Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Black Comedy: 287 Films to Buy & Rent
Nurse Betty (2000)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock…
- Part fairy–tale comedy, part edgy thriller, this perhaps qualifies as the perfect date movie.
Due to the trauma of witnessing her…
Psycho Beach Party (2000)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Robert Lee King
Feat. Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Kimberley Davies
- Kicking sand in the face of John Waters’ latest efforts, this parody of GIDGET and other 60s beach party movies gets fabulous mileage out of…
Viva Las Nowhere (Dead Simple) (2000)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Jason Bloom
Feat. Daniel Stern, Patricia Richardson, Lacey Kohl…
- Checking into a deserted motel in the “geographical centre of the USA” run by luckless, aspiring country–songwriter Daniel Stern, this darn…
Attack the Gas Station (1999)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Sang-Jin Kim
Feat. Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang…
- Four disaffected youths take hostage an entire gas station in this subversive, blackly–comic masterpiece from Korea.
Gleefully tearing apart…
Carriers Are Waiting, The (Les Convoyeurs Attendent) (1999)
- Dir. Benoit Maraige
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Laners
- When journalist Benoit Poelvoorde decides his family MUST win top prize in local competition (which involves training his reluctant son to break the…
Celebrity Deathmatch (TV Series) (1999)
- Genuinely amusing clay–mation generated by MTV, stages fantasy bouts–to–the–death between various celebrity pairings, like:…
Hotel Splendide (1999)
- Dir. Terence Gross
Feat. Toni Collette, Katrin Cartlidge, Peter Vaughan
- An ambitious black comedy set in a dilapidated hotel off the coast of Britain, peopled by a bizarre collection of staff members and…
It's the Rage (1999)
- Dir. James D. Stern
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Gary Sinise…
- This caustic, precocious black comedy/satire of America's obsession with guns is a roundelay of violent and volatile confrontations that eventually…
League of Gentlemen, The (TV Series) (1999)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Steve Bendelack
Feat. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
- Ghoulishly black comedy set in the sinister village of Royston Vasey, where two visiting hikers suffer a plague of Northern English foul urges and…
League of Gentlemen, The - Christmas Special (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith…
- A full–length special set in the sinister village of Royston Vasey, putting a ghoulish spin on the festive season.