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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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Suicide Notes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Down on his luck playwright, Julian Parker, has written a play in which the lead character commits suicide in the final scene. The only way he can get it produced is when a money hungry producer named Marla French offers to produce the play for a limited three night engagement. The only catch: they are going to cast legitimately suicidal actors who are willing tokill themselves on stage--for real!!!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, black comedy, dark
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The Period (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sharrie Heiman suddenly finds herself with a never ending projectile period.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy, disgusting, transgressive
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Chop Chop (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dennis and Carl are brothers who live on a small farm in the country. None too bright, Dennis wants a girlfriend for Christmas. Carl makes sure that Dennis gets just that when he meets Rita at the local pub. She is on the run from her husband and she doesn't turn down the chance to hide away at Carl and Dennis's place.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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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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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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No and Yes (1967)
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Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min
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Young Triffie's Been Made Away With (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 1947 Whitbourne, Newfoundland, Alan Hepditch, a by-the-books but squeamish and somewhat dimwitted criminologist is constantly being tormented by his fellow ranger candidates and his sergeant, Bill O'Mara. Before Hepditch can quit, O'Mara, as a sort of punishment, assigns him to his first posting at Swyer's Harbour, where five sheep mutilations have taken place over the past year. When he arrives in Swyer's Harbour, Hepditch has a more serious crime to investigate, that of the murder of a local, mentally slow woman named Tryphenia Maud Pottle, better known to the locals as Young Triffie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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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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Broken Panties (2018)
Plot Summary:
The imminent death of a matriarch forces her whole family to reunite. From her dying confession, other hidden episodes will come to light. Each of the family members will face what they would prefer remained buried. Nobody is free of killing for love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, 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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Deb & Sisi (2008)
Plot Summary:
Forever lonely, homely Deborah Dyer tries everything she can to "suicide herself" when she finds herself still single on her 40th birthday. All attempts fail as fate sends her car swerving right into Sisi Sickles, a recently evicted 40-something promiscuous waitress. Seeing an opportunity for a quick buck, Sisi hastily begins to take advantage of naive Deb and is soon at Deb's doorstep with a "broken umbilical cord or two." Stricken with guilt, a clueless and lonely Deb postpones her self-destructive plans to take care of Sisi. Things run hilariously amok when the two women grow closer and develop the only real friendship either of them has ever had. Who needs a man anyways, right?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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Ill Fated (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mark A. Lewis's tragic-comic adventure ILL FATED plunges the viewer into the boxed-in world of Jimmy, a small-town teen who seeks a better life but who sees dead-end signs at every turn out of town. His vague plan to leave and "look into college" is complicated by a revolving door of small-town complications - the demands of his lumpen best friends, his troubled girlfriend, his promiscuous stepmother and cuckolded stepfather. But the biggest complication of all is the return of his womanizing biological dad Earl, who'd fled in Jimmy's infancy after impregnating the wife of a violent convict (also his best friend). Earl's return is a catalyst to disaster, and a palette for director Lewis to paint a hyper-realist picture of small-town dystopia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Blackest Heart (1990)
Plot Summary:
In "German Chainsaw Massacre" people meet up with a household of butchers. They detect low cost meat in the East Germans moving over the old boundary into the West and start turning them into sausage. Clara flees the slaying of her sleazy spouse and the rotting East, and lands in the arms of butchers. She is held alive simply because the daughter of the family falls in love with her. This German movie is a satirical massacre splatter flick that provides lots of inexpensive gore. It's full of political overtones and has a lot to Tobe Hooper's terror classic "The Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers". If you're a lover of German gore and absurdness, check it out!. 16 million East Germans on their way to the golden West. 4% never got there: were they turned into Wuerste (sausages)? If you knew Christoph Schlingensief's other movies like "United Trash" you will know what this is all about - some call it art, some trash. Shot in 14 days after October the 3rd 1990. With Udo Kier in a small role.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, controversial, independent film, black comedy
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The Unfinished Works Of Sean Weathers (2004)
Plot Summary:
During the early-2000s filmmaker Sean Weathers took 3 projects into production which he would not finish (Gangz vs. Cults, The Erotic Adventures of Samson & Delilah and Escape from Bloodbath Island).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, campy, cult film
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The Hitler Tapes (1994)
Plot Summary:
Did they really come from Hitler?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, sexploitation film, cult film
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Vendus (2004)
Plot Summary:
An adulterous man married to a wealthy Realtor plans on killing his wife with the assistance of his young lover. Little does the cheating husband know that his young lover is planning to blackmail him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 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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Zeroes (2018)
Plot Summary:
When best friends, Ray and Kenneth, drunkenly foil a robbery, Philadelphia becomes abuzz with the antics of these local heroes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, cult film
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Redrum (2007)
Plot Summary:
A bored couple rejuvenate their marriage by turning to murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, surprise ending, detective, black 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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Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black comedy
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7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society) (2019)
Plot Summary:
The family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional society.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, dark comedy, anthology, black comedy
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The Creator (1999)
Plot Summary:
Auteur à succès, Darius voit des affiches annonçant sa nouvelle pièce. Soudain pris de panique, il se rappelle qu'il a oublié de l'écrire.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, fun
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I Think I Do (2013)
Plot Summary:
I Think I Do is a romantic-relationship comedy about commitment, cold feet, the endurance of true love, the importance of family ties and the hard lesson learned that, try as we may, life simply does not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Death Drop Gorgeous (2020)
Plot Summary:
A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen try to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy, dark drama, black comedy
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Obituary for Escobar (2008)
Plot Summary:
Serbian crime drama focusing on Belgrade's violent criminal underworld. Obituary For Escobar distinguishes itself from other recent crime dramas with its strong visual style and energetic approach. Borko was a young effeminate boy bullied at school by the self-styled 'Ghandi'. Years on, Ghandi is now a warlord, wrecking mayhem in pursuit of his ambition to become the leading drug lord in the Balkans. His execution of the rival 'Serbian Escobar' coincides with the mysterious placement of an obituary for the real Escobar by two stoners. In Ghandi's pursuit of the assailants he meets Lela, a stunning mystery woman who leads Ghandi to reconsider both "Borko" and his life in crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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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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Siblings (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joe (Alex Campbell) and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, erotic, offbeat, independent film, black comedy
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Recipe for a Perfect Christmas (2005)
Plot Summary:
The holiday season is turned upside down for a neophyte food critic JJ (Pope) when her uninhibited mother (Baranski) shows up unannounced. In an attempt to occupy her mom's time, JJ works out a deal with a young chef (Cannavale) that stirs up some matters of the heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, light, emotional, culinary, realistic