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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
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
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
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
In Bruges (2008): A smart, jet–black comedy centred on two Irish assassins who are packed off to Bruges, Belgium by their superior after a hit goes horribly…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $14.95
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
Death Proof (2007): Tarantino, that great galloping genre geek, further indulges his jones for '70s B flicks and sexual kicks with his half of the 'Grindhouse' double…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $14.95
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
Kill Bill - Vol. 2 (2004): The second half of Quentin Tarantino’s revenge saga is an uneven but redeeming affair that brings closure to his magnum opus with more character…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15
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…; DVD ~~$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
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

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