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Subgenre Sampler
Funeral, The (1984)- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto - A Buddhist funeral service for a brothel owner makes an ideal vehicle for both fiendish black comedy and social satire. An assured debut from the…
Mixed Blood (1984)- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Marilia Pera, Richard Ulacia - Appropriately loose and ironic black comedy about gang and drug shenanigans in NYC from Warhol's factory alumni, Morrissey.
Ultimate Solution of...Grace Quigley, The (1984)- Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Nick Nolte - Curious black comedy features Hepburn as a lonely widower who enlists hitman Nolte to hasten her demise.
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Carmen Maura - Carmen Maura plays a delirious feminist housewife in this early black–comic farce from Almodovar, here working at his freshest and most…
Love Butcher, The (1982)- Dir. Mikel Angel, Donald M. Jones
Feat. Eric Stern - Amusing sleaze/cheesefest about a retarded, sexually frustrated gardener (Eric Stern) who harbours a slick, womanizing alter–ego, not to…
Montenegro (1981)- Dir. Dusan Makavejev
Feat. Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Marianna Jacobi - A bored housewife gets caught up in Slavic sex and violence and discovers that she quite likes it. Unpredictable and weird, things become wickedly…
Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) (1979)- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet… - When his lost switchblade turns up as a murder weapon, petty crim Gerard Depardieu goes on the lam in a nightmarish Paris, several disreputable…
Despair (1977)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Fassbinder's blackly comic adaptation of Nabakov's novel about delusion, depression and decline of the human spirit. Dirk Bogarde plays a Russian…
Homebodies (1974)- Dir. Larry Yust
Feat. Douglas Fowley, Ruth McDevitt, Frances Fuller - A blackly humourous yarn about a group of retired tenants who are willing to go to extremes to prevent eviction. Inventive genre pic belies its low…
Love and Anarchy (1973)- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni - Cult director Lina Wertmuller's political parable about the would–be assassin of Mussolini who falls in love with a prostitute at his…
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