Every dark comedy movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US
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.
Directed by James L. Brooks
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTerms inverts melodrama's machinery—terminal illness becomes the setup for competing melodramatic performances, not just tragedy.
Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life.
Directed by Dan O'Bannon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRubber's cult resurrection of zombie horror as slapstick gore-fest proves undead comedy thrives on anarchic visual excess.
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
Directed by Robert Benton
✦ MovieMuse AI takeParable of masculine desperation: a man's elaborate self-deception collapses through slapstick irony rather than moral reckoning.
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.
Directed by Lasse Hallström
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe film's quiet subversion of provincial morality creates tension that never quite becomes funny—an ironic misfire.
In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
Directed by Alexander Payne
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlexander Payne's systematic dismantling of democratic ideals through petty high-school politics achieves savage institutional critique.
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.
Directed by Billy Wilder
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBilly Wilder exposes personal injury litigation as moral cesspool where greed and deception breed only greater deception.
TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
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.
Directed by Douglas Hickox
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMacabre theatrical murders enacted as Shakespearean death scenes—the genre's perfect marriage of highbrow reference and visceral revenge.
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Directed by Arthur Hiller
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHospital as absurdist hellscape where medical catastrophe mirrors personal dissolution, dark comedy as existential scream.
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
Directed by Steve De Jarnatt
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRomantic comedy's meet-cute severed by apocalyptic dread; tonal whiplash becomes the film's structural argument.
After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!
Directed by Roman Polanski
✦ MovieMuse AI takePower dynamics inverted when gangsters lose agency to bumbling civilians—comedy weaponized through humiliation, not triumph.
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Directed by Peter Hedges
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnarchic young woman's darkening odyssey; charm shatters when genuine menace arrives, proving chaos has consequences.
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReunion comedy that treats nostalgia as toxic—class resentments fester beneath champagne toasts and country-house elegance.
After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
Directed by Derek Cianfrance
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe film finds absurd heroism in fast-food heists, treating blue-collar crime with irreverent comic tenderness.
A former Army Ranger and struggling father turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname "Roofman." After escaping prison, he secretly lives inside a Toys “R” Us for six months, surviving undetected while planning his next move. But when he falls for a divorced mom drawn to his undeniable charm, his double life begins to unravel, setting off a compelling and suspenseful game of cat and mouse as his past closes in.
Directed by Jonathan Demme
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
Directed by Brad Silberling
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVisualizes relentless misfortune as darkly comic inevitability, treating tragedy with Wes Anderson-style detachment.
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
Directed by Burr Steers
✦ MovieMuse AI takePrep-school malaise transmuted into mordant social critique; adolescent nihilism as coherent philosophy, not phase.
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.
Directed by Roger Corman
✦ MovieMuse AI takePoe's macabre domesticity rendered in lurid color—psychological horror deflated by absurdist casting and camp sincerity.
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
Directed by Woody Allen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKafkaesque bureaucracy of vigilantism; Allen's bookkeeper wanders through paranoia where the moral center has vanished.
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Directed by Roger Corman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCon-artist morality: nobody's honest, therefore nobody's culpable—scoundrels become oddly noble through mutual betrayal.
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
Directed by Michael Hoffman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSoap-opera warfare elevated to grotesque art—career sabotage as performance, genuine cruelty dressed in theatrical excess.
Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, Montana Moorehead, and the show's arrogant producer, David Seton Barnes, plot to aggravate her into leaving the show by bringing back her old flame, Jeffrey Anderson, and hiring her beautiful young niece, Lori Craven.
Directed by David Hewlett
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIncompetence as protagonist's defining trait; murder becomes darkly funny precisely because he's uniquely unqualified.
If you've never been good at anything in your life, why would murder be any different? Patrick has always had a somewhat combative relationship with his little sister Marilyn, but when she brings home her new sci-fi soap star fiancé Ryan, it's all out war. When Patrick fails to drive a wedge between the happy couple, he reaches for sharper instruments.
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.
Directed by Barry Levinson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBank robbers as oddly sympathetic antiheroes; the genre allows criminal aspiration to coexist with genuine vulnerability.
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.
Directed by Roger Corman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAbsurdist farce: raven-curse resolved through sorcerous quibbling, treating cosmic punishment as intellectual game.
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUndertaker's logic: shortage breeds supply; capitalism's dark mathematics become darkly hilarious when applied to bodies.
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
Directed by Richard Quine
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMisogyny as cartoon premise; cartoonist's real life mocks his fictional superiority, deflating masculine fantasy viciously.
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.
Directed by John Huston
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHeist caper where incompetence guarantees failure; charm thrives in schemes doomed from conception, void of consequence.
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
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