Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Comedy > Black Comedy: 20 films to Buy
It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010)
- The director of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM serves up an less–than–subtle mix of cultural satire, black comedy, and Ealing–style humour in…
- DVD $14.95
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- Johnny Depp is centre stage once again for dir. Tim Burton in this fiendish screen rendition of Stephen Sondheim's twisted musical about a…
- DVD
$20 $15
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) (2005)
- An animated tour–de–force from dir. Burton which fuses spindley puppetry and subtle CGI for its mythic tale of a sallow young bridegroom…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
Secretary (2002)
- A spanking good black comedy detailing the bizarre relationship between a peculiar, ill–tempered lawyer and the meek secretary he…
- Blu-Ray $34.95
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Flandersui gae) (2000)
- An accomplished black comedy from Korea, which follows an unemployed lecturer's annoyance with the barking of neighbourhood dogs through to its…
- Blu-Ray $34.95
League of Gentlemen, The (TV Series) (1999)
- Ghoulishly black comedy set in the sinister village of Royston Vasey, where two visiting hikers suffer a plague of Northern English foul urges and…
- Blu-Ray $59.95
Shock to the System, A (1990)
- Plagued by mediocrity, bad luck and an intolerant wife, Michael Caine discovers that murder is the remedy for success.
- DVD $12.95
Ruthless People (1986)
- A genuine classic from the Zucker brothers and Touchstone pictures. The ingenious plot is laced with great gags, giving Bette Midler and Danny DeVito…
- DVD
$20 $15
Magic Christian, The (1969)
- From Terry Southern's novel, a wildly loopy satire about an eccentric multi–millionaire (Peter Sellers) who adopts a destitute son (Ringo…
- DVD $19.95
How I Won the War (1967)
- John Lennon and Michael Crawford do service in this black satire on military lunacy.
- DVD
$20 $15