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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Otis (2007)
6.9/10
Director: Tony Krantz
Starring: Jere Burns, Illeana Douglas, Ashley Johnson, Kevin Pollak, Daniel Stern, Jared K...
Otis just wants to go to the perfect prom with the perfect date, and to do so he's taken to kidnapping. When the Lawsons (Daniel Stern and Illeana Dou... Read more
Oyster Farmer (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Anna Reeves
Starring: Alex O'Lachlan, Kerry Armstrong, David Field, Jim Norton, Diana Glenn, Jack Thom...
After hearing his sister has had a bad car accident, Jack Flange moves from Sydney to the small oyster-farming community where she lives to look after... Read more
Panic (2000)
6.8/10
Director: Henry Bromell
Starring: William H Macy, Neve Campbell, Tracey Ullman, Donald Sutherland, John Ritter
A mid-life crisis has devoted family man William H. Macy questioning his career choice with a therapist. Problem is, Macy is a killer-for-hire followi... Read more
Passed Away (1992)
5.9/10
Director: Charlie Peters
Starring: Bob Hoskins, William Petersen, Jack Warden, Blair Brown, Tim Curry, Frances McDo...
A darkly humorous account of how an offbeat family deals with the death and funeral of the clan patriarch. Bob Hoskins, William Petersen and Blair Bro... Read more
Pauline and Paulette (2001)
7/10
Director: Lieven Debrauwer
Starring: Dora Van Der Groen, Ann Petersen, Rosemarie Bergmans, Idwig Stephane
Mentally-challenged Pauline is obsessed with pretty flowers and her glamourous sister Paulette. When Martha, her caretaker sister, dies suddenly, Paul... Read more
Peep Show: Season 1 (2003)
8.6/10
Director: Jeremy Wooding
Starring: Robert Webb, David Mitchell
Mark and Jeremy are a couple of twenty-something roommates who have nothing in common - except for the fact that their lives are painfully normal. May... Read more
Perfect Strangers (Perfetti sconosciuti) (2016)
7.8/10
Director: Paolo Genovese
Starring: Giuseppe Battiston, Kasia Smutniak, Alba Rohrwacher, Valerio Mastandrea, Marco G...
During a dinner party, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. The attendees place their cellphones on the table and agree to make all texts an... Read more
Perrier's Bounty (2009)
6.4/10
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Liam Cunningham, Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney...
Blood is thicker than water. Nothing is thicker than thieves. Perpetual waster and lazy Dublin thief Michael McCrea (Cillian Murphy) decides to stage... Read more
Pet Sematary (1989)
6.6/10
Director: Mary Lambert
Starring: Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Dale Midkiff, Brad Greenquist, Miko Hughes
Stephen King adapted his own best-seller about a mysterious Indian burial ground with resurrective powers, and how one family's desperate decision lea... Read more
Pet Sematary (Blu-Ray) (1989)
6.6/10
Director: Mary Lambert
Starring: Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Dale Midkiff, Brad Greenquist, Miko Hughes
Doctor Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) moves his family to Maine, where he meets a friendly local named Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne). After the Creeds' cat i... Read more