Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
- Scream (2022)
- Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Feat. Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega…
- The fifth installment in the SCREAM series of slasher films, acting as a direct sequel to 2011's SCREAM 4, and the first to be made without the late…
- Triangle of Sadness (2022)
- Dir. Ruben Östlund
Feat. Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson…
- Gilded privilege gets a stinging taste of reality in this brilliantly orchestrated Palm D'Or–winner from the dir. of THE SQUARE and FORCE…
- Silent Night (2021)
- Dir. Camille Griffin
Feat. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis…
- A grinch of a Christmas movie that on the surface looks like LOVE ACTUALLY but has a premise as black as coal.
A bunch of…
- Bye Bye Morons (2020)
- Dir. Albert Dupontel
Feat. Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marie…
- A French black comedy about a 43–year–old hairdresser who goes looking for her adopted son after finding out she is terminally ill.…
- Fatman (2020)
- Dir. Ian Nelms, Eshom Nelms
Feat. Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Mel Gibson indulges his curmudgeonly side as a rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus who is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, a neglected…
- How To Deter A Robber (2020)
- Dir. Maria Bissell
Feat. Vanessa Marano, Benjamin Papac, Abbie Cobb
- Endearing horror comedy set in a desolate town in Northern Wisconsin at Christmas, where a stubborn young woman and her sweet but naive boyfriend…
- It Must Be Heaven (2019)
- Dir. Elia Suleiman
Feat. Elia Suleiman, Tarik Kopty, Kareem Ghneim…
- Brilliantly absurdist comedy of errors following a Palestinian filmmaker who leaves his country for the West and the promise of a new and better…
- Parasite (2019)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho…
- An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
- An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
- Dir. Jim Hosking
Feat. Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch…
- Wilfully awkward and discomforting comedy from the director of THE GREASY STRANGLER that this time subjects an A–list cast to a series of…
- Assassination Nation (2018)
- Dir. Sam Levinson
Feat. Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Abra …
- Stylish, witty and chaotic, this youth–centered thriller manages to blend exploitation and social commentary into something a bit derivative…