Every dark comedy movie streaming on Paramount+ in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Paramount+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Paramount+ 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 Roberto Benigni
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBenigni's refusal to acknowledge the Holocaust's horrors transforms unbearable tragedy into life-affirming comedy through willful delusion.
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Directed by Martin Scorsese
✦ MovieMuse AI takeScorsese's three-hour celebration of excess treats moral bankruptcy as darkly comedic spectacle, making villainy genuinely seductive.
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Directed by Ryan Polito
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJeselnik's surgical precision turns taboo subjects into punchlines, weaponizing discomfort as comedic truth-telling.
Anthony Jeselnik brings his signature dark and twisted point of view to this special. He holds nothing back, routinely saying things most wouldn't ever dare. Anthony is not for the easily offended or humorless.
Directed by Trey Parker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSouth Park weaponizes Cartman's nightmare logic to satirize contemporary panics, finding absurdist humor in cultural hysteria.
Cartman's deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves. Meanwhile, the adults in South Park are wrestling with their own life decisions, as the advent of AI is turning their world upside down.
Directed by Trey Parker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe film weaponizes animated vulgarity to lampoon censorship itself, making obscenity the joke's philosophical backbone.
In this feature film based on the hit animated series, the third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance and Phillip, and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy spirals into a call to wage war on Canada and Terrance and Phillip end up on death row, with the kids their only hope of rescue.
Directed by Trey Parker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSouth Park transmutes pandemic trauma into deadpan satire, finding dark comedy in generational psychological scars.
What happened to the children who lived through the Pandemic? Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny survived but will never be the same Post Covid.
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 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 Rob Marshall
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRob Marshall's musical jubilation surrounding death-row inmates transforms execution anxiety into pure cabaret spectacle.
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
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 Mike Leigh
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMike Leigh's portrait of rage as unrelenting pathology finds black comedy in the exhaustion of watching misanthropy.
Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.
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 Martin McDonagh
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-screenplay about artistic integrity gets demolished by actual violence, collapsing cinema into criminal chaos.
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Directed by Damien Chazelle
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDamien Chazelle catalogs Hollywood excess with unflinching grotesquerie—excess itself becomes the film's comic and tragic engine.
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Addams Family inverts suburban normalcy through deadpan celebration of the macabre, making death delightfully mundane.
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAddams Family Values weaponizes summer-camp innocence to savage bourgeois sentimentality with gleeful sibling cruelty.
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
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 Jared Frieder
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThree Months weaponizes coming-of-age sentimentality against HIV diagnosis, balancing vulnerability with gallows-humor resilience.
Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, Caleb finds love in the most unlikely of places.
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.
Directed by James Gunn
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBrilliantly subverts superhero mythology by making vigilante violence genuinely grotesque, forcing uncomfortable laughter at consequences.
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
Directed by Trey Parker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSouth Park's Streaming Wars satirizes capitalist streaming competition through deliberately stupid escalation and corporate absurdism.
Cartman locks horns with his mom in a battle of wills while an epic conflict unfolds that threatens South Park’s very existence.
Directed by Trey Parker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSouth Park mines ecological collapse for deadpan satire, treating environmental apocalypse as bureaucratic farce.
A drought has brought the town of South Park to the brink of disaster.
Directed by Larry Charles
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Dictator's faux-heroic framing treats autocracy as punchline, weaponizing geopolitical ignorance as deliberate satire.
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
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 Gore Verbinski
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBaumbach's meditation on middle-class failure finds dark comedy in the mundane tragedy of mediocre aspiration.
A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
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.
Directed by James Madigan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMercenary and target bond while airborne assassins close in—protection becomes darkly absurd when enemies share cabin space.
A mercenary takes on the job of tracking down a target on a plane but must protect that target when they're surrounded by people trying to kill both of them.
Directed by Todd Solondz
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTodd Solondz rewrites melodrama; warmth and devastation occupy same frame, comedy and cruelty inseparable.
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.
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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