Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 497 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Dead Clever (The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley) (2007)
- Dir. Dearbhla Walsh
Feat. Suranne Jones, Helen Baxendale, Dean Lennox Kelly
- Smart British suburban thriller in which a scorned wife extracts wicked revenge on her cheating husband. A simple concept that skirts the line…
Death Proof (2007)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan…
- Tarantino, that great galloping genre geek, further indulges his jones for '70s B flicks and sexual kicks with his half of the 'Grindhouse' double…
Dirt (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Courteney Cox
- Dark comedic television series inside the life of an influential magazine Editor–in–Chief, Courtney Cox (FRIENDS) power tripping her way…
Fonejacker (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Kayvan Novak
- Juvenile but undeniably funny series devoted to the art of the prank call. What could become quickly tedious is livened up by star Novak's…
Garage (2007)
- Dir. Lenny Abrahamson
Feat. Pat Shortt, Anne-Marie Duff, Conor Ryan
- Studious Irish tragi–comedy centred on an ostracised small–town petrol station owner who attempts to open up to those around him with…