Every dark comedy movie streaming on Hulu in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Hulu’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Hulu US
Directed by Park Chan-wook
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEscalating workplace humiliation into murder-suicide darkly literalizes the joke about job market cruelty.
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.
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.
Directed by Alex Thompson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTreats theatrical melodrama and blue-collar reality as equally absurd, finding dark humor in their collision rather than choosing sides.
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Directed by Armando Iannucci
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSoviet bureaucrats stumble through power succession with slapstick desperation while bodies pile up—tragedy performed as farce.
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
Directed by Maren Ade
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWeaponizes dad jokes as genuine emotional sabotage, mining cringe comedy from sincerity weaponized against professional detachment.
Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.
Directed by Sean Baker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSustains frenetic energy and street-level tragedy simultaneously, never letting humor soften the desperation underneath its propulsive Christmas Eve narrative.
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
Directed by Emerald Fennell
✦ MovieMuse AI takeObsessive social climbing culminates in calculated psychopathy presented with champagne-fueled elegance and zero redemption.
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
Directed by Emilie Blichfeldt
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFairy-tale framework inverts into female ambition horror—beauty industry satire weaponizes vanity against itself mercilessly.
In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
Directed by Thea Sharrock
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnonymous profanity letters expose repressed desires in conservative town—obscenity becomes unlikely vehicle for class commentary.
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.
Directed by Sam Raimi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSurvivalism plot twisted into workplace grievance comedy—unclear if dark comedy or misclassified dramedy.
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
Directed by Jerrod Carmichael
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSuicide pact between friends reframed as buddy comedy where incompetence becomes the darkest joke.
Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness lacking—so he figures he could use some help. As luck would have it, Val’s best friend, Kevin, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt, so he seems like the perfect partner for executing this double suicide plan. But before they go, they have some unfinished business to attend to.
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAristocratic murder-game presented as slapstick horror-comedy; wealth's casual cruelty never punished, only mocked.
A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.
Directed by Roger Kumble
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSeduction wager becomes moral void wrapped in witty insouciance—cruelty dressed as sophistication.
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVisualizes methamphetamine's chaos through kaleidoscopic excess, treating addiction's darkest moments with gleeful formal experimentalism.
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.
Directed by Mike Nichols
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMines gallows humor from addiction and Hollywood's disposability, letting Meryl Streep weaponize charm against genuine self-destruction.
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
Directed by Bradley Cooper
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMarriage dissolution becomes material: dark comedy mines existential dread from stand-up confessionals, weaponizing vulnerability as humor.
As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.
Directed by Charles Hood
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTurns corporate humiliation into existential game show, making audience complicit in rooting for a protagonist's dubious moral choices.
A mid-level corporate employee finds out he’s not getting the Christmas bonus he was expecting, but his boss invites him to earn a promotion by beating his professional rival in a violent competition.
Directed by Del Shores
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStacks generational trauma into layers of trash-comedy honesty, refusing to sentimentalize Southern gothic dysfunction.
As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their sordid lives.
Directed by Jay Roach
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe marriage dissolves through accumulated petty resentments, proving domestic dissolution funnier than infidelity melodrama.
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
Directed by Manolo Caro
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransforms smartphone transparency into relationship X-ray, exposing how modern intimacy breeds catastrophe through perfect information.
A group of longtime friends get together for dinner. When they decide to share the content of every text message, email, and phone call they receive, secrets are unveiled and the balance is upset.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLanthimos repeats characters across vignettes, suggesting cosmic meaninglessness through Solitaire-like narrative structure.
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Directed by Quentin Dupieux
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAbsurdist superhero parody deflates genre tropes through surreal non-sequiturs and tonal whiplash.
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion, where they share scary stories the film depicts. Their storytelling sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
Directed by Robert Olsen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHostage scenario becomes intimate cat-and-mouse game; captors and captives share mutual darkness.
When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.
Directed by Paul Davis
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSustains slapstick logistics around corpse transport, treating death as a scheduling problem no more tragic than missed appointments.
In Los Angeles, on Halloween night, a hitman tries to transport a corpse in plain sight, but people he stumbles upon on the street, believing that his sophisticated appearance is a magnificent disguise, constantly stand in his way to congratulate him.
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.
Directed by Aditya Sarpotdar
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBalances supernatural horror with matrimonial panic comedy, finding equal terror in vengeful ghosts and arranged marriage obligations.
A young man's visit to his native village unveils a family secret and a vengeful spirit, Munjya, who wants to get married. Now the young man must fight to protect himself and his love from Munjya's clutches leading to a humorously chaotic and terrifying adventure.
Directed by Tanya Wexler
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDebt-collection hustle portrayed as economic survival comedy where exploitation becomes self-aware entertainment.
Set in the underworld of debt-collecting, homegrown hustler Peg Dahl will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.
Directed by John Slattery
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe matched murders absurdity—two dead Maggies—anchors surreal detective work in Arizona desert deadpan.
Bizarre back-to-back murders in an otherwise quiet Arizona desert town has rattled local Police Chief Jordan Sanders. The two dead women have no connection to each other – except they’re both named Maggie Moore. While unravelling a web of small-town lies and mysteries, the investigation gets even more complicated when Sanders begins a romantic relationship with one of the murdered women's neighbor, Rita.
Directed by Tyler MacIntyre
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGrants a dog sardonic intelligence and verbal abuse delivery, inverting emotional support animal tropes into misanthropic commentary.
When Maggie gets an emotional support dog to help quell some of her anxiety, she finds him to be even more effective than she imagined... because unbeknownst to her, he kills anyone who adds stress to her life.
Directed by David Firth
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnthology structure permits tonal whiplash between cute animation and grotesque punchlines, embodying Halloween's dual register naturally.
Leroy, Reggie and Cheruce Paloni host a Halloween special full of spooky shorts from a group of up-and-coming animators.
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