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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Bed and Board ( Domicile Conjugal ) (1970)
4.8/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Claude Jade, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Hiroko Berghauer
This warm and affectionate film, the penultimate in the Antoine Doinel series, depicts French middle-class life with ironic and wry humour. Jean-Pierr... Read more
Beetlejuice (1988)
7.5/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe, Winona Ryder, Catherin...
Michael Keaton stars as the title character, a wacko freelance bio-exorcist who removes humans from the homes of troubled ghosts. A peculiar and energ... Read more
Beetlejuice ( Blu-ray ) (1988)
7.5/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe, Winona Ryder, Catherin...
Michael Keaton stars as the title character, a wacko freelance bio-exorcist who removes humans from the homes of troubled ghosts. A peculiar and energ... Read more
Behaving Badly (1989)
6.6/10
Director: David Tucker
Starring: Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Frances Barber, Joely Richardson, Ronald Pickup
Based on Catherine Heath's book, this 1989 four-part mini-series stars Judi Dench as a woman whose life is initially shattered when her husband decide... Read more
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
6.8/10
Director: Scott Glosserman
Starring: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Robert Englund, Scott Wilson, Zelda Rubinstein
A cleverly black lampoon on the slasher genre, with several documentary students convincing wannabe serial killer, Leslie Vernon, to let them follow h... Read more
Being John Malkovich (1999)
7.8/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Charlie Sheen, Orso...
What would you do if you found a doorway in your workplace that led, via a mysterious portal, into the head of actor John Malkovich, giving you the ch... Read more
Being There (1979)
8/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Ri...
Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener who's led a sheltered life and whose thoughts and behaviour are to... Read more
Belief (2005)
4.8/10
Director: Phil Davison
Starring: Sara Georgie, Marguerite Juanico-Nielson, Anita Cumming, Amadeus Rainbow
From the director/writer of 'Kung Fu Vampire Killers' comes this black comedy horror that finds three friends on holiday in Central Otago who pick up... Read more
Bernie (2011)
6.8/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Black
Director Richard Linklater's darkly comic docudrama, based on a true story, details the unusual friendship between a likable Texas mortician and a wea... Read more
Bill Hicks Live (2004)
8.7/10
Director: Chris Bould
Starring: Bill Hicks
Legendary, late comedian Bill Hicks was just starting to gain critical mass when he passed away in 1994. A comic's comic, Hicks was dedicated to stand... Read more