Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 497 Films to Buy & Rent
A Long Way Down (2014)
- Dir. Pascal Chaumeil
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots…
- Four lost souls – a disgraced TV presenter, a foul–mouthed teen, an isolated single mother and a solipsistic muso – decide to end…
Birdman (Birdman: or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton…
- A nimble, bravura Oscar–winning black comedy that cannily casts Michael Keaton as a washed–up actor who, having once played an iconic…
Force Majeure (Turist) (2014)
- Dir. Ruben Östlund
Feat. Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Kristofer Hivju…
- A barbed and incisive Swedish black comedy of gender politics, centred around a family on a skiing holiday in the French Alps who face a recognizable…
Guest, The (2014)
- Dir. Adam Wingard
Feat. Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe
- The director of YOU'RE NEXT returns with another entertainingly lurid thriller about a returning soldier ingratiating himself to a family whose son…
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
- Dir. Sean Anders
Feat. Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day…
- More employment related shenanigans with Jason Bateman and pals' entrepreneurial ways getting them involved in a decidedly harebrained and misguided…
In Order of Disappearance (2014)
- Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen…
- Stellan Skarsgård reunites with the director of ZERO KELVIN and A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN for this blackly comic Nordic noir.
He plays a somewhat…
Inside No. 9 (TV Series) (2014-2018)
- Dir. David Kerr, Guillem Morales
Feat. Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
- CONTRABAND TITLE. Series 1–4 are not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of…
Interview, The (2014)
- Dir. Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Feat. Seth Rogen, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan…
- The highly controversial comedy that sparked a political crisis has a tabloid reporter recruited by the CIA to murder North Korean dictator Kim…
Mafia Kills Only in Summer, The (2014)
- Dir. Pierfrancesco Diliberto
Feat. Cristiana Capotondi, Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Alex Bisconti…
- Italian black comedy set in Palermo follows a young boy from childhood to maturity, and examines the pervasive influence the Cosa Nostra holds over…
Mule, The (2014)
- Dir. Tony Mahony, Angus Sampson
Feat. Hugo Weaving, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell…
- Penned by SAW screenwriter Leigh Whannell, this hard case Ocker black comedy follows a naive drug mule as he tries to outwit the law after being…