Category

French black comedy films

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1972 film by Luis Buñuel

Burn After Reading

2008 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

2015 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Triangle of Sadness

2022 film directed by Ruben Östlund

2009 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

2013 film by Luc Besson

2002 film by François Ozon

The Death of Stalin

2017 film directed by Armando Iannucci

2011 film by Roman Polanski

1992 film by Roman Polanski

1991 film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro

Paris, je t'aime

2006 anthology film on the arrondissements of Paris

That Obscure Object of Desire

1977 film by Luis Buñuel

The Phantom of Liberty

1974 film by Luis Buñuel

I Love You Phillip Morris

2009 film directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra

2019 film directed by Hans Petter Moland

Shoot the Piano Player

1960 French crime drama film directed by François Truffaut

Black and White in Color

1976 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

1967 film by Jean-Luc Godard

1962 film by Orson Welles

The Brand New Testament

2015 film by Jaco Van Dormael

1998 film by Lars von Trier

1993 film by Pedro Almodóvar

1971 film by Jean Girault

1974 film directed by Bertrand Blier

1998 film by François Ozon

The Last Circus

2010 film by Álex de la Iglesia

A Girl Cut in Two

2007 film directed by Claude Chabrol

2003 film by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

2014 Swedish film by Ruben Östlund

2010 film by Jonathan Lynn

2023 film directed by Roman Polanski

Cecil B. Demented

2000 American black comedy film directed by John Waters

The Doom Generation

1995 film by Gregg Araki

2000 film by Nora Ephron

Bigbug is a 2022 French science fiction black comedy film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It stars Elsa Zylberstein, Isabelle Nanty, Youssef Hajdi, Alban Lenoir and François Levantal. Set in an alternate retrofuturistic world in 2045, where communities have domestic robots in daily routines and family lives, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their own protection by their household robots, while a rogue, sentient AI android uprising takes place outside. The film was released on Netflix on 11 February 2022.

2007 film by Sam Garbarski

2005 film directed by Costa-Gavras

Sieranevada is a 2016 black comedy-drama film written and directed by Cristi Puiu and starring Mimi Brănescu. The plot follows a successful neurologist who attends a family meal supposed to commemorate his deceased father. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

1979 film by Bertrand Blier

'''''L'emmerdeur''' (literally The Troublemaker, with the English title of A Pain in the Ass, often promoted as A Pain in the A__) is a 1973 French-Italian black comedy film, starring Jacques Brel, appearing in his tenth and final feature film. Directed by Édouard Molinaro and co-starring Lino Ventura, Caroline Cellier, and Jean-Pierre Darras, L'emmerdeur'' is an adaptation of Francis Veber's 1971 play Le contrat.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

2018 film directed by Radu Jude

2019 film directed by Corneliu Porumboiu

1997 film directed by Gregg Araki

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

2023 film directed by Radu Jude

1972 film by Claude Chabrol

The Time That Remains

2009 film directed by Elia Suleiman

1963 film by Claude Chabrol

Incredible but True

2022 film directed by Quentin Dupieux

2015 film directed by Julie Delpy

1990 film by Étienne Chatiliez

2025 film directed by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

2009 film by Arnaud Larrieu

The Balconettes

2024 film directed by Noémie Merlant

1963 film by Marcel Bluwal

1970 film by Pierre Richard

Salad by the Roots

1964 film by Georges Lautner

The Clink of Ice

2010 film by Bertrand Blier

2017 film by Pablo Berger

Advantages of Travelling by Train

2019 film by Aritz Moreno