Topic: Black Comedy

Direction Vince Gilligan · Michelle MacLaren · Adam Bernstein · Colin Bucksey

Cast Bryan Cranston · Aaron Paul · Anna Gunn · Dean Norris

Plot TV Series (2008-2013). 5 Seasons. 62 Episodes. Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn)...

Direction Quentin Tarantino

Cast John Travolta · Samuel L. Jackson · Uma Thurman · Bruce Willis

Plot The film interweaves three tales: the first story focuses on Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), two hit men on duty for "the big boss," Marsellus...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges

Plot Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to...

Direction David Chase · Timothy Van Patten · John Patterson · Allen Coulter

Cast James Gandolfini · Edie Falco · Lorraine Bracco · Michael Imperioli

Plot TV Series (1999-2007). 6 Seasons. 86 Episodes. The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano (James...

Direction Dan Harmon · Justin Roiland · Pete Michels · Bryan Newton

Plot TV Series (2013-Present Day). 4 Seasons. 41 Episodes. Animated comedy that follows the adventures of mad scientist Rick Sanchez, who returns after 20 years to live with his daughter, her...

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast José Isbert · Nino Manfredi · Emma Penella · José Luis López Vázquez

Plot An undertaker's assistant marries an executioner's daughter, and the new groom takes on his father-in-law's job but grows real squeamish when the time comes to execute someone. UK TimeOut movie...

Direction Charlie Brooker · Owen Harris · Carl Tibbetts · Otto Bathurst

Cast Rory Kinnear · Lindsay Duncan · Lydia Wilson · Tom Goodman-Hill

Plot TV Series (2011-2019). 5 Seasons. 22 Episodes. A television anthology series that shows the dark side of life and technology.

Direction Noah Hawley · Adam Bernstein · Randall Einhorn · Colin Bucksey

Cast Billy Bob Thornton · Martin Freeman · Allison Tolman · Colin Hanks

Plot TV Series (2014). 10 Episodes. In 2006, a drifter named Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) arrives in Bemidji, Minnesota and influences the population with his malice and violence, including put-upon...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Laurence Olivier · Michael Caine · Alec Cawthorne · John Matthews

Plot Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is a famous writer of crime novels. Moreover, his passion for puzzles and riddles has led him to transform his mansion into a museum where bizarre...

Direction Juan Jose Meza-Leon

Plot In the wake of the great human genocide, the Smith family comes to realize that Rick's technology is the only hope left for humanity to survive. Problem is, only Rick...

Direction Noah Hawley · Randall Einhorn · Michael Uppendahl · Keith Gordon

Cast Jesse Plemons · Kirsten Dunst · Patrick Wilson · Bokeem Woodbine

Plot TV Miniseries (2015). 10 Episodes. Second season. An unexpected turn of events at a diner disrupts the lives of the citizens in a small Minnesota town.

Direction David Fincher

Cast Edward Norton · Brad Pitt · Helena Bonham Carter · Meat Loaf

Plot A nameless disillusioned young urban male (Edward Norton) fights insomnia by attending disease support groups until he meets a kindred spirit -and soap salesman (Brad Pitt). Together they form Fight...

Direction Zerocalcare

Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Zerocalcare

Plot A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city.

Direction Lucy Forbes · Molly Manners

Cast Gabrielle Creevy · Jo Hartley · Di Botcher · Poppy Lee Friar

Plot TV Series (2018-2021). 2 Seasons. 10 Episodes. Darkly comic coming-of-age story that follows 16 year old Bethan as she deals with the anxieties and insecurities of teenage life, along with...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Martha Raye · Marilyn Nash · Isobel Elsom

Plot Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard who marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad...

Direction Raphael Bob-Waksberg · JC Gonzalez · Amy Winfrey · Joel Moser

Plot TV Series (2014-2020). 6 Seasons. 77 Episodes. Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Cary Grant · Priscilla Lane · Peter Lorre · Raymond Massey

Plot Mortimer Brewster stops off in Brooklyn to visit his two favourite aunts Abby and Martha to tell them that he has just gotten married. However, he discovers the dotty old...

Direction Alan Ball · Daniel Attias · Rodrigo García · Jeremy Podeswa

Cast Peter Krause · Michael C. Hall · Rachel Griffiths · Frances Conroy

Plot TV Series (2001-2005). 5 Seasons. 63 Episodes. "Six Feet Under" focuses on the cathartic journey of the extended Fisher family, whose personal trials and tribulations are played out against the...

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Song Kang-ho · Lee Seon-gyun · Jang Hye-jin · Cho Yeo-jeong

Plot A peculiar tale about two families who are worlds apart yet somewhat alike portrays a striking reality of the world we live in. Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) and his family...

Direction Terry Jones

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle

Plot The setting is Judea 33 A.D, a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some...