Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Black Comedy: 287 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bad Words (2013)
- Dir. Jason Bateman
Feat. Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn, Philip Baker Hall…
- Jason Bateman plays a failed spelling bee competitor who uses a loophole to enter into a national spelling competition as an adult. Landing on the…
- Cheap Thrills (2013)
- Dir. E.L. Katz
Feat. Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton…
- A devilishly effective black comedy about a pair of old friends who enter into an increasingly bloody game of one–upmanship with a wealthy…
- Dom Hemingway (2013)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Jude Law, Emilia Clarke, Kerry Condon…
- Jude Law plays a gloriously profane ex–con trying to make it or break it on the streets of London after 12 years in the slammer. Messily…
- Family, The (2013)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron…
- In this stylised black comedy, De Niro sends himself up (yet again) as the patriarch of a mafia family shipped off to France under witness…
- Getting On (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein, Niecy Nash
- Serio–comic HBO remake of the British satirical series about a geriatric ward and the relationship between its patients and medical…
- Brass Teapot, The (2012)
- Dir. Ramaa Mosley
Feat. Juno Temple, Michael Angarano, Alexis Bledel
- This light–hearted black comedy tackles the economic doldrums with a quirky allegory, in which a down–on–their–luck couple…
- How to Meet Girls from a Distance (2012)
- Dir. Dean Hewison
Feat. Richard Falkner, Scarlet Hemingway, Jonathan Brugh…
- A "peeping–tom rom–com" with Richard Falkner surprisingly relatable as a well–intentioned stalker determined to woo the girl of his…
- Sightseers (2012)
- Dir. Ben Wheatley
Feat. Alice Lowe, Steve Oram
- Ben Wheatley (KILL LIST) directs this black comedy about a wooly British couple who embark on a caravan trip throughout the North of England, only to…
- Small Apartments (2012)
- Dir. Jonas Akerlund
Feat. Matt Lucas, Juno Temple, James Caan…
- Matt Lucas encounters a myriad of weirdos in his attempt to dispose of his landlord’s corpse in this peculiar black comedy. Jonas Akerlund, better…
- Two Little Boys (2012)
- Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Bret McKenzie, Hamish Blake, Maaka Pohatu…
- Set in the early 90's, this Kiwi "mullet" comedy follows the arrested development of two 'bogan' mates whose situation and relationship goes…