Black comedy movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant black comedy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out dark comedy, black comedy, weird, clever, humorous and funny films and TV shows about / with dialogue, dark humor, satire, storytelling, brutality, murder, profanity, mentor, death and cult plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
black comedy movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as black comedy: American Beauty (1999), The Big Lebowski (1998), Withnail & I (1987), Delicatessen (1991), Horrible Bosses (2011), Pulp Fiction (1994), Office Space (1999), Happiness (1998), Super (2010), Parasite (2019).

List of black comedy movies

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 8.3
 1.3M
American Beauty (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style: melancholic, thought provoking, sexual, dark comedy, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional marriage, youth, adultery, suburbs ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place: usa, america, los angeles, iran
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events ...
Style: black comedy, absurd, funny, neo noir, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bowling, dialogue, mistaken identity, slacker, hippie, weed, marijuana, great dialogue, laziness, dream, twists and turns, heart attack ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place: los angeles, iraq, america, arizona, usa ...
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 7.5
 52K
Withnail & I (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the ...
Style: black comedy, cult classic, offbeat, dark comedy, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, homoerotic friendship, poverty, alcohol abuse, addiction, great dialogue, homosexuality, road trip, pub, drug, great ending, dark humor ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1987, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, northern england, europe
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 7.5
 94K
Delicatessen (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This bizarre surrealistic black comedy takes place in a small fictitious post-apocalyptic town where food is scarce and butcher Clapet has the macabre business of using human flesh to feed his customers. Yet when his daughter falls in love with his ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, art house, visual, offbeat ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: dark humor, dystopia, surrealism, cannibal, cannibalism, food, underground, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, dystopian future, imagination, european ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, distant future, future
Place: france
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 6.9
 486K
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a ...
Style: humorous, funny, sexy, laugh out loud, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: dark humor, comedy of errors, murder, obnoxious boss, boss, dentist, friends, revenge, boss and employee, sexual harassment, sarcasm, stupidity ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 8.8
 2.4M
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, witty, exciting, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: dark humor, gunfight, violence, hitman, gangster, organized crime, overdose, storytelling, violent, professional killer, multiple storylines, foul language ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, america, britain ...
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Netherlands
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but ...
Style: sexy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: food, cannibalism, brutality, restaurant, taboo sex, violence, sex, gangster, adultery, public humiliation, surrealism, sex scene ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s, future
Place: britain
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 7.6
 306K
Office Space (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
Style: cult classic, dark comedy, laugh out loud, satirical, funny ...
Audience: date night, kids, adult
Plot: workplace, dark humor, office, computer, friendship, satire, embezzlement, corporate world, rebelliousness, waitress, obnoxious boss, workplace situations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, y2k
Place: texas, dallas texas, austin texas, usa, mexico
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 7.7
 79K
Happiness (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Style: black comedy, controversial, cynical, depressing, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, pedophilia, pedophile, dark humor, satire, therapist, depression, suburbs, unsettling, unhappiness, social satire ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey
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 6.7
 87K
Super (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
Style: black comedy, independent film, sexy, cynical, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, superhero, revenge, dark humor, rape, violent, vigilantism, gory, female on male rape, obsessive quest, humiliation, heroin ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, north america, new jersey
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 8.5
 1.1M
Parasite (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story: All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style: suspense, black comedy, psychological thriller, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, scam, wealth, basement, plot twist, rich snob, driver, unemployment ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: south korea, east asia, seoul, asia, india
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 7.1
 78K
Re-Animator (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style: splatter, lovecraft, bloody, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: violence, mad scientist, zombie, insanity, reanimated corpse, female nudity, dark humor, overdose, gory, laboratory, hospital, evil scientist ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, europe, austria, zurich switzerland
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 6.3
 66K
The Voices (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, dark, surreal, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: serial killer, mental illness, psychopath, blood, hearing voices, murder, psychiatrist, schizophrenic, hallucination, dog, childhood trauma, crush ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!
Style: black comedy, parody, independent film, dark comedy, spoof ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: zombie, cemetery, nudity, cannibalism, punk, monster, female nudity, crematorium, undead, living dead, zombie apocalypse, paramedic ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief ...
Style: black comedy, ambiguous ending, dark comedy, crime drama, psychological ...
Plot: small town, revenge, rape, small town life, loss of daughter, billboard, police brutality, regret, death of daughter, anger, violence, guilty conscience ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: missouri, idaho, persia, america, usa
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 7.6
 95K
After Hours (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style: surreal, black comedy, funny, dark comedy, atmospheric ...
Plot: dark humor, twists and turns, subway, city life, nothing goes right, suicide, mistaken identity, artist, coincidence, female nudity, diner, nightclub ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 7.1
 93K
Wag the Dog (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
Style: black comedy, satirical, dark comedy, political, cynical ...
Plot: politics, satire, political corruption, journalism, election, cia, conspiracy, government, political conspiracy, secret service, president, election campaign ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., albania, persia, usa, middle east ...
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 7.4
 46K
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, mockumentary, humorous, brutal ...
Plot: serial killer, brutality, macabre, rape, violent, found footage, gory, satire, sadistic psychopath, visceral, art, dark humor ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: europe, brussels, belgium, brussels belgium
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 8.1
 201K
Mary and Max (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless ...
Style: depressing, touching, emotional, sad, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: loneliness, stop motion, friendship, social misfits, letter, depression, melancholy, asperger's syndrome, young woman, relationships, solitude, mental illness ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 2000s, year 1976, 70s
Place: australia, oceania, persia, usa, new york ...
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When her great aunt dies famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight new England town to Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house a witches cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream ...
Style: gothic, parody, humorous, black comedy, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: witch, inheritance, witchcraft, goth, magic, demon, hostess, female protagonist, halloween, small town, good versus evil, big breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: las vegas, new england, usa, massachusetts
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 7.2
 176K
The Lost Boys (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires ...
Style: black comedy, cult classic, gothic, horror comedy, scary ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: vampire, small town, single mother, supernatural, amusement park, goth, teenage boy, vampire hunter, fear, coming of age, brother brother relationship, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, wisconsin, pacific ocean, georgia ...
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Style: suspense, black comedy, gothic, horror comedy, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: werewolf, monster, nightmare, transformation, supernatural, full moon, violence, monster as victim, gory, wolf, ghost, hospital ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, northern england ...
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The Addams Family (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Uncle Fester has been missing for 25 years. An evil doctor finds out and introduces a fake Fester in an attempt to get the Addams Family's money. The youngest daughter has some doubts about the new uncle Fester, but the fake uncle adapts very ...
Style: gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, horror for children, teen drama ...
Plot: goth, halloween, dark humor, childhood, eccentric family, supernatural ability, fantasy world, husband wife relationship, family relations, uncle, supernatural, witch ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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 6.8
 58K
To Die For (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Suzanne Stone (Maretto) wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with ...
Style: sexy, black comedy, satirical, dark comedy, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: journalism, femme fatale, satire, female protagonist, erotic fantasy, teenage girl, oral sex, murder, television, cheating wife, adultery, erotic scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: new hampshire, usa, california, minnesota, canada
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 7.1
 126K
Heathers (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
Style: black comedy, teen, witty, cult classic, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen fantasy, adult ...
Plot: murder, high school, dark humor, suicide, murderous pair, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, satire, teenage life, insanity, sociopath ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, california, canada
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The War of the Roses (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, satirical, psychological, cynical ...
Plot: divorce, battle of the sexes, lawyer, dark humor, dysfunctional family, marriage, divorce lawyer, dysfunctional marriage, relationships, death, greed, married couple ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., harvard university
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 8.1
 46K
Dead Like Me (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Dead Like Me follows a group of undead grim reapers tasked with shepherding the recently departed into the afterlife.
Style: witty, sentimental, black comedy, cynical, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, dealing with death, dark humor, supernatural ability, employer employee relationship, young man, unfulfillment, loser, death, tragic event, workplace ...
Place: seattle
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Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, UK, USA, India
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
Style: humorous, funny, dark comedy, absurd, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: death, gory, dark humor, vacation, group of friends, student, nothing goes right, accidental killing, youth, chainsaw, friends, freak accident ...
Time: year 2010, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: virginia, west virginia, usa, canada
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Ruthless People (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, raunchy comedy, funny, hilarious ...
Plot: kidnapping, videotaped sex, greed, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, farce, businessman, misunderstanding, ransom, revenge, fashion, stockholm syndrome ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, seattle, santa monica california
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 7.0
 167K
Bad Santa (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.
Style: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, sexy, cynical ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, adult
Plot: dark humor, christmas, profanity, christmas eve, bully, alcohol abuse, bullying, casual sex, misfit, anti hero, christmas season, cons and scams ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, arizona, miami, milwaukee wisconsin, north america ...
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