Top Dark Comedy Movies & TV Shows

Soodhu Kavvum (2013)

7.1 69 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 138 min.

Story: Dass specialises in small time kidnapping and has his own set of rules. The primary and most important among them is not to get involved with influential people. Three jobless youngsters meet Dass and the four take up an assignment for a hefty sum that throws away this primary rule and end up being chased by a dreaded policeman.

Plot: kidnapping, dark comedy

Cast

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

Nicolas Cage

Lyndsy Fonseca

Kick-Ass (2010)

7.1 12.5K votes

Genre: Action, Crime

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

Style: intense

Plot: hero, secret identity, crime fighter, superhero, dark comedy, comic book, based on comic, murder, ...

Cast

Demi Moore

Margaret Qualley

Dennis Quaid

Edward Hamilton-Clark

The Substance (2024)

7.1 6.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

Plot: new year's eve, capitalism, birthday, black market, identity, dark comedy, beauty, satire, ...

Cast

Carmen Maura

Luis Hostalot

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What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)

7.1 270 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Spain

Duration: 102 min.

Story: A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

Plot: prostitute, husband wife relationship, madrid, spain, sadism, taxi driver, hustler, dark comedy, ...

Cast

Arunoday Singh

Nidhi Singh

Snehill Dixit Mehra

Monica Chaudhary

Apharan (2018) TV Show

7.1 25 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: India

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 23

Story: Rudra Srivastava, a senior inspector with Uttarakhand police is lured into kidnapping a young girl at her request. The plot begins as a simple plan to extort money in exchange for her release. When the chain of events go wrong and a series of lies unfold, he realizes that he is now a part of a deadly conspiracy. Will he be able to escape the outcome of his choices or become a victim of the web of lies?

Plot: kidnapping, police, dark comedy, conspiracy, uttarakhand, abduction

Cast

Kaley Cuoco

Zosia Mamet

Deniz Akdeniz

Mo McRae

The Flight Attendant (2020) TV Show

7.1 632 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Flight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes in her hotel room hungover from the night before in Dubai with a dead body lying next to her. Afraid to call the police, she continues her morning as if nothing happened. In New York, she is met by FBI agents who question her about her recent layover in Bangkok. Still unable to piece the night together, she begins to wonder if she could be the killer.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, dark comedy, flight attendant

Cast

Imran Khan

Kunaal Roy Kapur

Vir Das

Shenaz Treasury

Delhi Belly (2011)

7.1 223 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: India

Duration: 102 min.

Story: Three unsuspecting, average guys find themselves on the hit list of one of India's most-powerful crime syndicates.

Plot: gangster, blackmail, delhi, india, dark comedy, polaroid camera

Cast

Sarah Polley

Ving Rhames

Jake Weber

Michael Kelly

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

7.1 4.6K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

Style: witty

Plot: nurse, department store, shotgun, pregnancy, bite, habor, bus ride, dark comedy, ...

Coup de Torchon (1981)

7.0 220 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: France

Duration: 128 min.

Story: A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Style: witty

Plot: adultery, based on novel or book, love triangle, dark comedy, murder, police corruption, mistress, racism, ...

Place: west africa

Wild at Heart (1990)

7.0 1.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

Style: melancholy

Plot: witch, hotel room, based on novel or book, hitman, car journey, new orleans, louisiana, dark comedy, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Tania Raymonde

Texas Battle

Bryce Johnson

Charlie Sanders

Death Valley (2011) TV Show

7.0 113 votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: A year ago, vampires, werewolves and zombies mysteriously descended upon the streets of California's San Fernando Valley. The Undead Task Force (UTF) was created to combat the emergence of monsters.

Plot: vampire, police, dark comedy, mockumentary, zombie, werewolf, san fernando valley, lapd, ...

Place: california

Cast

Daniel Craig

Edward Norton

Janelle Monu00e1e

Kathryn Hahn

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

7.0 6.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.

Style: witty

Plot: detective, investigation, mona lisa (la gioconda), dark comedy, satire, sequel, murder, billionaire, ...

Place: greece

Cast

Isaiah Lehtinen

Romina D'Ugo

Krista Bridges

Percy Hynes White

I Like Movies (2023)

7.0 81 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Canada

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

Plot: high school, friendship, narcissism, neurosis, male friendship, death of father, suburbia, coming of age, ...

Time: 2000s

Place: canada

Cast

Kazuya Nakai

Rikiya Koyama

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Rie Kugimiya

Blood Blockade Battlefront (2015) TV Show

7.0 142 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: One day, New York City as we know it vanished overnight into a mysterious fog. Now known as Hellsalem's Lot, it has become a place where another world beyond imagining is connected to our reality. The balance within this new world is protected by a secret society known as Libra. Leo, a journalist and photographer who arrives in the city, is unexpectedly recruited to join their ranks.

Plot: new york city, martial arts, magic, vampire, secret organization, secret agent, supernatural, alien, ...

Cast

Divine

Tab Hunter

Edith Massey

David Samson

Polyester (1981)

7.0 192 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow. Originally screened with "Odorama" scratch and sniff cards so the audience could (at their own risk) smell along with the film.

Plot: infidelity, pornography, bad smell, chaos, cocaine, baltimore, usa, dark comedy, ...

Time: 1980s

The Dressmaker (2015)

7.0 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: 12

Story: In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, suppressed past, dark comedy, bullying, exile, dressmaker, revenge, ...

Time: 1950s

Place: australia

Cast

Gilbert Gottfried

Rob Reiner

Mel Brooks

Judy Gold

The Last Laugh (2016)

7.0 21 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Story: Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.

Style: taboo

Plot: holocaust (shoah), dark comedy, political correctness, woman director, coping mechanisms, comedy, jewish humor

Cast

Harris Dickinson

Charlbi Dean

Dolly de Leon

Woody Harrelson

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

7.0 2.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Denmark, France

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: R

Story: A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

Style: philosophical, satirical

Plot: dark comedy, satire, survival, stranded, cruise ship, class differences, model, gender roles, ...

Cast

Steve Buscemi

Simon Russell Beale

Jeffrey Tambor

Jason Isaacs

The Death of Stalin (2017)

7.0 2.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: Belgium, Canada

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?

Plot: chaos, dictator, socialism, dark comedy, satire, biography, based on true story, joseph stalin, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Reese Witherspoon

Mark Ruffalo

Donal Logue

Dina Spybey-Waters

Just Like Heaven (2005)

7.0 2.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.

Plot: coma, based on novel or book, workaholic, san francisco, california, garden, architect, dark comedy, ...

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