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.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
8.9/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, John Travolta, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Pl...
An audacious crime thriller that won 'Best Picture' at the Cannes Film Festival and is one exhilarating ride from start to finish. John Travolta and S... Read more
Pulp Fiction ( Blu-ray ) (1994)
8.9/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Harvey Keitel, Jo...
An audacious crime thriller that won 'Best Picture' at the Cannes Film Festival and is one exhilarating ride from start to finish. John Travolta and S... Read more
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
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
7.3/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Luis Guzman
This change of pace for Adam Sandler stars the comic actor as a bathroom supplies salesman who has a problem with his anger and is obsessed with winni... Read more
Puppy (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Kieran Galvin
Starring: Nadia Townsend, Bernard Curry, Susan Ellis
Liz is one of those people tolerated rather than liked - quick to lie and never at fault. One night the delusional Aiden finds her unconcious and, dec... Read more
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
6.7/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe, Debra Winger, Mathe...
Alternately heartbreaking and acidic dysfunctional family drama stars Anne Hathaway as Kym, a recovering drug addict who has checked out of rehab and... Read more
Rachel Getting Married (Blu-ray) (2008)
6.7/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe, Debra Winger, Mathe...
Alternately heartbreaking and acidic dysfunctional family drama stars Anne Hathaway as Kym, a recovering drug addict who has checked out of rehab and... Read more
Rain (2001)
7/10
Director: Christine Jeffs
Starring: Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Sarah Peirse, Marton Csokas, Alistair Browning
This impressive feature debut by director Christine Jeffs, adapted from Kirsty Gunn's novella, is set in an idyllic beachside community in the summer... Read more
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
6.7/10
Director: Jalmari Helander
Starring: Jorma Tommila, Per Christian Ellefsen, Onni Tommila, Peeter Jakobi, Jonathan Hut...
Terror seizes the Arctic region when a man's reindeer herd is mysteriously slaughtered and his son grows curious about a strange excavation project ta... Read more
Rated X (2000)
5.9/10
Director: Emilio Estevez
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Terry Quinn, Peter Bogdanovich
The bizarre, tragic story of the porno mavens known as the Mitchell Brothers ("Behind the Green Door") is chronicled in this film directed by Emilio E... Read more