Genre "Black Comedy" Movies
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| 51. Scrooged (year: 1988) |
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A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the ...
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| 52. Secretary (year: 2002) |
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Sadomasochism provides the backdrop for a very unusual employer/employee relationship in this very offbeat romantic drama from filmmaker Steven Shainb ...
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| 53. Southland Tales (year: 2006) |
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California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama ...
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| 54. Storytelling (year: 2001) |
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From the controversial director of Happiness comes another dark look at New Jersey, this time broken into two separate stories. The first is a 26-minu ...
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| 55. The Acid House (year: 1998) |
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This adaptation of three stories from Irvine Welsh's short-story collection of the same name reunites Annie Louise Ross, Kevin McKidd, and Ewen Bremne ...
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| 56. The Addams Family (year: 1991) |
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Inspired more by the 1960s TV series than by the original Charles Addams New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family proved to be one of the more successfu ...
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| 57. The Anniversary (year: 1968) |
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Bette Davis plays a wealthy one-eyed widow (complete with designer eye patch) who gathers her sons together once a year to celebrate the death of the ...
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| 58. The Chumscrubber (year: 2005) |
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The death of a troubled teen throws a suburban neighborhood into chaos in this darkly satirical comedy. Dean (Jamie Bell) is a disaffected teenager li ...
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| 59. The Cottage (year: 2008) |
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A criminal scheme gone wrong is just the start of a string of life-threatening bad luck in this darkly comic thriller. David (Andy Serkis) and Peter ( ...
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| 60. The Couch Trip (year: 1988) |
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Michael Ritchie's The Couch Trip follows a long line of Hollywood films (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Disorderly Orderly) in which the psychos ...
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| 61. The Ladykillers (year: 1955) |
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| 62. The Mad Butcher (year: 1971) |
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An ex-butcher (Victor Buono) escapes from an institution and wreaks havoc with a varied array of meat cutters.
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| 63. The Matsugane Potshot Affair (year: 2006) |
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When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and dar ...
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| 64. The Ruling Class (year: 1972) |
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An institutionalized schizophrenic with a Messiah complex inherits the position of an English Earl in this cutting satire of British society, based on ...
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| 65. The Untold Story (year: 1992) |
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Herman Yau Lai-to spins this notoriously grisly crime yarn based on a real-life case of Wong Chi-hang and his ill-fated venture into the restaurant bu ...
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| 66. The Whole Nine Yards (year: 2000) |
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In this black comedy, a criminal discovers a market for murder in the suburbs. After doing time in prison, mobster Jimmy the Tulip (Bruce Willis) move ...
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| 67. The Witches of Eastwick (year: 1987) |
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The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends &mdash ...
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| 68. Twin Town (year: 1997) |
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In British television writer-director Kevin Allen's feature film debut, the industrial town of Swansea, Wales, is viewed through the post-punk lens of ...
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| 69. Very Bad Things (year: 1998) |
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Peter Berg made his directorial debut with this black comedy about suburbanite Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau), his future bride Laura (Cameron Diaz) and hi ...
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| 70. Viridiana (year: 1961) |
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After 25 years' exile, Luis Buñuel was invited to his native Spain to direct Viridiana — only to have the Spanish government suppress the fi ...
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| 71. Visitor Q (year: 2001) |
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Takashi Miike spins this black comedy about the most dysfunctional family on the planet. The film opens with a father (Kenichi Endo) — a gun ...
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| 72. Welcome to the Dollhouse (year: 1995) |
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Twelve-year-old Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is perhaps the most put-upon adolescent in film history in Todd Solondz's bitterly hilarious black com ...
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| 73. Welcome to Woop Woop (year: 1997) |
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In part, filmmaker Stephan Elliott (best known for The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert) made this black, surrealistic and subversive comed ...
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| 74. Wild at Heart (year: 1990) |
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Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie Wild at Heart. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent e ...
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| 75. Wristcutters: A Love Story (year: 2006) |
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Relegated to a forlorn afterlife of unsmiling lost souls and melancholy drifters as a result of committing suicide in the mortal realm, a heartbroken ...
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| 76. Year of the Dog (year: 2007) |
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An unremarkable administrative assistant finds her life going to the dogs both literally and figuratively in actor/screenwriter-turned-director Mike W ...
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