Absurdism movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant absurdism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out surreal, weird, humorous, dark comedy, absurd and black comedy films and TV shows about / with absurdism, surrealism, dark humor, satire, death, blood, female nudity, murder, violence and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Drama genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as absurdism: Greedy Guts (2000), Rubber (2010), Kin-dza-dza! (1986), Idiocracy (2006), FLCL (2000), Alps (2011), Jam (2000), The Lobster (2015), Sorry to Bother You (2018), Dave Made a Maze (2017).

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 7.3
 7K
Greedy Guts (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Audience: kids
Plot: surrealism, killer child, folk horror, absurdism, tree, baby, monster, dark humor, obsession, couple relations, parents and children, macabre ...
Time: 90s
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
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 5.7
 40K
Rubber (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In the California desert, the adventures of a telepathic killer-tire, mysteriously attracted by a very pretty girl, as witnessed by incredulous onlookers.
Style: absurd, parody, surreal, horror comedy, road movie ...
Plot: absurdism, desert, supernatural, filmmaking, objects come to life, crazy, danger, monster, surrealism, trippy, twists and turns, car ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, california, southern california, mojave desert
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 7.9
 14K
Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, offbeat, humorous, enigmatic ...
Plot: desert, surrealism, alien, totalitarianism, satire, distopia, absurdism, time travel, society, post apocalyptic, racism, capitalism ...
Time: future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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 6.5
 180K
Idiocracy (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a ...
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, absurd, dark comedy, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, stupidity, time travel, satire, dystopian future, dystopia, evolution, social satire, absurdism, dimwit, society, hibernation ...
Time: future, year 2006, y2k, distant future, year 2005 ...
Place: texas, usa, washington d.c.
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 8.1
 20K
FLCL (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Canada, UK, France
Duration: 151 min.
TV show
Story: In this 6-part mini-series, a 12-year old boy named Naota one day meets a strange woman, riding a Vespa and wielding a big guitar. As soon as she appears, mysterious things start happening.
Style: anime, atmospheric, psychedelic, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, absurdism, robot, alien, imaginary, surrealism, space and aliens, stranger, youth, monster, friendship, androids and robots ...
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 6.4
 14K
Alps (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, serious, art house ...
Plot: absurdism, workplace, death in the family, dark humor, family problems, human nature, losing-it hero, dealing with death, boss and employee, hospital, nurse, ethical dilemma ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: greece
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Style: black comedy, black and white, dark comedy, political, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: cold war, military, satire, nuclear war, nuclear threat, anti war, disaster, doomsday, nuclear holocaust, u.s. president, nuclear, president ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1942
Place: soviet union, washington d.c., persia, united kingdom, britain ...
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 8.4
 3K
Jam (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A collection of bleakly dark comedy sketches pushing the boundaries of taste, decency and television in general, shot using new and different techniques and fading slowly in and out of each other against a slow musical soundtrack. Regular themes ...
Style: postmodern, surreal, not serious, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: social satire, absurdism, irreverence, society, dark humor, disorder, politically correct, sketch, surrealism, craziness, satire, humour ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england
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 7.1
 291K
The Lobster (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style: surreal, art house, absurd, ironic, allegory ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dystopia, society, blindness, distopia, absurdism, manhunt, love, solitude, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, woods ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, near future, future
Place: ireland, greece, hellas
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Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, mindfuck, captivating ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: black american, social satire, labor union, capitalism, satire, absurdism, absurd humor, labor strike, slave labor, protest, slavery, surrealism ...
Time: 90s, 2010s
Place: oakland california, california
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Dave Made a Maze (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A frustrated artist gets lost inside the cardboard fort he builds in his living room.
Style: surreal, horror comedy, exciting, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: maze, surrealism, absurdism, art, trap, artist, friendship, rescue, trapped, photographer, promise, death ...
Time: year 2017
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style: cerebral, surreal, philosophical, psychedelic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, fight, multiverse, lgbt, alternate universe, chinese immigrant, immigrant, mother daughter relationship, time travel, save the world, good versus evil, kung fu ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: brighton
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 6.1
 6K
Black Moon (1975)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, experimental, psychological ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: surrealism, breast feeding, absurdism, children, pig, death, old woman, misogyny, girl, brother sister relationship, female soldier, talking animal ...
Time: year 1975, future
Place: turkey
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Death Race 2050 (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The year 2050 the planet has become overpopulated, to help control population the government develops a race. The Death Race. Annually competitors race across the country scoring points for killing people with their vehicles.
Style: suspense, humorous, exciting, captivating, psychotronic ...
Plot: car chase, car race, murder, dark humor, absurdism, corporate world, dystopia, carsploitation, brutality, overpopulation, cynicism, totalitarianism ...
Place: usa, texas, atlanta georgia, utah, south dakota ...
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 8.7
 404K
South Park (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Style: adult cartoon, adult animation, parody, dark comedy, cynical ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot: gross out humor, social satire, satire, racial slur, elementary school, gay slur, mischievous children, young kid, young heroes, vicious, adult humor, friends ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: colorado, nova scotia, usa
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 6.2
 11K
Wrong (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to realize he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others -- risking his sanity all the while.
Style: surreal, experimental, not serious, humorous, mindfuck ...
Plot: surrealism, identity crisis, disorder, mysterious character, pets, absurdism, lost dog, hipster, dog, human relationship, existentialism, mental disorder ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Aachi and Ssipak (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sometime in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. To reward production, the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like "Juicybars", ...
Style: adult animation, anime, entertaining, absurd, apocalyptic ...
Plot: distopia, absurd humor, absurdism, social satire, dark humor, nihilism, political satire, self involved, dystopia, adult humor, socially awkward, silly humor ...
Time: future
Place: south korea, korea
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Waiting for Godot (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
Style: psychological, minimal cast, dark comedy, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: absurdism, mute, slave, slavery, friendship, drifter, social problems, philosophy, existentialism, love letter, blindness, moon ...
Time: future
Place: ireland
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 6.9
 41K
Repo Man (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, alien, surrealism, car trunk, punk rocker, absurdism, mad scientist, car chase, conspiracy theory, punk rock, ufo, business ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place: california, los angeles, arizona, usa
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and ...
Style: grindhouse, bloody, disturbing, dark comedy, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vigilante, vigilantism, homeless, gory, violence spree, social decay, violence, fighting crime, bum, prostitute, brutality, vengeance ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: nova scotia, usa
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 6.8
 4K
Putney Swope (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Swope is the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, and is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board.
Style: independent film, surreal, black and white, black comedy, funny ...
Plot: advertising, satire, business, absurdism, advertising executive, advertising agency, employer employee relationship, husband wife relationship, ceo, board of directors, blaxploitation, racism ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: new york, usa, philadelphia
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 7.2
 100K
Wild at Heart (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Style: surreal, road movie, black comedy, avant garde, dark comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: on the road, murder, surrealism, forbidden love, on the run, road trip, violence, sex scene, domineering mother, rape, haunted by the past, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: new orleans, texas, austin texas, usa, california ...
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Style: surreal, disturbing, talky, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: surrealism, high society, social commentary, dream, satire, dinner, adultery, farce, social satire, bourgeoisie, dark humor, decadence ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
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 5.2
 421
Baby Bump (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 11-year-old Mickey House is no longer a child. But who is he? He doesn’t know. He’s friendless. He doesn’t understand his mother. He hates what’s happening to his body. Reality and imagination come together in a toxic mix. Events escalate to ...
Style: captivating, uplifting, humorous, entertaining, emotional ...
Plot: puberty, absurdism, teenage sexuality, teenage life, family relations, parents and children, mother son relationship, society, sex talk, life philosophy, school, youth ...
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Friend of the World (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Style: suspense, postmodern, independent film, black and white, dark comedy ...
Plot: body horror, military, absurdism, surrealism, parasite, post apocalypse, fight, murder, violence, filmmaker, zombie, survival horror ...
Time: 2020s, future, near future, 21st century
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3-Headed Shark Attack (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The world’s greatest killing machine is three times as deadly when a mutated shark threatens a cruise ship. As the shark eats its way from one end of the ship to the next, the passengers fight the deadly predator using anything they can find.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, captivating, disturbing, intense ...
Plot: shark, shark attack, monster, creature feature, mutation, eaten alive, absurdism, cruise ship, machete, fisherman, beach, animal attack ...
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The Onion Movie (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Venerable newscaster Norm Archer reports the latest news in politics, health, culture and entertainment - such as an automotive recall of decapitation-inducing "Neckbelts" and a study finding that "depression hits losers ...
Style: parody, funny, spoof, black comedy, satirical ...
Audience: manly
Plot: satire, journalism, terrorism, sexual humor, irreverence, television, politics, office, racism, stereotypes, media, danger ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a ...
Style: surreal, humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, dark ...
Plot: surrealism, suicide, absurdism, zombie, parents and children, family life, resort, nothing goes right, murder, husband wife relationship, mountain, solar eclipse ...
Time: year 2001
Place: japan
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychopath, revenge, blackmail, dysfunctional family, surgeon, obsession, mysterious stranger, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, recovering alcoholic, desperation, dead father ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: ancient greece, ireland
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 6.9
 3K
Smosh (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Two hilarious guys put on different sketch comedy performances for the masses to enjoy.
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, surreal, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, absurdism, toilet humor, silly humor, buddies, friends, computers and web, irresponsible, weirdo, comedy duo, sketch, videotaping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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