Top Dark Comedy Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Colin Farrell

Brendan Gleeson

Ralph Fiennes

Clu00e9mence Pou00e9sy

In Bruges (2008)

7.5 5.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

Plot: drug dealer, hitman, tourist, dark comedy, bruges, belgium, church, guilt, ...

The New Statesman (1987) TV Show

7.5 51 votes

Genre: Comedy

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 26

Story: The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

Style: surreal

Plot: london, england, northern england, greed, politics, parliament, politician, satire, ...

Cast

Sharon Horgan

Eva Birthistle

Sarah Greene

Eve Hewson

Bad Sisters (2022) TV Show

7.5 279 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for one another. But when the toxic brother-in-law they all wanted dead actually dies, it turns their lives upside down and tests their bond like nothing before.

Plot: sadistic, brother-in-law, dublin, ireland, bullying, dark comedy, domestic abuse, insurance investigator, ...

Cast

Colin Farrell

Brendan Gleeson

Kerry Condon

Barry Keoghan

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

7.5 3.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

Plot: friendship, island, donkey, dark comedy, irish civil war (1922-23), church, drinking, former best friend, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: ireland

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Cast

Michael Keaton

Emma Stone

Zach Galifianakis

Edward Norton

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

7.4 13.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

Plot: new york city, midlife crisis, show business, superhero, dark comedy, times square, alter ego, aging actor, ...

Cast

Kathryn Hahn

Joe Locke

Sasheer Zamata

Ali Ahn

Agatha All Along (2024) TV Show

7.4 976 votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 9

Audience: TV-14

Story: Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road.

Plot: witch, magic, based on comic, dark comedy, spin off, witchcraft, lgbt, coven (akelarre), ...

Cast

Drew Barrymore

Timothy Olyphant

Liv Hewson

Skyler Gisondo

Santa Clarita Diet (2017) TV Show

7.4 820 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.

Plot: marriage, murder, dark comedy, zombie, cannibal, family, real estate agent, horror, ...

Place: california

Cast

Jane Adams

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Dylan Baker

Lara Flynn Boyle

Happiness (1998)

7.4 946 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

Style: shocking

Plot: pedophilia, depression, suicide, secret love, rape, strike, sibling relationship, new jersey, ...

Exit (2019) TV Show

7.4 69 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Finland, Iceland

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Story: Exit is based on the true stories of four men in their mid-30s, who all became multi-millionaires before the age of thirty. Attempting to escape from their obligations, expectations and families, they employ drugs, prostitutes, and their very own set of morals.

Plot: dark comedy, oslo, norway

Awkward. (2011) TV Show

7.4 424 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 89

Audience: TV-14

Story: An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes an epic misunderstanding and is blown way out of proportion. Narration in the first-person voice of Jenna's blog posts captures the humor within the struggles and experiences everyone can relate to from their formative years.

Plot: high school, bullying, teen comedy, aspiring writer, teenage romance, teen drama

Cast

Benjamin Wadsworth

Benedict Wong

Lana Condor

Maru00eda Gabriela de Faru00eda

Deadly Class (2019) TV Show

7.4 334 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Follow a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal.

Plot: assassin, training, boarding school, based on comic, murder, dark comedy, school, danger

Time: cold war, 1980s

Cast

Christian Bale

Justin Theroux

Josh Lucas

Bill Sage

American Psycho (2000)

7.4 12.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

Plot: new york city, based on novel or book, businessman, psychopath, dark comedy, satire, wall street, serial killer, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Natasha Lyonne

Charlie Barnett

Greta Lee

Chlou00eb Sevigny

Russian Doll (2019) TV Show

7.4 1.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.

Style: philosophical, witty

Plot: dark comedy, family relationships, time loop, death, homeless man, mysterious, dramedy, candid, ...

Cast

Emma Stone

Jonah Hill

Sonoya Mizuno

Justin Theroux

Maniac (2018) TV Show

7.3 1.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.

Plot: schizophrenia, computer, surrealism, dark comedy, psychiatric hospital, miniseries, mental disorders, drug trial, ...

Cast

Al Pacino

Jack Lemmon

Alec Baldwin

Alan Arkin

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

7.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.

Style: bleak

Plot: estate agent, robbery, competition, office, dark comedy, shop, based on play or musical, betrayal, ...

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Sofie Gru00e5bu00f8l

Su00f8ren Malling

The Last Viking (2025)

7.3 174 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Duration: 116 min.

Story: After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.

Plot: dark comedy, childhood trauma, alter ego, jail, bank robbery, mental illness, danish, brothers, ...

Cast

Dominique Pinon

Marie-Laure Dougnac

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Karin Viard

Delicatessen (1991)

7.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: France

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Plot: underground, suicide attempt, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dark comedy, clown, butcher, butcher's shop, ...

Time: post-apocalyptic

Dead to Me (2019) TV Show

7.3 634 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.

Style: intimate, witty

Plot: widow, female friendship, friendship, hit-and-run, murder, grief, dark comedy, parenthood, ...

Cast

Jason London

Matthew McConaughey

Joey Lauren Adams

Rory Cochrane

Dazed and Confused (1993)

7.3 2.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.

Plot: high school, coming of age, marijuana, summer, period drama, teen comedy, teenager, stoner comedy, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: texas

Cast

Emma Stone

Jesse Plemons

Aidan Delbis

Stavros Halkias

Bugonia (2025)

7.3 2.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Ireland, South Korea

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

Plot: saving the world, capitalism, kidnapping, paranoia, delusion, symbolism, dark comedy, satire, ...

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