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WarrenMax007 · Mar 31, 2014

I just watched Big Nothing with David Shwimmer, Simon Pegg and Alice Eve in it and it was amazing.
Basically - 3 people are trying to blackmail a priest, but everything goes VERY wrong. It's dark and very funny.
Anything similar?
I already saw Very Bad Things.
Similar books would be goo too.

Tashi · Mar 31, 2014

Does Cable Guy qualify? If so, Cable Guy.

triplestation · Mar 31, 2014

Sounds cool

nOoblet16 · Mar 31, 2014

Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

James Woods · Mar 31, 2014

Death To Smoochy.

Robin Williams play a corrupted childrens show icon that hates Ed Norton.

wenis · Mar 31, 2014

Screwed!

Gambit61 · Mar 31, 2014

I really liked Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

CaptainGyro · Mar 31, 2014

Welcome to the dollhouse. Delicatessan

Blood Red Sky · Mar 31, 2014

In Bruges
Sightseers

SamVimes · Mar 31, 2014

90% of Wes Anderson Work.

A Fish named Wanda was great too.

Danielsan · Mar 31, 2014

In Bruges, The Guard, Seven Psychopaths.

Messypandas · Mar 31, 2014

The Big Lebowski

udiie · Mar 31, 2014

Just watched Killing them Softly and that was about as sideways as things can get. Really enjoyed that movie.

collige · Mar 31, 2014

Snatch

You like dags?

dekline · Mar 31, 2014

Filth?

Giant Robot · Mar 31, 2014

Messypandas said:
The Big Lebowski

Fargo as well.

Data West · Mar 31, 2014

Raising Arizona

LaNaranja · Mar 31, 2014

I haven't seen the movie you mentioned OP (although I will have to check it out). That said, my favorite dark comedy is Funny Games (the 2007 version). I recommend you check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-70W_K77U

Fusebox · Mar 31, 2014

Tucker & Dale vs Evil.

Clobersaurus15 · Mar 31, 2014

Something about dark comedy just works best when it's British, so I'd recommend:

In Bruges
Seven Psycopaths
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
I don't know if they're really considered "dark comedy" but Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End are quite good.

If you want some American examples, Dr Strangelove is a classic and a lot of Coen Brothers films (specifically Burn After Reading, Fargo and Barton Fink) have a very English "gallows humor" feel to them.

saunderez · Mar 31, 2014

What about Killer Joe? I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a comedy coz that's some messed up shit. You'll never look at a chicken finger the same way again.

collige · Mar 31, 2014

Clobersaurus15 said:
Something about dark comedy just works best when it's British, so I'd recommend:

In Bruges
Seven Psycopaths
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
I don't know if they're really considered "dark comedy" but Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End are quite good.

If you want some American examples, Dr Strangelove is a classic and a lot of Coen Brothers films (specifically Burn After Reading, Fargo and Barton Fink) have a very English "gallows humor" feel to them.

Good call on Burn After Reading, I forgot about that one. Shit goes downhill so very very fast.

CaptainGyro · Mar 31, 2014

Heathers. Used Cars.

WarrenMax007 · Mar 31, 2014

Gambit61 said:
I really liked Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

Danielsan said:
In Bruges, The Guard, Seven Psychopaths.

I've seen all of these. Love them.

GremlinFool · Mar 31, 2014

World's Greatest Dad. As sideways as imaginable.

benjipwns · Mar 31, 2014

I love Big Nothing.

Anyway, since it hasn't been mentioned: Suicide Kings

Hilbert · Mar 31, 2014

30 minutes or less was pretty damn dark.

CaptainGyro · Mar 31, 2014

Kinda obvious but pulp fiction is one of the funniest black comedies ever

Secret Fawful · Mar 31, 2014

The Ladykillers with Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, and Peter Sellers is the best one I've ever seen.

Uncle · Mar 31, 2014

I know it was mentioned already but The Guard deserves more love.

"Babies all look the same. The only time a baby doesn't look like every other baby is when it's a really ugly baby. So unless you're about to show me a photo of a really ugly baby then I don't want to see it. "

lupinko · Mar 31, 2014

Gang Related.

http://youtu.be/NUuyfw8cmec

RIP 2pac.

And gives legit cred to Harvey Birdman's thug life.

C4Lukins · Mar 31, 2014

Fargo was the first thing that came to mind.

happypup · Mar 31, 2014

brazil

watch the director's cut

SJRB · Mar 31, 2014

I guess Pain & Gain could be considered a dark comedy where things go south. That it's based on a real story is even more bizarre.

Spring-Loaded · Mar 31, 2014

SJRB said:
I guess Pain & Gain could be considered a dark comedy where things go south. That it's based on a real story is even more bizarre.

What about Burn After Reading? that involved gym owners too, which was weird

childplease · Mar 31, 2014

Worlds best dad.

IdreamofHIME · Mar 31, 2014

Lock stock is a masterpiece of shit falling apart. Their original plan isn't even that complicated to start with.

LollipoPReapeR · Mar 31, 2014

Filth
Four Lions.

Both British. Both fucked up and hilarious

PixelPeZ · Mar 31, 2014

Shallow Grave?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111149/reference

Boss Riovane · Mar 31, 2014

Ravenous?

benjipwns · Mar 31, 2014

Riovane said:
Ravenous?

oh shits how did I forget this one

One of the greatest movies of all time. With one of the worst advertising campaigns of all time.

Dat soundtrack. Dat Robert Carlyle acting.

Ð¯AW · Mar 31, 2014

Japanese director Sabu is master of this type of films.

Postman Blues, Monday and Unlucky Monkey are good starting point if you can get them somewhere. Haven't seen his latest output but very least his movies from 1996 to 2005 were exactly what you are looking.

Postman Blues is still my favorite, such excelent movie.

In this wacky comedic thrill ride, both a superb parody of the gangster genre and a masterful exercise in style and storytelling, Sawaki (Shinichi Tsutsumi) is an ordinary postman whose unassuming life takes a strange turn when he crosses paths with his old high school buddy Noguchi (Keisuke Horibe), now a low-level yakuza drug mule, just as he finishes cutting off his finger as an apology to his boss. Unbeknownst to both men, Noguchi's freshly chopped-off pinky rolls off the table and into Sawaki's mailbag. Soon, the chance encounter and the missing pinky land the postman in hot water when the police mistakenly identify him as a schizophrenic-paranoid drug dealer, sadistic murderer and terrorist working for the yakuza. Things get a tad more problematic when the unwitting postman befriends two terminal cancer patients: a lone hitman called Joe (Ren Osugi) and a pretty woman named Sayoko (Keiko Toyama).

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rETRsQSR6w

MooseKnuckles · Mar 31, 2014

saunderez said:
What about Killer Joe? I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a comedy coz that's some messed up shit. You'll never look at a chicken finger the same way again.

I watched this a couple of weeks ago and it was really, really great. Genuinely funny in so many spots but such an absolutely pitch black plot. McConaughey gives an outstanding performance as well, he was mesmerizing in the final sequence.

LollipoPReapeR said:
Filth

This as well. I knew I was in for it when 10 minutes into the movie the entire theater erupted in laughter when the lead character

catches a police commissioners underage daughter having sex, then blackmails her into giving him a blowjob

. No amount of sharp dialogue should be able to make a scene like that funny, but somehow they managed it.

benjipwns · Mar 31, 2014

The President's Last Bang

Betta Lines · Mar 31, 2014

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

big_z · Mar 31, 2014

Severance

HolyCheck · Mar 31, 2014

a fiilm with me in it!

starring dylan moran.

good fun

KPJZKC · Mar 31, 2014

Check out some Spanish stuff OP, they make some absolutely amazing black comedies (specifically those of Álex de la Iglesia)

I would recommend checking out The Day of the Beast (El dia de la bestia) or Crimen Ferpecto (Ferpect Crime) to see if you like his style.

Ð¯AW · Mar 31, 2014

KPJZKC said:
Check out some Spanish stuff OP, they make some absolutely amazing black comedies (specifically those of Álex de la Iglesia)

I would recommend checking out The Day of the Beast (El dia de la bestia) or Crimen Ferpecto (Ferpect Crime) to see if you like his style.

These sound pretty interesting. Anything else I should watch? I'll make sure to start with those two movies you mentioned already.

Foghorn Leghorn · Mar 31, 2014

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