My Favorite of DARK COMEDIES You May Have Never Seen
This list is for those that like their comedy like their coffee, strong and dark :) (Key Words Crime, Quirky, Thrillers, Surplus of Characters, bizarre ect)
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- DirectorAllan MoyleStarsScott SpeedmanWes BentleyTaryn ManningA pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.
- DirectorArie PosinStarsJamie BellAllison JanneyRory CulkinWhen his drug-dealing friend Troy commits suicide, Dean's life in his suburban neighborhood is thrown into chaos.
- DirectorDerrick BorteStarsDemi MooreDavid DuchovnyAmber HeardA seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
- DirectorJean-Baptiste AndreaStarsDavid SchwimmerSimon PeggAlice EveA frustrated, unemployed professor joins forces with a scammer and a friend of his in a blackmailing scheme.
- DirectorBarry SonnenfeldStarsTim AllenRene RussoStanley TucciThe lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results.
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsWoody AllenDavid SchwimmerAngélica AragónA small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.
- DirectorGreg MarcksStarsHenry ThomasColin HanksBen FosterThe events leading up to an 11:14 p.m. car crash, from five very different perspectives.
- DirectorJames RobinsonStarsDonal LogueCary ElwesMichael RapaportA guy dies after collecting comic books for decades. His mom inherits them and she ain't selling. Owners of 2 comic book stores want the collection. Their scheming gets ever more desperate.
- DirectorMichael PhilipStarsJason LeeCrispin GloverBurton GilliamWhen their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.
- DirectorGavin GrazerStarsAlicia SilverstoneRachael Leigh CookWoody HarrelsonBy chance 3 employees rob their bank the same weekend.
- DirectorAlexandre RockwellStarsPeter DinklageMark Boone JuniorTodd BarryTwo old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.
- DirectorDanny DeVitoStarsRobin WilliamsEdward NortonCatherine KeenerA kids' show host, Rainbow Randolph, is fired in disgrace while his replacement, Sheldon Mopes, A.K.A. Smoochy the Rhino, finds himself a rising star. Unfortunately for Sheldon, the business of kids' television isn't all child's play.
- DirectorFrank HenenlotterStarsRick HearstGordon MacDonaldJennifer LowryOne morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsMelanie GriffithStephen DorffAlicia WittAn insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsRenée ZellwegerMorgan FreemanChris RockComedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.
- DirectorJason ReitmanStarsAaron EckhartCameron BrightMaria BelloSatirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his 12-year old son.
- DirectorMark MylodStarsRobin WilliamsGiovanni RibisiHolly HunterTo remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
- DirectorGeorge RatliffStarsGreg KinnearPierce BrosnanMarisa TomeiSet in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.
- DirectorMichael LehmannStarsEd Begley Jr.Stockard ChanningDabney ColemanModelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsWilliam H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
- DirectorChristine JeffsStarsAmy AdamsEmily BluntAlan ArkinIn order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister.
- DirectorRandall MillerStarsAlan RickmanBryan GreenbergShawn HatosyA professor of chemistry wins the Nobel Prize. His wife joins him to Stockholm but his PhD. working son gets kidnapped. The kidnapper demands $2,000,000 = prize sum.
- DirectorHart BochnerStarsDylan WalshJonah HillJustin LongAn offbeat romantic comedy about a decent guy, Ray Tuckby, with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, CA. After encouragement from a stranger whom he happens upon, Ray begins to dream again. He sheds the parasites in his life, musters the nerve to pursue his childhood love, and finally takes back his community by toppling the local teenage Meth-baron.
- DirectorJack PerezStarsKevin CorriganBarry BostwickKaren BlackKen Boyd, a lonely man fresh out of the loony bin, who sets out to kill those he deems responsible for his miserable life.
- DirectorChris Ver WielStarsChristian SlaterTim AllenPortia de RossiThis is a comedy about mistaken identities, a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies, and a twenty-year-old diamond heist.