The 23 Best Dark Comedy Movies on Disney+ (July 2026)

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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

IMDb 7.9 🍅 95% 1h 16m

Directed by Henry Selick

✦ MovieMuse AI takeStop-motion brilliance weaponizes yuletide cheerfulness against itself through Jack's misguided seasonal hijacking.

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

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Lonesome Ghosts (1937)

IMDb 7.5 Letterboxd 3.7 0h 9m

Directed by Burt Gillett

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSlapstick noir reversal: incompetent ghosts terrorize the exterminators sent to eliminate them.

On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

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The Simpsons Movie (2007)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 87% 1h 27m

Directed by David Silverman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEPA dome premise perfectly encapsulates suburban absurdism where bureaucratic overkill meets Homer's casual catastrophe.

After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.

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The Book of Life (2014)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 82% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 35m

Directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSkeletal romance plot wrapped in vibrant Day of the Dead aesthetics subverts morbidity into melodrama.

The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.

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Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" (2012)

IMDb 7.2 Letterboxd 3.4 0h 5m

Directed by David Silverman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSatirical preschool setting skewers meritocracy through an infant's institutional indifference.

Maggie must navigate an eventful first day in daycare. At the Ayn Rand School for Tots, Maggie is diagnosed with average intelligence. Barred from the gifted children, she longs to escape from her glue-guzzling classmates. But when a lonely caterpillar befriends her, she makes it her mission to save it from a ruthless butterfly smashing toddler.

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Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.2 0h 22m

Directed by Steve Purcell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNostalgia toxicity: beloved toys become genuinely sinister when childhood comfort turns predatory.

During a post-Christmas play date, the gang find themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerously delusional. It's all up to Trixie, the triceratops, if the gang hopes to return to Bonnie's room in this Toy Story That Time Forgot.

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Don's Fountain of Youth (1953)

IMDb 7.0 Letterboxd 3.4 0h 6m

Directed by Jack Hannah

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTwisted fairy tale economy where Donald profits from corrupting youthful innocence.

While traveling with his nephews, Donald is disgusted that they are only interested in comics. He stops at the "fountain of youth" and tricks the kids into thinking he is a baby again. However, he gets tangled up with an aggressive mother alligator and her babies, and makes a hurried exit with the nephews.

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Frankenweenie (2012)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 87% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 27m

Directed by Tim Burton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFrankenstein pastiche weaponizes suburban tinkering into neighborhood-destroying consequence horror.

When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them that Sparky's still the good, loyal friend he was.

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Perfect Strangers (2017)

IMDb 6.9 Letterboxd 3.1 1h 41m

Directed by Álex de la Iglesia

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDinner-party transparency game dismantles friendship through accumulated digital confessions.

During a lunar eclipse, seven friends gather for dinner and decide to play a game in which they must share with each other the content of every message, email or phone call they receive throughout the evening.

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Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition (2026)

0h 48m

Directed by Matthew Nastuk

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDoorbell-camera babysitting absurdity escalates parental negligence into visual comedy gold.

Homer and Marge's fun couples' date night goes off the rails when Marge learns Homer left the kids unsupervised with only the doorbell camera as a babysitter. Frustrated with her imperfect husband, a tipsy Marge stirs up a trilogy of fantasies of a different Homer.

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Burrow (2020)

0h 6m

Directed by Madeline Sharafian

✦ MovieMuse AI takePerfectionism anxiety animated: rabbit's fabricated burrow fantasy implodes under social exposure.

A young rabbit embarks on a journey to dig the burrow of her dreams, despite not having a clue what she's doing. Rather than reveal to her neighbors her imperfections, she digs herself deeper and deeper into trouble. After hitting (bed)rock bottom, she learns there is no shame in asking for help.

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Ye Olden Days (1933)

IMDb 6.5 Letterboxd 3.3 0h 8m

Directed by Burt Gillett

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMedieval rescue narrative undercut by slapstick rope-construction incompetence.

The princess is to wed the Prince against her wishes. When she refuses, the king locks her in the tower. Minstrel Mickey sees her and rescues her, making a rope from the clothes of lady-in-waiting Clarabell. The king spots them and prepares to chop off Mickey's head until Minnie intercedes. The king calls for a joust. Mickey wins and they live happily ever after.

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Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 73% Letterboxd 3.0 0h 52m

Directed by Kirk R. Thatcher

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGonzo's mansion challenge subverts haunted-house dread through Muppet chaos.

Gonzo is challenged to spend one night in The Haunted Mansion on Halloween night.

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Chilangolandia (2021)

IMDb 6.3 Letterboxd 3.0 1h 33m

Directed by Carlos Santos

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMexico City vignette anthology captures metropolitan absurdism through overlapping human stories.

Mexico City, or "Chilangolandia," is a chaotic metropolis where millions of stories take place every day. Some of them are part of this fun comedy full of familiar characters and others that defy stereotypes. Ramiro is a taxi driver who hopes his problems will end when his nephew "El Chulo" becomes a national soccer star. On the other hand, Carmen and Miguel are couple who unexpectedly receive a suitcase with a large sum of money, just what they need to get out of their financial situation. But when the true owners of the cash realize that it fell into the wrong hands, endless adventures and misunderstandings break out within this complex city.

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 62% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 21m

Directed by Miguel Arteta

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlexander's cascading misfortunes depict adolescent invisibility with relentless comedic precision.

Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

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The Kid (2000)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 49% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 44m

Directed by Jon Turteltaub

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSelf-absorbed executive confronts his childhood self's honest cruelty through magical intervention.

Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-old version of himself who can't believe he could turn out so badly – with no life and no dog. With Rusty's help, Russ is able to reconcile the person he used to dream of being with the man he's actually become.

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The Good, the Bart, and the Loki (2021)

IMDb 6.1 Letterboxd 2.5 0h 6m

Directed by David Silverman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGodly trickster meets Simpsonian mediocrity: dimensional collision of mythic and mundane.

Loki is banished from Asgard once again and must face his toughest opponents yet: the Simpsons and Springfield’s mightiest heroes. The God of Mischief teams up with Bart Simpson in the ultimate crossover event paying tribute to the Marvel Cinematic Universe of superheroes and villains.

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Into the Woods (2014)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 70% Letterboxd 2.8 2h 5m

Directed by Rob Marshall

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSondheim's woods systematically punish fairy-tale wishes with Brechtian cruelty.

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (2023)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 75% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 4m

Directed by Luke Cormican

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWimpy Kid's holiday chaos: suburban underdog disaster wrapped in heartfelt dysfunction.

A hilarious and heartfelt holiday tale centered around everyone's favorite disaster-prone middle school student, Greg Heffley, which finds him desperately fighting to stay off Santa's naughty list as the family prepares for a major winter snowstorm.

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Dashing Through the Snow (2023)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 30% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 31m

Directed by Tim Story

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCynical father rediscovers wonder through daughter's persistence against his emotional numbness.

Eddie Garrick is a good-hearted man who has lost his belief in the wonder of Christmas. While spending time with his nine-year-old daughter Charlotte on Christmas Eve, he befriends a mysterious man in a red suit named Nick.

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Welcome to the Club (2022)

IMDb 5.3 Letterboxd 2.2 0h 4m

Directed by David Silverman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLisa's princess ambitions interrogate goodness through wickedness's unexpected appeal.

Heart set on becoming a princess, Lisa Simpson is surprised to learn being bad might be more fun.

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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year poster

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2024)

0h 3m

Directed by David Silverman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSideshow Bob's villainous Halloween sermon corrupts seasonal sincerity.

Sideshow Bob teams up with the most infamous villains of Disney+ to share the true meaning of the Halloween season. Filled with music, mayhem, and madness, this short from "The Simpsons" is simply to die for.

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Richie Rich's Christmas Wish (1998)

IMDb 4.1 Letterboxd 2.2 1h 24m

Directed by John Murlowski

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRichie's unwished existence query: wealth negation becomes philosophical body-swap satire.

After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he'd never been born. Unfortunately, a wishing machine, invented by professor Keenbean, picked up the wish and made it come true. Now Richie finds himself in a parallel world where his only hope is to find professor Keenbean and the wishing machine so he can wish things back to normal.

Best Dark Comedy Movies on Disney+

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Lonesome Ghosts (1937)

The Simpsons Movie (2007)

The Book of Life (2014)

Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" (2012)

Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014)

Don's Fountain of Youth (1953)

Frankenweenie (2012)

Perfect Strangers (2017)

Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition (2026)

Burrow (2020)

Ye Olden Days (1933)

Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021)

Chilangolandia (2021)

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

The Kid (2000)

The Good, the Bart, and the Loki (2021)

Into the Woods (2014)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (2023)

Dashing Through the Snow (2023)

Welcome to the Club (2022)

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2024)

Richie Rich's Christmas Wish (1998)

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