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Plot Summary:
The owner of a sleazy hotel, along with his friend, decides to videotape a room that is rented by a sexually active couple. Inadvertently recording their murders, the men are soon faced with a dilemma as the killers come looking for the tape.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film
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In the Spirit (1990)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is pursuing them. Melanie Griffith also shows up briefly as a hooker as the two hide out acting as hookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fall Girls (2019)
Plot Summary:
Paige Davis has just gotten promoted to President of Sales at her job. After a night of partying, Paige and her girlfriends hilariously wakes up to a dead boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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A Legacy of Whining (2016)
Plot Summary:
Former high school classmates reunite and rehash old rivalries.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, independent film, dark comedy
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Diggin' Up Business (1990)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy set in a funeral home.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film
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Pros and Cons: A Fantasy Football Movie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack will do anything to win his league - even take out his opponents players. Jack Snow is a family man obsessed with winning his high stakes fantasy football league. He's a huge fan of fantasy football and professional football, but his wife forbids him to play. Steve-O, Jack's friend, convinces him to play one more time. Jack keeps it secret from his wife and son. He must take home the league championship in order to win the $60,000 payout.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Lady of the Evening (1975)
Plot Summary:
A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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They All Died Laughing (1964)
Plot Summary:
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film
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The French Guy (2005)
Plot Summary:
A French artist struggling to put the finishing touches on his masterpiece finds his concentration repeatedly broken by the unusual sounds emanating from his neighbor's apartment in this black comedy from Ann Marie Fleming. Immediately discharged from the hospital following her hastily executed brain surgery, Elizabeth Murray wanders the streets in a curious haze, her personality visibly affected by the botched cerebral procedure. Upon spotting the man of her dreams wandering along the beach in a similarly confused manner, Elizabeth lovingly brings the disoriented man back to her apartment in hopes of nursing him back to health. Following an allergic reaction to her environment that forces Elizabeth to wrap her entire apartment in plastic, a bloody mishap with her new beau quickly spirals into a murderous, and quite noisy, rampage of good intentions gone horribly awry.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Payne (1999)
Plot Summary:
Payne is an American television series, patterned after the British program Fawlty Towers. It starred American actor John Larroquette, who portrayed assistant district attorney Dan Fielding on the American television program Night Court. Larroquette was also an executive producer for the series. Payne was a mid-season replacement on CBS and aired in March and April 1999. The show also starred JoBeth Williams, Julie Benz and Rick Batalla. Despite fairly positive reception, and receiving the blessing of John Cleese, who agreed to take a recurring role if the show was renewed, Payne was quickly cancelled. Nine episodes were filmed; eight were aired. The show is not available on DVD.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Everybody Hates Johan (2022)
Plot Summary:
Johan, a loner with horses and explosives, is never accepted by the local community. We follow his struggle for belonging in the village and the lifelong, unrequited love for the girl next door, which he accidentally blew up in his youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, iconic
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The Treehouse (2014)
Plot Summary:
A 30 year old, delusional, no talent musician kidnaps a girl that he thinks is in love with him and stalks a guy who he believes is a record company scout.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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Take It Out In Trade (1970)
Plot Summary:
A couple hire a detective to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute.".
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic
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Uncle Nick (2015)
Plot Summary:
A drunk uncle attempts to score with his flirtatious step-niece on Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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The Feud (1989)
Plot Summary:
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between two men has turned into an outright war between two towns in this outrageous comedy of errors.--Summary from container. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Killing Poe (2016)
Plot Summary:
In this hilarious college comedy, five students find themselves in the most infuriating class on Edgar Allan Poe ever. After weeks of abuse from their professor - and a 'shroom-fueled trip with a beat-boxing groundskeeper and a TV horror host - the group plots revenge. But their "simple" plan spirals out of control and they learn the hard way what Poe's stories are really all about.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy
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Summer Camp (1979)
Plot Summary:
The director of a failing summer camp decides to invite campers from ten years ago for a free weekend event, hoping that he can trick them into fixing up the place and also get their families to provide them some financial support. The boys and girls return to the camp and play pranks on each other and try to score with the other campers and the staff.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, fun
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Truffle Runners (2018)
Plot Summary:
Steve and Gene have to deliver an expensive box of stolen chocolates to a notoriously violent gangster. Everything is going according to plan until Gene's wife mistakenly assumes the box is a romantic gift from Gene, and eats all of the chocolates.
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Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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Corner Office (2022)
Plot Summary:
In this office satire, Orson, a straight-laced employee, retreats to a blissfully empty corner office to get away from his lackluster colleagues. But why does this seem to upset them so much?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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5 Star Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the Italian Premier and his companion find a dead body in his hotel suite, while on a trip to Hungary, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic situations as they try to avoid a scandal.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, dark comedy, happy
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Take Me to Tarzana (2021)
Plot Summary:
After learning their company has been illicitly spying, collecting and selling data on them, three millennial friends band together to fight back against a lecherous boss and the company's maniacal, Tarzan-obsessed CEO.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, dark comedy, romantic comedy
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At Home with the Rozes (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, hilarious, realistic, dark comedy
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Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin Monroe to assassinate JFK. His girlfriend gives him his walking papers in the midst of wild sex when he can't give her one good reason to stay. Actually he's too exhausted to speak. And to top it all off, he's suffering from writer's block. So what's a poor guy to do? Join the mob? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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Three Stories (1997)
Plot Summary:
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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Lucky (2011)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, dark comedy, light, funny, grindhouse, realistic, semi serious
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Death and Texas (2004)
Plot Summary:
Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die for his role in the armed robbery/murder at a downtown Stop 'n Go convenience store... It's five years later, and Bobby's appeals have all but run out, and the Austin Steers are - once again - on the march to the Superbowl, with a lock on the playoffs, when their wide receiver has a season ending injury. With their playoff hopes in shambles, the Governor of Texas controversially offers Bobby a furlough -- from death row -- to help rescue the Steers' post-season hopes, and even play in the Superbowl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, mockumentary, dark comedy, offbeat, black comedy
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The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Two Hundred Thousand Dirty (2012)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American byproduct of suburban sprawl: the urban strip-mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield) and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and uncouth sales force behind Affordable Mattress. When new employee Isabelle (Rocío Verdejo) is hired in hopes of improving dismal sales, some things do change and after recruiting fellow strip-mall burnout Martin (C. Clayton Blackwell), she's got everyone working together to split a common goal - 200,000 dollars.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, independent film, dark comedy, realistic, biting, suspense, fable
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Four Rooms (1995)
Plot Summary:
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, anthology, funny, black comedy, suspense, absurd, semi serious, cult classic, hilarious
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Hotel Deluxe (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hotel Deluxe is basically "All's Well Ends Well 2013", with almost the same cast and crew, and some new faces added in. It tells the story of a team of hotel management trying their best to score a 5-star rating for their hotel, with some supporting characters and stories added in along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Getting It On (1983)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a voyeur teenager.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, grindhouse, independent film, hot