Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
League of Gentlemen, The - Series 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Steve Bendelack
Feat. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
- Third series of the ghoulishly black comedy set in the sinister village of Royston Vasey.
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett…
- Another snorkle into the 'Cinema Absurd with Wes Anderson', delivering an intricate comedic conceit woven around a washed–up oceanographer…
Mean Girls (2004)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Mark Waters
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, Tina Fey…
- The appealing Lindsay Lohan plays a teenager who moves from her African jungle home (her parents are zoologists) to the jungle of a Chicago…
Meet the Fockers (2004)
- Dir. Jay Roach
Feat. Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman…
- A catalogue of embarrassments and misunderstandings proves a winning formula again in this sequel to MEET THE PARENTS, with…
Offensive Behaviour (2004)
- Dir. Patrick Gillies
- Amiable though underwritten exercise in Kiwi bad taste, revolving around one afternoon’s goings on in a block of flats.
The deviants inside…
Ordeal, The (Calvaire) (2004)
- Dir. Fabrice du Welz
Feat. Laurent Lucas
- Less gruelling than its title suggests, this is a macabre, blackly humorous slice of "redneck gothic" from Belgium, in which a cabaret singer's…
Six Feet Under - Season 4 (TV Series) (2004)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…
- Further episodes of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home.
12 episodes over 5 discs: Falling into Place, In Case of Rapture, Parallel…
11:14 (2003)
- Dir. Greg Marcks
Feat. Rachael Leigh Cook, Barbara Hershey, Patrick Swayze…
- A set of seemingly random incidents all coincide in a sleepy suburban town one evening at 11:14pm, throwing together five different characters with…
Bad Santa (2003)
- Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham…
- Gleefully soiling St. Nick's reputation, Billy Bob Thornton dons the red fat–suit as a department store Santa with a penchant for cigarettes,…
Big Empty, The (2003)
- Dir. Steve Anderson
Feat. Jon Favreau, Kelsey Grammer, Joey Lauren Adams…
- Jon Favreau is an unemployed LA actor who lands a real–life role in a mysterious rendezvous in an eccentric desert town.
A deliberately…