Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 494 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Down Terrace (2009)
- Dir. Ben Wheatley
Feat. Robin Hill, Robert Hill
- Uncomfortable kitchen sink drama by way of an organised crime thriller, centred on a family of Brighton low–lifes seeking revenge on a snitch…
- Drag Me To Hell (2009)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver
- Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots in this twisted tale of a loan officer (Lohman) who has three days to rid herself of a deadly curse placed upon…
- Life During Wartime (2009)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Allison Janney…
- Dir. Todd Solondz recasts his controversial 1998 indie hit, HAPPINESS, revisiting the dysfunctional characters and their future lives in this blackly…
- Micmacs (2009)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle…
- The dir. of AMELIE and CITY OF LOST CHILDREN stays true to form(ula) with his visual chutzpah lavished upon another idealised scenario that this time…
- Must Love Death (2009)
- Dir. Andreas Schaap
Feat. Jeff Burrell, Sami Loris, Manon Kahle…
- Perversely romantic torture porn with a suicidal man joining up with what he assumes to be a group of like–minded individuals; unluckily for…
- Nurse Jackie (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Edie Falco
- Pitch black comedy follows the everyday travails of the deeply troubled Nurse Jackie as she rails against the insanity of the US Health System.
- Psychoville (TV Series) (2009)
- Dir. Matt Lipsey
Feat. Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Dawn French…
- Blacky comic sitcom written by and starring The League of Gentlemen members Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, who each play numerous bizarre…