Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Black Comedy: 38 films to Buy
- 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
- Drowning by Numbers (1987)
- Blackly comic tale of three women who each drown their husbands. Peppered with references to game–playing, you can take part by counting to…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
- A Very Peculiar Practice (TV Series) (+ A Very Polish Practice) (1986-1988)
- A glorious surreal BBC black–comedy drama set in the health centre of a British university, based on the experiences of revered writer Andrew…
- DVD
$30 $22.50
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Jack Nicholson gives a star–making performance in this courageous tragi–comedy about a misfit's influence on a group of oppressed asylum…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Magic Christian, The (1969)
- From Terry Southern's novel, a wildly loopy satire about an eccentric multi–millionaire (Peter Sellers) who adopts a destitute son (Ringo…
- DVD $19.95
- Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963)
- A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962)
- Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
- DVD
$49.95 $39.95, $49.95
- Ladykillers, The (1955)
- Priceless Ealing black comedy in which bungling robbers Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers et al conspire to snuff out their rich old landlady, an…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70