Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 500 Films to Buy & Rent
Parasite (2019)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho…
- An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
- Dir. Jim Hosking
Feat. Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch…
- Wilfully awkward and discomforting comedy from the director of THE GREASY STRANGLER that this time subjects an A–list cast to a series of…
Assassination Nation (2018)
- Dir. Sam Levinson
Feat. Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Abra …
- Stylish, witty and chaotic, this youth–centered thriller manages to blend exploitation and social commentary into something a bit derivative…
Barry (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg…
- A dark comedy starring Bill Hader as a depressed, low–rent hitman from the Midwest. Lonely and dissatisfied in his life, he reluctantly travels…
Brothers' Nest (2018)
- Dir. Clayton Jacobson
Feat. Shane Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson
- The directing and acting brothers behind beloved Australian hit KENNY reunite for this black comedy about two siblings who team up to murder their…
Cold Pursuit (2018)
- Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum…
- Stateside remake of the 2014 Norwegian film IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE in the hands of the original director, Hans Petter Moland.
The blackly comic…
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018)
- Dir. Tom Edmunds
Feat. Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Freya Mavor…
- A struggling writer outsources his suicide to an ageing assassin on the brink of retirement (Tim Wilkinson), in this stylistically ambitious film for…
Donbass (2018)
- Dir. Sergey Loznitsa
Feat. Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
- A 13–part exploration of the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian–supported Donetsk People's Republic throughout the…
Gringo (2018)
- Dir. Nash Edgerton
Feat. David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton…
- A mild–mannered businessman finds himself thrown into a world of crime and moral corruption when he is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel while…
Patrick Melrose (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving
- 5–part miniseries based on the acclaimed novels by Edward St. Aubyn in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays an aristocratic and outrageously funny…