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Plot Summary:
Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, minimal cast, not serious, realistic, cynical, black comedy, disturbing, controversial, experimental, surreal
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Baxter (1989)
Plot Summary:
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, suspense, allegory, surreal, controversial, deep, twisted, serious, captivating
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Homebodies (1974)
Plot Summary:
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, political, surreal, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Greasy Strangler (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets at night.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, dark, surreal, absurd, horror comedy, rough, funny, romantic, sexy
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The Last Circus (2010)
Plot Summary:
The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, bleak, rough, psychological, surreal, suspense, twisted, serious, horror comedy
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Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Plot Summary:
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love with all three women and helps to disguise the murders.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, art house, humorous, disturbing, witty, talky, erotic, postmodern
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Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (1999)
Plot Summary:
Derwin and Derick, Neo-Nazis, plan to commit a school shooting and kill themselves after a sick joke by the school jocks.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, underground film, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, disturbing, controversial, cynical, not serious
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Mister Lonely (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, avant garde, offbeat, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, psychological
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Ex Drummer (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Music
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, offbeat, suspenseful, dark comedy, semi serious, controversial, erotic, psychedelic, surreal, art house
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A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Plot Summary:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local zoo. Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg, and her sinister physician eventually removes the other 'because it looked so sad all alone'. Oswald and Oliver become involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious trafficking in zoo property. But ultimately their only goal is to try and understand their mortal condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, mind bending, erotic, black comedy, clever, witty, talky, controversial
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Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, enigmatic, black and white, atmospheric, stylized, scary, underground film, horror comedy
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Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Plot Summary:
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable and disturbing elements of our nature come forward. The film shows how justifiable revolt may be empowering, but may also turn to chaos and depravity. The allegory is developed in part by the fact that the film is cast entirely with dwarfs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black and white, cult classic, surreal, disturbing, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, experimental, dark comedy, mind bending
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Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Plot Summary:
Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, art house, dark, cerebral, cult classic, mindfuck
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Life During Wartime (2009)
Plot Summary:
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, psychological, independent film, melancholic, talky, stylized, black comedy, humorous, psychedelic
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Palindromes (2004)
Plot Summary:
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychological, disturbing, surreal, controversial, cynical, humorous, art house, independent film, dark comedy
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Plot Summary:
A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big lies, abandonment and the eternal longing for companionship and confirmation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, black comedy, philosophical, art house, disturbing, talky, depressing, melancholic, meditative
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Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Plot Summary:
An anxious man learns of the death of his mother under mysterious circumstances and upon traveling home makes an alarming discovery about his past. During his journey, he runs into various crazy supernatural threats.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Finland, Canada
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, dark comedy, psychological horror, absurd, dark fantasy, black comedy, postmodern, surreal, interesting
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Man Bites Dog (1992)
Plot Summary:
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, dark comedy, black comedy, disturbing, black and white, humorous, controversial, stylized, cult classic, atmospheric
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Gummo (1997)
Plot Summary:
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, experimental, independent film, art house, bleak, psychedelic, offbeat, erotic
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The Acid House (1998)
Plot Summary:
THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the film dramatises three stories from the book: 1- The Granton Star Cause, 2- A Soft Touch & 3- The Acid House.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous, absurd, independent film, clever, controversial
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Naked (1993)
Plot Summary:
Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very much like his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: disturbing, talky, compassionate, realistic, philosophical, art house, serious, dark comedy, black comedy, existential
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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 Idiots (1998)
Plot Summary:
With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: art house, surreal, disturbing, controversial, experimental, sexy, erotic, satirical, dark comedy, psychological
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Excision (2012)
Plot Summary:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon - that is, if she doesn't go insane first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, scary, tense, dark comedy, erotic, funny, slasher, controversial
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Visitor Q (2001)
Plot Summary:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger, somehow gets involved and enters the bizarre family whose son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, controversial, tense, dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, atmospheric, rough
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Taxidermia (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary, Austria, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, controversial, cult classic, offbeat, art house, humorous, semi serious, erotic
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Possession (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary, creepy, grindhouse, controversial
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May (2002)
Plot Summary:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, creepy
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In My Skin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Esther, a self-conscious young woman who works for a public relations firm. One night at a party with her friend Sandrine, Esther wanders into the backyard and stumbles, scratching her leg on a piece of scrap metal. She goes back to the party, and later realizes that her injury is much more severe than she had thought. There's a huge, ugly gouge all the way up her shin, and she's bleeding profusely. She goes to a doctor, who patches her up and tells her she might need a skin graft. But Esther becomes obsessed with the wound. She won't let it heal, sneaking away during work to cut herself. As her leg becomes an ugly scarred mass, she begins to notice a problem with her arm. Before long, she's alienated Vincent and jeopardized her job with her compulsive, self-destructive behavior. But she continues on her grotesque downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, sexy, heartbreaking, bloody, suspense, sentimental
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Happiness (1998)
Plot Summary:
The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: black comedy, cynical, independent film, dark comedy, depressing, bleak, art house, disturbing, psychological, psychedelic
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Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Plot Summary:
An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, disturbing, realistic, depressing, black comedy, brutal, controversial, cult classic, teen, talky