There are plenty of great dark comedies which don’t get the love they deserve, but fans of the genre should definitely give them a watch. Dark comedy movies can be quite polarizing, since they deal with subjects that some people aren’t prepared to laugh at, like death, violence and prejudice.
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For those who do appreciate dark comedy, it can often be hard to find the hidden gems that the genre has to offer. Comedy is so subjective that a hilarious movie can be buried under a pile of bad reviews, only for it to find its audience later and emerge as a cult classic.
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Death To Smoochy (2002)
Robin Williams Shines Amid A Strong Ensemble Cast
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Death to Smoochy
R
Comedy
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Release Date
March 29, 2002
Runtime
109 Minutes
Director
Danny DeVito
Writers
Adam Resnick
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Robin Williams
Rainbow Randolph
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Edward Norton
Sheldon Mopes / Smoochy
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Catherine Keener
Nora Wells
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Danny DeVito
Burke Bennett
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Danny DeVito is most famous as an actor, but he’s also directed a few underrated movies, with a focus on dark comedy. Death to Smoochy is one of his funniest. As usual, DeVito also gives himself a role in the movie, and he joins a brilliant ensemble cast featuring Ed Norton, Catherine Keener and Jon Stewart.
Death to Smoochy is one of DeVito’s funniest movies.
Although it isn’t as popular as many other Robin Williams movies, Death to Smoochy still offers a lot to love. Williams plays a disgraced children’s TV host who fixates his rage on his replacement when he is fired for corruption. He gives a characteristically expressive, bombastic performance which juxtaposes nicely with Norton’s more reserved character.
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World’s Greatest Dad (2009)
World’s Greatest Dad Revels In Bad Taste
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World’s Greatest Dad
R
Comedy
Romance
Drama
Release Date
August 20, 2009
Runtime
99 Minutes
Director
Bobcat Goldthwait
Writers
Bobcat Goldthwait
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Robin Williams
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Alexie Gilmore
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Daryl Sabara
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Evan Martin
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World’s Greatest Dad never got a wide theatrical release, so it has always remained a hidden gem. Robin Williams plays a struggling writer with a strained relationship with his only son. Not many movies would make jokes about a child dying, but the whole story revolves around this plot point.
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Williams brings some of his dramatic heft to World’s Greatest Dad, but not so much that it jars with the irreverent tone of the comedy. World’s Greatest Dad manages to get away with its deliberately bad taste because what it says about society’s response to death is disturbingly true.
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Sexy Beast (2000)
Ben Kingsley Plays An Unforgettable Villain
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Sexy Beast
R
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Release Date
January 1, 2001
Runtime
89 minutes
Director
Jonathan Glazer
Writers
Louis Mellis, David Scinto
Producers
Jeremy Thomas
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Ray Winstone
Don Logan
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Ben Kingsley
Gal
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Ian McShane
Teddy Bass
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Sexy Beast isn’t always described as a comedy, which underlines just how deadpan and naturalistic its sense of humor is. Indeed, there’s nothing about the story that’s inherently funny, as a violent criminal tries to drag one of his associates out of retirement for a big jewel heist. The comedy mostly comes from Ben Kingsley’s performance.
Kingsley delivers an eye-catching performance as one of the funniest comedy movie villains of all. Don Logan is a vile brute, but his short stature and bottomless reservoirs of rage make him hilarious. Kingsley’s manic energy works well opposite Ray Winstone’s calm, unflinching presence.
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Swiss Army Man (2016)
The Daniels Serve Up A Bizarre Delight
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Swiss Army Man
R
Adventure
Comedy
Drama
6.5/10
Release Date
July 1, 2016
Director
Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Writers
Daniel Scheinert, Dan Kwan
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Timothy Eulich
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Aaron Marshall
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The directing duo known as the Daniels gained plenty of attention for Everything Everywhere All At Once, but the Oscar-winner isn’t their only bizarre treat. Swiss Army Man is just as original and creative, but it has a much bleaker tone. Daniel Radcliffe stars as a dead body, and Paul Dano plays the man lost in the wilderness who forms an unlikely bond with him.
Swiss Army Man is never easy to predict, and this is exactly how it gets so many laughs. It’s also a masterpiece of gross-out humor at times, and it pushes the boundaries of acceptable dark comedy to breaking point. There’s nothing quite like Swiss Army Man, even in the realm of dark comedy.
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Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
John Cusack Shines In An Offbeat Gangster Comedy
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Bullets Over Broadway
R
Comedy
Crime
10/10
Release Date
October 14, 1994
Runtime
98 Minutes
Director
Woody Allen
Writers
Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath
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John Cusack
David Shayne
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Chazz Palminteri
Cheech
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Bullets Over Broadway is a hilarious comedy about the nature of art. John Cusack delivers one of his funniest performances as a struggling playwright who manages to get his Broadway show financed when he agrees to cast a dangerous gangster’s girlfriend in the lead role. From this starting point, Bullets Over Broadway evolves into a wry deconstruction of the entertainment industry.
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Bullets Over Broadway draws some scathing parallels between the entertainment industry and the business of organized crime. It’s also a disarming comedy about how artists present themselves to the world, and how society places a certain value on art due to the identity of the artist. It’s surprising, sarcastic, and punctuated by moments of startling violence.
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Wild Tales (2014)
The Argentine Anthology Needs A Bigger International Audience
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Wild Tales
R
Comedy
Drama
Thriller
Release Date
August 21, 2014
Runtime
122 Minutes
Director
Damián Szifron
Writers
Julian Loyola, Damián Szifron, Germán Servidio
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Darío Grandinetti
Salgado
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María Marull
Isabel
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Mónica Villa
Profesora Leguizamón
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Diego Starosta
Ignacio Fontana
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Anthology movies are usually a mixed bag, especially comedy anthologies, but Wild Tales consists of far more hits than misses. The six stories of misbehavior and comedic rage all revolve around the theme of revenge. The title teases a glimpse at people resorting to animalistic violence, but Damián Szifron reminds his audience that revenge is a uniquely human trait.
The stories in Wild Tales all start off in familiar settings – two airline passengers realize they have something in common, a man’s car is towed, a woman recognizes a man from her past – but they evolve in unpredictable and hilarious ways. While each segment ends with a grim punchline, there are also elements of horror mixed in to Szifron’s bag of delights.
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The Voices (2014)
Ryan Reynolds Is On Top Form As A Struggling Serial Killer
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The Voices
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Comedy
Crime
Horror
Fantasy
Release Date
January 19, 2014
Runtime
104 minutes
Director
Marjane Satrapi
Writers
Michael R. Perry
Producers
Cathy Schulman, Henning Molfenter, Matthew Rhodes, Roy Lee, Charlie Woebcken, Spencer Silna, Adam C. Stone, Adi Shankar, Christoph Fisser, Douglas Saylor Jr., Elika Portnoy
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Ryan Reynolds
Jerry Hickfang / Mr. Whiskers (voice) / Bosco (voice) / Deer (voice) / Bunny Monkey (voice)
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Gemma Arterton
Fiona
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Anna Kendrick
Lisa
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Jacki Weaver
Dr. Warren
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Although he’s most famous for big-budget movies like Deadpool and Free Guy, there are a lot of Ryan Reynolds movies which fly under the radar. The Voices makes perfect use of Reynolds’ odd charms. A less charismatic actor might struggle in a comedy about a factory worker whose pet cat tells him to start killing people.
The Voices is as dark as dark comedies come. It takes a wonderfully distasteful premise and pushes it to even stranger places. Reynolds’ performance is key to extracting the humor from a movie that can often veer into pure horror and some truly disturbing territory.
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BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Spike Lee’s Sharp Satire Tells A True Story
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BlacKkKlansman
14+
Biography
Comedy
Crime
Drama
7/10
8/10
Release Date
August 9, 2018
Runtime
134minutes
Director
Spike Lee
Writers
Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee, Ron Stallworth
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Alec Baldwin
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John David Washington
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It’s rare to see a comedy movie about a historical era that dedicates such time and care to authenticity, but BlacKkKlansman is based on an unbelievable true story, so it’s fully warranted. Spike Lee’s throwback comedy tells the story of Ron Stallworth, a Black detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a colleague.
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John David Washington and Adam Driver make a hilarious buddy-cop duo in BlacKkKlansman, and their scenes together have the same infectious energy of a heist movie, as the two detectives plot their elaborate scheme. Spike Lee is one of very few filmmakers who could make such a riotous comedy about America’s most notorious hate group, but he ends the movie with a reminder of the real-life context and the serious weight of the matter.
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Happiness (1998)
Todd Solondz’s Tragicomedy Stands Up To Repeat Viewings
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Happiness
NC-17
Comedy
Drama
Release Date
October 11, 1998
Runtime
139 Minutes
Director
Todd Solondz
Writers
Todd Solondz
Cast
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Jane Adams
Joy Jordan
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Jon Lovitz
Andy Kornbluth
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Allen
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Dylan Baker
Bill Maplewood
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Happiness is a peculiar film, and one which invites its audience to mull over its characters and strange stories long after the credits roll. It’s bleakly hilarious, but Todd Solondz also displays a lot of empathy for his emotionally stunted characters, so that they become relatable and deeply human. This is important for the moments that turn unremittingly dark, without a ray of humor.
Happiness tells a few loosely connected stories, each of them about deeply damaged people, both yearning for connection and despising the people around them. It’s easy to get the impression that these characters are merely a random handful of people from Solondz’s strange world, and that there are countless more specimens waiting to be discovered.
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The Double (2013)
Jesse Eisenberg Pulls A Double Shift In This Dostoyevsky Tale
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The Double
R
Thriller
Drama
Release Date
April 3, 2014
Runtime
93 minutes
Director
Richard Ayoade
Writers
Avi Korine
Producers
Michael Caine, Tessa Ross, Lydia Fox, Robin C. Fox, Amina Dasmal
Cast
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Jesse Eisenberg
Simon James / James Simon
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Mia Wasikowska
Hannah
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Wallace Shawn
Mr. Papadopoulos
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Yasmin Paige
Mélanie
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Richard Ayoade’s second feature-length film was also his second book adaptation. The Double is based on a novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It’s not one of the author’s most popular classics, but Ayoade brings it to life with a grim color palette, an oppressive dystopian atmosphere and a hearty helping of dark comedy.
Richard Ayoade’s second feature-length film was also his second book adaptation.
Jesse Eisenberg plays two characters in The Double: a milquetoast office drone and the self-assured doppelgänger who tries to usurp his life. Dual roles in movies often explore the different sides of the human psyche, and Eisenberg is hilarious as both id and ego in this strange metaphysical struggle.
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