Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 497 Films to Buy & Rent
Mother Kuesters Goes to Heaven (1975)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Bohm…
- A furiously witty political black comedy from New German Cinema iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder, heavily inspired by the melodramas of Douglas…
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif…
- Jack Nicholson gives a star–making performance in this courageous tragi–comedy about a misfit's influence on a group of oppressed asylum…
Seven Beauties (1975)
- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley Stoler
- Wimpish Casanova Giancarlo Giannini is cast wherever the winds of WWII fling him: eventually into a German concentration camp run by Shirley Stoler…
Blood for Dracula (1974)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier
- Joe Dallesandro happily deflowers a house of virgins before Udo Kier can sink his fangs into them. The perfect excuse to flaunt lashings of sex and…
Cars That Ate Paris, The (1974)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Terry Camilleri, John Meillon
- This no–budget wonder marked the auspicious debut of Peter Weir. It's a delirious black comedy in which an outback community ambush passing…
Female Trouble (1974)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
- Waters' funniest trash–a–thon with Divine following up her unforgettable turn in Pink Flamingos as loathsome loser Dawn Davenport –…
Homebodies (1974)
- Dir. Larry Yust
Feat. Douglas Fowley, Ruth McDevitt, Frances Fuller
- A blackly humourous yarn about a group of retired tenants who are willing to go to extremes to prevent eviction. Inventive genre pic belies its low…
Martha (1974)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Bohm
- Addressing his favourite subject, emotional cruelty, Dir. Fassbinder skillfully works a vein of pitch–black comedy in depicting Margit…
Rancho Deluxe (1974)
- Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Harry Dean Stanton
- An admired oddball comedy with a young Jeff Bridges as one of a pair of drifters whose disdain for the establishment leads them to trouble with an…
Girl Most Likely To, The (1973)
- Dir. Lee Philips
Feat. Stockard Channing, Edward Asner, Jim Backus
- An 'ugly duckling' high–school student is transformed by plastic surgery and decides to wreak homicidal vengeance on former boyfriends and…