Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Black Comedy: 432 Films to Rent on DVD
Promotion, The (2008)
- Dir. Steven Conrad
Feat. Seann William Scott, John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer…
- A meek assistant manager's dreams of managing his very own supermarket are in doubt when a Canadian nice–guy transfers to the store.…
Quid Pro Quo (2008)
- Dir. Carlos Brooks
Feat. Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga
- Offbeat indie thriller focused on a wheelchair–bound radio reporter sent to investigate the emerging trend of people paying doctors to remove…
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
- Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
Feat. Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head…
- Gore–soaked goth opera set in a future necropolis where worldwide organ failure has necessitated a global organ–selling empire with an…
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
- Dir. Christine Jeffs
Feat. Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin…
- Amy Adams lends her considerable charms to this quirky yet easy–going comedy–drama about two sisters who start up a cleaning service that…
Tony Manero (2008)
- Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Alfredo Castro, Paola Lattus, Héctor Morales
- Unsettling drama set against the Pinochet regime in Chile in 1978, where a psychopathic disco fan steals and kills in an effort to become the…
Ugly Melanie (Vilaine) (2008)
- Dir. Jean-Patrick Benes, Allan Mauduit
Feat. Marilou Berry, Frédérique Bel
- Mild black comedy set in a world of beauty or death, where ugly Melanie (Berry, not really ugly at all) plots a series of contrived punishments for…
Babysitters, The (2007)
- Dir. David Ross
Feat. Cynthia Nixon, John Leguizamo, Andy Comeau
- Inky black indie dramedy centred on an entrepreneurial teenage babysitter that starts up a call–girl service for married men after getting paid…
Body/Antibody (2007)
- Dir. Kerry Douglas Dye, Jordan Hoffman
Feat. Robert Gomes, Leslie Kendall Dye, Frank Deal
- An obsessive/compulsive germaphobe's life is turned upside down when he falls for the beautiful seductress who lives next door his apartment.
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Camille (2007)
- Dir. Gregory Mackenzie
Feat. Sienna Miller, James Franco, David Carradine…
- A kooky road movie with a macabre twist, Sienna Miller plays a ditzy Southern sweetheart who believes she can change her new petty–crim husband…
Dead and Deader (2007)
- Dir. Patrick Dinhut
Feat. Dean Cain, Guy Torry, Susan Ward
- A referential zombie comedy that is knowingly unoriginal, but serves its subgenre well by splatting the target more often than most in both laughs…