Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 497 Films to Buy & Rent
Little Britain (TV Series) (2003)
- Dir. Steve Bendelack, Graham Linehan
Feat. Tom Baker, Matt Lucas, David Walliams…
- A surrealistic (invented) travelogue narrated by Tom Baker, which explores the eccentricities of various caricatured 21st century Britons. Created by…
Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants) (2003)
- Dir. Yann Samuell
Feat. Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet
- Two French kids develop an intense relationship through escalating games of "dare" that bond and haunt them through a turbulent teenage and…
Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (2003)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim
- A darkly lyrical thriller, set around the true–life hunt for South Korea's first documented serial killer in 1986, during the years of Chun…
Peep Show (TV Series) (2003-2015)
- Feat. David Mitchell, Robert Webb
- Warped comedy about two perpetual adolescents and their oddball adventures told inventively with off kilter point–of–view and voice overs…
Perfect Strangers (2003)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Sam Neill, Rachael Blake, Joel Tobeck
- Thriller of possessive love, set effectively on the rugged coastline of New Zealand’s West Coast, that changes tack mid–way into blackly…
Rick (2003)
- Dir. Curtiss Clayton
Feat. Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford, Agnes Bruckner…
- A faithful and somewhat underrated adaptation of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto", updated into the modern office world, where a top executive…
Vodka Lemon (2003)
- Dir. Hiner Saleem
Feat. Romen Avinian
- The residents of a diminishing Armenian village eke out meagre living in this sombre, if delightfully deadpan post–communist…
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2003)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson
- 'Dogme' film by way of Scotland, that surveys the doings of four childlike adults, achieving a curious dual tone of whimsical drama and gallows…
Work of Director Spike Jonze, The (2003)
- Dir. Spike Jonze
- Before his successful foray into feature films, director Spike Jonze made his name as the pre–eminent music video director of the 1990s. He…
Barbershop (2002)
- Dir. Tim Story
Feat. Ice-Cube, Sean Patrick Thomas
- Set on the last day of business for a Chicago barbershop, this spins much engaging chatter, discourse and comedy between barbers and their black…