Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Black Comedy: 22 Films to Rent
- Parasite (2019)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho…
- An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
- Cold Pursuit (2018)
- Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum…
- Stateside remake of the 2014 Norwegian film IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE in the hands of the original director, Hans Petter Moland.
The blackly comic…
- Donbass (2018)
- Dir. Sergey Loznitsa
Feat. Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
- A 13–part exploration of the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian–supported Donetsk People's Republic throughout the…
- Colossal (2017)
- Dir. Nacho Vigalondo
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens…
- Ambitious high–concept sci–fi drama–comedy hybrid starring a plucky Anne Hathaway as an unemployed, down–at–heel city…
- I, Tonya (2017)
- Dir. Craig Gillespie
Feat. Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Sebastian Stan…
- Darkly comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history.
Harding was the first…
- T2 Trainspotting (2017)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller…
- The characters of Irvine Welsh's TRAINSPOTTING are alive, if not entirely well, twenty years later in this sequel that serves up some good laughs and…
- Bigger Splash, A (2015)
- Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes…
- A sensuous, if overly–mannered comedy of manners from the director of I AM LOVE has the Sicilian vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker…
- Tale of Tales (2015)
- Dir. Matteo Garrone
Feat. Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones…
- Wonderfully imaginative, cohesive portmanteau film comprised of three unusual, somewhat grotesque fairy tales featuring sea monsters, lustful kings…
- Birdman (Birdman: or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton…
- A nimble, bravura Oscar–winning black comedy that cannily casts Michael Keaton as a washed–up actor who, having once played an iconic…
- Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) (2014)
- Dir. Damian Szifron
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti
- Exhilarating anthology film combining six tales of revenge provides an ambitious smorgasbord of thrills, spills and blackly humorous gags that are…
- Wolf of Wall Street, The (2013)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie…
- Martin Scorsese directs this dazzling biopic of the deplorable life and times of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, a notorious Wall Street upstart who…
- Lesson of Evil (Lesson of the Evil) (2012)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Yamada Takayuki, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Hideaki Ito
- Another manga adaption from director cult Takashi Miike based on the seinen manga on the same name.
A successful English teacher who is secretly a…
- Headhunters (2011)
- Dir. Morten Tyldum
Feat. Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau…
- Jo Nesbo's blockbusting crime novel about a corporate headhunter moonlighting as an art thief gets an appropriately energetic treatment, and with its…
- Super (2010)
- Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Rainn Wilson, Elliot Page, Liv Tyler…
- Violent comedy with Rainn Wilson as a schlubb turned violent avenger after his wife runs off with a drug dealer. Uneven, perhaps intentionally, with…
- Kill Bill - Vol. 2 (2004)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah…
- 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…
- Kill Bill - Vol. 1 (2003)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox…
- A blunt revenge picture souped up as an over–the–top homage to 70s ‘grindhouse’ flicks, this “fourth film by Quentin Tarantino”…
- Big Lebowski, The (1998)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore…
- Rolling another warped vision down the gutter, the inscrutable minds of the Coen Brothers (FARGO, RAISING ARIZONA) endow this bowling comedy with…
- Child's Play (1988)
- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent…
- 'Chucky', the possessed cabbage–patch kid, goes on a murderous rampage in this clever consumerist parable. Tightly scripted and imaginatively…
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif…
- Jack Nicholson gives a star–making performance in this courageous tragi–comedy about a misfit's influence on a group of oppressed asylum…
- Little Murders (1971)
- Dir. Alan Arkin
Feat. Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd
- Actor Alan Arkin directs this black comedy about a girl who brings her boyfriend home to meet her severely dysfunctional family amidst a series of…
- No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal…
- Macabre cat–and–mouse thriller from the pen of suspense–master William Goldman (MARATHON MAN), about a psychotic master of disguise…
- Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
- A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…