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List of tragicomedy movies

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Norman (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
Style: emotional, tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, terminal illness, misfit, coping, dishonesty, family problems, teenage life, social relations, teenage love, life is a bitch, introvert, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Quiz Me Quick (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
TV show
Story: The story of five underdogs, meeting by chance during a quiz in a local pub. They get the idea of taking part in the "Superprestige", the most important quiz. The selection procedure turns out to be difficult, requiring more than just ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, tragicomedy, captivating ...
Plot: ambition, friendship, misfit partners, partner, disorder, hopes, contests and competitions, underdog, trauma, unfulfillment, owner, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: flanders, belgium
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Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
Style: surreal, talky, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy ...
Plot: midlife crisis, car salesman, adaptation, surrealism, losing-it hero, self discovery, success, against the rules, couple relations, small town, small town life, satire ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: indiana, hawaii
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The Girl with Nine Wigs (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true story of a young woman whose lust for life means she is determined to be so very much more than just another cancer patient.
Style: tragicomedy, realistic, humorous, touching, emotional ...
Plot: cancer, hospital, terminal illness, physical appearance, life & death, bittersweet, surgery, human spirit, society, illness, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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Matterhorn (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Fred lives on his own. His wife is dead, his son has left. He leans on the church, busses, meat-and-two-veg. Then Leo appears. Leo is a tramp. Fred lets Leo move in with him. An absurdist feature debut with a laugh and a tear in stuffy Netherlands.
Style: tragicomedy, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: mentally challenged, friendship, loneliness, obsession, society, social relations, father figure, religion, father, lgbt, lgbtq, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, netherlands
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Don Quixote (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The classic tale of a man's dream, his epic journey, and one true love.
Style: tragicomedy, captivating, humorous, atmospheric, costume drama ...
Plot: don quixote, heroes, adventurer, obsession, on the road, tragic hero, good versus evil, rivalry, medieval, wooing, master and servant, satire ...
Time: 90s
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The Beaver (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: depression, mental illness, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, family drama, psychology, mental disorder, solitude, adaptation, happy ending, family relations, losing-it hero ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.3
 37K
Cyrus (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before long, the two are locked in a ...
Style: mumblecore, dark comedy, emotional, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: loneliness, life philosophy, stereotypes, love and romance, couple relations, uninhibited rivalry, looking for love, bittersweet, hipster, fraud, twists and turns, mother ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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Footnote (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his ...
Style: melancholic, meditative, surreal, tragicomedy, captivating ...
Plot: father son relationship, greed, israeli, secrets, existentialism, parents and children, family problems, ambition, religions or cults, estrangement, moral dilemma, writers ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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Gravity (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Gravity is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jill Franklyn and Eric Schaeffer. It premiered on April 23, 2010 on Starz in the United States. On June 30, 2010, Starz reported that Gravity had been canceled.
Style: realistic, tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, spooky ...
Plot: support group, suicide, father daughter relationship, life is a bitch, friendship, starting over, suicidal, mental disorder, human nature, hopes, misfit, plan gone awry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Way to Go (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: A black comedy about three ordinary guys who find themselves, forced by an extraordinary set of circumstances, into setting up an assisted-suicide business.
Style: humorous, semi serious, sitcom, tragicomedy, touching ...
Plot: dark humor, siblings relations, twentysomething life, friends, family relations, euthanasia, business, down on your luck, buddies, life is a bitch, suicide
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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The Prison Shift (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
TV show
Story: Sequel to 'The Night Shift' and 'The Day Shift'.
Style: humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Plot: prison, friends, social misfits, misfit, warden, confined, prison life, rules and policies, buddies
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe
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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
Style: compassionate, sentimental, surreal, stylized, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doctor, redemption, life philosophy, depression, family drama, hospital, life is a bitch, parents and children, introspection, dark humor, chases and races, heartwarming ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
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$50K and a Call Girl: A Love Story (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Ross is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given six weeks to live, his newly engaged older brother Seth offers to spend his $50,000 wedding fund on a final trip of a lifetime. Their plans are complicated when Ross invites a call girl to ...
Style: tragicomedy, semi serious, humorous, road movie, captivating ...
Plot: on the road, terminal illness, journey, fall in love, cross country, dark humor, unfulfillment, call girl, friendship, girl, prejudice, prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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Mi mejor enemigo (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After losing their bearings, a group of Chilean soldiers learns some lessons about their enemy's humanity in this dark comedy set during the 1970s war between Chile and Argentina. Digging in where they are, the troop soon discovers a nearby ...
Style: semi serious, tragicomedy, realistic, captivating, biting ...
Plot: military, soldier, friendship, culture clash, anti war, border, society, human nature, patrol, island, rivalry, football ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: chile, argentina, latin america, patagonia, south america
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America (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia, Brazil, Spain, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Lisa, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a Portuguese. Fernanda, the Spanish ex-wife of Victor, taking advantage of the coming wave of illegal immigrants in Portugal, wants to do business with false passports. Since then, and to ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, tragicomedy
Plot: social relations, couples, society, immigrant, dark humor, family relations, dishonesty, gang, couple relations, social misfits, mobster, forgery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, portugal
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Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Style: atmospheric, talky, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, jazz, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, fall in love, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, writers, addiction, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, chicago, usa
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Zero Motivation (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their ...
Style: funny, satirical, talky, witty, humorous ...
Plot: office, kick-butt women, military, military base, friendship, virginity, soldier, female soldier, israeli, best friend, military life, hapless soldier ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine
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Blue Jasmine (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ...
Style: depressing, psychological, realistic, tragicomedy, semi serious ...
Plot: depression, riches to rags, unfaithful husband, narcissism, suicide, family drama, mental illness, starting over, tragedy, sisters, relationships, family relations ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, new york, usa
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Go On (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Ryan King, a recent widower and sports talk radio host ready to get back to work after the loss of his wife. Ryan's alpha-male boss, Stephen, has a different plan in store for Ryan, making him attend grief counseling before returning to the ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, semi serious, realistic, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: group therapy, support group, grief, coping, loss, solace, therapy, therapist, uptight character, life turned upside down, patient, friendship between men ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Running with Scissors (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style: intense, disturbing, stylized, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, mental illness, adoption, therapist, writers, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, lesbian, parents and children, marital problem ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2006
Place: new york, seattle, massachusetts
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Titus (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Titus is an American dark comedy sitcom that debuted on Fox in 2000. The series was created by its star, Christopher Titus, Jack Kenny, and Brian Hargrove. This sitcom was based on Christopher's stand-up comedy act, more specifically his ...
Style: humorous, tragicomedy, cynical, not serious, witty ...
Plot: comedian, dysfunctional family, childhood, suicide, mechanic, family problems, siblings relations, dark humor, parents and children, workplace romance, suburban life, father son relationship ...
Time: y2k, 90s
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Observe and Report (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective is recruited to close ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, disturbing, satirical ...
Plot: shopping mall, workplace, farce, security guard, unrequited love, justice, delusion, police investigation, thief, workplace situations, adolescence vs adulthood, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
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The Night Shift (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Three men working at a petrol station in Reykjavik battle boredom, strange visitors and their own customers.
Style: humorous, semi serious, tragicomedy, captivating, light ...
Plot: gas station, workplace, workplace situations, obnoxious boss, boss and employee, loser, misfit, friendship, rivalry, customer, love, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe
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Skins (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A story about four spanish people who see themselves as freaks and seldom go outside...
Style: disturbing, tragicomedy, surreal, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: body horror, love triangle, loneliness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, outcast, self mutilation, surrealism, absurdism, psychiatrist, social misfits, society, relationship problems ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, year 2017
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The Priest's Children (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, tragicomedy, suspense ...
Plot: satire, priest, pregnancy, mediterranean, clergy, religions or cults, unwanted pregnancy, village life, society, dishonesty, disorder, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, balkan, croatia
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Miracle (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland, UK, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man who appears to be the answer to all her prayers.
Style: tragicomedy, ironic, captivating, humorous, tense ...
Plot: capitalism, communism, small town, farm, transformation, dream, poverty, church, money, faith, betrayal, secret ...
Time: year 1992
Place: lithuania
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The King of Comedy (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
Style: tragicomedy, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, talky ...
Plot: obsession, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, character study, delusion, kidnapping, artists and showbiz, insanity, satire, psychology, television ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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The Sheikh (2022)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: Follows a con artist who reinvents himself as the heir of an Arabic fortune.
Style: tragicomedy, semi serious, thrilling, captivating, satirical
Plot: town, con artists, satire, pretending to be someone else, impersonating, cons and scams, impostor, deception, con trick, imposture, village
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