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The Brand New Testament (2015)
, 1h53Directed by Jaco Van Dormael
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Black comedy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Poelvoorde, Pili Groyne, Yolande Moreau, François Damiens, Serge Larivière
God is real and lives in an apartment in Brussels, which he shares with his meek wife and his 10-year-old daughter Ea, to whom he is emotionally and physically abusive. God is a grumpy sadist who created mankind specifically to have something to torment. He manipulates reality via a personal computer, which he strictly forbids his family from accessing. One day, Ea sneaks into his office and discovers how He has been mistreating humans. This enrages God, who whips Ea with his belt.
Reverse (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Borys Nizioł-Lankosz
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Black comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Agata Buzek, Krystyna Janda, Anna Polony, Jerzy Bończak
This film is set in Warsaw in the 1950s, with a few flash-forwards to present-day Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty, and lives with her mother and ailing grandmother. Sabina lacks a man in her life, and her mother tries hard to find a husband for her. The grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secret can be concealed, also gets involved. Successive admirers arrive at their small, but tasteful apartment in an antebellum house, but Sabina shows no interest in any of them.
Up and Down (2004)
, 1h48Directed by Jan Hřebejk
Genres Drama, Comedy, Black comedy
Actors Jan Tříska, Jiří Macháček, Emília Vášáryová, Ingrid Timková, Jan Budař, Jiřina Třebická
Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are responsible for running an illegal baby adoption center. Lubos and Eman make attempts to sell the baby to Miluska and Frantisek, a barren couple. Concurrently a university professor is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, setting into action a complicated train of family reunions, partings, and conflicts.
What a Way to Go! (1964)
, 1h51Directed by John Flynn, J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Black comedy, Romance
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Robert Cummings
In a dream-like pre-credit sequence, Louisa May Foster (Shirley MacLaine), dressed as a black-clad widow, descends a pink staircase in a pink mansion. As she reaches the bottom, she is followed by pall-bearers carrying a pink coffin. As they round the bend in the staircase, the pallbearers drop the coffin, which sleds down the stairs, leading into the opening titles.
Towelhead (2008)
, 2h4Directed by Alan Ball
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Black comedy
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi, Summer Bishil, Carrie Preston
Set in 1990 amidst the Kuwait War of 1990-91, Towelhead tells the coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old Lebanese American girl named Jasira (Summer Bishil). She first lives with her mother in Syracuse, New York, but when her mother's live-in boyfriend helps Jasira shave her pubic hair, her mother sends Jasira to live with her old-fashioned and domineering Lebanese father Rifat (Peter Macdissi) in suburban Houston, Texas. Jasira is alienated from her father: he is strict, does not allow her to use tampons, and prefers spending time with his new girlfriend, Thena; yet she experiences a sexual awakening there, sparked in part by the adult magazines she finds when baby-sitting the next-door neighbor boy Zack Vuoso (Chase Ellison), son of Travis Vuoso (Aaron Eckhart). While Jasira is home alone one night, Mr. Vuoso comes over to retrieve one of his magazines and he ends up raping her. She befriends a classmate, Thomas Bradley (Eugene Jones), eventually becoming sexually active with him. Mr. Vuoso becomes jealous of Jasira's relationship with Thomas and, pretending he has to go to Iraq the next morning, he rapes Jasira. When Rifat finds one of Mr. Vuoso's adult magazines at his house, he beats Jasira, and she seeks refuge at the home of Melina (Toni Collette) and her husband, Gil, neighbors that were aware of Mr. Vuoso's inappropriate behavior from the beginning. Eventually, Jasira reveals that she was raped by Mr. Vuoso, and he is arrested.
The Anniversary (1968)
, 1h35Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Black comedy
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, James Cossins, Jack Hedley, Timothy Bateson, Elaine Taylor
One-eyed Mrs. Taggart is an emasculating woman whose husband, a successful building contractor, has been dead for ten years. Joining her for the traditional annual celebration of her wedding anniversary are her three sons: eldest Henry is a transvestite; middle son Terry is planning to emigrate to Canada with his shrewish wife Karen and their five children; and youngest Tom, a promiscuous philanderer whose many past relationships have ended at his mother's insistence, arrives with his pregnant girlfriend Shirley in tow. Throughout the day and evening, the domineering, evil, vindictive, manipulative matriarch does everything in her power to remind her children who controls the family finances and ultimately their futures.
Champagne for Savages (1964)
, 1h37Directed by Christian-Jaque
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Black comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Francis Blanche, France Anglade, Claude Rich, Antonella Lualdi, Adolfo Marsillach, Dominique Paturel
L'Occupation, une ville de province. Sept personnes, des amis, se retrouvent réunies pour un repas d'anniversaire. Durant la fête, un attentat a lieu et deux officiers allemands sont abattus. Le capitaine de la Gestapo, le SS Kaubach, fait irruption dans la pièce et exige l'exécution de vingt otages si les coupables ne sont pas trouvés. Il demande aux invités de désigner eux-mêmes deux d'entre eux comme otages. Alors, ces gens qui appartiennent à des milieux différents vont s'affronter et s'entre-dévorer, chacun trouvant une bonne raison de ne pas se porter volontaire. La tension ne va cesser de monter, transformant la réunion amicale en repas de fauves où les moments d'espoir alternent avec les moments de folie.
Vincent Le Magnifique (2008)
, 23minutesDirected by Pascal Forney
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Black comedy
Actors Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Didier Flamand, Benoît Allemane
Il y a longtemps dans une vallée reculée, dont personne n'a jamais su le nom, vivait Vincent. Vincent est un magicien qui tente chaque soir le numéro de la femme coupée en deux. Ignorant la nécessité d'un trucage, il transforme jour après jour les alentours du cabaret où il se produit en cimetière. Un soir, son idole lui apparaît, le célèbre Blackstone lui révèle le secret. En route pour la gloire?
A Simple Favor (2018)
, 1h57Directed by Paul Feig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Jumeaux ou jumelles, LGBT-related film
Actors Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively Reynolds, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Rupert Friend, Linda Cardellini
Warfield, Connecticut. Stephanie Smothers est la mère au foyer de banlieue parfaite : coquette, polie et aimante, elle participe aussi à toutes les activités de l'école de son fils qu'elle élève seule depuis la mort de son mari et anime un vlog d'astuces pour maman. Néanmoins, les autres parents se moquent d'elle, ce qui l'empêche de se faire des amis.
Made Up Memories (2009)
, 1h40Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Comedy, Black comedy
Actors Marilú Marini, Víctor Laplace
À la fin des années 50, à Buenos Aires, pour rassurer la mère, inquiète de ne pas recevoir des nouvelles de son fils Pablo parti pour l'Europe, la famille s'empêtre peu à peu dans le mensonge en lui envoyant lettres et cadeaux censés être expédiés par Pablo depuis Paris. Un stratagème qui va piéger toute la famille entre fiction et réalité.
The Devil's Rejects (2005)
, 1h49Directed by Rob Zombie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Road movies
Actors Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Ken Foree, Matthew McGrory, William Forsythe
On May 18, 1978, Texas Sheriff John Quincey Wydell and a large posse of State Troopers issue a Search and Destroy mission on the Firefly family for over 75 homicides and disappearances over the past several years. The family arms themselves and fire on the officers. Rufus is killed and Mother Firefly (Leslie Easterbrook) is taken into custody, while Otis and Baby escape. They steal a car, and after killing the driver, they go to Kahiki Palms, a run-down motel.
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
, 2h3Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Black comedy, Romance
Actors Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood, Henry Daniell
When American diplomat William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) arrives in London, he rents part of Carly Hardwicke's (Kim Novak) house from her and promptly begins to fall in love. Gridley doesn't know that many people think she killed her British husband, Miles Hardwick (Maxwell Reed), because he has disappeared; but without a body, the police cannot do a thing.
Killer Joe (2011)
, 1h43Directed by William Friedkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, Thomas Haden Church, Marc Macaulay
In West Dallas, Texas, 22-year-old drug dealer Chris Smith (Hirsch), desperate to pay his debt to loan sharks, decides to murder his mother, Adele, to collect the $50,000 of insurance money. He has been told by his mother's boyfriend Rex that the sole beneficiary will be Chris' younger sister Dottie (Temple). Assuming Dottie would share any money she gets with them, Chris manages to rope his dim-witted father Ansel (Haden Church) into a conspiracy to kill Adele – who is Ansel's ex-wife – to get the money. Chris also enlists the help of Joe Cooper (McConaughey), a police detective who has a side career as a contract killer. Ansel plans to split the money four ways between themselves, Dottie, and Ansel's new wife Sharla (Gershon). Dottie hears the plan as they are talking, and agrees that it's a good idea.
The Idiots (1998)
, 1h57Directed by Lars von Trier
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Black comedy
Actors Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anna Louise Hassing, Troels Lyby, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Louise Mieritz
A seemingly anti-bourgeois group of adults spend their time seeking their "inner idiot" to release their inhibitions. They do so by behaving in public as if they were developmentally disabled. The Idiots is not concerned with actual disability, or with distinguishing between mental retardation and physical impairment.
The Perfect Host (2010)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford, Helen Reddy, Megahn Perry, Joseph Will, Nathaniel Parker
Fugitive John Taylor flees an initially unspecified crime, with a wounded foot. (Flashbacks and news reports reveal he robbed a bank, in collusion with his girlfriend Simone, who was a teller in the bank.) He stops in a convenience store for some disinfectant, just moments before it is robbed; he manages to turn the tables on the robber, but she gets away with his wallet. The store's TV identifies John and his car, so he quickly ditches it, proceeding on foot into an expensive neighborhood. With a sob story about being mugged, he gains entry to the house of Warwick Wilson. John poses as a friend of one of Warwick's friends after he found a postcard in the mailbox outside from a woman named "Julia". Warwick is preparing a dinner party. John makes small talk and drinks red wine while trying to figure out his next move, and how to keep his lies from being found out. When the radio news makes an announcement about John, he angrily shushes Warwick, revealing himself. John threatens to kill Warwick if he doesn't cooperate and forces him to call his guests to cancel. Suddenly, John keels over; the wine has been drugged, and Warwick is not the person he seems.