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Louise - MichelLouise - Michel (2008) Aro Favourite
Dir. Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Feat. Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners, Benoit Poelvoorde
A black comedy treasure about a newly redundant factory worker who hires a dodgy hit man to take out her rich employers. The trouble starts when the…
Pain in the Ass, APain in the Ass, A (L'emmerdeur) (2008)
Dir. Francis Veber
Feat. Richard Berry, Patrick Timsit, Pascal Elbé
Fast–paced black comedy arises out of an unlikely friendship between a hitman and a depressive who find themselves sharing hotels. Based on…
Tony ManeroTony Manero (2008) Recommended
Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Alfredo Castro, Paola Lattus, Héctor Morales
Unsettling drama set against the Pinochet regime in Chile in 1978, where a psychopathic disco fan steals and kills in an effort to become the…
Ugly MelanieUgly Melanie (Vilaine) (2008)
Dir. Jean-Patrick Benes, Allan Mauduit
Feat. Marilou Berry, Frédérique Bel
Mild black comedy set in a world of beauty or death, where ugly Melanie (Berry, not really ugly at all) plots a series of contrived punishments for…
You the LivingYou the Living (2007) Recommended
Dir. Roy Andersson
Feat. Jessica Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Björn Englund
Master of the painstaking, deadpan vignette, Roy Andersson, continues his singular and obsessive vision with this absurdist comedy of…
Bothersome Man, TheBothersome Man, The (2006) Recommended
Dir. Jens Lien
Feat. Trond Fausa Aurvaag
A black comedy with a typically Scandinavian sense of absurdity and style, in which an amnesiac finds himself in an unfamiliar city with a new job,…
Adam's ApplesAdam's Apples (2005) Recommended
Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen
Roguishly sardonic Danish black comedy about a sanguine country vicar (CASINO ROYALE’s Mikkelsen) who encounters resistance from a neo–Nazi…
Ax, TheAx, The (Le Couperet) (2005) Recommended
Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Jose Garcia, Karin Viard, Olivier Gourmet
Dastardly satire from the always–edgy Costa Gavras plumbs the depths of a corporate downsizing victim (Garcia) who resorts to murderous ways in…
Death of Mr Lazarescu, TheDeath of Mr Lazarescu, The (2005) Recommended
Dir. Cristi Puiu
Feat. Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu
Whirling, labyrinthine black comedy follows with interest the Kafkaesque plight of an ailing elderly drunk, whose stomach pains are met with…
Ferpect CrimeFerpect Crime (Crimen Ferpecto) (2005) Recommended
Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Guillermo Toledo, Monica Cervera
A spunky Spanish black comedy set almost entirely in a department store, where an obnoxious playboy salesman is blackmailed by a…

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