Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy > Black Comedy: 284 Films to Rent
- 11:14 (2003)
- Dir. Greg Marcks
Feat. Rachael Leigh Cook, Barbara Hershey, Patrick Swayze…
- A set of seemingly random incidents all coincide in a sleepy suburban town one evening at 11:14pm, throwing together five different characters with…
- Bad Santa (2003)
- Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham…
- Gleefully soiling St. Nick's reputation, Billy Bob Thornton dons the red fat–suit as a department store Santa with a penchant for cigarettes,…
- Big Empty, The (2003)
- Dir. Steve Anderson
Feat. Jon Favreau, Kelsey Grammer, Joey Lauren Adams…
- Jon Favreau is an unemployed LA actor who lands a real–life role in a mysterious rendezvous in an eccentric desert town.
A deliberately…
- League of Gentlemen, The - Series 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- Dir. Steve Bendelack
Feat. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
- Second series of the ghoulishly black comedy set in the sinister Northern English village of Royston Vasey.
- Little Britain (TV Series) (2003)
- Dir. Steve Bendelack, Graham Linehan
Feat. Tom Baker, Matt Lucas, David Walliams…
- A surrealistic (invented) travelogue narrated by Tom Baker, which explores the eccentricities of various caricatured 21st century Britons. Created by…
- Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants) (2003)
- Dir. Yann Samuell
Feat. Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet
- Two French kids develop an intense relationship through escalating games of "dare" that bond and haunt them through a turbulent teenage and…
- Peep Show (TV Series) (2003-2015)
- Feat. David Mitchell, Robert Webb
- Warped comedy about two perpetual adolescents and their oddball adventures told inventively with off kilter point–of–view and voice overs…
- Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2003)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson
- 'Dogme' film by way of Scotland, that surveys the doings of four childlike adults, achieving a curious dual tone of whimsical drama and gallows…
- Barbershop (2002)
- Dir. Tim Story
Feat. Ice-Cube, Sean Patrick Thomas
- Set on the last day of business for a Chicago barbershop, this spins much engaging chatter, discourse and comedy between barbers and their black…
- Death to Smoochy (2002)
- Dir. Danny DeVito
Feat. Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener…
- An exuberantly mean–spirited send–up of kids’ television, where lewd, foulmouthed clown Robin Williams declares "death to Smoochy", a…