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Black Comedy
see all genres ›Sardonic? Barbed? Baroque? Bizarre? Black comedies often employ gallows humor and exist at the darkest edge of laughability.
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Genres / Comedy / Black Comedy
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Aaltra
Comedians Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, who wrote, directed, and co-star in this irreverent road movie, show a distinct flair for understated physical comedy and defiantly non-PC humor. Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in an agricultural tractor, leaving them both...Start your free trial to watch
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Adam's Apples
Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. His current charges are a psychotic Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic tennis pro convicted of sexual assault. His newest "helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding...Start your free trial to watch
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All for Free
After his friends are killed in a bizarre bar room argument, Goran devises an unusual plan to deal with the loss: he will sell his house, buy a mobile tavern and travel from town to town, giving away free drinks to everyone he meets. But for everyone except Goran, the idea is strangely suspicious, and a bit absurd, in...Start your free trial to watch
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Animalada
Argentinean writer/director Sergio Bizzio directs ANIMALADA, the extremely bizarre and horrific black comedy about a man who falls in love with Fanny, a sheep at his family’s vacation ranch. Distracted and unhappy with his current marriage, Alberto (Carlo Roffe) seeks comfort with Fanny in a nearby barn. He tries to hide his...Start your free trial to watch
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Anywhere USA
In a trailer deposited in an unkempt pastoral glade, a woman who used to be an alternate on her high school tennis team beats her boyfriend senseless once a week. She beats him, 'cause, well he deserves it. It’s his act of redneck contrition. Meanwhile, an eight-year-old girl finds accidental elucidation; the sort of...Start your free trial to watch
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Armless
ARMLESS tells the story of a man who suffers from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (B.I.I.D.), a real-life psychological condition in which an individual paradoxically doesn't feel “whole” unless he loses one or more major limbs. When he leaves his wife and goes to find a doctor willing to amputate his arms, it triggers a...Start your free trial to watch
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Asian Stories
Jim is a young close-fisted Chinese American living in LA who finds himself with a stack of white flower themed disposable cameras, fleur-de-lis invitations, a number of champagne bottles and a ten-thousand dollar engagement ring bill. The only thing missing is a bride. In financial debt and miserable for having his fiancée...Start your free trial to watch
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Avida
Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, co-directors of the 2005 cult favorite AALTRA, return with AVIDA, another eye-popping dark comedy. The loony French filmmakers appear in leading roles as two of the three men whose plan to kidnap a wealthy woman's dog goes horribly awry. Instead of nabbing the dog, the "kidnappers" are...Start your free trial to watch
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The Back of Her Head
Josh Safdie made this assured comedy in and around his apartment building when he was still a film student at Boston University. The dioramic setup plays like a vertical REAR WINDOW: a shy daydreamer (played by Safdie) lives above an older Hindi man who lives above a reckless Brit who lives above a girl...Start your free trial to watch
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Bad
A possible prelude to NATURAL BORN KILLERS, executive producer Andy Warhol's BAD is as low as it goes. Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a...Start your free trial to watch
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Bad Biology
Acclaimed director Frank Henenlotter is back with a twisted tale of love and weirdness. Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and...Start your free trial to watch
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Blind Love
A blind woman falls in love with a short ventriloquist just by listening to his voice. When she meets him, however, she mistakes the ventriloquist for his much taller assistant. What ensues is a quirky and touching story of mistaken identity and sexual awakening.Start your free trial to watch
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The Bothersome Man
Forty year old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment, even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has...Start your free trial to watch
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Brain Damage
A worm-like parasite named Aylmer latches into Brian’s (Rock Herbst) neck and offers to inject his brain with a hallucinogenic fluid, giving him pleasurable psychedelic experiences. But the catch is, to keep the “high,” Brian has to feed Aylmer his favorite food: human brains! Directed by Frank Henenlotter, this amazing cult...Start your free trial to watch
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The Castle
A land surveyor identified simply as K is summoned to a remote mountain village by the local government, known as (and housed in) "the castle." Unable to convince underlings of the legitimacy of his position, he tries to take his case to castle officials. But the more K struggles to gain entrance, the more obstructive the...Start your free trial to watch