Please recommend me some quality black comedies.

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I'm jonesing for some. Here's what I've seen:

Fargo (duh)
Harold and Maude
Happiness
Man Bites Dog (one of my absolute faves)
Heathers

On my "to do" list already:

Blood Simple
Naked
Kind Hearts and Coronets

Can anyone recommend some more?

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

I enjoyed The Ice Harvest fairly well when I saw it. It's got John Cusack & Billy Bob Thornton ... kind of a black comedy / noir thing going on.

― m.p.a. (m.p.a.), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

"to be or not to be" (the jack benny/carole lombard one)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.publispain.com/posters/disorderlies.jpg

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

King of Comedy, Stunt Man, most kubrick and much altman.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 05:55 (nineteen years ago)

The Ruling Class

Reuben, Reuben

Deconstructing Harry

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Little Murders

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00020HB1E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

(one of my favorite films ever -- do not read spoilers, and don't even read the chapter titles on the DVD)

Buffet Froid

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305037221/qid=1153519219/sr=1-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-1405659-7890214?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=dvd&v=glance&n=130

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

(if you like Man Bites Dog and Bunuel, you should make a beeline for Buffet Froid)

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Lord Love A Duck: in '50s Suburbia, Roddy McDowell's a mad geek who will do *anything* to please young Tuesday Weld (as well he might)

― don (dow), Saturday, 22 July 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

little murders is my favorite film too, and as black as it gets.

― j fail (cenotaph), Sunday, 23 July 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

American Psycho, Dr Strangelove...

― Andrew Mullins (gentoo), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

all of bertrand blier's films (that i have seen, which is the few available w/english subtitles) are extremely fucked up comedies that should appeal to all demented people. 'buffet froid' is probably the most overtly surreal but 'going places' is completely cruel.

― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

friday

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 29 July 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Wag The Dog
Brazil
and although I haven't seen it myself, Series 7: The Contenders is meant to be pretty good

Buffet Froid my French teacher showed us at school when we were about 14 years old. I don't think a single one of us left the classroom feeling safe...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 30 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Boy, I really didn't like Wag the Dog at all.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 31 July 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of Buffets, La Grand Bouffe.

Also The Loved One

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 3 August 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I hired professional Killer
Ladykillers
Monty Python's Meaning of Life

― Obyvatel (Oby), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Shakes the Clown (1992)
Rushmore (1998)
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Election (1999)
American Psycho (2000)
Ghost World (2001)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

― monocle (Sean Miguel), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Second The Ruling Class and Stunt Man. Both great black comedies, and they both got Peter O' Toole chewing scenery like a man possessed.

Deranged (pitch-black 70s "comedy" about the exploits of Ed Gein)
The Loved One (from '65 - creepy, wigged-out satire of the funeral industry, and pretty much everything else)
Cemetery Man (pretentious philosophical parable with tons of gruesome zombie splatter - second half is as black as it gets)
Mother, Jugs and Speed (kick-ass 70s flick about rogue ambulance crews - kinda like M*A*S*H [the movie] on wheels)

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Friday, 3 November 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

Where's Poppa?

― eeyore19, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

Nobody mentioned Le Diner de cons? Why not?
http://imdb.com/title/tt0119038/

― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 1 June 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

How 'bout Parents (1989)?

― Joe, Saturday, 2 June 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

BUMP from last year!!

Have seen Buffet Froid and Eating Raoul within the past week and am in love with them.

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

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