Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
- Nirvana Street Murder (1991)
- Dir. Aleksi Vellis
Feat. Mark Little, Ben Mendelsohn
- Raw, inventive street story that juggles cultural conflict with matters of the heart as two disparate brothers find themselves in a scrape with Greek…
- Over Her Dead Body (Enid is Sleeping) (1991)
- Dir. Maurice Phillips
Feat. Judge Reinhold, Elizabeth Perkins, Jeffrey Jones…
- Garish fun with Judge Reinhold and Elisabeth Perkins as a couple of illicit Southern love–birds who kill his wife, but have trouble disposing…
- Tatie Danielle (1991)
- Dir. Etienne Chatiliez
Feat. Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty…
- Brilliantly absurd black comedy about an elderly widow who does her best to make life miserable for her relatives. Tsilla Chelton is irresistible as…
- Battle Heater (Kotatsu) (1990)
- Dir. Geroge Iida
Feat. Pappara Kawai, Akira Imoto
- A maniacal low–budget doozie about a man–eating Kotatsu heater, this adds its own spirited splash to the horror mini–genre of…
- Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will? (1990)
- Dir. Jack Fisk
Feat. Beau Bridges, Beverly D'Angelo, Tess Harper…
- Various estranged family members re–unite when their patriarch decides to call it a life. A hillbilly comedy with lots of quality squabbling.
- Deadly Mr. Frost (1990)
- Dir. Philip Setbon
Feat. Jeff Goldblum
- Intriguing black comedy with Jeff Goldblum well cast as a smug serial killer who breaks a two year silence to confide in a psychiatrist that he is…
- Death in Brunswick (1990)
- Dir. John Ruane
Feat. Sam Neill, John Clarke
- Sam Neill gets himself into deep water when he lands a job in a seedy nightclub, falls in love, but unwittingly gets caught up in ethnic…
- Frankenhooker (1990)
- Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen
- A young scientist accidentally chops up his gal with a lawnmower, then seeks new body parts from the red light district in order to preserve their…
- House of Cards, The (TV Series) (1990-1993)
- Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson
- A sardonic and blackly humourous look at British politics, with a reptilian Ian Richardson plotting and blackmailing his way into power in three…
- I Love You to Death (1990)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright…
- Kevin Kline heads a great cast in this endearing black comedy about an embittered housewife who creatively tries to bump off her chronically…