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A Century's End (세기말)
A Century's End (세기말), Fin de Siecle (Segimal), is a 1999 South Korean drama by Song Neung-han in four linked chapters (Moratorium, Immorality, Moral Hazard, Y2K), starring Kim Gap-su, Cha Seung-won, and Lee Jae-eun, depicting late-1999 Seoul life.
Adam & Paul
Adam & Paul is a 2004 Irish dark comedy, Lenny Abrahamson's debut feature, written by and starring Mark O'Halloran with Tom Murphy, following two Dublin heroin addicts through one day; it won Galway and IFTA awards and became a cult film.
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades) is a 2022 Mexican comedy-drama by Alejandro González Iñárritu for Netflix, starring Daniel Giménez Cacho as filmmaker Silverio Gama; 159 minutes, shot on 65mm by Darius Khondji, Venice premiere 2022, Metascore 55, one Oscar nomination.
Barking Dogs Never Bite (플란다스의 개)
Barking Dogs Never Bite (플란다스의 개, Flandersui Gae) is Bong Joon-ho's 2000 South Korean debut feature, a dark comedy in which lecturer Yun-ju (Lee Sung-jae) dognaps apartment dogs while office worker Hyun-nam (Bae Doona) investigates the disappearances.
Big Shot's Funeral (大腕)
Big Shot's Funeral (大腕) is Feng Xiaogang's 2001 Chinese comedy in which Ge You stages an ad-sponsored "comedy funeral" for comatose director Donald Sutherland; a China-US co-production that won the Hundred Flowers Award.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, also called simply Borat, is a 2006 mockumentary comedy by Larry Charles starring Sacha Baron Cohen as fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev; it grossed over $261 million, won a Golden Globe, and was banned in Kazakhstan and Russia.
Casa de Mi Padre
Casa de Mi Padre is a 2012 American Spanish-language comedy-western starring Will Ferrell as a Mexican rancher, directed by Matt Piedmont as a parody of telenovelas.
Classmates Minus
Classmates Minus (同學麥娜絲) is a 2020 Taiwanese dark comedy by Huang Hsin-yao, adapted from his documentary Hu Lian San Xiao, about four middle-aged high school friends; it won three Golden Horse Awards and streamed on Netflix from February 2021.
Cow (斗牛) (2009 film)
Cow (斗牛, Dou niu) is Guan Hu's 2009 Chinese black-comedy war film starring Huang Bo and Yan Ni, about a Shandong farmer guarding a Dutch dairy cow in 1940; it premiered at Venice's Orizzonti and won Huang Bo the Golden Horse Best Actor award.
Crazy Stone
Crazy Stone (疯狂的石头) is Ning Hao's 2006 Chinese black-comedy caper about thieves and a factory guard fighting over a jade found in Chongqing; a roughly 3 million yuan Andy Lau-backed production that earned about 23 million yuan and won the Golden Horse Best Original Screenplay.
Der Knochenmann
Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) is a 2009 Austrian black-comedy crime thriller by Wolfgang Murnberger, the third Wolf Haas Brenner adaptation, starring Josef Hader as a debt collector investigating a Styrian fried-chicken inn.
Design of Death
Design of Death (杀生, Sha sheng) is a 2012 Chinese dark comedy-mystery by Guan Hu, starring Huang Bo, Simon Yam, and Alec Su, about a doctor investigating a villager's staged death in Longevity Town; it won two 2012 Golden Horse Awards.
Divided We Fall
Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat) is a 2000 Czech war tragicomedy by Jan Hřebejk and Petr Jarchovský in which a childless couple hides a Jewish escapee under Nazi occupation; it won five Czech Lions and earned a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination.
Divorcing Jack
Divorcing Jack: 1998 black comedy thriller directed by David Caffrey, adapted by Colin Bateman from his own novel, starring David Thewlis as Belfast columnist Dan Starkey in a near-future independent Northern Ireland.
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World), Radu Jude's 2023 Romanian satire starring Ilinca Manolache and Nina Hoss; Locarno Special Jury Prize winner and Romania's 2024 Oscar submission.
El Crimen Perfecto
El Crimen Perfecto, released as Crimen ferpecto and internationally as Ferpect Crime, is a 2004 Spanish-Italian black comedy directed by Álex de la Iglesia about department-store salesmen.
El Infierno
El Infierno (Hell) is a 2010 Mexican black-comedy satire by Luis Estrada about a deported migrant, El Benny, who joins the drug trade; it won the 2011 Ariel de Oro and was Mexico's second most-watched domestic film of 2010.
Four Lions
Four Lions (2010) is Chris Morris's debut feature, a British satirical comedy about an inept Sheffield jihadist cell, written with Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, based on three years of research, BAFTA-winning for Outstanding Debut.
Frank (film)
Frank (film) is a 2014 comedy-drama directed by Lenny Abrahamson, where Michael Fassbender stars as Frank, an enigmatic musician in an avant-garde band loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom.
Good Bye, Lenin!
Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy by Wolfgang Becker starring Daniel Brühl and Katrin Sass, in which a son fakes the GDR's survival for his comatose mother; it won six European Film Awards and sold over six million tickets in Germany.
Gosford Park
Gosford Park (2001) is Robert Altman's ensemble country-house murder mystery, written by Julian Fellowes, set in November 1932 at a shooting party, told from the servants' viewpoint; it won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and the BAFTA for Best British Film.
Greed (2019 film)
Greed (2019) is a British satirical comedy-drama directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan as fashion billionaire Sir Richard 'Greedy' McCreadie, a thinly veiled Philip Green, premiered at TIFF 2019 and released by Sony Pictures Classics in 2020.
Hollywood Hong Kong (香港有个荷里活)
Hollywood Hong Kong (香港有個荷里活), 2001 Fruit Chan black comedy, second of his Prostitute Trilogy after Durian Durian; set in Tai Hom Village shantytown beside Plaza Hollywood, starring Zhou Xun; Venice competition, 2002 Golden Horse Best Director.
Hukkle
Hukkle (Hungarian for "hiccup") is a 2002 dialogue-light Hungarian debut feature by György Pálfi, a village murder mystery about arsenic poisonings, shot in Ozora with locals, winner of the 2002 European Discovery Fassbinder Award.
I Am Not Madame Bovary (我不是潘金莲)
I Am Not Madame Bovary (我不是潘金莲) is Feng Xiaogang's 2016 satirical comedy adapted from Liu Zhenyun's novel, starring Fan Bingbing as Li Xuelin, a woman petitioning for twenty years to deny she is Pan Jinlian; Golden Shell winner.
I Love You Phillip Morris
I Love You Phillip Morris is a 2009 black comedy by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, starring Jim Carrey as con artist Steven Russell and Ewan McGregor as his prison lover Phillip Morris, based on Steve McVicker's 2003 book.
I'm Still Here (2010 film)
I'm Still Here (2010) is Casey Affleck's mockumentary, co-written with Joaquin Phoenix, staging Phoenix's 2008 retirement from acting and pivot to rap; presented as a documentary, it was admitted to be fake days after release.
In the Loop
In the Loop is a 2009 British political satire comedy directed by Armando Iannucci, a spin-off of The Thick of It, starring Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, and James Gandolfini; Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Intermission (film)
Intermission (2003) is an Irish ensemble black comedy-drama, John Crowley's feature debut, written by Mark O'Rowe, starring Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson and Colm Meaney; a Dublin breakup triggers interlinked crime and romance stories.
Keeping Mum
Keeping Mum is a 2005 British black comedy directed by Niall Johnson, written with Richard Russo, starring Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Patrick Swayze as a serial-killer housekeeper in Little Wallop.