The 28 Best Dark Comedy Movies on MUBI (July 2026)

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Dancer in the Dark (2000)

IMDb 7.9 🍅 69% Letterboxd 4.2 2h 20m

Directed by Lars von Trier

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFrames its protagonist's descent through sudden bursts of musical fantasy, making emotional devastation absurdly beautiful.

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

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In the Loop (2009)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 94% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 46m

Directed by Armando Iannucci

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWeaponizes bureaucratic jargon and political theater as pure comedic destruction, elevating incompetence to existential farce.

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 96% Letterboxd 4.0 2h 44m

Directed by Radu Jude

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFinds grim humor in corporate absurdity interviewing disaster victims, exposing capitalism's tone-deaf cruelty.

On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.

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Soul Kitchen (2009)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 73% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 39m

Directed by Fatih Akin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMines comedy from class anxiety and culinary pride colliding, where cultural displacement breeds petty warfare.

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

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The Forest for the Trees (2004)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 79% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 21m

Directed by Maren Ade

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDarkens idealism through relentless social cruelty, watching naïveté shattered by indifferent institutions.

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.

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Sick of Myself (2022)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 37m

Directed by Kristoffer Borgli

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInverts victimhood—the overshadowed girlfriend becomes calculated aggressor, weaponizing body horror for revenge.

Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.

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Yannick (2023)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 95% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 7m

Directed by Quentin Dupieux

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDisrupts theater itself, collapsing performance and reality as one man's narcissism derails an entire show.

In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 90% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 31m

Directed by Ariane Louis-Seize

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMines pitch-black comedy from vampire mythology inverted—weakness and empathy become existential horror.

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.

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I Am Not a Witch (2017)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 98% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 33m

Directed by Rungano Nyoni

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTreats child witch prosecution with deadpan absurdism, weaponizing bureaucratic logic against the innocent.

Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.

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The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)

IMDb 6.9 Letterboxd 3.8 1h 34m

Directed by Piotr Szulkin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeStages alien occupation as low-budget spectacle, making extraterrestrial conquest hilariously mundane.

Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Idem as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greater than the aliens—the state itself.

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Bernie (2012)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 39m

Directed by Richard Linklater

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBalances folksy charm with murder through tonal whiplash—warmth concealing calculated darkness.

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

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Intermission (2003)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 74% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 45m

Directed by John Crowley

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFractures narrative into darkly comic shards, treating violence and romance with equal casual brutality.

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.

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Rotting in the Sun (2023)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 82% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 51m

Directed by Sebastián Silva

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSkewers creative pretension and influencer culture simultaneously, making artistic crisis grotesquely funny.

A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.

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The Snails (1966)

IMDb 6.8 Letterboxd 3.5 0h 11m

Directed by René Laloux

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAbsurdist parable rendered in deadpan sci-fi, finding existential despair in vegetable farming futility.

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

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Silvia Prieto (1999)

IMDb 6.8 Letterboxd 3.6 1h 33m

Directed by Martín Rejtman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeObserves Buenos Aires torpor through anarchic behavior, treating mundanity with surreal disruption.

After her 27th birthday, Silvia Prieto decides to take charge of her life and make some changes. At the same time, she suddenly finds herself intertwined in the life of another woman who is also named Silvia Prieto.

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The Idiots (1998)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 73% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 50m

Directed by Lars von Trier

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDocuments Dogme 95 provocation with unflinching rawness, testing audience tolerance against performative transgression.

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.

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The Delinquents (2023)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 86% Letterboxd 3.5 3h 10m

Directed by Rodrigo Moreno

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransforms office invisibility into blackly comic reckoning, where powerlessness explodes violently.

Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split the money if agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.

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Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 82% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 50m

Directed by Jim Jarmusch

✦ MovieMuse AI takeExamines familial estrangement without sentimentality, finding dark comedy in dysfunction's honest exposure.

Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

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The Hypnosis (2024)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 95% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 40m

Directed by Ernst De Geer

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInterrogates wellness capitalism's sexual surveillance, making entrepreneurial desperation pathologically funny.

André and Vera are a young entrepreneurial couple. They get the opportunity to pitch their female health app at a prestigious competition. Before going there, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking. From this point, her attitude changes and André starts to behave unexpectedly.

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The Piano Accident (2025)

IMDb 6.4 Letterboxd 3.1 1h 28m

Directed by Quentin Dupieux

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSocial media influencer's accident forces offline reckoning; the medium's toxicity becomes the plot's dark ironic engine.

Social media sensation Magalie, known for posting shocking content, suffers a serious accident while filming one of her videos. She retreats to the mountains, accompanied by her assistant. Her peace is disrupted when a journalist begins blackmailing her.

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Mister Lonely (2008)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 45% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 52m

Directed by Harmony Korine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAssembles celebrity impressionists in utopian commune, deconstructing fame through whimsical melancholy.

In Paris, a young American working as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

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El Planeta (2021)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 95% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 22m

Directed by Amalia Ulman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFinds gallows humor in post-crisis grifting, treating con artistry as mother-daughter bonding.

Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over common tragedy and an impending eviction.

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Listen Up Philip (2014)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 82% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 49m

Directed by Alex Ross Perry

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDocuments artistic rage meticulously, weaponizing male ego and paranoia as relentless dark comedy.

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.

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The People's Joker (2024)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 96% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 32m

Directed by Vera Drew

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSubcultural parody meets political allegory, staging identity struggle as surreal superhero comedy.

An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.

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Spree (2020)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 65% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 33m

Directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWeaponizes true crime and influencer desperation into viral satire about performance and violence.

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

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Petrov's Flu (2021)

2h 25m

Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFractures reality and animated whimsy, rendering illness as surreal visual comedy.

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.

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Sexual Drive (2021)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 79% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 10m

Directed by Kōta Yoshida

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJuxtaposes sexual anxiety across social strata, finding universal comedy in modern intimacy's failures.

Designer Enatsu worries about his sexless life. Office worker Akane is getting ready to return to work while undergoing rehab at home for panic attacks. Elite advertising agent Ikeyama wants to end his relationship with his lover. A shabby man named Kurita appears before all three with a secret.

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Mother, Couch (2024)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 40% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 36m

Directed by Niclas Larsson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTraps dysfunctional family in furniture limbo, making domestic entrapment absurdly literal and liberating.

The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches.

Best Dark Comedy Movies on MUBI