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.
The Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) (1939)
8.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Mila Parely
AKA 'La Regle du Jeu'. One of the greatest films of all time, a satirical anatomy of polite bourgeois society, with a mixture of farce and black comed... Read more
The Ruling Class (1972)
7.6/10
Director: Peter Medak
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe
Outrageously funny satire features an Oscar-nominated performance by Peter O'Toole as a British earl who thinks he's Jesus Christ. Wicked barbs are th... Read more
The Running Man (1987)
6.7/10
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Starring: Maria Conchita Alonso, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse Ven...
In the year 2019 'The Running Man' is the most popular game show on TV. The premise is that contestants have to outrun a select group of heavily-armed... Read more
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
7.2/10
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox
Director Guy Maddin's works are like a window to an alternate film universe - this unforgettable feverish whirligig of a movie is the closest the cul... Read more
The Savages (2007)
7.2/10
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Starring: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas
Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman play estranged siblings who are forced to deal with each other when their elderly father's dementia proves too... Read more
The Signal (2007)
6.1/10
Director: David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry
Starring: Anessa Ramsey, AJ Bowen, Justin Welborn, Scott Poythress, Sahr Ngaujah, Suehyla...
As the citizens of Terminus prepare to ring in the new year, a mysterious signal transmitted through all electronic devices turns normally sane people... Read more
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
7/10
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: John C Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Allison Tolman, Rutg...
It's 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. The Sisters brothers find the... Read more
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
6.8/10
Director: Craig Johnson
Starring: Luke Wilson, Joanna Gleason, Ty Burrell, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Boyd Holbrook
After ten years of estrangement, twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront how their li... Read more
The Snapper (1993)
7.2/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Colm Meaney, Brendan Gleeson
A wonderful adaptation of Roddy Doyle's novel about a working-class Irish family and the teenage daughter who finds herself pregnant - a circumstance... Read more
The Sopranos: Season 1 (1999)
9.2/10
Director: Alan Taylor, Daniel Attias, Nick Gomez, David Chase, John Patterson, Allen Coulter, Lorraine Senna, Tim Van Patten, Andy Wolk, Matthew Penn, Frank Renzulli
Starring: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chiane...
Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Anthony Jr. A mother he's... Read more