Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Black Comedy: 38 films to Buy on DVD
- 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