Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
- Fists in the Pocket (1965)
- Dir. Marco Bellochio
Feat. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Mase
- A ferocious intensity pervades this bitter yet utterly startling tale of a family afflicted with epilepsy, blindness and frustration, unafforded the…
- Loved One, The (1965)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer…
- Satirical take on the funeral business in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.
Doing for funerals what that DR…
- Addams Family, The (TV Series) (1964-1966)
- Feat. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy…
- Macabre 1960s sitcom about a family whose gothic lifestyle and trappings make for a mordant contrast with 'apple–pie' America.
22 episodes…
- Americanization of Emily, The (1964)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas…
- Plucky black comedy with James Garner as the scapegoat for a wacky US admiral's grand plan to have a American naval officer be the first killed at…
- Nothing but the Best (1964)
- Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews
- Ruthless real estate agent Alan Bates grubs and grafts a way upwards, out of his working–class background and into the snobbish…
- Strait-Jacket (1964)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Joan Crawford
- Joan Crawford fans won’t want to miss her slumming it as an axe–murderess, ‘reformed’ after twenty years in an asylum, but whose attempts…
- Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
- A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…
- Raven, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff…
- A great cast inhabits this low budget fantasy–comedy version of Edgar Allan Poe's tale – one of Corman's best.
- Shock Corridor (1963)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Peter Breck, Constance Towers
- An unsolved slaying in a mental hospital prompts over–ambitious journalist Peter Breck to pose as a 'lunatic', so as to find the killer. Alas,…
- Lolita (1962)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. James Mason, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters…
- A middle–aged man falls in love with a 14–year–old girl, so marries her mother to be near her. Fascinating black comedy of sexual…