Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
- Carriers Are Waiting, The (Les Convoyeurs Attendent) (1999)
- Dir. Benoit Maraige
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Laners
- When journalist Benoit Poelvoorde decides his family MUST win top prize in local competition (which involves training his reluctant son to break the…
- Celebration, The (Festen) (1999)
- Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Feat. Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen
- Conceived and executed under the "Dogma 95" manifesto, this corrosive black comedy sees the birthday celebrations of a wealthy family implode after…
- Celebrity Deathmatch (TV Series) (1999)
- Genuinely amusing clay–mation generated by MTV, stages fantasy bouts–to–the–death between various celebrity pairings, like:…
- Crazy in Alabama (1999)
- Dir. Antonio Banderas
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffiths, Rod Steiger
- Antonio Banderas' directorial debut is an amiable film of two halves, split between a dramatic re–telling of the civil rights struggle in 1960s…
- Cruel Intentions (1999)
- Dir. Roger Kumble
Feat. Sarah Michelle Geller, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon
- Spoiled and randy step–siblings Sarah Michelle Geller and Ryan Phillipe raise the amorality stakes by betting that he can deflower the prim…
- Hotel Splendide (1999)
- Dir. Terence Gross
Feat. Toni Collette, Katrin Cartlidge, Peter Vaughan
- An ambitious black comedy set in a dilapidated hotel off the coast of Britain, peopled by a bizarre collection of staff members and…
- Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999)
- Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno
- A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
- Idle Hands (1999)
- Dir. Rodman Flender
Feat. Seth Green, Devon Sawa, Elden Henson
- An evil spirit moves from person to person, afflicting only a single hand, which proceeds to wreak five–fingered carnage. High–school…
- It's the Rage (1999)
- Dir. James D. Stern
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Gary Sinise…
- This caustic, precocious black comedy/satire of America's obsession with guns is a roundelay of violent and volatile confrontations that eventually…
- League of Gentlemen, The (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Steve Bendelack
Feat. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
- Ghoulishly black comedy set in the sinister village of Royston Vasey, where two visiting hikers suffer a plague of Northern English foul urges and…