Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy > Black Comedy: 284 Films to Rent
- Our Brand is Crisis (2015)
- Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie…
- Thorny comedy examines the role of American 'political consultants' in foreign elections. Sandra Bullock is sent to Bolivia to help re–elect a…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, A (2014)
- Dir. Roy Andersson
Feat. Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom
- Absurdist comedy that follows two hapless novelty salesman on a picaresque tour of the human condition.
- Voices, The (2014)
- Dir. Marjane Satrapi
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick…
- From the director of PERSEPOLIS comes this deeply weird comedy with Ryan Reynolds as an amiable factory worker pursuing romance with the help of his…
- 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…
- 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…