Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
Parting Shots (1998)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Chris Rea, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley…
- Once–fashionable photographer Chris Rea finds out he only has months to live, and decides to get his own back at those that have made his life…
Quiet Family, The (Choyonghan kajok) (1998)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Min-sik Choi
- A deliciously deadpan black comedy in which a respectable family decide to leave the rat race behind, buy a hotel in remote mountains and lead more…
Royle Family, The (TV Series) (1998-2000)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Mark Mylod, Steve Bendelack
Feat. Ricky Tomlinson
- "Real–life" comedy that places the viewer as a fly–on–the–wall of the living room of an average working class family living…
Thursday (1998)
- Dir. Skip Woods
Feat. Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart, Paulina Porizkova…
- Architect Thomas Jane has his suburban life up–ended when his drug–dealing past catches up with him in the form of Aaron Eckhart and his…
Very Bad Things (1998)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Peter Berg
Feat. Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz…
- Jon Favreau's (SWINGERS) stag party pals accidently kill a call–girl during a cocaine–fueled Las Vegas bender, and once they've…
Your Friends and Neighbours (1998)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Jason Patric, Amy Brenneman, Nastassja Kinski…
- Both elegant and caustic, this dark, dark comedy from Neil LaBute mingles with a pack of handsome, sexually carnivorous and frustrated urbanites…
Addicted to Love (1997)
- Dir. Griffin Dunne
Feat. Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick
- Acting serial monogamist Meg Ryan couples this time with Matthew Broderick for romantic revenge on their respective ex–partners who've become…
As Good As It Gets (1997)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. James L. Brooks
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear
- Obsessive–compulsive Jack Nicholson has his fear and loathing neutered by the straight–shooting solo–Mum waitress, Helen Hunt, in…
Breast Men (1997)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Lawrence O'Neil
Feat. David Schwimmer, Chris Cooper
- Surgeons David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper negotiate the silicon–valleys (or is that hills?) of 60s America in this blackly comic history of…
Curdled (1997)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Reb Braddock
Feat. Angela Jones, William Baldwin
- Confident black comedy with an uncurdled premise – an innocent yet morbidly–fascinated senorita joins a Miami cleaning agency…