Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
- Black Pond (2011)
- Dir. Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
Feat. Chris Langham, Simon Amstell, Amanda Hadingue…
- Distinctive indie thriller from acclaimed up–and–coming UK writer–directors Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe. A suburban man in a…
- Dark Horse (2011)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Mia Farrow…
- Todd Solondz's latest black comedy of discomfort, about a toy–obsessed thirty–something who enters into a relationship with a chronic…
- Details, The (2011)
- Dir. Jacob Aaron Estes
Feat. Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney…
- A confidently delivered black comedy of a idealised suburban existence turned inside out, this stars Tobey Maguire as successful young doctor whose…
- God Bless America (2011)
- Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
Feat. Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Melinda Page Hamilton
- Irrepressible writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait returns with another sizzling, charcoal–black comedy that takes aim at the worst proponents of…
- Headhunters (2011)
- Dir. Morten Tyldum
Feat. Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau…
- Jo Nesbo's blockbusting crime novel about a corporate headhunter moonlighting as an art thief gets an appropriately energetic treatment, and with its…
- Hick (2011)
- Dir. Derick Martini
Feat. Chloe Grace Moretz, Blake Lively, Rory Culkin…
- A strained, if mildly amusing redneck comedy of a small–town teenager who flees her abusive parents, only to hook up with a violent cowboy,…
- Horrible Bosses (2011)
- Dir. Seth Gordon
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston…
- Savage workplace comedy about three long–suffering employees (Bateman, Day, Sudeikis) who plot to kill their respective…
- Jackpot (Jo Nesbo's Jackpot) (2011)
- Dir. Magnus Martens
Feat. Kyrre Hellum, Mads Ousdal, Henrik Mestad…
- This second helping of Jo Nesbo's blackly comic tales has the hapless sole survivor of a strip club massacre taken in for questioning where his…
- Mad Dogs (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. John Simm, Marc Warren, Max Beesley…
- Oddly unsettling and engaging in equal measure, this mid–life black comedy centres on four middle–aged blokes who reunite to celebrate…
- Smuggler (2011)
- Dir. Katsuhito Ishii
Feat. Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masatoshi Nagase, Yasuko Matsuyuki…
- An entertainingly schizophrenic black comedy by way of cult Japanese dir. Katsuhito Ishii, whose penchant for the wacky and surreal drives this…