Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Black Comedy: 287 Films to Buy & Rent
- For Roseanna (Roseanna's Grave) (1997)
- Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Mercedes Ruehl, Jean Reno
- Terminally–ill Mercedes Ruehl's dying wish is to be buried in the local cemetary, but the plots are filling up fast, thus sending off her…
- Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
- Dir. George Armitage
Feat. John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd…
- Sporting a sideways sense of humour, this sardonic comedy has likeable, babbling hitman John Cusack shyly fronting up to his 10–year highschool…
- Head Above Water (1997)
- Dir. Jim Wilson
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Harvey Keitel, Craig Sheffer…
- An island respite turns afoul for Cameron Diaz, who adds to her multiple man troubles with a gush of fateful coincidences. Frantic suspense farce has…
- In the Company of Men (1997)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards
- The year's most–discussed filmic skirmish in the war of the sexes is also one of its more outrageous black comedies. Two corporate exec's on…
- Scream 2 (1997)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…
- Neve Campbell and friends get revisited by another round of cell–phone threats, masked stalkers and spotty, self–referential…
- Twin Town (1997)
- Dir. Kevin Allen
Feat. Llyr Ifans, Rhys Ifans, Dorien Thomas…
- The creators of TRAINSPOTTING lend their executive stamp to this anarchic tale of village dysfunction, set in a quiet Welsh community.
Crooked…
- Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
- Dir. Stephen Surjik
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers…
- Media moguls Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsley vie for ownership of a pro football team, in an escalating war of one–upmanship, eventually raking…
- Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)
- Dir. Stephan Elliot
Feat. Johnathon Schaech
- A con–artist escapes a sour deal in New York and winds up in an Aussie outback town inhabited by oddballs. This attempt to assault 'political…
- Cable Guy, The (1996)
- Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Matthew Broderick, Jim Carrey
- Straightguy Matthew Broderick is plagued by obnoxious cable–TV man Jim Carrey, who thinks he's found a new friend. Lively satire on the perils…
- Chicken (1996)
- Dir. Grant Lahood
Feat. Cliff Curtis, Bryan Marshall, Martyn Sanderson…
- Blackly comic farce about an middle–aged ex–pop–star–turned–fast–food–proprietor who is being stalked by a…