Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Black Comedy: 489 Films to Rent
- Burning Palms (2010)
- Dir. Christopher Landon
Feat. Jamie Chung, Rosamund Pike, Zoe Saldana…
- Five sordid satires make up this extremely dark comedy with incest, rape, suicide, infanticide and an eternal fecal smell as plot devices. Obviously…
- Hesher (2010)
- Dir. Spencer Susser
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Devin Brochu…
- Cruel comedy as black as the tee–shirt of its stringy–haired, metal–loving, borderline–sociopath titular character, who…
- It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010)
- Dir. Gurinder Chadha
Feat. Shabana Azmi, Goldy Notay, Sanjeev Bhaskar…
- The director of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM serves up an less–than–subtle mix of cultural satire, black comedy, and Ealing–style humour in…
- Klown (2010)
- Dir. Mikkel Nørgaard
Feat. Frank Hvam, Casper Christensen, Marcuz Jess Petersen
- Danish comedians Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen play debauched versions of themselves on a weekend canoe trip away with their long–suffering…
- Little Fockers (2010)
- Dir. Paul Weitz
Feat. Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson…
- Star–powered third entry in popular familial dysfunction series has Ben Stiller once again struggling to win stern patriarch De Niro's approval…
- Perfect Host, The (2010)
- Dir. Nick Tomnay
Feat. David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford, Nathaniel Parker…
- Cat–and–mouse thriller with a bank robber crashing a dinner party, unfortunately he gets more than he bargained for from the urbane host.…
- Super (2010)
- Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Rainn Wilson, Elliot Page, Liv Tyler…
- Violent comedy with Rainn Wilson as a schlubb turned violent avenger after his wife runs off with a drug dealer. Uneven, perhaps intentionally, with…
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer…
- Werner Herzog's spin on the 1992 bad–boy classic delights in seeing a pasty, middle–aged Nicolas Cage cracking up (in all three meanings…
- Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Sarah Wynter
- Feature–length movie spin off of the TV series focusing on the undead missionary 'Reapers' and their reactions to their…
- Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2009)
- Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Feat. Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis…
- An astringent, blackly comic tale of a modern Greek family whose adult children have been imprisoned in their home since birth.
Something of a…