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 20 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

    2017, in 1 top list
    Check
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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 27 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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