Dark Comedies
Expect some of the laughs to stick in your throat with these comically sinister visions.
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1300 |
|
Network | Sidney Lumet | United States, | 1976 |
| 1285 |
|
Deep Crimson | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico, | 1996 |
|
Mahjong | Edward Yang | Taiwan, | 1996 | |
| 51 |
|
Brazil | Terry Gilliam | United Kingdom, | 1985 |
| 120 |
|
How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Bruce Robinson | United Kingdom, | 1989 |
| 119 |
|
Withnail and I | Bruce Robinson | United Kingdom, | 1987 |
|
The Doom Generation | Gregg Araki | United States, | 1995 | |
| 1235 |
|
Happiness | Todd Solondz | United States, | 1998 |
|
Nowhere | Gregg Araki | United States, | 1997 | |
| 654 |
|
Repo Man | Alex Cox | United States, | 1984 |
| 175 |
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam | United States, | 1998 |
| 589 |
|
Three Colors: White | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland, | 1994 |
| 722 |
|
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain, | 1990 |
| 1213 |
|
To Die For | Gus Van Sant | United States, | 1995 |
| 1204 |
|
Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, | 1996 |
| 1185 |
|
After Hours | Martin Scorsese | United States, | 1985 |
| 1178 |
|
Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, | 2022 |
| 1176 |
|
Chilly Scenes of Winter | Joan Micklin Silver | United States, | 1979 |
| 1153 |
|
Arsenic and Old Lace | Frank Capra | United States, | 1944 |
| 1137 |
|
Frownland | Ronald Bronstein | United States, | 2007 |
| 1131 |
|
Pink Flamingos | John Waters | United States, | 1972 |
| 1132 |
|
The Worst Person in the World | Joachim Trier | Norway, | 2021 |
| 1125 |
|
The Funeral | Juzo Itami | Japan, | 1984 |
| 423 |
|
Walker | Alex Cox | United States, | 1987 |
| 1108 |
|
The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark, | 1998 |
| 1023 |
|
The Cremator | Juraj Herz | Czechoslovakia, | 1969 |
| 904 |
|
Election | Alexander Payne | United States, | 1999 |
| 903 |
|
Jabberwocky | Terry Gilliam | United Kingdom, | 1977 |
| 855 |
|
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain, | 1988 |
| 840 |
|
The Executioner | Luis García Berlanga | Spain, | 1963 |
| 821 |
|
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | United States, | 1964 |
| 812 |
|
The Player | Robert Altman | United States, | 1992 |
| 800 |
|
The Graduate | Mike Nichols | United States, | 1967 |
|
As Long as You’ve Got Your Health | Pierre Etaix | France, | 1966 | |
| 652 |
|
Monsieur Verdoux | Charles Chaplin | United States, | 1947 |
| 635 |
|
Weekend | Jean-Luc Godard | France, | 1967 |
| 625 |
|
Eating Raoul | Paul Bartel | United States, | 1982 |
| 157 |
|
The Royal Tenenbaums | Wes Anderson | United States, | 2001 |
| 485 |
|
The Last Days of Disco | Whit Stillman | United States, | 1998 |
| 616 |
|
Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, | 1994 |
|
Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. | ||||
| 611 |
|
Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | United States, | 1999 |
| 65 |
|
Rushmore | Wes Anderson | United States, | 1998 |
| 574 |
|
Life During Wartime | Todd Solondz | United States, | 2010 |
| 307 |
|
Naked | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom, | 1993 |
| 565 |
|
The Great Dictator | Charles Chaplin | United States, | 1940 |
| 540 |
|
The Darjeeling Limited | Wes Anderson | United States, | 2007 |
|
Three Resurrected Drunkards | Nagisa Oshima | Japan, | 1968 | |
| 165 |
|
Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoit Poelvoorde | Belgium, | 1992 |
| 492 |
|
A Christmas Tale | Arnaud Desplechin | France, | 2008 |
|
Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein | ||||
| 350 |
|
Seduced and Abandoned | Pietro Germi | Italy, | 1964 |
| 286 |
|
Divorce Italian Style | Pietro Germi | Italy, | 1961 |
| 132 |
|
The Ruling Class | Peter Medak | United Kingdom, | 1972 |
| 608 |
|
Harold and Maude | Hal Ashby | United States, | 1971 |
| 199 |
|
Schizopolis | Steven Soderbergh | United States, | 1996 |