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Black Humour

"Black comedy...also known as 'black humour' or 'dark comedy', is a sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events that are usually treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, war etc - are treated in a humorous or satirical manner." - Wikipedia Good Stuff! Alice's dark comedy delights await below.

Pumpkin (2002)

6.2/10
Director: Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Starring: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan,...

Silly, sweet, farcical and subversive, "Pumpkin" pushes the boundaries of teen melodrama to an absurd pitch, resulting in a film that is bracing, hila... Read more

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Blu-ray ) (1975)

8.7/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, W...

Jack Nicholson gives a powerful, flamboyant performance in this adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel about a free spirit in a mental ward. Nicholson's rebe... Read more

Four Lions (2010)

7.3/10
Director: Chris Morris
Starring: Arsher Ali, Kayvan Novak, Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Akhtar

A black comedy directed by satirist Chris Morris, 'Four Lions' sends up a group of inept jihadists and would-be suicide bombers. Riz Ahmed plays Omar,... Read more

Family Guy: Season 5 (2005)

6.3/10
Starring: Voices Of, Seth MacFarlane, Seth Green, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis

The fabulously dysfunctional Griffins are back. Though sold as 'Season Five', this is in fact the last half of the huge fourth season - too big to fi... Read more

Goodfellas ( Blu-ray ) (1990)

8.7/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco

Martin Scorsese's violent true-life gangster epic which follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises through the ranks of the Mafia. Upon turning FBI i... Read more

Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (1995)

6.8/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Andy Garcia, Gabrielle Anwar, Christopher Walken, Seymour Cassel, Christopher Ll...

When The Man With A Plan gives ex-gangster Jimmy The Saint one last job it all goes wrong, leaving him and his partners marked for death and just 48 h... Read more

Festen ( The Celebration ) (1998)

7.5/10
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Thomas Bo Larsen, Henning Moritzen, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen

A hugely dysfunctional family arrives at a secluded hotel for a 60th birthday party for the family patriarch. Suffice it to say, things don't go as ch... Read more

Autumn Spring (2002)

7.6/10
Director: Vladimir Michalek
Starring: Vlastimil Brodsky, Stella Zazvorkova, Stanislav Zindulka, Ondrej Vetchy, Zita Ka...

Fanda (Vlastimil Brodsky) is an incurable prankster, even when faced with his own imminent death and a bemused and ungrateful family, Fanda wants to c... Read more

Choke (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Clark Gregg
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Clark Gregg, Brad Henke, Bijou P...

Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) shouldn't be a likeable character. He attends Sex Addicts Anonymous, looking for women to bed; he pretends to choke in r... Read more

Living In Oblivion (1995)

7.5/10
Director: Tom DiCillo
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney

This wrenching but comic look at independent film-making shows a young film-maker forced to ponder the inevitable question: Can anything be worth goin... Read more