Top Dark Comedy Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Richard E. Grant

Claire Foy

Jack Farthing

Bel Powley

Savage House (2026)

6.7 13 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Canada

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. It's not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed, filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed.

Plot: dark comedy

Time: 18th century

Cast

Lionel Stander

Donald Pleasence

Franu00e7oise Dorlu00e9ac

Jack MacGowran

Cul-de-sac (1966)

6.7 310 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: 12A

Story: On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

Plot: island, age difference, married couple, dark comedy, castle, black and white, refrigerator, isolated house, ...

Sunny (2024) TV Show

6.7 105 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The life of an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As consolation, she's given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband's electronics company.

Plot: based on novel or book, dark comedy, expatriate, kyoto, japan, robot companion

Cast

Melissa Barrera

Dan Stevens

Alisha Weir

William Catlett

Abigail (2024)

6.7 2.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing horror, that they are locked inside with no normal little girl.

Plot: ransom, vampire, kidnapping, halloween, dark comedy, child vampire, gothic horror, exploding body, ...

A Serious Man (2009)

6.7 2.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

Plot: dreams, midlife crisis, professor, minnesota, dark comedy, rabbi, bar mitzvah, marijuana, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Naomi Ackie

Channing Tatum

Alia Shawkat

Christian Slater

Blink Twice (2024)

6.7 2.0K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.

Style: exploitation

Plot: rape, forgiveness, dark comedy, seclusion, sexual violence, gang rape, psychological thriller, gender roles, ...

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Andrew Barth Feldman

Laura Benanti

Natalie Morales

No Hard Feelings (2023)

6.7 3.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: friendship, older woman seduces younger guy, romcom, summer, new york state, teen comedy, hometown, bankruptcy, ...

Burn After Reading (2008)

6.7 5.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.

Plot: washington dc, usa, blackmail, paranoia, dark comedy, black humor, plastic surgery, autobiography, ...

Cast

Leland Orser

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Chris Ellis

Jon Gries

Faults (2014)

6.7 259 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Story: Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.

Plot: mind control, kidnapping, blackout, dark comedy, cult, money, author, brainwashing, ...

Suburgatory (2011) TV Show

6.7 232 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 57

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Single father George Altman is doing his best to raise his sixteen-year-old daughter Tessa in the big city. When he discovers a box of condoms in her bedroom, though, he decides the time has come to move her to a more wholesome and nurturing environment: the suburbs. But behind the beautiful homes and perfect lawns lurk the Franken-moms, spray tans, nose jobs, and Red Bull-guzzling teens who have nothing in common with Tessa. It’s a whole new world, one that makes George wonder if they haven’t jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Plot: suburb, single father, teen comedy, sitcom

Cast

Olivia Colman

Benedict Cumberbatch

Andy Samberg

Kate McKinnon

The Roses (2025)

6.7 720 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.

Style: intense

Plot: husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, dark comedy, remake, failing marriage, aspiring architect, jealous of someone's success, female chef, ...

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Julianne Nicholson

Michael Cera

Tim Meadows

Dream Scenario (2023)

6.7 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.

Style: psychological

Plot: dreams, nightmare, professor, sleep, subconsciousness, dark comedy, satire, family relationships, ...

Cast

Betty Gilpin

Hilary Swank

Ethan Suplee

Teri Wyble

The Hunt (2020)

6.6 3.7K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

Plot: dark comedy, gore, satire, survival, murder, survival horror, political, death game

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Joshua Caleb Johnson

Hubert Point-Du Jour

Beau Knapp

The Good Lord Bird (2020) TV Show

6.6 104 votes

Genre: Drama, War, Western

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.

Plot: based on novel or book, slavery, murder, dark comedy, gang, abolitionist, early america, public execution

Cast

Tahir Raj Bhasin

Shweta Tripathi Sharma

Anchal Singh

Saurabh Shukla

Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein (2022) TV Show

6.6 33 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: India

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 14

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Relentlessly pursued by a powerful politician’s daughter who will do anything to make him hers, a man slips down a dark, risky path to reclaim his life.

Plot: daughter, dark comedy, organized crime

Sick Note (2017) TV Show

6.6 114 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 14

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When Daniel Glass is misdiagnosed with a fatal disease he begins to notice how everyone around him treats him better. But then he finds out he was misdiagnosed by the most incompetent oncologist on Earth and now he has a big decision to make: come clean and go back to his old rubbish life, or keep pretending to be ill.

Plot: office, terminal illness, dark comedy, doctor, corporate world

Cast

Jason Biggs

Chris Klein

Thomas Ian Nicholas

Alyson Hannigan

American Pie (1999)

6.6 8.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.

Plot: innocence, graduation, loss of virginity, coming of age, high school student, pie, teen comedy, teenage sexuality, ...

Cast

Anna Kendrick

Blake Lively

Henry Golding

Rupert Friend

A Simple Favor (2018)

6.6 4.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Stephanie, a dedicated mother and popular vlogger, befriends Emily, a mysterious upper-class woman whose son Nicky attends the same school as Miles, Stephanie's son. When Emily asks her to pick Nicky up from school and then disappears, Stephanie undertakes an investigation that will dive deep into Emily's cloudy past.

Style: shocking, satirical

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, widow, dark comedy, female friendship, life insurance, best friend, single mother, ...

Cast

Nayanthara

Yogi Babu

Saranya Ponvannan

Jacqueline

Kolamavu Kokila (2018)

6.6 37 votes

Genre: Comedy, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 140 min.

Story: A young woman takes up drug peddling to make money for the treatment of her mom, who has cancer.

Plot: dark comedy

Cast

Jacob Reynolds

Jacob Sewell

Nick Sutton

Chlou00eb Sevigny

Gummo (1997)

6.6 718 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

Plot: tornado, dark comedy, male friendship, ohio, suburbia, vulgarity, prostitution, home invasion, ...

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