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94 films tagged dark comedy, showing 50
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2023 · Drama
A Black novelist whose careful books nobody buys writes, as a joke, the crude street story publishers keep asking him for. Half of it is that joke going too far, half is his family at home.
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2025 · Mystery
A private eye in Bakersfield looks into the death of a woman who called her scared the day before, and the trail leads to a church with a very hands-on reverend. Loose and jokey, and it keeps stopping to flirt.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Crime
A New York bartender agrees to look after his neighbour's cat in 1998, and within days Russian gangsters have put him in hospital over a key he knows nothing about. It moves fast and gets bloody.
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2025 · Horror
A lawyer and his teenage daughter hit a unicorn with the car on the way to his billionaire boss's estate, and find its blood cures whatever it touches. The family wants to make a business of it, and the comedy is at their expense.
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2024 · Comedy
A Brooklyn sex worker meets the young son of a Russian oligarch, and a week of spending turns into a marriage his family has no plan to allow. Loud and fast, and the back half is mostly people arguing in cars and hallways.
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2025 · Horror
A killer who hunts couples every Valentine's Day mistakes two coworkers at a work dinner for a date. Half romantic comedy, half slasher, and it keeps swapping between the two.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A wealthy couple keep a violent nineteen-year-old chained in their cellar and set about making him a better person, and the housekeeper they hire finds him down there. Mostly one house, and uncomfortable throughout.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1970 a plane out of Tokyo is hijacked by radicals demanding to be flown to Pyongyang, and Seoul's spy agency sends its best fixer to get the hostages back. A black comedy, mostly about the men on the ground.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
A brother and sister find a dead body in their parents' basement. It is played as a comedy, with a small cast and a short running time.
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2025 · Fantasy
A man buys a vacuum cleaner, finds it haunted, and the repairman he calls tells him about the factory where it was made and the worker who died there. A Thai ghost story played as a black comedy.
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2025 · Comedy
Two sisters known as the best sahti brewers in town are asked to make a hundred litres for their sister's wedding, and drink all of it the night before. The rest is a hungover scramble to replace it in time.
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2025 · Crime
An ageing hitman is offered a deal for his freedom. The story then runs twice, once straight as a thriller and once as a broad comedy, and the whole thing is barely an hour long.
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2025 · Comedy
A sex worker learns a curse can be lifted for a thousand dollars and a lamb, and sets off across a junk-strewn city on her moped to raise it. One long night of strange encounters, one after another.
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2025 · Comedy
A shy man who lives with his parents and sings in a barbershop quartet is picked up by a biker and moves into a strict submissive role in his house. Dry, blunt and often funny about it.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1950 a stateless arms dealer survives his sixth assassination attempt and brings his daughter, a novice nun, into a huge building scheme he cannot fund. Most of it is him going partner to partner, talking money.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
An architect and a chef move to California, and then her restaurant takes off in the same week his building falls down. The marriage sours from there, in very sharp dialogue.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
Cinderella from the stepsister's side: a mother with no money puts her eldest through crude, painful surgery to make her fit to win the prince at the ball. The body horror is close up and does not look away.
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2025 · Comedy
A graduate student at a small college in Maine is raped by her thesis adviser, and the film follows the years of her life around it. Quiet, often funny, with her best friend never far away.
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2025 · Comedy
Two men meet at a support group in Portland for people who have lost a twin, and become inseparable. It is a black comedy, and it stays uncomfortably close to the friendship.
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2025 · Comedy
A man whose wife has just asked for a divorce flees to his best friend's beach house, finds out that couple has an open marriage, and sleeps with the wife. After that it is four people arguing, negotiating and fighting.
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2025 · Comedy
Out after fifteen years for a bank robbery, a man finds the brother who buried the money now believes he is John Lennon and cannot remember where. A psychiatrist suggests playing along.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
An elderly London painter's children secretly hire a young artist to finish the series he abandoned, planning to sell it after he dies. He is sharper than they think, and it is mostly two people in a studio.
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2025 · Comedy
Four months into dating, a couple go away for a weekend in the country, and after he says he is not looking for anything serious she leaves him cuffed to the bed. Two people arguing in one farmhouse.
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2025 · Horror
A mutant mouse gets loose on the last Staten Island ferry of the night and works its way through the passengers and crew. A gory horror comedy that never leaves the boat.
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2025 · Horror
Two men rent a country house so their parents can meet for the first time, and the weekend is going badly before the house itself starts acting up. A comic haunting with both sets of parents stuck in it.
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2025 · Horror
A zombie outbreak starts on the night of a huge warehouse party, and the drag queens, club kids and squabbling friends inside have to put their feuds down and fight their way out. It is a comedy first.
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2025 · Comedy
A bailiff in Cluj evicts a homeless man from a basement and he kills himself, which happens early and leaves her going around the city trying to work out what she owes him. It is played as black comedy, and the guilt sets in straight away.
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2026 · Comedy
The masked killer from the first Scary Movie turns up again, and Cindy Campbell, now a paranoid shut-in, is dragged out by the friends and family around her. Gag after gag, aimed squarely at the first two films.
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2026 · Comedy
A week before their wedding, a couple and their two closest friends start confessing the worst things they have ever done, and one confession lands far heavier than the rest. Dark, talky, and mostly about what people can live with.
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2026 · Horror
Straight after surviving one rich family's deadly game, Grace and her estranged sister are taken to a house where four more families have until dawn to kill her. It is a chase through a big building, as funny as it is nasty.
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2026 · Thriller
A luxury suit salesman in New York finds he is still in line for a $28 billion family fortune, and starts killing his way up the list. A black comedy that works through the plan one relative at a time.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
A hitman who wants out of the mob does one last job for a loan shark whose wife he is sleeping with, and finds a second copy of that loan shark waiting for him. A crime comedy that turns into a time travel problem.
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2026 · Thriller
A failing director takes his wife to their lakeside cabin planning to kill her, and finds she has been planning the same thing for him. Then other people start turning up at the cabin.
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2026 · Comedy
An A-list actor back from five years of getting sober learns someone has a damaging video of him, and he has no idea what is on it. He goes round making amends with everyone he has wronged, one awkward visit at a time.
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2026 · Comedy
An introvert hoping to reinvent herself at college picks the friendliest girl at orientation as her roommate, and the year sours from there. A dean tells the whole story to two students who think they have it bad.
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2026 · Thriller
A rich family newly moved from New York to the Catalan coast lives in its own sealed world, until one of the sons brings a girlfriend home. It plays as a black comedy, with the family's own strangeness as the joke.
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2026 · Thriller
Twin sisters scarred as children in a fire their father set are called to the deathbed of the mother they thought died in it, and she asks them to kill him. A loud revenge story with a mean streak of comedy.
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2026 · Comedy
A middle-class couple set about getting their nine-year-old into an expensive private school, and tell themselves it is all for his future. A black comedy about parents and social class.
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2025 · Comedy
A startup boss who only knows how to do research has to win a huge government contract off a rival who is much better at buying favours, so he takes up golf. Most of it is deals angled for over drinks.
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2026 · Comedy
An eighteenth-century Yorkshire couple with nothing left are told a duke and duchess are coming to stay, and sell everything they own to put on a decent show. Their servants are working against them.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Comedy
A mild biology professor finds he has started turning up in the dreams of strangers all over the world, doing nothing in particular. It plays as a comedy about sudden fame and gets darker as it goes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2014 · Comedy
A young office worker talks his way into a band whose singer never takes off the large fake head he wears, and follows them to a cabin to record an album. Odd and funny early, heavier later.
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2017 · Comedy
An American figure skater comes up poor and hard in a sport that wants her sweet, told through interviews with everyone who was there. Funny and mean, and the people telling it keep contradicting each other.
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2019 · Comedy
A ten-year-old in the Hitler Youth, whose imaginary friend is a clownish Adolf Hitler, finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Broad silly jokes sitting right next to the worst thing in the room.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Comedy
A Victorian surgeon brings a drowned woman back to life, and she starts again from nothing, learning fast and then running off across Europe with a bad lawyer. Big sets, odd colors, and very blunt talk about sex.
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2002 · Comedy
A lonely man who sells novelty bathroom supplies, has seven sisters, and loses his temper in ways he cannot explain meets a woman who likes him anyway. Loud in odd places, and ninety minutes long.
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2020 · Comedy
A student turns up at a family shiva and finds her ex-girlfriend and the older man she has been seeing in the same crowded house. Seventy-eight minutes in one home, and it tightens the whole way.
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2008 · Crime
Two Irish hitmen are sent to a picture-postcard Belgian town to lie low after a job, and one of them is bored out of his mind. They wait for a phone call.
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2018 · Comedy
A broke telemarketer in Oakland finds that putting on a white voice on the phone gets him promoted, and the promotion takes him somewhere odd. It starts as an office comedy and keeps getting stranger.
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1996 · Crime
A car salesman short of money hires two men to kidnap his own wife, and the plan goes wrong immediately. A very pregnant small-town police chief works it out at her own pace.
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