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Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones

In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and played the situation for laughs. Dr. Strangelove's jet-black satire (from a script by ...

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Waking Ned Devine

Waking Ned Devine (1998) more movies like this

directed by Kirk Jones
featuring Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch, James Nesbitt

Just as the charming British film The Full Monty told the story of simple men willing to shed their clothes for money, Waking Ned Devine is the story of older Irish men who pursue money and take off their clothes. Commercial director Kirk Jones makes his feature directing debut with a story about a small town in Ireland called Tulaigh More, where ...

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Office Space

Office Space (1999) more movies like this

directed by Mike Judge
featuring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu

Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman as not THAT Michael Bolton), suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their soulless workspace from their soulless boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). For Peter, stuck in his ...

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Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude (1971) more movies like this

directed by Hal Ashby
featuring Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner

A young man with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby's cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles), but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks ...

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) more movies like this

directed by Terry Gilliam
featuring Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey

Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson's alter ego, on a wild drug-crazed road ...

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Fight Club

Fight Club (1999) more movies like this

directed by David Fincher
featuring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto

In this darkly comic drama, Edward Norton stars as a depressed young man (named in the credits only as "Narrator") who has become a small cog in the world of big business. He doesn't like his work and gets no sense of reward from it, attempting instead to drown his sorrows by putting together the "perfect" apartment. He can't sleep and feels ...

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Death Becomes Her

Death Becomes Her (1992) more movies like this

directed by Robert Zemeckis
featuring Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy

High-concept director Robert Zemeckis applies his usual polish -- helped by an equally adept cast -- for this surprisingly gruesome and extremely funny black comedy. The film begins with narcissistic actress Madeline (Meryl Streep) stealing the latest in a series of potential fiancées, wimpy plastic surgeon Ernest (Bruce Willis), from her ex-best ...

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American Psycho

American Psycho (2000) more movies like this

directed by Mary Harron
featuring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis

Bret Easton Ellis' dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with black comic overtones. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. Bateman is the prototypical yuppie, obsessed with success, ...

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Fargo

Fargo (1996) more movies like this

directed by Joel Coen
featuring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell

Filmmaking siblings Joel Coen and Ethan Coen both embraced and poked satirical fun at their rural Minnesota roots with this comedy-drama-thriller that earned seven Oscar nominations, winning for Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant police chief whose affable, folksy demeanor masks a whip ...

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8 Women

8 Women (2002) more movies like this

directed by François Ozon
featuring Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen

A gaggle of mothers, wives, daughters, maids, and mistresses gather for a holiday homecoming at their country mansion -- and end up having to solve a murder-mystery -- in this musical-comic homage to studio-era "women's pictures" from acclaimed French director François Ozon. Partly inspired by George Cukor's 1939 classic The Women, 8 Femmes stars ...

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The Witches of Eastwick

The Witches of Eastwick (1987) more movies like this

directed by George Miller
featuring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright

The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends -- Alex (Cher), Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Jane (Susan Sarandon) -- meet to chug martinis, learn Chinese aphrodisiac cooking and lament the scarcity of eligible men. As they sit around, they fantasize ...

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Catch-22 (1970) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing missions, but publicity-obsessed commander Colonel ...

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The War of the Roses (1989) more movies like this

directed by Danny DeVito
featuring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin

Divorce lawyer Danny De Vito warns his prospective client that the story he's about to tell isn't a pretty one, but the client listens with eager intensity -- as do the folks out there in the movie in the audience. The War of the Roses can best be described as a slapstick tragedy concerning the decline and literal fall of a marriage. After 17 ...

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) more movies like this

directed by Brad Silberling
featuring Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Kara Hoffman, Shelby Hoffman, Jude Law

The best-selling series of subversive children's books from author Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) come to the screen in this black comedy for the whole family (and how often do you get to see one of those?). The Baudelaire siblings -- gadget freak Violet (Emily Browning), bookworm Klaus (Liam Aiken), and baby Sunny (Kara Hoffman and Shelby ...

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Scrooged (1988) more movies like this

directed by Richard Donner
featuring Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, John Glover, Carol Kane

A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard of levels to increase his network's ratings -- even ...

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Heathers (1989) more movies like this

directed by Michael Lehmann
featuring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker

A deliciously nasty black comedy, Heathers is set at a cliquish high school in Ohio. The most exclusive of those cliques is the Heathers, comprised of the prettiest and most popular girls in town. The group's leader is the manipulative Kim Walker, who orchestrates the humiliation of anyone who fails to meet her standards. Eventually, Heathers ...

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Bad Santa (2003) more movies like this

directed by Terry Zwigoff
featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom

The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a con man and a thief who teams up with his friend Marcus (Tony Cox), a midget, for a very special scam each year during the holiday season. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a shopping mall, his pal tags along as an elf, and they ...

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M*A*S*H (1970) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff

Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits of military doctors and nurses at a Mobile Army ...

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About Schmidt (2002) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Payne
featuring Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates

Jack Nicholson plays retiring insurance actuary Warren Schmidt in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Schmidt has settled into a dormant life. He has an unfulfilling marriage to Helen (June Squibb), and conspires to spend as much time away from her as possible. Schmidt's daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) is engaged to Randall Hertzel (Dermot Mulroney), a ...

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Folks! (1992) more movies like this

directed by Ted Kotcheff
featuring Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson, Christine Ebersole, Wendy Crewson

In this comedy, stockbroker Jon Aldrich (Tom Selleck) is the man who has it all, until his ill, aging parents (Don Ameche and Anne Jackson) move in with him. As his perfect life begins to disintegrate bit by bit, Jon becomes more and more depressed and disillusioned. Finally, broke and friendless, Jon begins to listen to his addled parents' ...

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The 'Burbs (1989) more movies like this

directed by Joe Dante
featuring Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman

Ward and June Cleaver have nothing on suburban couple Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Together with their perfect son, Hanks and Fisher are so clean that they squeak. Thus, when new neighbors Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore and Courtney Gains begin evincing bizarre behavior, Hanks is slightly put out. Fisher thinks that Hanks is getting all worked up ...

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Beetlejuice (1988) more movies like this

directed by Tim Burton
featuring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones

Thanks to the carelessness of a cute little dog, newlyweds Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are killed in a freak auto accident. Upon arriving in the outer offices of Heaven, the couple finds that, thanks to a century's worth of bureaucratic red tape, they're on a long celestial waiting list. Before they can earn their wings, Davis and Baldwin must ...

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The Whole Nine Yards (2000) more movies like this

directed by David Snyder, Jonathan Lynn
featuring Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet

In this black comedy, a criminal discovers a market for murder in the suburbs. After doing time in prison, mobster Jimmy the Tulip (Bruce Willis) moves to a suburban neighborhood. But Jimmy's new neighbors (Rosanna Arquette and Matthew Perry) soon figure out who he is. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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I Love You to Death (1990) more movies like this

directed by Lawrence Kasdan
featuring Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves, Miriam Margolyes

Lawrence Kasdan's black comedy about a wife's ultimate revenge against her womanizing husband is based on a true story about the wife of a pizzeria owner who decided to kill her cheating husband. When her attempt to murder him failed, the husband refused to press charges against her because he felt she had done the right thing. Kevin Kline is the ...

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Deathtrap (1982) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones

Sidney Lumet provides another of his film adaptations of Broadway successes -- in this case Ira Levin's 1978 clever Broadway murder mystery that starred John Wood in a triumphant turn as down-on-his-luck playwright Sidney Bruhl. Wood's brittle airiness is replaced in the film version by Michael Caine's smoldering bitterness. Sidney Bruhl is a ...

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