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Best Dark Comedy Movies on BINGE

Every dark comedy movie streaming on BINGE in Australia right now — 29 films ranked by rating, checked against BINGE’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from BINGE AU

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Pulp Fiction (1994)

IMDb 8.8 🍅 92% Letterboxd 4.2 2h 34m

Directed by Quentin Tarantino

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTarantino weaponizes pop-culture trivia and casual violence into tonal whiplash—making murder feel as mundane as burger philosophy.

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

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Knives Out (2019)

IMDb 7.9 🍅 97% 2h 11m

Directed by Rian Johnson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRian Johnson deconstructs mystery-genre conventions by making the detective's investigation hilarious through absurdist family dysfunction.

When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.

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Shaun of the Dead (2004)

IMDb 7.8 🍅 92% 1h 39m

Directed by Edgar Wright

✦ MovieMuse AI takeZombie apocalypse as mundane inconvenience—Wright mines comedy from treating undead invasion like just another annoying life interruption.

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

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The Breakfast Club (1985)

IMDb 7.8 🍅 87% 1h 38m

Directed by John Hughes

✦ MovieMuse AI takePrincipal's tyranny collapses through teenage vulnerability—the film mines cruelty and empathy from the same moment, refusing easy sides.

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

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A Man Called Otto (2022)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 70% Letterboxd 3.6 2h 6m

Directed by Marc Forster

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSentimental melodrama masquerading as comedy—misidentified; lacks dark comedy's necessary bite and moral ambiguity.

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 95% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 25m

Directed by Steve Box

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSubverts cute stop-motion charm with body-horror transformation sequences and existential dread about consumption.

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 86% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 47m

Directed by Terry Jones

✦ MovieMuse AI takePython's sketch-format permits tonal chaos—pivoting instantly from bureaucratic mundanity to biological grotesquerie without apology.

Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.

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Murder by Death (1976)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 63% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 34m

Directed by Robert Moore

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLovingly dismantles mystery-genre conventions through escalating absurdism, treating detective clichés as punchlines rather than plot devices.

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 66% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 35m

Directed by Adam McKay

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAbsurdist 70s anchor comedy treats sexism as punchline while weaponizing protagonist's genuine incomprehension.

It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.

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Hotel Transylvania (2012)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 45% 1h 31m

Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFlips monster-movie premise to reveal humanity as the real horror through satire of exclusionary resort culture.

Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything!

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The Trouble with Harry (1955)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 39m

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHitchcock mines gallows humor from collective guilt, making a corpse the catalyst for examining small-town hypocrisy with deadpan precision.

The trouble with Harry is that he’s dead. In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.

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Scrooged (1988)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 71% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 41m

Directed by Richard Donner

✦ MovieMuse AI takeScrooge remake abandons sentiment entirely; television world's moral bankruptcy becomes the actual ghost story haunting the narrative.

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.

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The 'Burbs (1989)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 58% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 42m

Directed by Joe Dante

✦ MovieMuse AI takeParanoid suburban satire becomes self-fulfilling prophecy, punishing curiosity with genuine horror consequences.

When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.

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Repo Man (1984)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 32m

Directed by Alex Cox

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRepo Man weaponizes Los Angeles ennui; existential dread packaged as punk capitalism with inexplicable aliens.

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 39m

Directed by Dallas Jenkins

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Herdman children's unfiltered chaos disrupts sanctimonious small-town traditions, finding comedy in how genuine depravity deflates self-righteous community theater pretensions.

The Herdman kids are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they're taking over their local church Pageant – and they just might unwittingly teach a shocked little town the true meaning of Christmas.

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Death Becomes Her (1992)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 58% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 44m

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeath Becomes Her treats fatal consequences as cosmetic inconvenience, making vanity's grotesquerie visually hilarious.

Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.

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Eddington (2025)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 69% Letterboxd 3.4 2h 28m

Directed by Ari Aster

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSmall-town paranoia explodes into neighbor-versus-neighbor warfare—American dysfunction performed as pitch-black community theater.

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

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Novocaine (2025)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 81% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 50m

Directed by Dan Berk

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnesthetic superpower becomes darkly comic metaphor for emotional numbness in everyman rescue fantasy.

When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.

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Pain & Gain (2013)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 49% 2h 10m

Directed by Michael Bay

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMiami excess through deadpan documentation—absurd criminality played straight amplifies the vanity and stupidity of the American dream.

Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.

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The Grinch (2018)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 60% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 25m

Directed by Yarrow Cheney

✦ MovieMuse AI takeUses grotesque visual gags and genuine menace to undercut holiday sentimentality, making the Grinch's villainy darkly comedic rather than redemptive.

The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration.

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Scary Movie (2000)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 51% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 28m

Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans

✦ MovieMuse AI takeScary Movie's meta-slasher deconstruction through parody transforms horror tropes into broad comedic targets.

A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody!

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Carry On Henry (1971)

IMDb 6.2 Letterboxd 3.0 1h 29m

Directed by Gerald Thomas

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMilks sexual frustration and bodily humor from historical pomposity, turning Henry's desire into farcical obstacle course.

Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her in his usual manner, Henry has to find some way of doing it without provoking war with Marie's cousin, the King of France. Perhaps if she had an affair...

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Heart Eyes (2025)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 78% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 37m

Directed by Josh Ruben

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWeaponizes mistaken identity against a serial-killer plot, treating romantic misunderstanding as the actual horror.

When the "Heart Eyes Killer" strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine's Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now, they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives.

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Duplex (2003)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 36% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 29m

Directed by Danny DeVito

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEscalates home-invasion terror into slapstick warfare, inverting domestic safety through relentless elderly antagonism.

When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

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The Parenting (2025)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 49% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 34m

Directed by Craig Johnson

✦ MovieMuse AI takePoltergeist meets relationship drama—supernatural intrusion exposes couples therapy's ultimate failure hilariously.

Boyfriends Josh and Rohan plan a weekend getaway to introduce their parents, only to discover that their rental is home to a 400-year-old poltergeist.

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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 80% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 47m

Directed by Tyler Taormina

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLets family resentment simmer into tragedy-adjacent moments, balancing intimate cruelty with genuine emotional stakes.

A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.

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Get Away (2024)

IMDb 5.3 🍅 76% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 26m

Directed by Steffen Haars

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVacation-thriller subverts family-bonding tropes; serial killer becomes absurdist commentary on modern escape fantasy.

A family's vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they're on is inhabited by a serial killer.

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Honey Don't! (2025)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 45% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 29m

Directed by Ethan Coen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSmall-town PI uncovers church death conspiracy; mystery genre collides with cult horror-comedy absurdity.

Honey O'Donahue, a small-town private investigator, delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

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Rumours (2024)

IMDb 4.8 🍅 76% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 44m

Directed by Guy Maddin

En route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

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