Genre: Dark Comedy
Child’s Pose
Directed by Calin Peter Netzer
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, this dark tragicomic exposé chronicles the efforts of an …
Citizen Ruth
Directed by Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne’s (Election, Sideways, Nebraska) debut feature tackles the circa-1996 reproductive rights debate but plays it as a new kind …
Cowboys
Directed by Tomislav Mrsi
Based on a popular, award-winning Croatian play, Cowboys mixes social drama and dark comedy as it puts a fresh spin on a …
Customer 152
Directed by Jonathan Holbrook
We go to work, we chat with our co-workers, we go home, and then we get up and do it …
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
A nuclear-age parable of unmatched film-historical importance and generalized hilarity, Kubrick’s vision of the day before doomsday remains frightening—and side-splitting—over …
Gueros
Directed by Alonso Ruiz Palacios
“This plucky and effortlessly cool black-and-white film from newcomer Alonso Ruiz Palacios follows three restless teens during the student strikes …
In Order of Disappearance
Directed by Hands Petter Moland
Weaving dark Scandinavian comedy with Tarantino-esque revenge thriller, Moland tells the tale of an ordinary, upstanding Swedish snowplow driver in …
In the Loop
Directed by Armando Iannucci
Before his brilliant HBO series Veep took US cablewaves by storm, writer/director Armando Iannucci created the British sitcom-of-sorts The Thick …
My Summer As A Goth
Directed by Tara Johnson-Medinger
After the sudden death of her father, 16-year-old Joey Javitts is sent to stay with her eccentric grandparents while her …
Of Horses and Men
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
This dry, very Icelandic comedy is a country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in …
R100
Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto
From the director of Big Man Japan comes this edgy, absurd, and whip-smart dark comedy, featuring the best use of Beethoven’s “Ode …
The Atomic Cafe
Directed by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
Composed entirely of found footage, The Atomic Cafe offers a darkly humorous leap into the abyss of cold war–era hubris, …