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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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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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Betty (1998)
Plot Summary:
The world's most famous actress freaks out on the set of her latest Christmas blockbuster and runs away to hide in the unlikely setting of Palm Springs.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Around the World in Eighty Ways (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (2009)
Plot Summary:
Created by Mike Stoklasa of Red Letter Media, "The Phantom Menace Review" is a thoroughly informative, in-depth look at George Lucas's "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", told from the perspective of an elderly psychopathic killer named "Mr. Plinkett". This is achieved through explanation of the various issues behind the film and its production as well as further analysis into why it was such an unsatisfactory experience for many movie-goers and fans of the "Star Wars" franchise.
IMDB Rating: 9.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, spoof, funny
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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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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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George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (1997)
Plot Summary:
George Carlin celebrates 40 years of comedy and here, he presents 2 new standup bits, comedian Jon Stewart gives an interview with him, and we look at his old comedy work through the last 4 decades.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, live comedy
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Drei Herren (1998)
Plot Summary:
Misters Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, all living peacefully in a lunatic asylum in Austria, are about to spend their summer in a special camp for those who are challenged by life. When their driver suffers a heart-attack near a little village, the three men think they have reached their destination. Instantly feeling at home in the village, they all soon meet new people. When the townsfolk hear that three lunatics have broken out, they start searching for them frantically - and as the mayor's old mother is reported missing, this search looks like the one for Frankenstein's monster. Actually, the everyday people of the village are mentally not that far away from the three sympathetic strangers, who blend in perfectly, enriching the little villages' strange normalness by their presence.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Cheap Shots (1988)
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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Back in Business (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a small town lost in the middle of nowhere, Edmond Zweck's funeral business is on the wing. The company now has only two employees: Georges, Zweck's right-hand man, and Eddy, a young man still a novice in the trade. One fine morning, however, a dead man pointed his nose. Hope is born again. Georges and Eddy are responsible for leading the deceased to his last abode. But in search of the cemetery that can not be found, the funeral convoy goes astray and the journey turns into a fiasco.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Poland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Home Teachers (2004)
Plot Summary:
Stocky Greg's passion is football, and he rounds up his family from their respective church meetings and rushes home just in time to make the kick-off of the Sunday afternoon Vikings game. He has just planted himself in front of his massive television screen scarfing down chicken when his new home teaching companion, Nelson, calls to inform him that he has set an appointment to visit the Mori family in 15 minutes. Mormon males serving as home teachers are admonished to visit with their assigned families once a month, bring them a spiritual message, and provide help as necessary. Nelson, a nerdy "letter of the law" kind of Mormon who will not even purchase gas on a Sunday, intends to visit 100 % of his assigned families every month, and as this is the last day of the month even the many madcap mishaps that start immediately will not deter him from completing his duty despite Greg's griping and attempts to get back to the games.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Not My Type (2022)
Plot Summary:
Marcia, a classy young Parisian singer, is recording an album with her idol Daredjane, a '70s rock icon. When Daredjane dies accidentally, Marcia needs to get approval from Daredjane's rights-holder, Anthony, a suburban market vendor in his thirties, to release their album. But Anthony never liked his distant relative, let alone her music. Their two worlds clash between good and bad taste, sophistication and rudeness, sincerity and lies. Unless love gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Old Maid (1972)
Plot Summary:
Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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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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It's a Wonderful Binge (2022)
Plot Summary:
Like the original film, the sequel is set in a near future where all drinking and drugs are banned except for on one glorious day known as The Binge. This year, that day happens to miraculously land on Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Good Grief (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two very different sisters inherit a funeral home - and its eccentric employees - from their koro. While Ellie is determined to uphold her grandfather's legacy, Gwen can't wait to get to Bali and become a DJ. Can they figure out their lives while staring death in the face?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy
Country: New Zealand
Duration:
Plot tags: dark comedy
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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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Ever Been to the Moon? (2015)
Plot Summary:
Giulia is thirty years old and unmarried. She has a good job which allows her to travel and lead a luxurious life in Milan and Paris. She is convinced that she has everything she needs for happiness, but after meeting Renzo, a charming Apulian farmer, Giulia understands that she's missing the most important thing in her life - true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, captivating, romantic 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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The Loved One (1965)
Plot Summary:
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, witty, surreal, suspenseful, funny, satirical, fast paced, cult classic
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The Great Bikini Bowling Bash (2014)
Plot Summary:
With their minds in the gutter three gorgeous babes plot to win big as they struggle to save their grandfather's bowling alley.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, hot
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Invitation to a Suicide (2004)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy set in the Polish immigrant neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn about a man selling tickets to his own suicide to save his father's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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Death at a Funeral (2007)
Plot Summary:
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, slapstick, tragicomedy, funny, light, absurd, not serious, clever
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Plot Summary:
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, hilarious, captivating, romantic comedy, sweet, satirical
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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
Plot Summary:
86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, stylized, dark comedy, not serious, surreal, hilarious, black comedy, slapstick, entertaining
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What About Bob? (1991)
Plot Summary:
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, witty, not serious, psychological, entertaining, dark comedy, clever, talky, scary