Genre "Black Comedy" Movies
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| 1. About Schmidt (year: 2002) |
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Jack Nicholson plays retiring insurance actuary Warren Schmidt in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Schmidt has settled into a dormant life. He has an ...
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| 2. Adaptation (year: 2002) |
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The creative team behind Being John Malkovich — director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman — return with this equally o ...
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| 3. Addams Family Values (year: 1993) |
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The ghoulish cartoon family created by Charles Addams returns for a second big-screen outing darker and nastier than the first. When Morticia Addams ...
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| 4. American Psycho (year: 2000) |
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Bret Easton Ellis' dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with black comic overtones. Patri ...
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| 5. Bad Santa (year: 2003) |
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The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a con man and a thief who teams up ...
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| 6. Barton Fink (year: 1991) |
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The title character, played by John Turturro, is a Broadway playwright, based on Clifford Odets, lured to Hollywood with the promise of untold riches ...
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| 7. Beautiful Joe (year: 2000) |
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A dying man finds that horses, blondes, and the Mob may end his life faster than cancer in this dark comedy from the U.K. Joe (Billy Connolly) is a re ...
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| 8. Bedazzled (year: 1968) |
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| 9. Beetlejuice (year: 1988) |
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Thanks to the carelessness of a cute little dog, newlyweds Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are killed in a freak auto accident. Upon arriving in the oute ...
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| 10. Bitter Moon (year: 1992) |
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A perverse, dark-humored comedy drama, Bitter Moon crosses the line into intentional camp more often than not in its tale of a kinky cripple Oscar (Pe ...
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| 11. Blood Car (year: 2007) |
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Alex Orr's dark comedy Blood Car stars Mike Brune as Archie Andrews, a mild-mannered elementary teacher attempting to beat the high cost of gasoline ( ...
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| 12. Bone (year: 1972) |
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When their lavish home is invaded by a violent and unstable black criminal, a high-living white Beverly Hills couple is forced to confront their worst ...
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| 13. Born to Win (year: 1971) |
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Born to Win is the grimly ironic title of this jet-black comedy about heroin addicts. George Segal plays Jay Jay, an ex-hairdresser who struggles to s ...
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| 14. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (year: 1974) |
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Wealthy Mexican Emilio Fernandez puts a million-dollar bounty on the head of Alfredo Garcia, who has seduced and knocked up Fernandez's daughter. Trou ...
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| 15. Buddha Mar Gaya (year: 2007) |
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Director Rahul Rawail teams with screenwriter Anand Sivakumaran for this cutting black comedy about greed, corpses, cold hard cash, and funerals.
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| 16. Dead Man on Campus (year: 1998) |
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Before the box office success of Varsity Blues (1999) and the critical acclaim of Election (1999), the MTV cable channel created this raunchy campus c ...
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| 17. Death at a Funeral (year: 2007) |
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This nutty British comedy observes with jet black humor the myriad of outrageous calamities that befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few ...
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| 18. Death Becomes Her (year: 1992) |
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High-concept director Robert Zemeckis applies his usual polish — helped by an equally adept cast — for this surprisingly gruesome ...
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| 19. Death to Smoochy (year: 2002) |
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Danny DeVito steps behind the camera for this darkly funny satire that combines elements of Barney and Friends with the real-life Pee-Wee Herman scand ...
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| 20. Deck the Halls (year: 2006) |
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When the spirit of Christmas compels a small-town New Englander to decorate his home with enough lights to make it visible from space, much more is se ...
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| 21. Drowning by Numbers (year: 1988) |
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Peter Greenaway wrote and directed this typically surreal and iconoclastic black comedy. Three generations of women who share the same name &mdash ...
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| 22. Duplex (year: 2003) |
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Just how far would you go to have the home of your dreams all to yourself? A couple start asking themselves that very question in this dark comedy dir ...
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| 23. Eating Raoul (year: 1982) |
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Eating Raoul was celebrated at the time of its release as the perfect marriage between mainstream moviemaking and the so-called "underground" ...
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| 24. El Dia de la Bestia (year: 1995) |
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Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia followed his outlandish sci-fi/horror debut, Accion Mutante, with this colorful apocalypse fantasy about Father A ...
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| 25. El Verdugo (year: 1965) |
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The business of death provides the framework for this black comedy about a mortician's assistant who wants to marry an executioner's daughter. Her fat ...
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| 26. Elling (year: 2001) |
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Following up on his acclaimed debut Absolute Hangover, Petter Naess spins this feel-good drama about a pair of misfits trying to get along with each o ...
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| 27. Ex Drummer (year: 2007) |
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A hapless amateur rock band thinks they've found the key to success only to find their plan has sunk them even deeper into well-deserved obscurity in ...
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| 28. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (year: 1998) |
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Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunte ...
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| 29. Fight Club (year: 1999) |
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| 30. Grosse Pointe Blank (year: 1997) |
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Most people have trouble deciding what to say when they're asked what they've been doing with their lives at a High School reunion, but Martin Blank ( ...
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| 31. Head Above Water (year: 1996) |
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A woman finds out how the dead body of your old boyfriend can ruin your whole day in this black comedy. Nathalie (Cameron Diaz) is a lovely young woma ...
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| 32. Heathers (year: 1989) |
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A deliciously nasty black comedy, Heathers is set at a cliquish high school in Ohio. The most exclusive of those cliques is the Heathers, comprised of ...
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| 33. Hustler White (year: 1996) |
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Bruce LaBruce produced, co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in this satiric black sex comedy about gay hustlers and their customers in Santa Monica, Ca ...
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| 34. Keeping Mum (year: 2005) |
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Niall Johnson's comedy Keeping Mum concerns the family of a vicar who are beset by a variety of problems. Reverend Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson) ...
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| 35. Kind Hearts and Coronets (year: 1949) |
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Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini ( ...
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| 36. L'Amico di Famiglia (year: 2006) |
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In writer/director Paolo Sorrentino's second feature, The Family Friend (L'Amico di Famiglia), Giacomo Rizzo stars as Geremia de Geremei, a sixtysome ...
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| 37. La Grande Bouffe (year: 1973) |
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Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who g ...
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| 38. Last Night (year: 1998) |
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Don McKellar wrote and directed this comedy-drama about the last night of the world, part of the 12-film Arte series of movies about the Millennium. S ...
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| 39. Lolita (year: 1962) |
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"How did they make a movie out of Lolita?" teased the print ads of this Stanley Kubrick production. The answer: by adding three years to the ...
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| 40. Man Bites Dog (year: 1991) |
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Man Bites Dog is a Belgian faux-documentary and high-concept satire of media violence which follows the lethal exploits of Benoit Benoit Poelvoorde, a ...
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| 41. Meet The Parents (year: 1992) |
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| 42. Montenegro (year: 1981) |
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Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach), an American-born housewife, mother, and socialite living in Sweden, is crumbling under the weight of her own existence ...
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| 43. Motorama (year: 1991) |
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This black comedy offers a rather twisted version of the classic road movie, as it tells the story of a ten-year-old boy who is determined to win the ...
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| 44. Naked (year: 1993) |
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A scathing look at Britain in the post-Thatcher era, Mike Leigh's Naked stars David Thewlis as Johnny, an unemployed layabout with a philosophical ben ...
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| 45. Network (year: 1976) |
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A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of n ...
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| 46. Office Space (year: 1999) |
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Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael B ...
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| 47. Pretty Maids All in a Row (year: 1971) |
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Ocean View High is an upscale suburban school in an otherwise unidentified community. It's 1971, the point when the sexual revolution started moving i ...
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| 48. Pretty Persuasion (year: 2005) |
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One of the "popular girls" decides to put her mean streak to work in this black comedy. Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood) is an outwardly fr ...
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| 49. Redrum (year: 2007) |
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The couple that slays together stays together in this satirical suspense comedy about a bored husband and wife who accidentally discover that they're ...
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| 50. Romeo Is Bleeding (year: 1994) |
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New York cop Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) has a nice home, a stunning wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra), and a sweet, if stupid mistress, Sheri (Juliett ...
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