Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 497 Films to Buy & Rent
Toni Erdmann (2016)
- Dir. Maren Ade
Feat. Peter Simonischek, Sandra Huller, Ingrid Bisu
- Brilliant, unclassifiable German comedy where a stern, career–focused woman is followed around a series of mundane board meetings and vapid…
Wiener-Dog (2016)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Ellen Burstyn, Kieran Culkin, Julie Delpy…
- Typically black humoured and viciously insightful comedy from dir. Todd Solondz, a spin–off from his indie classic WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE,…
A Perfect Day (2015)
- Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko…
- Trenchant, satisfying black comedy about a group of aid workers struggling with the task of removing a corpse from a well at the end of the Yugoslav…
Aaaaaaaah! (2015)
- Dir. Steve Oram
Feat. Steve Oram, Julian Barratt, Lucy Honigman…
- A twisted cult comedy which confronts the human condition by imagining what life would be like if humans were apes. Written and directed by Steve…
Bigger Splash, A (2015)
- Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes…
- A sensuous, if overly–mannered comedy of manners from the director of I AM LOVE has the Sicilian vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker…
D Train, The (2015)
- Dir. Andrew Mogel, Jarrad Paul
Feat. Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn…
- Black comedy with Jack Black as the head of a high school reunion committee determined to track down the most popular guy from his graduating class…
Fargo - Season 2 (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons…
- Much acclaimed second season is set in the late seventies and features more deception, intrigue and murder in and around the town of Fargo, North…
Legend of Barney Thomson, The (2015)
- Dir. Robert Carlyle
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone…
- A uniquely Glaswegian black comedy directed by and starring Robert Carlyle as an awkward middle–aged barber whose life of desperate mediocrity…
Our Brand is Crisis (2015)
- Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie…
- Thorny comedy examines the role of American 'political consultants' in foreign elections. Sandra Bullock is sent to Bolivia to help re–elect a…
Tale of Tales (2015)
- Dir. Matteo Garrone
Feat. Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones…
- Wonderfully imaginative, cohesive portmanteau film comprised of three unusual, somewhat grotesque fairy tales featuring sea monsters, lustful kings…