Can you suggest a movie with lots of dark humor?
Also dark movies with less humor are welcome.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Fargo
Raising Arizona
Being There
Without humor:
The Usual Suspects
American Beauty
@dpworkin: Terrific! But alas, I have seen ever Stanley Kubrick movie and there are no more to be found.
Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times
@janbb: Like Stanley Kubrick, I have seen every Coen Brothers movie but listing them gives you instant credibility. I will add American Beauty and The Usual Suspects to my list along with Modern Times.
can someone define ‘dark’ to me, american beauty and usual suspects are not what i would consider dark or dark humor.
my understanding of dark humor is things like, 8 heads in a duffel bag and very bad things.
Dark as in having a cynical or black view of the world. The two titles you quoted from my list I think of as cynical but not particularly humorous.
Weekend at Bernies??? It’s kind of stupid. THey drag around a dead guy all over the place. I guess that would be dark humor?
Also dark but not humorous:
Chinatown
LA Confidential
Both are film noirish if you like that genre.
@janbb thanks, see american beauty i would call poetic and beautiful and ‘experienced’ , the usual suspects i would call clever, thoughtful and captivating.
ill have a think and come back.
Are we talking like Adams Family stuff?
Tarantino is all about dark humor.
Anything Pedro Alamadovar ever did.
In Bruges
Barton Fink
There’s dark humor in The Boondock Saints. There’s also just dark-dark.
Ruthless People
The Loved One
Team America-World Police
@filmfann Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah
Do you mean “dark” like this?
Not a movie, but a TV show:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Loved One is not just one of my favorite black humor movies of all time. It’s one of my favorite movies period. And just wait until you first meet Mrs. Joyboy.
There’s a very small movie Called Gates of Heaven (Not the big, sloppy Heaven’s Gate) about the operation of a pet cemetery. That was an hilarious and rather dark little movie.
I agree with @janbb, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a good movie.
Unless I’m thinking of a different movie. But I don’t think I am ! :P
haha, I can’t believe I didn’t come up with Delicatessen first. It’s one of my favorite movies ever.
The one & only, American Psycho!
Oh, American Psycho was nice. Better than the book.
The End. Burt Reynolds learns he has a fatal illness. Hilarity ensues.
being john malkovich, severance, the host, joel and ethan coen
Heathers, Ravenous, Falling Down, Vulgar, Pink Flamingos (if really want to get crazy).
Arsenic And Old Lace, Magnolia, Donnie Darko, Chuck and Buck, Slaughterhouse Five, M*A*S*H (not the show, the Robert Altman film the show was adapted from)
@aprilsimnel- Chuck and Buck is a creepy film. Gives me the willies.
It is creepy. And it’s meant to be a black comedy, if you can believe it. So was Happiness.
War, Inc.
Very dark humor. A political tongue-in-cheek satire which is bound to offend everyone but makes it’s point in a stark and no-apologies way. Recommend to be nominated for “Most Dark Humor Movie of The Decade”.
Lord of War
The Weatherman
humourous in its pretense: Willard.
There is no humor in these, but for flat out creepy “Dark City” and “City of Lost Children” fit the bill.
@aprilsimnel Good call on Arsenic and Old Lace.
@Arisztid- Both of those movies are fantastic, especially Dark City. That film is in my top five.
@Siren Grosse Pointe Blank, you reminded me. Thanks!
Drop Dead Gorgeous (personal favorite)
War of the Roses
Little Otik
Scotland, Pa (Modern day version of the “scottish play”)
Die, Mommie, Die
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Cannibal! the Musical
@MacBean Delicatessen defines dark humor, but the eating is tasty!
Adaptation or almost anything written by Charlie Kaufman is dark
Coraline is great and very dark
Someone mentioned Tarentino – Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill
Being John Malkovich and From Dusk Til Dawn qualify here as well.
two more
Little Miss Sunshine and Sideways
Oh, @filmfann, you think Being John Malkovich is dark? I thought it was inventive, quirky, weird, and downright hysterical in places, but not dark. Well, okay, maybe a little dusky. But what puts it at the dark end of the scale for you, relatively speaking?
All humor requires darkness, even if only soft shadows. In my mind laughter and death are first cousins. Not that death is humorous but that humor consists of tiny tragedies.
I agree with your summation of humor and death.
Being John Malkovich is quite a dark movie. It is dealing with sick and twisted love, and the taking over of someone’s consciousness. Not exactly The Princess and the Pirate.
Harold and Maude is another good one.
I love Harold and Maude. Except for that stupid song.
@dpworkin- Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?
@py_sue: You’re welcome. I think all of Quentin Tarantino’s movies are dark humor. He may be the king of dark humor.
@janbb: Based upon the recommendations here I watched Delicatessen and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you!
Boondock Saints – Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus (1999)
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