Subgenre Sampler
Cult > Black Comedy: 66 Films to Buy & Rent
Cul-de-Sac (1966)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Donald Pleasence
- Polanski's influential, absurdist comedy concerns an eccentric couple taken captive by a pair of old gangsters in their Northumbrian castle. Stars…
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
- Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens…
- David Warner as Morgan goes to eccentric extremes to try to win back his wife (Vanessa Redgrave) after she divorces him. Quaintly weird comic tale is…
Strait-Jacket (1964)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Joan Crawford
- Joan Crawford fans won’t want to miss her slumming it as an axe–murderess, ‘reformed’ after twenty years in an asylum, but whose attempts…
Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
- A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…
Shock Corridor (1963)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Peter Breck, Constance Towers
- An unsolved slaying in a mental hospital prompts over–ambitious journalist Peter Breck to pose as a 'lunatic', so as to find the killer. Alas,…
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson
- Hammy black comedy about that ferocious, carnivorous plant named Audrey. A Corman quickie, shot in two days, still remains one of his best, plus it…