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Plot Summary:
A pro-America superhero destroys France to prevent Communists from taking over.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black comedy, mind bending, psychedelic, political, surreal, satirical, psychotronic, spoof, avant garde, parody
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Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hammer, a well dressed well mannered young detective finds out the hard way that everything he know a has been a lie. After his partners suicide, via soup that was much much too hot. Hammer starts to notice a pattern in his crime scene that lead him to the head of a major soup corporation. All out war as the soup boils over.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof
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Made in U.S.A (1966)
Plot Summary:
Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, experimental, avant garde, crying
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, parody, slang, independent film, spoof
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Cool, Calm and Collected (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males, fleeing the feminist 1970s. Soon, too, there arrives a squadron of nymphomaniac Amazons.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, road movie, sexy, black comedy, dark comedy, weird, bizarre
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The Model Couple (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1977 France, the Ministry of the Future chooses two “normal,” white, middle-class citizens, Claudine and Jean-Michel, for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television for six months in a model apartment outfitted with state-of-the-art products and nonstop surveillance—the template for “a new city for the new man.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: satirical
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Themroc (1973)
Plot Summary:
Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, "Themroc" is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, erotic, intellectual, experimental, controversial, cult classic, absurd, avant garde
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Happy End (1967)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: experimental, black comedy, absurd, dark fantasy, avant garde, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, metafiction, alternative comedy
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Death by Hanging (1968)
Plot Summary:
A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, surreal, black comedy, weird, cult film
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Cosmos (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, atmospheric, surreal, absurd, cult classic, aesthetic, realistic, avant garde
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Buffet Froid (1979)
Plot Summary:
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mindfuck, anthology, cult classic, offbeat, witty
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My New Partner (1984)
Plot Summary:
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, witty, neo noir, anthology, action comedy, cult classic, black comedy, clever, humorous
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And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
Plot Summary:
And Now for Something Completely Different is a film spin-off from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, funny, absurd, spoof, sketch comedy, cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, mind bending
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Deal of the Century (1983)
Plot Summary:
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, political, clever, offbeat, allegory, black comedy
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Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)
Plot Summary:
A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, melancholic, satirical, intense, hood, feel good, semi serious, realistic, spoof
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Bananas (1971)
Plot Summary:
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, political, funny, talky, absurd, not serious, feel good, surreal, black comedy
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Pink Flamingos (1972)
Plot Summary:
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, disturbing, controversial, underground film, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, surreal, erotic, disgusting
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Plot Summary:
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, talky, humorous, art house, philosophical, satirical, absurd, meditative
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, art house, atmospheric, disturbing, meditative, talky, dark comedy, thought provoking, witty
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Female Trouble (1974)
Plot Summary:
The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progress from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. She runs away from home, is raped, becomes a single mother, criminal and glamorous model before her inevitable rendezvous with the electric chair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, controversial, cult classic, humorous, surreal
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Daisies (1966)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house, dark comedy, mind bending, social, disturbing, cult classic
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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
Plot Summary:
When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, hood, funny, humorous, spoof, slang, satirical, black comedy, cult classic
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Plot Summary:
When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, humorous, detective, slapstick, not serious, absurd, light, hilarious
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
Plot Summary:
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, biting, avant garde
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Take the Money and Run (1969)
Plot Summary:
The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, clever, witty, funny, talky, realistic, not serious, ironic, black comedy
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Weekend (1967)
Plot Summary:
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, experimental, art house, avant garde, political, absurd, controversial
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 847000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy, surreal, absurd, humorous, black comedy, cult classic, talky, funny, offbeat
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Plot Summary:
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 271000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy, talky, humorous, surreal, black comedy, funny, witty, clever, cult classic
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Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Plot Summary:
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, which she whips and dominates in an abandoned church. The TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp. Her husband, who is indifferent to her, steals materials to fashion elaborate artifacts that he rubs, scrapes and rolls across his body.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, sexy, dark comedy, psychedelic, psychotronic, sex comedy, erotic, mind bending, gothic
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The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists. But soon he learns the nature of the game and decides to fight back the only way he knows how, with a con.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: political, realistic, clever, humorous, parody, relaxing, witty, semi serious, hilarious, funny
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Delicatessen (1991)
Plot Summary:
This bizarre surrealistic black comedy takes place in a small fictitious post-apocalyptic town where food is scarce and butcher Clapet has the macabre business of using human flesh to feed his customers. Yet when his daughter falls in love with his next slaughter victim things turn into chaos.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual, cult classic, dark fantasy, apocalyptic, futuristic