The specificity of the genre forces the authors to touch on complex and dark themes. They harshly ridicule disease, death and other human fears. Most often comedies with black humor are parodies of popular films.
The main characters of such comedies find themselves in difficult and sometimes unusual situations, but get out of them with a share of irony or absurdity. If you watch our top comedies with black humor, you will have a great time.
Seven Psychopaths
- IMDB Rating – 7.2
- Genre: Comedy, Crime
- Production: UK, USA / 2012
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $32,226,382
- Director: Martin McDonagh
- Starring: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, Zeljko Ivanek, Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg.
Professional screenwriter Marty gets an idea to write a strange script “Seven Psychopaths”. The project involves the creation of 7 creative stories, but the work does not go well, there is not enough fantasy. And sometimes you really want to drink. And then Billy’s friend distracts him, who obviously has nothing to do, as he is unemployed.
However, Billy is not worried. Together with his partner in the “business” they have learned to make money by stealing dogs from rich citizens and return them as found, preferably for a good reward. But one day the friends managed to steal their favorite dog from a real gangster and crazy degenerate Charlie. And further events are now very difficult to predict.
Mickey Rourke did not find common ground with the director, and the role of Charlie Costello invited Woody Harrelson.
Put Grandma in the Freezer
- IMDB Rating – 6.0
- Genre: Comedy
- Production: Italy / 2018
- Worldwide box office receipts: $4,014,383
- Director: Giancarlo Fontana, Giuseppe Stasi
- Starring: Fabio De Luigi, Miriam Leone, Lucia Okone, Marina Rocco, Francesco Di Liva, Susie Laude, Carlo Luca De Ruggieri, Maurizio Lombardi, Eros Pagni, Barbara Bouchette
The absurdity of the situation happening to the young Italian Claudia is connected with the acute shortage of money. Her firm is about to go bankrupt. Therefore, the beauty is as philosophical as possible about the death of her beloved grandmother and temporarily hides her body in the freezer.
And all this for the sake of a few more months to receive the old lady’s pension. The girl can count on the help of her friends, but the policeman Simon, who is in love with her, becomes a huge problem.
This comedy with black humor was filmed in 2017, in Rome. Surprisingly, Italians are very careful about relatives, especially the elderly. However, the movie was met with enthusiasm. The slogan of the comedy: “Not a single grandmother was harmed during filming”
Hot Fuzz
- IMDB Rating – 7.8
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Comedy, Detective
- Production: UK, France / 2007
- Budget: $16,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $80,577,265
- Director: Edgar Wright
- Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton, Paddy Considine, Rafe Spall, Kevin Eldon, Carl Johnson, Olivia Colman, Bill Bailey.
Nicholas Angel is one of those police officers who can be called exemplary. And he does not want to seem so, just honesty and incorruptibility and is all his essence. But there are other officers around him. That’s why his superiors are eager to send him somewhere far away. And soon they do.
Aingeal goes to the village of Sandford – a real English countryside. He’s even been promoted to sergeant. Despite the fact that the reputation of the villagers is high, doubts crept into Nicholas’s soul. Why, with an incredibly low crime rate, are there too many accidents in the village? One of the local policemen supports the newcomer in everything, but the other law enforcers tense up and take a wait-and-see attitude. Or are they up to something?
For filming in the movie Simon Pegg lost 13 pounds, mastered the skills of shooting and cycling.
The Guard
- IMDB Rating – 7.3
- Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Crime
- Production: Ireland / 2011
- Budget: $6,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $19,561,904
- Director: John Michael McDonagh
- Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Finola Flanagan, David Wilmot, Lawrence Kinlan, Katarina Chas, Dominic McElligott, Gary Lydon
The main character is a cop who is involved in the investigation of a complicated murder. The investigation reveals a connection with corrupt officials and drug dealers. Jerry Boyle likes humor and fun, because he is Irish. However, despite the apparent lightness of his character, his outlook and firm life position are worthy of respect.
Many viewers consider the film to be the best comedy with black humor. It is not spoiled at all by the absence of pronounced love lines and the cult of sex. And the scenes of communication between the hero and his mother can hardly be called comedy at all.
At the moment when Jerry comes to the wife of the dead policeman, he watches the horror film “The Howl”, filmed in 1978 by E. Skolimovsky.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
- IMDB Rating – 7.5
- Genre: Horror, Comedy
- Production: Canada / 2010
- Worldwide box office receipts: $5,224,938
- Director: Eli Craig
- Starring: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss, Philip Granger, Brandon J. McLaren, Christy Lane, Chelan Simmons, Travis Nelson, Alex Arsenault
Tucker and Dale are country boys who decided to have a vacation at Tucker’s cottage in the woods. A group of students, who have chosen a place nearby, are hoping for a good vacation. But when they see two strangers, they are scared out of their wits. Especially when they learn that about 20 years ago there was a massacre here.
Yes, the forests of Canada are full of mystery and mystery. A lot of ridiculous accidents lead to the fact that ordinary villagers are mistaken for horrible maniacs. In addition, dying like flies, the students, who managed to call the sheriff, do not get support, as his death catches up right in Tucker’s house.
This is a witty and most hilarious comedy with black humor. It revolutionizes horror movies.
Zombieland
- IMDB Rating – 7.6
- Genre: Horror, Comedy, Action
- Production: USA / 2009
- Budget: $23,600,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $102,392,080
- Director: Ruben Fleischer
- Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Bill Murray, Amber Heard, Derek Graf, Caesar Aguirre, Jacob J. Eakins, Hunter Eldridge.
After a zombie apocalypse sweeps across the planet, American Columbus searches for survivors across the country. The U.S. is now called “zombieland.” In his wanderings, he meets another guy named Tallahassee. And then two wayward sisters.
Wichita and Little Rock are eager to get to the Wild Adventures amusement park, because it’s rumored that zombies aren’t there yet. They steal a car from the guys, but then reunite with them. In Beverly Hills Columbus meets a famous actor Bill Murray, mimicked as a zombie and decides to kill him. The deceivers do not calm down and once again circle their friends around their fingers. Fear destroys people, will they be able to stay alive?
During filming, the police arrested actress Emma Stone for illegal possession of “uplifting” drugs. But the next day she was released and continued working.
The Voices
- IMDB Rating – 6.4
- Genre: Horror, Comedy, Crime
- Production: USA, Germany / 2014
- Worldwide box office receipts: $2,047,501
- Director: Marjan Satrapi
- Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver, Ella Smith, Paul Chahidi, Stanley Townsend, Adi Shankar, Sam Spruell, Valerie Koch
Jerry has a mental illness, but he refuses treatment. The cat tries to convince him to become a maniac and commit a series of murders, but his favorite dog claims he is good.
As he begins to take his medication, he realizes that there is a lot of violence in his life. So much so that he stops taking the medication again. Jerry commits one murder after another and confesses everything to his doctor. That’s when the police get involved.
Interestingly enough, actor Ryan Reynolds had to call the director and speak to him in several voices to get the part. After which the choice was recognized as obvious.
Deadpool
- IMDB Rating – 8.0
- Genre: Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2016
- Budget: $58,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $782,612,155
- Director: Tim Miller
- Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, TJ Miller. Gina Carano, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapicic, Leslie Aggams, Jed Riis, Karan Soni
Deadpool is not as good as many people imagine. He doesn’t always act logically. What is there to say to him? The world cannot be divided by a black line. Often what’s good for one will be bad for the other. The battle between the two megalomaniacs goes on for a long time. And many of the plots are filled with humor and irony.
And here again in Deadpool’s life appears a super soldier and his mission is very disliked by the main character. He is ready to fight, but starts dreaming about family, friendship and his purpose, without stopping to punish those who in his opinion deserve it. This is not a dumb comedy with black humor, it’s all about quick reactions!
Deadpool’s unmasked face was a headache for the makeup artists (and the actor, too). It took three to seven hours each time!
Burn After Reading
- IMDB Rating – 7.0
- Genre: Drama, comedy, crime, thriller
- Production: USA, UK, France / 2008
- Budget: $37,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $163,720,069
- Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rush, J.K. Simmons, Olek Krupa.
The decision of former CIA analyst Osborne Cox to start writing his memoirs causes a lot of related events. Trouble grows like a snowball and affects not only politicians and spies – Osborne’s personal life begins to change.
And it all began with the fact that his wife, dreaming of divorce, copies bank accounts, and at the same time, and written memories and sends them to the assistant to his lawyer. The woman transfers the information to disks and safely forgets it at the gym. The ensuing murders are stopped by the director of the intelligence agency without even realizing what really happened.
Bernie
- IMDB Rating – 6.8
- Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime, Biography
- Production: USA / 2011
- Budget: $5,000,000
- US box office receipts: $9,206,470
- Director: Richard Linklater
- Starring: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman, Richard Robichaud, Rick Dial, Brandon Smith, Larry Dotson, Merrilee McCommas, Matthew Greer.
Bernie Teed worked as an undertaker and wholeheartedly helped, as best he could, residents who had lost relatives. But one day, he and widow Marjorie Nugent became friendly. So close, in fact, that Bernie took over her finances. And Marge became jealous of his friends and exerted powerful psychological pressure. But what forced Bernie to shoot the old lady and why on his defense became the whole town?
The movie is based on real events that took place in 1996: 39-year-old Bernie Teed murdered an 81-year-old millionaire and received a life sentence for it.
Come As You Are
- IMDB Rating – 7.0
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Production: USA / 2019
- Worldwide Box Office: $16,209
- Director: Richard Wong
- Starring: Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden Szeto, Ravi Patel, Gabourey Sidibe, Janine Garofalo, K.C. Lee, Jennifer Jelsema, Martha Kuwahara, Delaney Finer, Asta Philpot
People with disabilities also dream of a full life. Apparently that’s why three young guys decide to fill the gaps in their intimate life and go to the priestesses of love. Two of them are wheelchair users and one is blind.
A successful escape from care gives them a chance to realize their plans. The thing is that the Montreal brothel they are so eager to get to is also special. They are accompanied by a dark-skinned girl.
The movie is intended for an adult audience, as in some cases appropriate vocabulary is used, and the subject matter is quite specific.
In Bruges
- IMDB Rating – 7.9
- Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Drama
- Production: UK, USA / 2007
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $33,394,440
- Director: Martin McDonagh
- Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Rafe Fiennes, Clemence Poésy, Jordan Prentice, Elizabeth Berrington, Thekla Ruthen, Zeljko Ivanek, Rudy Blomm, Anna Madelay.
The murder of a priest on the orders of crime boss Harry by two mercenaries, Ken and Ray, is complicated by the unplanned death of a boy. As a consequence, they have to leave London and wait it out in Bruges.
Ken is heartbroken over the death of his child. And Ray gets acquainted with a drug dealer Chloe. For killers, accustomed to live by gangster laws and make tough decisions, it is impossible to live quietly. And a quiet town is plunged into chaos – gunshots sound, blood spurts. The criminals occasionally flare up a sense of compassion, but it only makes things worse.
With the movie’s timing of 107 minutes, the word “Fak” is uttered more than 130 times.
The Ladykillers
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Thriller, comedy, crime
- Production: USA / 2004
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $76,665,191
- Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Ma Qi, Ryan Hurst, Diane Delano, George Wallace, John McConnell, Jason Weaver
A professor with strange tendencies decides to commit a large-scale robbery. The swindler gathers a team that includes everyone he needs: a bomber, a strongman, there is even a “mole” and a weasel.
But to get into the casino with huge money they should penetrate into the basement of one believing old woman. And here already there is an ensemble of ancient music in full composition. And the thieves clearly underestimated the old woman’s intelligence. That’s probably why the word “fuck” was used 89 times in this movie.
Interestingly, during the course of events, the late husband’s face in the portrait changes expression several times, a direct reference to another movie, Sullivan’s Travels.
Thank You for Smoking
- IMDB Rating – 7.6
- Genre: Drama, comedy
- Production: USA / 2005
- Budget: $6,500,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $39,323,027
- Director: Jason Reitman
- Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, J.K. Simmons, William H. Macy, Robert Duvall, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, David Cockner
Nick Naylor’s job is not an easy one. He is a spokesman for a major tobacco company and at the same time serves as vice president of the Academy of Tobacco Research, the tobacco lobby.
Nick promotes on television the results of research confirming the safety of smoking tobacco for human lungs. But all the scientific research has been funded by the manufacturers themselves. Under the influence of a series of troubles, the hero begins to change his mind.
The movie came out with the tagline, “Smoke to your health,” but there are no smoking scenes, except for a few, black and white, from another project.
Death at a Funeral
- IMDB Rating – 7.4
- Genre: Comedy
- Production: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands / 2007
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $46,789,413
- Director: Frank Oz
- Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Rupert Graves, Andy Nyman, Chris Marshall, Alan Tudyk, Daisy Donovan, Keeley Hawes, Peter Dinklage, Ewan Bremner, Jane Asher.
Daniel and his wife Jane live in Daniel’s parents’ home in England. At his father’s funeral, Daniel talks about the possibility of buying his own home. The family gathers.
An unfamiliar dwarf appears, trying to discuss a problem with the hero in the turmoil. But in the turmoil it can not be done. Hallucinogenic pills in a vial labeled “Valium” will play an important role in the events that take place, as well as compromising photos spilled out of the dwarf’s pocket.
Dad, die
- IMDB Rating – 6.8
- Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Drama
- Production: Russia / 2018
- Budget: ₽ 50,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $41,395
- Director: Kirill Sokolov
- Starring: Vitaly Khayev, Alexander Kuznetsov, Evgenia Kregzhdeh, Mikhail Gorevoy, Elena Shevchenko, Igor Grabuzov, Alexander Domogarov Jr, Vladimir Kondaurov, Artyom Bashenin, Ilya Kostyukov
Greed has corrupted the souls of the heroes of this dark Russian comedy. No one has brakes, they carry out their task to the end. They are not stopped by the death of a close relative or an old friend. Deception and hypocrisy rule the ball. But the heroes are not bandits at all, but quite decent people, really at first glance.
The Lekhovsky family is troubled. Daughter Olga complains to her friend Matvei about her policeman father, who raped her as a child. She asks to kill him for this. The guy agrees, takes a hammer and goes “on the case”. But it is not so easy to cope with a professional. Can a naive and trusting person survive in this maelstrom?
Big Nothing
- IMDB Rating – 6.8
- Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Crime
- Production: UK / 2006
- Budget: £3,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $662,081
- Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
- Starring: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg, Alice Eve, Natascha McElhone. John Polito, Mimi Rogers, Billy Asher, Julian Glover, Olivia Peterson, Sarah Edmondson
A former Oregon teacher, Charlie Wood, starts working for the phone company. His new colleague, Gus Dickinson, has data on all the sites the town’s residents visit.
Sitting in the town bar, they decide to blackmail the Reverend Smalls, who visits websites with child porn on them. Josie, an acquaintance of Gus’s, finds out about it and demands to take her in. Their plan is brilliant. But can they pull it off? After all, because of the ridiculous murder will have to hide the corpses and hide all traces.
Movie taglines: “A comedy that will lead to murder”; “A couple of dead bodies is just the beginning!”
Suburbicon
- IMDB Rating – 5.7
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime
- Production: UK, USA, China / 2017
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $12,751,667
- Director: George Clooney
- Starring: Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac, Noah Joop, Glenn Fleshler, Megan Ferguson, Jack Conley, Gary Basaraba, Michael Cohen, Steve Monroe
In the quiet town of Suburbicon with cozy houses and neatly mowed lawns settles a family of African-American Myers. And decent locals suddenly begin to treat them inappropriately, their life becomes hell. They do everything they can to get them to leave.
It’s a distant 1959 on the calendar, which explains the intolerance of such neighbors. In this black humor comedy, there are a lot of events leading to the death of the characters. The confrontation leads to a spontaneous riot, and only the police manage to restore order.
On the role of the main character wanted to invite George Clooney, but did not happen.
Ingrid Goes West
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Production: USA / 2017
- Worldwide box office receipts: $3,146,831
- Director: Matthew Spicer
- Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Wyatt Russell, Billy Magnussen, Pom Klementieff, Hannah Pearl Att, Joseph Breen, Angelica Amore, Meredith Hagner
A girl with a sick psyche goes to Los Angeles to organize a personal meeting with her idol – Instagram-blogger Taylor Sloan. The money left by her mother as an inheritance comes in handy. The girl rents a place, tracks Taylor down and kidnaps her dog, then uses it as a reason to meet her.
The ingenuity of her mind is admirable. But her actions make one bitterly regret her fate. What does she have to go through to make a video herself that has become very popular?
The Double
- IMDB Rating – 6.5
- Genre: Thriller, Drama
- Production: UK / 2013
- Worldwide box office receipts: $1,662,515
- Director: Richard Ayoade
- Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Yasmine Page, Noah Taylor, James Fox, Cathy Moriarty, Phyllis Somerville, Gabrielle Downey, John Corks
In this peculiar interpretation of the famous story by F. Dostoevsky, two characters are absolutely similar in appearance. However, no one around them sees their similarities. And their characters are markedly different, as well as their morals. Simon James is outraged by the behavior of the new employee James Simon.
And indeed: the double, with his complete incompetence, easily gets along with the boss and gives him a number of proposals to optimize the work of the institution, on which Simon worked. And also begins to flirt with the hero’s beloved. His insolence knows no bounds. How can Simon prove his uniqueness? In this comedy parody with black humor you can find answers.
Filth
- IMDB Rating – 7.1
- Genre: Crime, comedy, drama
- Production: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA / 2013
- Worldwide box office receipts: $8,377,987
- Director: John S. Baird
- Starring: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Jim Broadbent, Imogene Poots, Shauna McDonald, Shirley Henderson, John Sessions, Gary Lewis, Iman Elliott.
These Christmas events can’t be described as festive. There’s a Detective Inspector vacancy at Edinburgh CID. And there are plenty of applicants. Bruce Robertson, Detective Sergeant, is keen to get a promotion. And he has every chance of getting it. But that’s just the way it seems at first glance.
He tries to eliminate his competitors – spreads dirty rumors about them or humiliates them in front of other people. His wife hopes that he will overcome everything, if, of course, he loves her. But just in this confidence the viewer does not have. The policeman breeds intrigue, leads a promiscuous sex life. His psyche is failing, he’s hallucinating. But what makes him bitterly say the phrase “The rules are the same everywhere”?
Burke and Hare
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Crime, History
- Production: UK / 2010
- Budget: £7,500,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $4,791,599
- Director: John Landis
- Starring: Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Hynes, Bill Bailey, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee, David Heyman, Hugh Bonneville.
In the nineteenth century, two burglars, William Burke and his friend William Hare, make a business out of selling corpses they have dug up from fresh burials. They rent them to the Military Medical School, located in Edinburgh, to physician Robert Knox.
They actively dig up corpses in cemeteries, take the bodies of debtors from landlady’s apartments, but it’s not enough for them. And so the “business people” go out on the streets and start killing more and more people. The police begin to investigate.
This black comedy is based on the real facts about the West Port murders.
What We Do in the Shadows
- IMDB Rating – 7.7
- Genre: Comedy, Horror
- Production: New Zealand / 2014
- Budget: $1,600,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $7,251,226
- Director: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
- Starring: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, Corey Gonzalez-Macuer, Stew Rutherford, Ben Frensham, Jackie van Beek, Elena Steiko, Jason Hoyte, Karen O’Leary
The lives of Vladislav, Deacon and Viago are not like the rest of the people. But are they really alive? These surviving vampires have chosen Wellington as their home. They roam the streets at night and scare passers-by with various tricks. They have given their consent to make a movie as they are expecting a big ball.
Their stories are full of the most incredible events, because they found themselves in different countries and often were famous personalities, such as Vlad Tepes.
This is not a dumb comedy with black humor, but an incredibly exciting movie, watching which you can lift your spirits for a long time.
The Red Inn
- IMDB Rating – 5.9
- Genre: Comedy, crime
- Production: France / 2007
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $8,048,943
- Director: Gerard Krawczyk
- Starring: Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasco, Gerard Juniot, Jean-Baptiste Monnier, Sylvie Joly, Anne Girard, Urbain Cancellier, François-Xavier Demeson, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Laurent Gamelon
In the Pyrenees, on one of the mountain passes, there is a hotel that almost no one has visited for a long time. Only rare travelers managed to reach it, but none of them returned.
A married couple – its owners, force their son to kill all who come, in order to appropriate his good. After the arrival of a group of pilgrims led by a priest, the landlady decides to confess and tells him of her sins. The priest is bound by the secrecy of the confession and cannot reveal its contents. What will happen to the new guests during the night?
Just Buried
- IMDB Rating – 6.1
- Genre: Horror, Drama, Comedy
- Production: Canada / 2007
- Director: Chaz Thorne
- Starring: Jay Baruchel, Sergio Di Zio, Nigel Bennett, Thomas Gibson, Reagan Pasternak, Slyko Negulich, Graham Greene, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Ackerman, Craig Wood.
Rollie Weinacht and his son Oliver were incredibly lucky. They inherited a funeral home. However, people in the town do not like to die – the last funeral was a year ago. And the competitor, Wayne Snr, is not slumbering – he has great connections. And if anything happens, he’s the first to know.
Wayne offered to buy out Rollie’s business. Seems legit. But then the daughter of the local sheriff who sold the agency, Roberta, intervenes, still worried about the loss and willing to cooperate with the current owners. She’s a coroner and medical examiner. And she has serious plans.
Keeping Mum
- IMDB Rating – 6.8
- Genre: Comedy, Crime
- Production: UK, USA / 2005
- Budget: $169,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $18,564,702
- Director: Nayell Johnson
- Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Edgerton, Toby Parkes, Liz Smith, Emilia Fox, James Booth, Patrick Monckton.
Rosemary Jones always makes precise and quick decisions. But they’re not legal. The two dismembered corpses found in her suitcase are proof of that. She claimed it was her husband and his mistress who destroyed her world. That’s why she had a mental breakdown.
The woman paid for what she had done by staying in a special hospital for mentally ill criminals for 43 years. During that time, she managed to give birth to a healthy baby girl. The child was taken away from her and placed in an orphanage. Once free, she finds her adult daughter and begins to help her, solving all her problems in her own way.
Doghouse
- IMDB Rating – 6.0
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, comedy
- Production: UK / 2009
- Budget: $4,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $179,836
- Director: Jake West
- Starring: Danny Dyer, Stephen Graham, Noel Clarke, Emil Marwa, Lee Ingleby, Keith-Lee Castle, Terry Stone, Christina Cole, Neil Maskell, Emily Booth
A company of seven guys goes to the remote village of Moodley, where one of them lives with his grandmother. All of them are eager to get acquainted with the fair sex, since many of them simply do not have lovers. And according to their friend, in the village, on the contrary – not enough men.
But everything does not work out as desired, although the women are unspeakably happy about their appearance. But the thing is, they’re all zombies. A strange virus has turned them into evil creatures. And the guys are just food to them now.
Eulogy
- IMDB Rating – 6.5
- Genre: Drama, comedy
- Production: UK, Germany, USA / 2004
- Budget: $10,000,000
- US box office receipts: $75,076
- Director: Michael Clancy
- Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Michele Mirkurio, Lucy Boyle, Tania Gunadi. Kevin Ruf, Alex Moore, Hank Azaria, Michael Paynes, Michael Chapman, Vincent Castellanos.
The three generations of the Collins family never had a relationship of trust. They were always waiting for the moment to attack each other. Now, with the death of the head of the family, everyone’s gathered in one house.
There is a lot of people there – Daniel, who has secretly chosen a career in the porn industry; Lucy, who dreams of marrying her favorite friend; Alice, with pronounced abuser tendencies, and someone else. Only Katie manages to keep her sanity and do the logical thing. The hope is that she’ll be able to organize a decent funeral. But even the widow has no time for that. She’s trying to commit suicide.
Delicatessen
- IMDB Rating – 7.6
- Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
- Production: France / 1990
- Budget: FRF 24,000,000
- USA: $1,794,187
- Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Starring: Pascal Benezec, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dunyak, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karine Viar, Tikki Olgado, Anne-Marie Pisani, Boban Janewski, Michael Todde, Edith Ker.
In post-apocalyptic France, where food has become the main currency, a young clown is lucky enough to be hired as an assistant in a butcher shop. There have been strange rumors about it before – as if the butcher cooked his delicacies from his own employees.
But the clown gets lucky – he gets romantically involved with the butcher’s daughter. And if earlier romance did not interfere with the gastronomic delights of the inhabitants of the house, the current version forced the butcher to delay cooking the next “delicacy”. Until the residents began to demand it more insistently….
The film’s budget was so meager that it used junk from landfills as props.
This is the first feature film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.
Pulp Fiction
- IMDB Rating – 8.9
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Production: USA / 1994
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $213,928,762
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Green, Amanda Plummer.
Vincent Vega and Jules Winfield are two thugs in the service of Marcellus Wallace, a crime boss. Both work, in fact, as hitmen and often eliminate undesirable people.
The movie itself is divided into several stories: the first is about the evening Vincent spent with Mia; the second is about the boxer Butch, who is bribed to give up a fight, and the third is about the accidents the hapless bandits get into.
The movie had a budget of $8 million, with $5 million spent on royalties.
Jules was originally planned to have dreadlocks.
In the movie there is a reference to the Big Kahuna diner chain.
Four Rooms
- IMDB Rating – 6.8
- Genre: Comedy
- Production: USA / 1995
- Budget: $4,000,000
- US box office receipts: $4,257,354
- Directed by Allison Anders, Alexander Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Chuck Jones.
- Starring: Tim Roth, Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Beals, Paul Calderon, Sammy Davis, Valerie Golino, Madonna, David Fail, Aioni Skye, Lili Taylor.
Ted is a newly hired porter on night duty. He has to live through four interconnected but separate stories: from a witch’s coven to falling into the clutches of a jealous husband. He will have to look after the children of a formidable gangster, and then take a bet and become a real executioner, participating in the strange entertainment of the rich.
Tarantino’s episode was shot in two days.
For the sake of filming the movie, the episode directors had to leave the Directors Guild of the United States.
Initially, Ted was to be played by Steve Buscemi.
Happiness
- IMDB Rating – 7.7
- Genre: Drama, comedy
- Production: USA / 1998
- Budget: $3,000,000
- US box office receipts: $2,807,390
- Director: Todd Solondz
- Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Cynthia Stevenson, Justin Alvin, Ben Gazzara, Louise Lasser, Jared Harris, Jon Lovitz.
The whole Jordan family’s life is going downhill. The father of the family chases every skirt. Trish, one of the daughters, is married to a pedophile-psychiatrist, while Helen writes books on the subject of rape at 11-12 years old and dreaming of being in a similar situation.
And only the youngest daughter tries to find her happiness in the midst of this hurricane of madness, but she has no luck. Each new suitor breaks her heart more and more. Will she be able to believe in herself?
In the scene where Bill is talking to the police in the living room, a microphone can be spotted at the top.
Relatos salvajes
- IMDB Rating – 8.1
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy
- Production: Argentina, Spain, France, UK / 2014
- Budget: $3,300,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $30,642,704
- Director: Damian Cifron
- Starring: Ricardo Darin, Oscar Martinez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Erika Rivas, Rita Cortese, Julieta Silberberg, Dario Grandinetti, Maria Onetto, Nancy Duplaa, Osmar Nuñez
A black comedy, a collection of six different stories full of pain and violence. A waitress suddenly recognizes in one of the customers her tormentor, who drove his father to suicide, and the cook has a poison for such cases….
A city macho in an Audi decides to compete with a Peugeot driver, but in the end they both have to fight for survival. This is only part of the absurd plots that the viewer will see….
The director of the movie, Damian Cifron, wrote the plots while lying in the bathtub.
The movie was shot in eight weeks.
The bridge featured in the story “The Strongest” now attracts a huge number of tourists.
The Big Lebowski
- IMDB Rating – 8.1
- Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sports
- Production: USA, UK / 1998
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $46,142,637
- Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Ben Gazzara, Sam Elliott, Peter Stormare.
Dude, a quietly living, pofigistic man, interested only in smoking marijuana and his own amusement, suddenly finds himself involved in a grandiose scam. First, he has his rug ruined, mistaking him for a millionaire namesake, and then they try to drag him into the story of his wife’s kidnapping. Trying to get out, maneuvering between the bandits and the desire to snatch a bigger piece, the Dude tries to find the best way out….
Initially, the movie was met with a cool reception, but a solid group of fans formed around the movie.
It was because of this movie that the White Russian cocktail was no longer considered a feminine cocktail.
The Dude’s clothes are those of Jeff Bridgers himself.
The Boondock Saints
- IMDB Rating – 7.7
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime
- Production: USA, Canada / 1999
- Budget $6,000,000
- US box office receipts: $30,471
- Director: Troy Duffy
- Starring: Willem Defoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Billy Connolly, David Ferry, Brian Mahoney, Bob Marley, Richard Fitzpatrick, William Young.
Irish brothers, Connor and Murphy, were quietly celebrating St. Patrick’s Day when their party was suddenly interrupted by two bandits. Defensively they killed them and suddenly realized that God had just given them a mission to cleanse Boston of evil! And they zealously get down to business, plunging the mobsters into terror while simultaneously trying to evade FBI pursuit.
The liturgy was filmed in a Protestant church.
Kevin Spacey was planned for the role of Paul Smecker.
The crucifix at the beginning of the movie is actually made of Styrofoam, just painted to look like wood.
