Black Comedy
Dark, sardonic humour has proved a popular mechanic for filmmakers wishing to examine the bleakest, most controversial or political of topics. Whether it be poking fun at the banality of office life or exploring the mindset of a murderous psychopath, satirical comedy is edgy and insightful.
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Black Comedy Film Listing
Richard Lester, 1969
£8.99
The Bed Sitting Room
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a ‘nuclear misunderstanding’ (which last...
Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, 1930
£11.99
L'Age d'Or
More than 80 years on, this masterpiece of cinematic surrealism remains as brilliantly witty and ...
Hal Hartley, 1992
£11.99
Simple Men
Hal Hartley's deadpan third feature follows a pair of brothers determined to trace their missing ...
Sacha Guitry, 1951
£12.99
La Poison (Masters of Cinema)
A classic black comedy of 1950s French cinema, La Poison is one of the great late...
Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996
£6.99
Fargo (Special Edition)
Returning to a small town setting reminiscent of the Coen Brothers' first film, b...
Luis Bunuel, 1961
£6.99
Viridiana
Bunuel's notorious black humour, anti-clericalism and scathing satire are used to perfection in t...
Ben Wheatley, 2012
£12.99
Sightseers
A jet-black British comedy in which a romantic break turns into a bloody killing spree. Shelt...
Emir Kusturica, 1995
£6.99
Underground (Kusturica, 1995)
The postwar history of Yugoslavia played as a farce that deservedly won the Palme...
Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947
£9.99
Quai des Orfevres (Clouzot, 1947)
A classic French film noir set around the dancehalls of 1940s Paris. Singer Jenny...
Luis Bunuel, 1977
£13.99
That Obscure Object of Desire
Bunuel's final film, That Obscure Object of Desire is a tale of impossible desire...
Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006
£17.99
12:08 East of Bucharest
A comedy satire punctuated by laugh-out-loud moments and underscored by a mordant...
Sacha Guitry, 1951
£13.99
La Poison (Masters of Cinema)
A classic black comedy of 1950s French cinema, La Poison is one of the great late...
Peter Smith, 1985
£5.99
No Surrender
Set on New Year's Eve at a run-down club in Liverpool owned by the local gangland boss, No Surren...
Alfred Hitchcock, 1955
£6.99
The Trouble with Harry
The Trouble with Harry is that he is dead. Everybody seems to feel responsible for his death and ...
Hal Hartley, 1992
£13.99
Simple Men
Hal Hartley's deadpan third feature follows a pair of brothers determined to trace their missing ...
Morag McKinnon, 2010
£8.99
Donkeys
The second collaboration between Glasgow production company Sigma Films and Lars von Trier’s Cope...
Ben Wheatley, 2012
£16.99
Sightseers
A jet-black British comedy in which a romantic break turns into a bloody killing spree. Shelt...
Luis Bunuel, 1977
£19.99
That Obscure Object of Desire (Studio Canal Collection)
Bunuel's final film, That Obscure Object of Desire ...
