Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
- Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) (2014)
- Dir. Damian Szifron
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti
- Exhilarating anthology film combining six tales of revenge provides an ambitious smorgasbord of thrills, spills and blackly humorous gags that are…
- Bad Words (2013)
- Dir. Jason Bateman
Feat. Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn, Philip Baker Hall…
- Jason Bateman plays a failed spelling bee competitor who uses a loophole to enter into a national spelling competition as an adult. Landing on the…
- Big Bad Wolves (2013)
- Dir. Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado
Feat. Lior Ashkenazi, Tzahi Grad
- A bold, gruesome satire on Israel's militarised culture, this black comedy about three Israeli men who abduct a school teacher upon suspicion that he…
- Cheap Thrills (2013)
- Dir. E.L. Katz
Feat. Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton…
- A devilishly effective black comedy about a pair of old friends who enter into an increasingly bloody game of one–upmanship with a wealthy…
- Dom Hemingway (2013)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Jude Law, Emilia Clarke, Kerry Condon…
- Jude Law plays a gloriously profane ex–con trying to make it or break it on the streets of London after 12 years in the slammer. Messily…
- Family, The (2013)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron…
- In this stylised black comedy, De Niro sends himself up (yet again) as the patriarch of a mafia family shipped off to France under witness…
- Filth (2013)
- Dir. Jon S. Baird
Feat. Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, James McAvoy…
- James McAvoy plays a self–destructing copper whose corruption and bigotry manifest in a spiral of sex, drugs and violence. From an Irving Welsh…
- Getting On (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein, Niecy Nash
- Serio–comic HBO remake of the British satirical series about a geriatric ward and the relationship between its patients and medical…
- Wolf of Wall Street, The (2013)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie…
- Martin Scorsese directs this dazzling biopic of the deplorable life and times of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, a notorious Wall Street upstart who…
- Brass Teapot, The (2012)
- Dir. Ramaa Mosley
Feat. Juno Temple, Michael Angarano, Alexis Bledel
- This light–hearted black comedy tackles the economic doldrums with a quirky allegory, in which a down–on–their–luck couple…