Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Black Comedy: 36 films to Buy
- Triangle of Sadness (2022)
- Gilded privilege gets a stinging taste of reality in this brilliantly orchestrated Palm D'Or–winner from the dir. of THE SQUARE and FORCE…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
- Silent Night (2021)
- A grinch of a Christmas movie that on the surface looks like LOVE ACTUALLY but has a premise as black as coal.
A bunch of…
- DVD $29.95
- Fatman (2020)
- Mel Gibson indulges his curmudgeonly side as a rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus who is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, a neglected…
- DVD $24.95
- It Must Be Heaven (2019)
- Brilliantly absurdist comedy of errors following a Palestinian filmmaker who leaves his country for the West and the promise of a new and better…
- DVD $29.95
- Parasite (2019)
- An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
- An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
- Wilfully awkward and discomforting comedy from the director of THE GREASY STRANGLER that this time subjects an A–list cast to a series of…
- DVD $29.95
- Brothers' Nest (2018)
- The directing and acting brothers behind beloved Australian hit KENNY reunite for this black comedy about two siblings who team up to murder their…
- DVD $29.95
- Patrick Melrose (TV Series) (2018)
- 5–part miniseries based on the acclaimed novels by Edward St. Aubyn in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays an aristocratic and outrageously funny…
- DVD $34.95
- Mom and Dad (2017)
- Pitch–black horror–comedy featuring Nicolas Cage in a wonderfully crazed performance alongside an impressive Selma Blair as parents who…
- DVD $29.95
- Square, The (2017)
- A smart and ambitious art world satire from the director of FORCE MAJEURE set in and around a cutting–edge contemporary art museum, where a…
- DVD $29.95
- Rams (2016)
- Distinctively woolly Nordic tale of two estranged sheep–farming brothers as they attempt to save their flocks from pending eradication in a…
- DVD $29.95
- A Perfect Day (2015)
- Trenchant, satisfying black comedy about a group of aid workers struggling with the task of removing a corpse from a well at the end of the Yugoslav…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Cheap Thrills (2013)
- A devilishly effective black comedy about a pair of old friends who enter into an increasingly bloody game of one–upmanship with a wealthy…
- DVD $29.95
- Filth (2013)
- James McAvoy plays a self–destructing copper whose corruption and bigotry manifest in a spiral of sex, drugs and violence. From an Irving Welsh…
- DVD $14.95
- Bernie (2011)
- A memorable (Jack) Black comedy about a gregarious Texas mortician who befriends a clingy spinster (Maclaine), with murderous results. The film's…
- DVD $14.95 | Blu-Ray
$19.95 $10
- It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010)
- The director of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM serves up an less–than–subtle mix of cultural satire, black comedy, and Ealing–style humour in…
- DVD $14.95
- Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2009)
- An astringent, blackly comic tale of a modern Greek family whose adult children have been imprisoned in their home since birth.
Something of a…
- DVD $29.95
- Babysitters, The (2007)
- Inky black indie dramedy centred on an entrepreneurial teenage babysitter that starts up a call–girl service for married men after getting paid…
- DVD $24.95
- Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- Johnny Depp is centre stage once again for dir. Tim Burton in this fiendish screen rendition of Stephen Sondheim's twisted musical about a…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Aachi and Ssipak (2006)
- Bawdy Korean anime imbues its puerile subject matter – where in a post–apocalyptic society, human excrement is the currency of choice –…
- DVD $29.95
- Corpse Bride (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) (2005)
- An animated tour–de–force from dir. Burton which fuses spindley puppetry and subtle CGI for its mythic tale of a sallow young bridegroom…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004)
- Another snorkle into the 'Cinema Absurd with Wes Anderson', delivering an intricate comedic conceit woven around a washed–up oceanographer…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Offensive Behaviour (2004)
- Amiable though underwritten exercise in Kiwi bad taste, revolving around one afternoon’s goings on in a block of flats.
The deviants inside…
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$19.95 $14.95
- Christmas (2003)
- Structured around a grueling family Christmas in suburban New Zealand, this stark and uncompromising drama is one of the best low–budget…
- DVD
$29.95 $22.45
- Praise (1999)
- Sex, beer and co–dependency dominate this brazen, bleakly comic study of a doomed relationship between two afflicted souls (he with asthma, she…
- Poster (VG) $19.95
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- Wildly hallucinatory version of Hunter S. Thompson's counter–culture novel, does away with the ersatz social satire but thankfully hits the…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- As Good As It Gets (1997)
- Obsessive–compulsive Jack Nicholson has his fear and loathing neutered by the straight–shooting solo–Mum waitress, Helen Hunt, in…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Shock to the System, A (1990)
- Plagued by mediocrity, bad luck and an intolerant wife, Michael Caine discovers that murder is the remedy for success.
- DVD $12.95
- Drowning by Numbers (1987)
- Blackly comic tale of three women who each drown their husbands. Peppered with references to game–playing, you can take part by counting to…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
- Britannia Hospital (1981)
- Political allegory dressed as raucous Blighty comedy going all out, but it hasn't quite the magic of cult predecessors IF... and O LUCKY MAN!
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$19.95 $14.95
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Jack Nicholson gives a star–making performance in this courageous tragi–comedy about a misfit's influence on a group of oppressed asylum…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Magic Christian, The (1969)
- From Terry Southern's novel, a wildly loopy satire about an eccentric multi–millionaire (Peter Sellers) who adopts a destitute son (Ringo…
- DVD $19.95
- Americanization of Emily, The (1964)
- Plucky black comedy with James Garner as the scapegoat for a wacky US admiral's grand plan to have a American naval officer be the first killed at…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963)
- A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962)
- Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
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$49.95 $39.95, $49.95
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Renowned black farce features a frenzied Cary Grant trying to convince his two elderly aunts that their habit of poisoning lonely old men, out of…
- DVD
$59.95 $40