Browse Movies : Dark Comedy (Page #4)

A woman is “thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, who slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a canine.”

Three siblings move into a new house, and accidentally discover that the monstrous things they’ve been told don’t exist, do exist – and they are as afraid of us as we are of them.

Every month, when the welfare money runs out, 35 year-old Catherine has to talk her self-destructive mother off the same bridge..literally. This routine has gone on for so long that it's the only thing Cathy feels she is good at. And it's Tammy's selfish way of keeping hold of her daughter. When Tammy is diagnosed with terminal cancer and the possibility of life without her becomes very real, so does Cathy's repressed desire to leave her small town. Does she stay and trust the woman who has always let her down or does she find the courage to live her own life?

A father, whose sexual coming out caused a family break-up, has a re-encounter and face-off with his estranged daughter. Both are compulsive liars. Her feigned pregnancy bonds them temporarily, until he discovers it's a farce.

Set in Pittsburg, California, a working class suburb of Oakland, a young man ventures off to a cockfight for reciprocity while his brother flies to old Manila where an old flame is rekindled. Another one of their brothers delves into the hidden sensuality of Filipino cuisine, while their last brother struggles to heal deep wounds and finds love in an unexpected package. All this, leading to a shotgun wedding in the backyard of the family house.

Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) is hosting an intimate gathering of friends in her London home to celebrate her political ascension, while her husband, Bill (Timothy Spall), seems preoccupied. Janet’s acerbic best friend, April (Patricia Clarkson), arrives and others follow, some with their own dramatic news to share, but an announcement by Bill provokes a series of revelations that gradually unravel the sophisticated soiree, and a night that began with champagne may end with gunplay.

In the late 1960s, three teenage sisters from rural New Hampshire form a band at the insistence of their overbearing father, who is convinced their talent will make them stars. The trio polarizes critics. They are dubbed visionary by some, while others called them the worst band in rock history, whose sound is reminiscent of cats being strangled.

Paige's father has stepped up and become a more responsible parent following the death of her mother. So when a group of criminals show up at their door demanding that Paige's father join them for one last job, she's faced with a decision: let her newly reformed father dip back into his criminal ways, or enlist her three 12-year-old best friends to do the job first.

The story follows Steven Joyner (Brown) as he tries to solve the mystery behind his son’s sudden, tragic and potentially fabricated death.

Follows a small town fast food manager (Thomas Mann) who gets in way over his head with the brutal local crime syndicate (Timothy Olyphant) after losing a $10,000 bet that was supposed to be a sure thing. With only 24 hours to outwit a gallery of thugs, the manger decides his only way out is to rob his own restaurant, called Beefy’s.

A retired couple enter a dance contest, a corrupt politician, a girl eager to lose her virginity, and a young lawyer obsessed with social status - a seemingly benign look into theses daily lives goes haywire in this shocking black comedy.

The dark comedy Break it Down follows a washed up 90's R&B star who must come to terms with his selfish and destructive behavior in order to get his band back together and court the woman of his dreams.

An elderly man dies in a neighbor's apartment, leading to a comical game of passing his body among neighbors and building workers to avoid being linked to his death.

Joe, a midwestern TV station employee, becomes obsessed with a bizarre wish-granting service he discovers on the internet.

Follows an aging comedian (Gregg Turkington) as he performs at a string of underwhelming venues starting in Bakersfield, Calif.

After a humiliating episode in New York, a young woman returns to her hometown and tries to deal with her alcoholism.

A happily married couple’s anniversary celebration goes awry when they find themselves victims of a sinister home invasion.

A copywriter writes small print for prescription drugs, marital aids and incontinence products, while also managing a heroin habit. When he encounters a troubled young woman who asks for help, he swiftly falls in love, and gets swept up in her scheme to horrify the world.

A Midwestern housewife suspects that her husband is having an affair. As she peels back the surface of her seemingly perfect life, she learns her husband might be leading a dark, secret life.