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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.
Very Bad Things (1998)
, 1h40Directed by Peter Berg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Buddy films
Actors Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, Leland Orser
In the midst of preparing for his wedding and desperate for a break from his "Bridezilla" fiancée Laura (Cameron Diaz), Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) organizes a bachelor party in a Las Vegas hotel with his best friends: Charles Moore (Leland Orser), Robert Boyd (Christian Slater), and brothers Adam and Michael Berkow (Daniel Stern and Jeremy Piven), spending the night with drinks, drugs and a stripper/prostitute, Tina (Kobe Tai). Things go awry when Michael gets drunk and pays Tina extra money for sex in the bathroom only to accidentally slam her against a wall and impale a towel hook through her head, killing her instantly. As the group argues over what to do -- Adam insisting that they call the police, Boyd adamant about burying Tina's body in the desert -- a security guard comes to investigate the noise and sees Tina's corpse in the bathroom. In desperation, Boyd stabs the guard to death and the group is forced to dismember the bodies before taking them to the desert for burial.
Dead Man on Campus (1998)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Black comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about suicide, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tom Everett Scott, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Munro, Corey Page, Alyson Hannigan
Josh (Tom Everett Scott) gets in to college on a scholarship, and Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is assigned as his roommate. Cooper does little work and instead spends all the time partying and consistently fails his course, but his father continues to fund him through college. The normally studious Josh is led astray by Cooper's lifestyle and spends the first half of his first semester partying instead of studying, and consequently flunks all of his mid-terms. To his horror he then finds out that a condition of his scholarship is a passing grade average each semester, and that with his poor mid-term score he needs an A+++ (which is impossible) in all of his courses or he will lose his scholarship.
Fargo (1996)
, 1h38Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Pregnancy films
Actors Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare, Tony Denman
Minneapolis car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is desperate for money. Shep Proudfoot (Steve Reevis), an ex-convict, gives him a name; he travels to Fargo, North Dakota, where he hires two men (Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare)) to kidnap his wife, Jean (Kristin Rudrüd), and ransom her for $80,000, knowing his wealthy father-in-law and boss, Wade Gustafson (Harve Presnell) will pay. In return, Lundegaard will give Showalter and Grimsrud a new 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, and half of the ransom money.
Curdled (1996)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Angela Jones, William Baldwin, Lois Chiles, Barry Corbin, Bruce Ramsay, Daisy Fuentes
Gabriela (Jones) is a Colombian immigrant living in Miami who has been fascinated with violent death ever since she saw a falling corpse pass by her mother's bakery window as a child. With many television shows and films feeding her obsession, she believes that after someone is decapitated, they still talk for a short while afterwards.
Scream (1996)
, 1h51Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime, Black comedy, Slasher
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Serial killer films, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich
High school student Casey Becker receives a flirtatious phone call from an unknown person, asking her, "What's your favorite scary movie?" The situation quickly escalates as the caller turns sadistic and threatens her life. He reveals that her boyfriend Steve Orth is being held hostage. After Casey fails to answer a question correctly about horror films, Steve is murdered. When Casey refuses to cooperate with the caller, she is attacked and murdered by a masked killer. Her parents come home to find her body hanging from a tree.
Trainspotting (1996)
, 1h34Directed by Danny Boyle
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Ewen Bremner, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald
Heroin addicts Mark Renton and Daniel "Spud" Murphy are running down Edinburgh's Princes Street pursued by store security guards. Renton's circle of friends are introduced: amoral con artist Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson (also an addict), simple-minded, good-natured Daniel "Spud" Murphy, clean-cut athlete Tommy MacKenzie, and psychopath Francis "Franco" Begbie, who picks extremely violent fights with people who get in his way.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
, 2h34Directed by Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Mob film, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Assassinat, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about drugs, Films about psychiatry, Gangster films
Actors John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer
"Pumpkin" (Tim Roth) and "Honey Bunny" (Amanda Plummer) are having breakfast in a diner, and discussing their life as robbers. They decide to rob the restaurant after realizing they could make money off the customers as well as the business, as they did during their previous heist. Moments after they initiate the hold-up, the scene breaks off and the title credits roll.
Frauds (1993)
, 1h34Directed by Stephan Elliott
Origin Australie
Genres Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Actors Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Nicholas Hammond, Peter Mochrie, Colleen Clifford, Vincent Ball
The film tells the story of insurance investigator Roland Copping and how he interferes with and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.
The Vagrant (1992)
, 1h28Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Black comedy
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Colleen Camp, Marc McClure, Stuart Pankin
Graham's life is full of promise. He has just purchased a new house, which he can now afford because he has landed a successful job. He is something of a suck up yuppie and his potential companion, Judy Dansig, is a sex-crazed real estate agent. Unfortunately, his new home has an unwanted guest: the ghost of a disgraced and destitute shrink, who is playing mind games. When pieces of people Graham knew begin appearing in his fridge, the police blame him. Graham struggles to figure out what is going on. As the deaths continue he starts to even doubt his own sanity.
Delicatessen (1991)
, 1h39Directed by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Black comedy
Themes Cooking films, Films about music and musicians, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Political films, Comedy horror films, Dystopian films, Steampunk films, Alternate history films, Disaster films
Actors Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Rufus
In a dilapidated apartment building in post-apocalyptic France, food is in short supply and grain is used as currency. On the ground floor is a butcher's shop, run by the landlord, Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), who posts job opportunities in the Hard Times paper as means to lure victims to the building, whom he murders and butchers as a cheap source of meat to sell to his tenants.
The Boys (1991)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Black comedy
Actors James Woods, John Lithgow, Joanna Gleason, Eve Gordon, Rosemary Dunsmore, Albert Hall
Walter and Artie are almost married. They've churned out scripts for movies and TV shows for 20 years, and as writing partners, they have shared a lifetime of experience, experiences that include Artie's three packs of cigarettes a day. Despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, now Walter has lung cancer, where he is given six months to live, and his life is literally going up in Artie's smoke. As Walter fights cancer he also tries to put his affairs in order by teaching writing to prison inmates, talking to his son and ex-wife, and getting his partner to quit smoking.
Meet the Feebles (1989)
, 1h34Directed by Peter Jackson
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Black comedy, Animation
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Stuart Devenie, Mark Hadlow, Peter Jackson, Francine Lainé, Marc Alfos, Luq Hamet
The eponymous theatre troupe is rehearsing the title song with hopes of finding success through being picked up for a syndicated television show. Heidi, the star of the show, is insulted by pornographic director Trevor and complains to her boss and lover, Bletch, who is actually in an adulterous relationship with Samantha. Meanwhile, Robert, the new member of the team, arrives at the theatre and immediately falls in love with another newcomer, Lucille. Samantha confronts Heidi, insults her, and reveals her relationship with Bletch. Robert confesses his love to Lucille, and the two become engaged. Sidney, Arthur's friend and member of the team, receives a visit from his ex-wife Sandy with his alleged son Seymour (who comically very strongly resembles Sidney). Sandy informs him she will be preparing a paternity case against him.
The Horror Show (1989)
, 1h35Directed by James Isaac
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Black comedy
Themes Ghost films, Serial killer films, Zombie films, Comedy horror films
Actors Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Dedee Pfeiffer, Aron Eisenberg, Thom Bray, Lewis Arquette
Detective Lucas McCarthy (Lance Henriksen) finally catches the serial killer named "Meat Cleaver Max" (Brion James) who killed over 100 people and watches his execution. McCarthy and the others watching the execution are shocked to see the electric chair send enough voltage through him to physically burn Max's body before finally dying. Max, however, has made a deal with the devil in order to return from the grave and frame Lucas for a series of grisly murders. He also scares the McCarthy family (who have moved into a new house) and the parapsychologist they hire. Lucas' only hope of stopping Max for good is to destroy his spirit before Max destroys his life and family.
Heathers (1989)
, 1h43Directed by Michael Lehmann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about suicide, Films about school violence, Teen movie
Actors Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Kim Walker, Lisanne Falk, Patrick Labyorteaux
The most dominant clique at Westerburg High School consists of three wealthy and beautiful girls named Heather: the leader, Heather Chandler (Kim Walker), the bookish bulimic Heather Duke (Shannen Doherty), and the weak-willed cheerleader Heather McNamara (Lisanne Falk). Though they are the most popular students, the Heathers are both feared and hated. They recently invited 17-year-old Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) to join their group, by association making her a very popular girl as well. However, as the film begins, Veronica has had enough of their behavior and longs to return to her old life and her nerdy friends.