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.
Dogtooth (2009)
7.3/10
Director: Giorqos Lanthimos
Starring: Mary Tsoni, Michele Valley, Christos Stergioglou
AKA "Kynodontas" Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, 'Dogtooth' is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Ca... Read more
Dom Hemingway (2013)
6.2/10
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: Jude Law, Richard E Grant, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke
Jude Law and Richard E. Grant star in this crime comedy from writer-director Richard Shepard. Law plays Dom Hemingway, a larger-than-life safecracker... Read more
Double Date (2017)
6.1/10
Director: Benjamin Barfoot
Starring: Georgia Groome, Danny Morgan, Michael Socha, Kelly Wenham
While Jim attempts to lose his virginity before he turns 30, he and his friend Alex meet two beautiful sisters, Kitty and Lulu, who seduce them as par... Read more
Down By Law (1986)
7.8/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, John Lurie, Tom Waits
Jim Jarmusch's follow-up to his immensely successful "Stranger Than Paradise" stars Tom Waits, John Lurie - and in a treasure of a performance, Robert... Read more
Down Terrace (2009)
6.5/10
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Julia Deakin, Kali Peacock, Mark Kempner, Tony Way, Kerry Peacock, Robin Hill, R...
Father and son, Bill and Karl (real-life father and son, Robert and Robin Hill), have just been released from jail, but all is not well in Down Terrac... Read more
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...
A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( Blu-ray ) (1963)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...
A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
6.6/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Adriana Barra...
Sam Raimi returns triumphantly to his horror roots with this camp frightener about a good-hearted Southern girl who attracts a nasty curse. Christine... Read more
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
6.6/10
Director: Michael Patrick Jann
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Alley, Am...
Welcome to the annual Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pagent. This is going to be one wild competition, complete with slander, theft, bribery, arson... Read more
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
7.4/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Matt Dillon, James LeGros, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, James Remar, William Bur...
An electrifying movie about two couples who live together and travel around robbing hospitals and pharmacies, grabbing fistfuls of pills and capsules.... Read more