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Plot Summary:
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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Rain for a Dusty Summer (1971)
Plot Summary:
In Mexico, a mad general is leading his own war against the Church. Priests are rounded up, churches burned down and religion outlawed. The suffering of one pious catholic priest could bring the tide of change however.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, political
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Cellmates (2011)
Plot Summary:
Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden Merville, dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio, a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cell-mate. Leroy, confined in a small cell with the enemy, far from the KKK comrades who deserted him, finds the chatty Emilio slowly chipping away at his anger and prejudice. His weekly rehabilitation meetings with the warden, barely tolerable as the man drones on about farm labor and field crops, take on a different meaning when Madalena, a beautiful Mexican maid is hired to clean the warden's office. An unconventional love story develops that opens Leroy's eyes to the possibility of a different life. And a man who was a born and bred racist finds himself heading down a completely different path to salvation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, realistic, allegory, hispanic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, cult film
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Daddy's Boys (1988)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy set in 1930s America. Jimmy and Christie become celebrity bank robbers whose stardom ends in a bloody shootout when Daddy's Boys catch up with them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, independent film
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The Agent (2008)
Plot Summary:
It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, not up to scratch. However he hadn't counted on the author's resourcefulness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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The Actor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Kehr, a mentally disturbed aspiring actor returns to New York City to become the 'greatest actor of his generation'. In his pursuit of rising to the top, he enlists in an infamous acting class led by Professor Payton, a cunningly sharp-tongued teacher known for her relentless determination of breaking her students. His mind unravels as he discovers the power of the internet and is haunted by Bugsy Cloverdale, a social media Guru. Joseph's obsession of fame spirals out of control as he is forced to compete with a washed-up movie star.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark, 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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Ted & Venus (1991)
Plot Summary:
Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone who will listen. His life changes when a striking bikini-clad beauty named Linda strolls by him. Instantly, Ted believes he's found his "Venus" and becomes obsessed with Linda. He tries to woo her with poetry, obscene phone calls and romantic overtures, all to disastrous effect.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, crying, independent film, black comedy
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End of the Road (1970)
Plot Summary:
After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, psychedelic, independent film, black comedy, grotesque, cult film
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Depression: The Movie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four people deal with all the pain and sadness they have and find the root cause.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Five Days of Milan (1973)
Plot Summary:
As Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrian's,a patriotic prisoner called Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison cell.Suddenly,a cannon ball comes flying through the air and knocks the main wall of the prison down. Excited in at last having the chance to see the change taking place in person,Cainazzo hits a bumpy road,when one of his former fellow prisoner yells out to all the revolutionary gangs that Cainazzo is not a patriot,but is in fact a traitor!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Honkytonk Man (1982)
Plot Summary:
Young boy leaves the Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry. Set during the Great Depression.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, touching, funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, sentimental, light
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Girlfriend's Day (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a city where greeting card writers are celebrated like movie stars, Romance writer Ray used to be the king. In trying to recapture the feelings that once made him the greatest, he gets entangled in a web of murder and deceit as writers vie to create the perfect card for a new holiday: Girlfriend's Day.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending
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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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Wilbur Falls (1998)
Plot Summary:
A teen gives her graduation address and reveals her involvement in the disappearance of one her classmates, a boy who had taunted her. The film then moves into flashback to tell the story. Danny Aiello appears as her unorthodox, but compassionate, father.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Easy Sex (2003)
Plot Summary:
Packard Schmidt is a burnt-out, middle-aged college English professor. In a desperate attempt to restore some sense of vitality to his lonely existence he embarks on a series of impulsive romantic exploits resulting in a cavalcade of disaster both personally and professionally. These disasters change and educate Pack and serve eventually as a meditation on the meaning and power of desire, loss, and love.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, semi serious, erotic, dark comedy, humorous, sexual, independent film, sexy
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ExTerminators (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alex is a lonely accountant whose one act of rage results in her being sentenced to court-ordered therapy. There she meets Stella, the owner of a small extermination business who uses her car as a weapon, and Nikki, a dental technician with the face of an angel and the mind of a sociopath. Together these women form their own "silent revolution", wreaking havoc on the abusive men in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, independent film, detective, black comedy
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Mississippi Grind (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him on a road trip to a legendary high stakes poker game in New Orleans. As they make their way down the Mississippi River, Gerry and Curtis manage to find themselves in just about every bar, racetrack, casino, and pool hall they can find, experiencing both incredible highs and dispiriting lows, but ultimately forging a deep and genuine bond that will stay with them long after their adventure is over.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, tense, depressing, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, exciting, neo noir, entertaining
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There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
Plot Summary:
Charismatic criminal Paris Pitman ends up in jail, then attempts to escape the prison of warden Lopeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, spaghetti western, slapstick comedy
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Employee of the Month (2004)
Plot Summary:
"Employee of the Month" is about a guy whose day spirals from bad to worse when he gets fired from his dream job at the bank and is dumped by his fiancée Sara. David's best friend Jack tries to convince him it's for the best, but the opposite occurs when bank robberies and millions of dollars become part of his day from hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, suspense, melancholic, black comedy, entertaining, funny, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Guilty as Charged (1991)
Plot Summary:
Rod Steiger stars as a vigilante who with the aid of his helper, Isaac Hayes, captures men whom he considers evil and executes them in his homemade electric chair.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, rough, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, cult film
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China and Sex (1994)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy man falls for a woman who does not accept his courtship which forces him to enters a dangerous and erotic dream world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, suspense, sexploitation film
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'Doc' (1971)
Plot Summary:
A revisionist western, "Doc" is Frank Perry's attempt to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the now-legendary events that took place in the town of Tombstone, starring Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway and Harris Yulin.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspense, wild
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Doc West - Part 1 (2009)
Plot Summary:
After bandits steal his poker winnings this American legend makes his way to the next town in search of them. Seeking out his revenge during a poker game gone bad Doc West finds himself in the local town jail. When his past is exposed and a battle amongst the town breaks out in gunfire he will have to choose sides, between the outlaws or the law-abiding citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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California Split (1974)
Plot Summary:
Down-on-his-luck gambler Bill (George Segal) links up with free spirit Charlie (Elliott Gould) at first to have some fun, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most of his possessions and goes to Reno for the poker game of a lifetime. A film set mainly in casinos and races, as the two win and lose, get robbed, and get blind drunk.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: grim, clever, witty, talky, cynical, dark comedy, funny, entertaining, art house, cult classic
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Estomago: A Gastronomic Story (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, culinary, realistic
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The End (1978)
Plot Summary:
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, humorous, slapstick, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, slapstick comedy
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The Long Riders (1980)
Plot Summary:
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, factual, harsh, rough, suspenseful, serious, perverse, exciting, realistic, light
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Damsel (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain and damsel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, absurd, period piece, anamorphic, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Plot Summary:
An anthology film weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: anthology, funny, ironic, captivating, black comedy, light, suspense, fairy tale, epic, mysterious
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High Plains Drifter (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, brutal, rough, serious, black comedy, realistic