Rotten Tomatoes's 60 Best Black Comedies
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Let’s say you’re the type to laugh while handling the darkest subject matters: Murder, doomsday, blackmail, and maybe even a lil’ tasty cannibalism. If so, twisted friend, you sure have arrived at the right spot to get your gallows guffaws: The 60 Best Dark Comedies, Ranked by Tomatometer!
The emergence of the black comedy movie seemed to come around in the 1940s, when filmmaking had evolved enough to artistically interpret real-world horrors (e.g. World War II) with mordant humor, as seen in To Be or Not to Be and Arsenic and Old Lace. Of course, how would they have known their groundbreaking path through the dark side would eventually come to the taboo of cannibalism, as seen in appetizing films like Delicatessen and Eating Raoul? And lest you assume we’re not in touch with our more subtle side when it comes to comedy of the damned, we’ve included philosophical destroyers Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?, Carnage, and the brilliant Withnail and I.
Our final stipulation for their movies and everything else on the list is that each had to be rated Fresh, and have at least 20 reviews, to ensure enough critics have shared in the gleeful discomfort. --Rotten Tomatoes
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949, in 21 top lists Check -
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A New Leaf
1971, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Ladykillers
1955, in 8 top lists Check -
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Multiple Maniacs
1970, in 1 top list Check -
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Gisaengchung
2019 — a.k.a. Parasite, in 22 top lists -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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Brazil
1985, in 23 top lists Check -
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To Be or Not to Be
1942, in 24 top lists Check -
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Monsieur Verdoux
1947, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Death of Stalin
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966, in 19 top lists Check -
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In the Loop
2009, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ruthless People
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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Withnail & I
1987, in 14 top lists Check -
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Fargo
1996, in 26 top lists Check -
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Heathers
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014, in 8 top lists Check -
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Trainspotting
1996, in 18 top lists Check -
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Horí, má panenko
1967 — a.k.a. The Firemen's Ball, in 11 top lists Check -
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Polyester
1981, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Trouble with Harry
1955, in 2 top lists Check -
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017, in 10 top lists -
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A Serious Man
2009, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Producers
1967, in 14 top lists Check -
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Welcome to the Dollhouse
1995, in 5 top lists Check -
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Delicatessen
1991, in 15 top lists Check -
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After Hours
1985, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Lobster
2015, in 7 top lists Check -
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World's Greatest Dad
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
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Cheap Thrills
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
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Female Trouble
1974, in 6 top lists Check -
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Arsenic and Old Lace
1944, in 9 top lists Check -
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Ingrid Goes West
2017, in 0 top lists -
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Kraftidioten
2014 — a.k.a. In Order of Disappearance, in 0 top lists Check -
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Eating Raoul
1982, in 2 top lists Check -
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Game Night
2018, in 0 top lists -
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005, in 4 top lists Check -
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The War of the Roses
1989, in 1 top list Check -
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In Bruges
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Art of Self-Defense
2019, in 0 top lists -
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Harold and Maude
1971, in 22 top lists Check -
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Four Lions
2010, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mænd & høns
2015 — a.k.a. Men & Chicken, in 0 top lists Check -
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Le tout nouveau testament
2015 — a.k.a. The Brand New Testament, in 1 top list Check -
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Seven Psychopaths
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
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T2 Trainspotting
2017, in 0 top lists Check -
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Happiness
1998, in 8 top lists Check -
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Grosse Pointe Blank
1997, in 4 top lists Check -
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Pink Flamingos
1972, in 13 top lists Check -
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Killer Joe
2011, in 0 top lists Check
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