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Black Comedy
see all genres ›Sardonic? Barbed? Baroque? Bizarre? Black comedies often employ gallows humor and exist at the darkest edge of laughability.
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Edison and Leo
A magnetic, amoral and womanizing genius inventor's world threatens to fly apart at the seams. His son, who has electricity crackling through his veins due to an accident in his father's laboratory, discovers that his father had an unwitting hand in both his mother's early death and his electrical ailment.Start your free trial to watch
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Explosion of a Motor Car
It has been claimed that early automobiles were not particularly safe. British director Cecil Hepworth takes such notions to the inevitable extreme. In this case, the explosion is only the beginning. Tragedy follows (with a dose of black humor). This particular version, oddly cropped to lop off to full...Start your free trial to watch
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The Falls
Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the unique pleasures of his post-DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT oeuvre, THE FALLS is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway’s prolific career. Shot as a pseudodocumentary, this magnum opus dazzlingly details ninety-two case...Start your free trial to watch
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Fear and Trembling
A dream job rapidly becomes a nightmare for Amelie, a Japanese-born Belgian woman, who suffers a series of increasingly humiliating demotions after she lands a job as an interpreter at a large Japanese corporation. Sylvie Testud earned the French equivalent of the Academy Award® for her haunting...Start your free trial to watch
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Flickering Lights
Academy Award™ winner Anders Thomas Jensen, whose style has been described as a cross between Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, has pulled a stunner with FLICKERING LIGHTS, both shocking and funny, violent and gentle. It’s a brand new kind of gangster comedy about four childhood buddies whose...Start your free trial to watch
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Flirting with Fate
Douglas Fairbanks' eighth film, FLIRTING WITH FATE is an intriguing dark comedy about a starving artist determined to end his life. Fairbanks plays August "Augy" Holliday, described in an intertitle as an artist "long on temperament and short on funds. He can draw everything except a salary." His inability...Start your free trial to watch
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Frankenhooker
When Jeffrey Franken’s fiancée is chopped to pieces by the blades of a remote-controlled lawnmower, he uses his dubious medical knowledge to try to bring her back to life. He reassembles his beloved Elizabeth using the body parts of New York City’s finest prostitutes and resurrects her during a heavy lightning storm....Start your free trial to watch
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Fuse
In Bosnia, still experiencing the effects of the breakup of Yugoslavia, everyday activities in the small town of Tesanj are thrown into a tailspin over an impending visit by American president Bill Clinton. A brothel is turned into a "cultural center." The mayor's ledgers are burned. Even the local firemen are forced to unite...Start your free trial to watch
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The Garden
An unnerving fable of totalitarianism wrought in crisp black-and-white, THE GARDEN is an unusual live action effort from Czech animator Jan Svankmajer. One man brings another to his home in the country. It’s an idyllic scene except for the strange sight of several dozen people locking arms as a human fence. Svankmajer...Start your free trial to watch
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The Garth Method
In 2001, unemployed actor Garth Petridis was imprisoned for one of the most unusual crimes in Australian history. Desperate for success, he kidnapped members of the public and forced them to perform, at gunpoint, in scenes for a bizarre movie intended to make Garth a household name.Start your free trial to watch
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Getting Home
In this soulful and humane comedy, Zhao, a middle-aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying co-worker's last wish to be buried in China's Three Gorges region. Setting out with his colleague's body in tow, Zhao travels hundreds of miles across extraordinary countryside, encountering a number of colorful adventures...Start your free trial to watch
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The Good Luck of a Souse
In this fragment of a short by Georges Méliès, a construction worker gets a surprise in the basket he carries on his back: the daughter and wife of a drunkard, ejected out of a window. The commotion attracts a milling crowd. While the interior of the drunk's apartment is little more than a painted...Start your free trial to watch
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Growing Out
To a troubled songwriter like Tom (Michael Hampton), cleaning and old house in exchange for free room and board seems like a great deal. But Tom's about to get way more than he bargained for. There's something strange growing in the basement floor. Something dark. Something disturbing. Something...human. Join Tom as he delves...Start your free trial to watch
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The Guatemalan Handshake
One of the Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, writer-director Todd Rohal charts strange new cinematic waters with his madly innovative feature debut, THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE. Winner of Special Jury Prizes at Slamdance and Torino, Rohal's vivacious feast for the senses "bristles with...Start your free trial to watch
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H is for House
Returning to the house in his earlier film WINDOWS, Peter Greenaway demonstrates his love of the English countryside and displays a distinctive (if rare) autobiographical self with H IS FOR HOUSE. Envisioned as a living, breathing dictionary on film, this epistemological survey of the letter “H” represents Greenaway at his...Start your free trial to watch
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Hard Core Logo
The THIS IS SPINAL TAP of Canadian punk mockumentaries is about a legendary (but fictive) Canuck hardcore unit that reunites years after its acrimonious breakup to play a one-shot benefit and play such ramalama hits as "Something's Gonna Die Tonight," "Rock 'n' Roll is Fat and Ugly" and "Who the Hell You Think You Are?"...Start your free trial to watch