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Your search by 'Black Comedy' identified 7 films |
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The Art of Crying
Denmark, 2006, 105 min.
A chilling tale of domestic abuse told with black humor and acute understanding. Young Allan will do anything he can to keep his family together. His innocence is his best protection against a father who misbehaves to ensure that he gets what he wants, however forbidden his desires.... more
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The Art of Negative Thinking
Norway, 2007, 79 min.
This transgressive black comedy skewers PC correctness toward the disabled, as a wheelchair-bound accident victim challenges the conventional pieties of a therapy group for the handicapped. A multiple award winner, it provides a cathartic message about the need to accept reality.... more
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Boystown
Spain, 2007, 93 min.
A real estate agent is murdering elderly women in the gay Chueca district of Madrid so as to acquire their apartments and sell them to upwardly mobile gay couples. Juan Flahn’s delicious black comedy combines hilarity and violence to startling effect.... more
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Dasepo Naughty Girls
South Korea, 2006, 103 min.
While attending No Use High School, Poor Girl has fallen head-over-heels for rich kid Anthony, who in turn has an obsession with the class virgin's sister. If their paths are to cross, they'll have to negotiate a demon principal, a transgendered hottie and numerous karaoke sing-a-longs.... more
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Duska
Netherlands, 2007, 110 min.
This dark comedy tells the story an aging film critic, a stunningly beautiful cinema cashier and a Russian scrounger who comes to visit and is not likely to ever leave.... more
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Getting Home
Hong Kong, 2007, 101 min.
When Liu dies unexpectedly, Zhao travels thousands of miles across China to bring the body home. With no money and a corpse on his back, Zhao’s Chaplinesque tragicomic odyssey has him experience all kinds of situations from clever to pathetic to hilarious.... more
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Taxidermia
Hungary, 2006, 90 min.
Three generations of men are each beset by an extreme obsessions—Vendel, by sex, Kalman, by gluttony and Lajos, by taxidermy. Young Hungarian hotshot György Pálfi’s eye-popping, savagely funny debut is a thinly disguised excoriation of the failure of his country’s successive governmental philosophie... more
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