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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 Higher Force
David, a low-life debt collector in Reykjavik, Iceland, becomes the main man of his paranoid debt collector gang by pretending to know a renowned crime lord, a neighbor of his who happens to be a lonely school teacher with illusion of grandeur and troubles at work. As the gang goes about their business,...Start your free trial to watch
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Highway 61
The story of a small-town barber (Don McKellar) who teams up with a roadie (Valerie Buhagiar) as they pack a corpse on the roof of a 1963 Ford Galaxy 500 and set off on a high-emission odyssey featuring a traveling feast of gothic weirdness from northern Canada to New Orleans.Start your free trial to watch
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Home
Switzerland's official entry for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 82nd Academy Awards®, HOME is a mesmerizing fable of modern family life starring internationally renowned actress Isabelle Huppert. Huppert plays Marthe, a happy-go-lucky mother whose family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home,...Start your free trial to watch
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Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother
Phil Mulloy doesn’t illustrate the Fourth Commandment so much as obliterate it. The parents are pill-popping, cell phone-talking creeps sitting pretty in an oil field. Typical adults in Mulloy’s dystopic universe. Their young son draws his own lesson from their abuse.Start your free trial to watch
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Isn't Life Terrible
Taking aim at the sanctimonious tone of D.W. Griffith’s ISN’T LIFE WONDERFUL? (1924), this buoyant Charley Chase two-reeler plays life's tough breaks as gags. Hal Roach house director Leo McCarey’s typically patient camera setups allow for a hilarious interval between slapstick disasters and Chase’s...Start your free trial to watch
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John's Gone
JOHN'S GONE is a fever dream comedy. John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. He is punch drunk, not with love but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's gone. With JOHN'S GONE, the Safdie brothers fully embrace the aesthetic of...Start your free trial to watch
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Karaoke Terror
From the mind of writer Ryu Murakami comes the satirical tale of two groups of outsiders who make war on each other set to a soundtrack of retro karaoke hits. A gang of young slacker guys (the Gakis) idle away their time just hanging out, their sole passion in life being elaborate karaoke recreations of their favorite...Start your free trial to watch
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Khorma
Jilani Saadi's debut film is set in the arid Tunisian village of Bizerte. With his red-blond hair, green jacket and quirky personal habits, KHORMA is the town's kindly joke, a big, well-meaning lug. His guardian is a crafty old Bou Khaleb, the official announcer of births, deaths, and marriages. When the old man mistakenly...Start your free trial to watch
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Laila's Birthday
"At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?" Palestinian-judge-turned-cab-driver Abu Laila's wife reminds her husband. But on his young daughter's birthday (like any day), Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty and a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Last Big Thing
From a bland tract house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Simon Geist (with occasional help from his platonic girlfriend Darla) wages war against all of modern American popular culture. Geist starts up a magazine called “The Next Big Thing” which he uses to confront and insult upcoming actors, comics,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Last Laugh
Emil Jannings stars in the bleak fable of an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his identity and confidence. Through Janning's colossal perfomance, THE LAST LAUGH becomes more than the plight of a single doorman, but a mournful...Start your free trial to watch
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Love and Anarchy
An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller, LOVE AND ANARCHY plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini. Giancarlo Giannini won the best acting prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his achingly sensitive portrayal of Tunin, a freckle-faced...Start your free trial to watch
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The Low Life
John, a recent Yale graduate, moves to Los Angeles to pursue a writing career. Living by the advise of his uncle ("Don't feel anything for anyone...") John floats from job to job attempting to live a life of detachment. Out of the blue one day, fed up with life, John flies off the handle and quits his job. Drifiting to the...Start your free trial to watch
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Lurk
“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it. The humor is tenderly black. Burckhardt’s fusion of documentary-type photography with fairytale storyline is nearer Keystone than avant-garde with its visual honesty and particular...Start your free trial to watch
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The Machine Girl
Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her apart from other girls her age other than the fact that she is an orphan, left to care for her younger brother after her father committed suicide after being falsely accused of murder. But while there is...Start your free trial to watch