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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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The Chain
Phil Mulloy’s contribution to a series of animated films commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights takes a characteristically dark view of the human condition. The discovery of a treasure map precipitates individual fisticuffs, declarations of war and all-out genocide. Lustrous chalk figures and symbolically...Start your free trial to watch
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Charlie the Ox
Nothing is quite as it appears in CHARLIE THE OX. Is Charlie a second-rate safecracker or is he one step ahead of the crime syndicate that seeks to squeeze him out of a substantial payoff? Directed by Sundance award-winning filmmaker Scott Smith, CHARLIE THE OX is a consistently clever caper starring Cory McAbee, Jon Polito...Start your free trial to watch
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Christmas Evil
Harry Stadling (Brandon Maggert) is obsessed with Christmas. In fact, he wants to be the authentic Santa Claus with a real suit, sleigh and reindeer. Ever since he learned the truth about Santa, he’s tried to make Christmas a reality. Growing up a toy maker, Harry is met with naysayers and critics who mock him for his...Start your free trial to watch
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Convict 13
CONVICT 13 pushes boundaries with the darkness of its comedy, particularly the scene in which Buster Keaton is about to be hanged in prison while his fellow inmates sit as spectators cheering on the proceedings with concessions sold as if it were a baseball game.Start your free trial to watch
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Cops
One of Buster Keaton's greatest and most famous comedies, COPS is universally enjoyed for the inventive comedy and amazing chase sequences. However, its darker aspects (Keaton's use of an anarchists bomb risked painful reminders of the horse and wagon, similar to the one Buster drives, that carried a bomb into New York city's...Start your free trial to watch
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Cruel, Cruel Love
Charles Chaplin, dressed in a top hat and frock coat and sporting a large moustache, plays a gentleman of means in this unusual comedy. The gentleman is a happy and attentive lover until his fiancee (Minta Durfee) ends their engagement after she believes she has caught him in a compromising situation with...Start your free trial to watch
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Dark Arc
From the director of the 90’s cult hit THE LAST BIG THING, comes a modern comedy noir about love, lust, art and the power of the image in today’s culture. DARK ARC tells the story of Viscount Laris, an eccentric modern-day dandy obsessed by the power of art and visual imagery to mold the behavior and psychology of the...Start your free trial to watch
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Dark Horse
In his mid-30s, Abe (Jordan Gelber) clings to the trappings of his adolescence, including the extensive collection of toys and action figures adorning his boyhood bedroom. Still living with his parents Jackie (Christopher Walken) and Phyllis (Mia Farrow), Abe works for his increasingly disappointed Dad and spends evenings...Start your free trial to watch
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Day of the Wacko
DAY OF THE WACKO is a black comedy from the director of the highly acclaimed NIC SMIESZNEGO (NOTHING FUNNY). It chronicles one day in the life of a teacher who is completely disillusioned with his reality. When he looks for the reasons for his unhappiness he blames his neighbors, his former wife and his...Start your free trial to watch
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Death in Charge
An impatient single mom leaves her 9-year-old daughter, Whitney, with Death, carelessly mistaking the dark-cloaked, scythe-carrying Reaper for her tardy babysitter. Whitney teaches Death about life's many marvels through violent video games, macaroni and cheese, and the magic of Sea Munkees. But when Whitney reveals some dark...Start your free trial to watch
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Death Kappa
When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the Death Kappa. The two rival...Start your free trial to watch
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Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS chronicles the rise and fall of Bunny, Kitty, and Patch (Hilary Rubens, Jennifer Schwartz, and Janet Housden), three teenage runaways who form an all-girl rock group, The Lovedolls. Their rise to fame from a nowhere, drug-filled street life, is overnight thanks to the sleazy...Start your free trial to watch
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The Director's Cut
A bloody, black comedy set in the harsh Australian outback, THE DIRECTOR'S CUT tells the tale of a tyrannical director attempting to shoot his first feature film on a farm in the middle of nowhere. When people start dying he has to decide which is more important: his crew, or his film.Start your free trial to watch
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Dogtooth
Graceful, enigmatic and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos to the forefront of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence...Start your free trial to watch
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Dottie Gets Spanked
Another dazzling suburban phantasm from writer/director Todd Haynes, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED (made post-POISON and pre-SAFE) is a stylized, bittersweet nod to his childhood fascination with I LOVE LUCY. Deep in the heart of pre-hippie 1960s America, young artistically-inclined Steven Gale is obsessed with...Start your free trial to watch
