Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Black Comedy: 41 films to Buy
Praise (1999)
- Sex, beer and co–dependency dominate this brazen, bleakly comic study of a doomed relationship between two afflicted souls (he with asthma, she…
- Poster (VG) $19.95
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
- Join in the riot with an edgy thriller that loses its head midway through and gets stuck into some gleefully supernatural carnage.
The director of…
- DVD
$20 $15
Man Bites Dog (1992)
- Disturbing black comedy unravels itself as a media satire but its barbaric humour won't tickle everyone's funnybone. Staged as a documentary, a film…
- Blu-Ray $39.95
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
Drowning by Numbers (1987)
- Blackly comic tale of three women who each drown their husbands. Peppered with references to game–playing, you can take part by counting to…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
Goodbye Pork Pie (1981)
- This little beauty was the first Kiwi film to make international inroads. An amoral tale about a gang of misfits who travel the length of the country…
- 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
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962)
- Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
- DVD
$45 $33.75, $45 $33.75, $159.95
Ladykillers, The (1955)
- Priceless Ealing black comedy in which bungling robbers Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers et al conspire to snuff out their rich old landlady, an…
- DVD
$25 $18.75