Top Dark Comedy Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Jeff Goldblum

KAOS (2024) TV Show

7.3 376 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind.

Plot: greek mythology, dysfunctional family, dark comedy, based on myths, legends or folklore, imaginative, cerebral, fantasy, ...

Cast

Maisie Williams

Mawaan Rizwan

Sian Clifford

Taheen Modak

Two Weeks to Live (2020) TV Show

7.3 226 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Story: When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission of honouring her father’s memory.

Plot: lie, revenge, dark comedy, survivalist, fish out of water, young adult, sheltered, mother daughter relationship, ...

Cast

Alec Guinness

Cecil Parker

Herbert Lom

Peter Sellers

The Ladykillers (1955)

7.3 549 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

Plot: widow, dark comedy, parrot, gang of thieves, money, criminal, old lady, landlady, ...

Imposters (2017) TV Show

7.3 133 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: Maddie, a persona shifting con-artist who is as beautiful as she is dangerous, leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything – including their hearts. But things get complicated when her former targets, Ezra, Richard, and Jules team up to track her down.

Plot: fbi, fake identity, dark comedy, con artist, criminal, married

Cast

Patrick Swayze

Demi Moore

Whoopi Goldberg

Tony Goldwyn

Ghost (1990)

7.2 6.1K votes

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Plot: fortune teller, corruption, soulmates, afterlife, money transfer, money laundering, pottery, hell, ...

Cast

Richard E. Grant

Paul McGann

Richard Griffiths

Ralph Brown

Withnail & I (1987)

7.2 631 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Canada

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Plot: drug dealer, london, england, northern england, countryside, alcohol, darkness, flat, ...

Time: 1960s

Mean Girls (2004)

7.2 9.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Plot: based on novel or book, illinois, female friendship, bullying, coming of age, prom, teenage girl, fish out of water, ...

That's So Raven (2003) TV Show

7.2 284 votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 100

Audience: TV-G

Story: No ordinary teenager; Raven Baxter can see glimpses of the future! Watch her schemes and misadventures as she enlists the help of friends, including best friends Eddie and Chelsea, to change life's little outcomes. Raven's younger brother, Cory, is obsessed with money and creates get-rich-quick schemes to try to earn cash.

Style: whimsical

Plot: san francisco, california, high school, psychic power, family relationships, family, teen comedy, extrasensory perception, ...

Cast

Daniel Craig

Josh O'Connor

Glenn Close

Josh Brolin

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)

7.2 2.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.

Plot: dark comedy, sequel, whodunit, murder investigation, murder mystery, upstate new york, web of lies, mystery thriller, ...

Loudermilk (2017) TV Show

7.2 117 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counselor with an extremely bad attitude about, well, everything. He is unapologetically uncensored, and manages to piss off everyone in his life. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk discovers that when your life is a complete mess, getting clean is the easy part.

Plot: support group, sponsorship, alcoholism, dark comedy, counselor, recovering alcoholic, sobriety, recovery, ...

Cast

Nazriya Nazim

Basil Joseph

Sidharth Bharathan

Deepak Parambol

Sookshmadarshini (2024)

7.2 39 votes

Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 142 min.

Story: Manuel returns with his mother to their former home in a middle-class neighbourhood. Suspicious of his intentions, Priyadarshini and her friends begin gathering clues, convinced he may be hiding something sinister.

Plot: dark comedy

Cast

Johnny Depp

Benicio del Toro

Tobey Maguire

Michael Lee Gogin

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

7.2 5.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

Style: absurd

Plot: journalist, casino, based on novel or book, paranoia, cocaine, dark comedy, lsd, hallucination, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: las vegas

Cast

Danny McBride

Walton Goggins

Dale Dickey

Georgia King

Vice Principals (2016) TV Show

7.2 284 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After North Jackson High's long-time principal steps down to tend to his ailing wife, Neal Gamby and Lee Russell, the school's vice principals, are forced to put their mutual disdain aside and form an unholy alliance in order to sabotage the newly appointed principal, Dr. Belinda Brown.

Plot: high school, alcoholism, dark comedy, underage drinking, vice principal

Cast

Nivin Pauly

Nazriya Nazim

Bobby Simha

Krishna Shankar

Neram (2013)

7.2 51 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 116 min.

Story: Mathew is a graduate in software engineering, but is now jobless. He is waiting for his good time to get a good job. Mathew has borrowed some money as loan. Now he cannot give it back as he has no job. Mathew's childhood friend Jeena Johnykkutty is ready to help him as she could. She has a job. Her father Johnykkutty does not like Mathew and he always tries to trouble Mathew whenever he gets a chance. At this time Mathew's good time arrives; but along with it many problems too. The gripping events that follow plot the rest of 'Neram'.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: robber, dark comedy, girlfriend, loan, jobless, it professional, excited

Cast

Clu Gulager

James Karen

Don Calfa

Thom Mathews

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

7.2 2.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.

Plot: cemetery, dark comedy, crematorium, punk rock, undead, zombie, paramedic, attic, ...

Cast

Kevin Eldon

Beth Cordingly

Warren Brown

Riz Ahmed

Dead Set (2008) TV Show

7.2 334 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate eviction night...

Plot: satire, dark comedy, gore, miniseries, social commentary, zombie, producer, survival horror, ...

Cast

Oscar Isaac

Carey Mulligan

Justin Timberlake

Ethan Phillips

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

7.2 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

Style: melancholy, bleak

Plot: chicago, illinois, depression, new york city, guitar, winter, cat, subway, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Anya Taylor-Joy

Ralph Fiennes

Nicholas Hoult

Janet McTeer

The Menu (2022)

7.2 6.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

Plot: psychopath, obsession, mass murder, restaurant, dark comedy, revenge, food, mass suicide, ...

Cast

Adam Sandler

LaKeith Stanfield

Julia Fox

Kevin Garnett

Uncut Gems (2019)

7.2 5.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: bet, infidelity, new york city, gambling, auction, dark comedy, basketball, money, ...

Time: 2010s

Place: ethiopia

Carnage (2011)

7.2 3.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

Style: tense

Plot: flat, hamster, dark comedy, vomit, based on play or musical, insult, writer, tulips, ...

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