Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 500 Films to Buy & Rent
Mule, The (2014)
- Dir. Tony Mahony, Angus Sampson
Feat. Hugo Weaving, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell…
- Penned by SAW screenwriter Leigh Whannell, this hard case Ocker black comedy follows a naive drug mule as he tries to outwit the law after being…
Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, A (2014)
- Dir. Roy Andersson
Feat. Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom
- Absurdist comedy that follows two hapless novelty salesman on a picaresque tour of the human condition.
Voices, The (2014)
- Dir. Marjane Satrapi
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick…
- From the director of PERSEPOLIS comes this deeply weird comedy with Ryan Reynolds as an amiable factory worker pursuing romance with the help of his…
Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) (2014)
- Dir. Damian Szifron
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti
- Exhilarating anthology film combining six tales of revenge provides an ambitious smorgasbord of thrills, spills and blackly humorous gags that are…
Bad Words (2013)
- Dir. Jason Bateman
Feat. Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn, Philip Baker Hall…
- Jason Bateman plays a failed spelling bee competitor who uses a loophole to enter into a national spelling competition as an adult. Landing on the…
Big Bad Wolves (2013)
- Dir. Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado
Feat. Lior Ashkenazi, Tzahi Grad
- A bold, gruesome satire on Israel's militarised culture, this black comedy about three Israeli men who abduct a school teacher upon suspicion that he…
Cheap Thrills (2013)
- Dir. E.L. Katz
Feat. Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton…
- A devilishly effective black comedy about a pair of old friends who enter into an increasingly bloody game of one–upmanship with a wealthy…
Dom Hemingway (2013)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Jude Law, Emilia Clarke, Kerry Condon…
- Jude Law plays a gloriously profane ex–con trying to make it or break it on the streets of London after 12 years in the slammer. Messily…
Family, The (2013)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron…
- In this stylised black comedy, De Niro sends himself up (yet again) as the patriarch of a mafia family shipped off to France under witness…
Filth (2013)
- Dir. Jon S. Baird
Feat. Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, James McAvoy…
- James McAvoy plays a self–destructing copper whose corruption and bigotry manifest in a spiral of sex, drugs and violence. From an Irving Welsh…