delightfully witty character comedy. Comedy 2006 94 mins Matt Bissonnette Dark Horse Todd Solondz directs Selma Blair and Jordan Gelber in this delightfully dark satire as romance blooms between a toy collector and a depressed woman. Comedy Drama 2011 86 mins Todd Solondz Daisies Two self-confessed hedonists wreak wanton havoc in Věra Chytilová's visually spectacular neo-dadaist farce. Comedy Drama 1966 73 mins Věra Chytilová The Cremator This story of a professional cremator whose increasingly deranged impulses are given free reign during Prague's Nazi occupation, is a brilliantly chilling mix of Dr Strangelove and Repulsion. Comedy Drama 1968 96 mins Juraj Herz Intimate Lighting This wonderfully subtle comedy of provincial life is the debut film of the great director Ivan Passer (Cutter's Way) and one of the signature works of the Czech New Wave. Drama 1965 71 mins Ivan Passer La Grande Bouffe Marco Ferreri's provocative and controversial satire about four friends who retreat to a country mansion with the intention of eating themselves to death. Comedy Drama 1973 130 mins Marco Ferreri Louise - Michel French anarcho-surrealist directors de Ververn and Delépine (Aaltra) present this outré odd-couple comedy about a factory worker out for revenge and the inept hitman she bonds with. Comedy 2008 94 mins Benoît Delépine and Gustave K/vern The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque Eric Rohmer's needle-sharp satire of a mayor whose plans to build a provincial arts centre are scuppered by a local teacher. Drama 1993 111 mins Eric Rohmer King of Escape A film about tractors, aphrodisiacs and forbidden love from Alain Guiraudie, the Cannes award-winning director of Stranger by the Lake. Comedy 2009 90 mins Alain Guiraudie Mammuth Legendary actor Gérard Depardieu is at his most uninhibited as an abattoir worker who hits the road with wild abandon. Comedy Drama 2010 91 mins Benoît Delépine and Gustave K/vern Matinee Joe Dante (Gremlins) directs this affectionate homage to 1950s sci-fi cinema, with John Goodman as a cigar-chomping B-movie producer trying to cash in on the Cuban missile crisis. Comedy Drama 1993 99 mins Joe Dante Sawako Decides Sawako tries to save her father's ailing clam-packing business, but it's an uphill struggle, in Yuya Ishii's joyous, nuanced, comic drama. Comedy Drama 2010 112 mins Yuya Ishii Mitsuko Delivers An eccentric, pregnant young lady returns to her hometown to help her downtrodden old neighbours, in Yûya Ishii 's strange, whimsical comedy. Comedy 2011 109 mins Yuya Ishii How to Use Guys with Secret Tips This hyperkinetic Korean comedy for the #MeToo era follows Bo-na, a dorky girl lacking social skills, self-confidence or any shred of fashion sense. That is until she discovers a secret video manual called 'How to Use Men'... Comedy Romance 2013 115 mins Wonsuk Lee Spanking the Monkey David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) made his feature debut in 1994 with this biting black comedy, which caused a stir with its incestuous subplot and portrayal of adolescent restlessness. Comedy Drama 1994 95 mins David O. Russell Amour Fou Jessica Hausner’s long-awaited follow-up to Lourdes is a devilish anti-Rom-Com in which a German poet seeks mates for a suicide pact. Period drama Comedy 2014 92 mins Jessica Hausner The Saragossa Manuscript During the Napoleonic wars, a soldier discovers a strange manuscript that reveals endless stories-within-stories. Wojciech Has' opus is a major cult film of the 60s, revered by Luis Buñuel, David Lynch and Jerry Garcia. Fantasy 1965 183 mins Wojciech Jerzy Has Unrelated On a Tuscan break a fortysomething woman finds herself drawn to the company of a group of partying teens, including a young Tom Hiddleston (in one of his earliest roles). Drama 2008 96 mins Joanna Hogg A Change in the Weather Jon Sanders’ delightfully peculiar, Southern France-set rumination on art and marriage finds Anna Mottram’s actor Lydia reconsidering her life with her demanding theatre director husband. Drama 2017 98 mins Jon Sanders The Gigolos A highly original comedy following a pair of professional male escorts and their interactions with their lonely, over-50s 'regulars'. Comedy 2007 94 mins Richard Bracewell Smiles of a Summer Night Ingmar Bergman’s Cannes prize-winning comedy assembles various couples in a country house in 1900. Comedy Period drama 1955 109 mins Ingmar Bergman The Machine that Kills Bad People Roberto Rossellini's film about a photographer who is given the power to rid the Earth of 'evil-doers'. Comedy Fantasy 1952 84 mins Roberto Rossellini and Luciano Emmer The Master of the House Carl Theodor Dreyer’s richly detailed tragicomedy of domestic manners is by turns funny, intensely emotional and deeply affecting. Drama 1925 107 mins Carl Th. Dreyer Whisky Galore! Ealing's thirstiest comedy: "the longest unsponsored advertisement ever to reach cinema screens"? Comedy 1949 83 mins Alexander Mackendrick Fun at St. Fanny's Ronnie Corbett features in this quick-fire vintage classroom caper, featuring enough old jokes to fill a Christmas cracker factory. Comedy 1955 80 mins Maurice Elvey La Règle du jeu Renoir's depiction of an intransigent society teetering towards disaster was derided upon release and only later acclaimed as one of cinema’s most vital films. Drama 1939 102 mins Jean Renoir Good Morning Yasujiro Ozu's cheerful comedy about the silliness of everyday chatter. Comedy 1959 94 mins Yasujirō Ozu Equinox Flower Ozu's deft comedy takes an ironic look at the decline of paternal authority. Comedy Drama 1958 118 mins Yasujirō Ozu I Was Born, But... Ozu's silent masterpiece follows two brothers as they try to outwit the local bully. Comedy 1932 87 mins Yasujirō Ozu Penny Points to Paradise The first screen outing for Goon Show stars Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe in a cheerful comic escapade set in Brighton. Comedy 1951 72 mins Tony Young The Slappiest Days of Our Lives A young Peter Sellers voices this compilation film of silent slapstick footage, featuring Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy. Comedy 1953 73 mins Let's Go Crazy Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan shine in a series of sketches and multiple roles, in this madcap mixture of music-hall and anarchic comedy. Comedy Musical 1951 33 mins Alan J. Cullimore The Rink Formidable physical comedy is the order of the day in this dynamic Chaplin short, in which he plays a waiter running rings around an angry customer. Comedy 1916 25 mins Charles Chaplin The Immigrant One of Chaplin’s most famous early shorts finds the Little Tramp aboard a ship bound for America, mistakenly accused of being a pickpocket. Comedy 1917 24 mins Charles Chaplin Behind the Screen Chaplin sends up the movie business itself, playing a scene-stealing actor, David, in constant conflict with a tyrannical studio boss called Goliath. Comedy 1916 24 mins Charles Chaplin More from Comedy Genius in our Rentals collection. Explore Rentals Left More from Comedy Genius in our Free collection. Explore Free Left
