Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Black Comedy: 40 films to Buy on DVD
- House of Cards, The (TV Series) (1990-1993)
- A sardonic and blackly humourous look at British politics, with a reptilian Ian Richardson plotting and blackmailing his way into power in three…
- DVD
$30 $22.50
- 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!
- DVD
$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…
- DVD
$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