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
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Nurse Jackie: Season 1 (2009)
7.7/10
Starring: Edie Falco
Emmy-winner Edie Falco stars as Jackie Peyton, a sharp tongued, quick witted, pill popping, pharmacist-humping nurse trying to survive the chaotic gri... Read more
Nuts In May (1976)
6.6/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Sheila Kelley
A middle-class couple who never abandoned their '60s counterculture ways go on a camping vacation, but their rigidly odd lifestyle is rubbing their fe... Read more
Observe and Report (2009)
5.8/10
Director: Jody Hill
Starring: Seth Rogen, Ray Liotta, Michael Pena, Anna Faris, Jesse Plemons, Dan Bakkedahl
Mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) patrols his domain with an iron fist - skateboarders and shoplifters beware. But his real ambition i... Read more
Off the Black (2006)
6.7/10
Director: James Ponsoldt
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Sally Kirkland, Trevor Morgan, Nick Nolte, Michael Higgins, Rose...
Nick Nolte gives an unforgettable performance in this moving, though unsentimental dramedy as an alcoholic umpire who forms an unlikely friendship wit... Read more
Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)
7.2/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, Jack H...
Based on a 1963 stage show by Charles Chilton, lampooning World War I and war in general, and focused on the Smith family who have five sons to send o... Read more
Oldboy (2003)
8.4/10
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Hye-jeong Kang, Ji-tae Yu
Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) has been imprisoned in a room for 15 years with no explanation when, barely sane, he is released. Thrown back into the world... Read more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
8.7/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, W...
The first movie since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night to sweep the big five Oscars (director, screenplay, actor, actress, film), Cuckoo's Nest rem... 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
One Last Thing... (2005)
6.7/10
Director: Alex Steyermark
Starring: Michael Angarano, Cynthia Nixon, Matt Bush, Gideon Glick, Gina Gershon, Wyclef J...
A seventeen-year-old boy discovers he has a cancer that will likely kill him before his eighteenth birthday. Though he takes the news surprisingly we... Read more
Orphans (1997)
7.1/10
Director: Peter Mullan
Starring: Rosemarie Stevenson, Stephen McCole, Gary Lewis, Douglas Henshall
Three brothers and their handicapped sister convene in their hometown of Glasgow for their mothers funeral. The siblings later seperate to each deal w... Read more