Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 497 Films to Buy & Rent
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
- Dir. Jim Hosking
Feat. Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch…
- Wilfully awkward and discomforting comedy from the director of THE GREASY STRANGLER that this time subjects an A–list cast to a series of…
Assassination Nation (2018)
- Dir. Sam Levinson
Feat. Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Abra …
- Stylish, witty and chaotic, this youth–centered thriller manages to blend exploitation and social commentary into something a bit derivative…
Barry (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg…
- A dark comedy starring Bill Hader as a depressed, low–rent hitman from the Midwest. Lonely and dissatisfied in his life, he reluctantly travels…
Brothers' Nest (2018)
- Dir. Clayton Jacobson
Feat. Shane Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson
- The directing and acting brothers behind beloved Australian hit KENNY reunite for this black comedy about two siblings who team up to murder their…
Cold Pursuit (2018)
- Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum…
- Stateside remake of the 2014 Norwegian film IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE in the hands of the original director, Hans Petter Moland.
The blackly comic…
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018)
- Dir. Tom Edmunds
Feat. Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Freya Mavor…
- A struggling writer outsources his suicide to an ageing assassin on the brink of retirement (Tim Wilkinson), in this stylistically ambitious film for…
Donbass (2018)
- Dir. Sergey Loznitsa
Feat. Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
- A 13–part exploration of the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian–supported Donetsk People's Republic throughout the…
Gringo (2018)
- Dir. Nash Edgerton
Feat. David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton…
- A mild–mannered businessman finds himself thrown into a world of crime and moral corruption when he is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel while…
Patrick Melrose (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving
- 5–part miniseries based on the acclaimed novels by Edward St. Aubyn in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays an aristocratic and outrageously funny…
Seven Stages To Achieve Eternal Bliss By Passing Through The Gateway Chosen By The Holy Storsh (2018)
- Dir. Vivieno Caldinelli
Feat. Kate Micucci, Sam Huntington, Mark McKinney…
- Maverick existential black comedy about a young couple whose new LA apartment turns out to have been the site of a cult leader's suicide, and his…