Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
Plots with a View (Undertaking Betty) (2002)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts…
- Lunatic Welsh farce in which an unhappy Brenda Blethyn contrives with a besotted funeral director (Molina) to fake her own death so as to escape a…
Pumpkin (2002)
- Dir. Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Feat. Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn
- Politically–confused blackly comic satire that follows the progress of Christina Ricci's 'inappropriate' romantic fixation with a disabled…
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
- Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Popular mainstream comic Adam Sandler takes a left turn for the director of MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS in this doggedly off–beat yet beguiling…
Relative Evil (Ball in the House) (2002)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Tanya Wexler
Feat. Jonathan Tucker, Jennifer Tilly, David Strathairn…
- Deceptively marketed as a kind of "wicked stepmother" thriller, this is instead a well–constructed, paranoid black comedy about a teenage…
Roger Dodger (2002)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Dylan Kidd
Feat. Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Jennifer Beals…
- Dodging expectations all–round, this devastating black comedy has a standout script and performances, especially Campbell Scott as the callous…
Secretary (2002)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies…
- A spanking good black comedy detailing the bizarre relationship between a peculiar, ill–tempered lawyer and the meek secretary he…
Suicide Club (Suicide Circle) (2002)
- Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Masatoshi Nagase
- Off–beat Japanese thriller based on apparently real–life incidents in which groups of high–school children commit mass…
Sweet Revenge (The Revenger's Comedies) (2002)
- Dir. Malcolm Mowbray
Feat. Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas…
- A blackly comic caper, this adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s “Revenger’s Comedies” concerns two would–be suicides who, on…
Fun at the Funeral Parlour (TV Series) (2001-2002)
- Feat. Rhys Thomas, William Thomas, Alex Lowe…
- A BBC comedy series set around the Swansea area of South Wales, where four funeral directors, all known as Thomas, are running a funeral business…
Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano…
- A delirious confection from Japanese bad boy dir., Takashi Miike, this “zombie musical” is his most benevolent yet purely entertaining…