Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Black Comedy: 430 Films to Rent on DVD
- Down Terrace (2009)
- Dir. Ben Wheatley
Feat. Robin Hill, Robert Hill
- Uncomfortable kitchen sink drama by way of an organised crime thriller, centred on a family of Brighton low–lifes seeking revenge on a snitch…
- Drag Me To Hell (2009)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver
- Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots in this twisted tale of a loan officer (Lohman) who has three days to rid herself of a deadly curse placed upon…
- Life During Wartime (2009)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Allison Janney…
- Dir. Todd Solondz recasts his controversial 1998 indie hit, HAPPINESS, revisiting the dysfunctional characters and their future lives in this blackly…
- Micmacs (2009)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle…
- The dir. of AMELIE and CITY OF LOST CHILDREN stays true to form(ula) with his visual chutzpah lavished upon another idealised scenario that this time…
- Must Love Death (2009)
- Dir. Andreas Schaap
Feat. Jeff Burrell, Sami Loris, Manon Kahle…
- Perversely romantic torture porn with a suicidal man joining up with what he assumes to be a group of like–minded individuals; unluckily for…
- Nurse Jackie (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Edie Falco
- Pitch black comedy follows the everyday travails of the deeply troubled Nurse Jackie as she rails against the insanity of the US Health System.
- Psychoville (TV Series) (2009)
- Dir. Matt Lipsey
Feat. Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Dawn French…
- Blacky comic sitcom written by and starring The League of Gentlemen members Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, who each play numerous bizarre…
- Reggie Perrin (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Martin Clunes, Fay Ripley, Wendy Craig
- Admirable remake of the acerbic classic with Clunes in the role of salesman on the edge who as his life slowly crumbles starts to really speak his…
- Robogeisha (2009)
- Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Aya Kiguchi
- Two sisters, recruited as assassins in a robotic geisha army, fight from the inside to take down the head of an evil corporation. More cartoonish,…
- Vicious Kind, The (2009)
- Dir. Lee Toland Krieger
Feat. Adam Scott, Brittany Snow, J.K. Simmons…
- Bilious familial drama stylistically indebted to Neil Labute features Adam Scott spitting misogynistic aphorisms at his brother's new girlfriend,…