Every dark comedy movie streaming on Peacock in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Peacock’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Peacock US
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAddiction's visual descent matched to Clint Mansell's repetitive score creates unbearable comedy through escalating desperation and chemical delusion.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Directed by Chuck Jones
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSeussian rhyme scheme weaponized as acid commentary on consumerism—the Grinch's theft becomes darkly logical critique, not villainy.
Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.
Directed by Rafael Villaseñor Kuri
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBigamy farce spirals into existential chaos; comedy emerges from the mathematical impossibility of sustaining multiple fraudulent lives simultaneously.
Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress.
Directed by Judd Apatow
✦ MovieMuse AI takeApatow mines comedy from arrested development as genuine pathology—humor comes from recognizing Scott's stagnation as both funny and quietly tragic.
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.
Directed by René Cardona
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMelodrama collides with cockfighting brutality; the Devil's romantic gesture clashes grotesquely against the film's basest appetites.
A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.
Directed by Rafael Villaseñor Kuri
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCrime-spree romance subverts genre expectations—genuine tenderness blooms amid murder and prostitution, creating tonal dissonance that defines the comedy.
A murder forces Juan "El Coyote" and Trinidad "La Bronca" to escape from a life of easy money and prostitution and become a real couple.
Directed by Chris Peckover
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHome-invasion thriller inverts expectations when the boy becomes aggressor; audience complicity in rooting for violence becomes the joke.
On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
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 Wes Anderson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWes Anderson's pastel formalism collides with apocalyptic chaos; geometric precision crumbles against world-ending events with meticulous whimsy.
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Directed by Chris McKay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDracula's employee-turned-vigilante redemption arc filtered through rom-com beats—servitude transformed into absurdist action-comedy.
Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
Directed by Miranda July
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIntergenerational con-artist family as dysfunctional unit; intimacy and crime blur until love becomes indistinguishable from exploitation.
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
Directed by Andrew Fleming
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDomestic ennui punctured by unexpected obligation; relationship dissolution meets reluctant grandparent comedy through mutual resentment.
A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.
Directed by Marjane Satrapi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTalking animals as unreliable moral compass—mental illness visualized through cute voices debating serial murder with cheerful absurdity.
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Directed by Christopher Landon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSlasher-film body-swap premise played as legitimately moving; horror tropes become vehicle for teen female empowerment through darkly comic violence.
A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.
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 Ben Sharrock
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRefugee waiting-room limbo treated with deadpan Scottish absurdism; political liminal space becomes site for gentle, observational tragicomedy.
An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
Directed by Anna Biller
✦ MovieMuse AI takePractical-effects witchcraft visualized with earnest 1970s aesthetic; spell-casting sequences treated as real alongside mounting corpses.
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
Directed by Jason Bateman
✦ MovieMuse AI takePerformance-art parents disappeared into their own myth; siblings inherit parents' delusion while unraveling truth from theatrical fiction.
A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.
Directed by Tyler MacIntyre
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTrue-crime influencers weaponize tragedy for content; social-media dark comedy weaponizes viewer complicity in death-obsessed spectacle.
McKayla and Sadie, two death-obsessed teenage girls, use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small Midwestern town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.
Directed by Elizabeth Banks
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCocaine-fueled bear rampage plays logistics seriously; animal mayhem treated with crime-thriller procedural gravitas equals absurdist perfection.
Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
Directed by Darren Grant
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMadea's verbal warfare and physical comedy deployed as feminist retaliation; trauma addressed through comedic vernacular authority.
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, her life takes an unexpected twist when she comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing her and kicks her out. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life. Helen is forced to rediscover love, life, and religion in her pursuit for happiness.
Directed by Joe Swanberg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIndie-couple ennui disrupted by bone discovery; suburban malaise punctured by criminal archaeology and marriage-threatening mystery.
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
Directed by Ronny Yu
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKiller-doll franchise self-parodies through romantic resurrection; horror deadpan meets relationship comedy with practical-effects grotesquerie.
Chucky is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany, rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound.
Directed by Karyn Kusama
✦ MovieMuse AI takePossession-as-corruption narrative with queer subtext; Jennifer's demon-enhanced evil read as liberation through societal destruction.
Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.
Directed by Andy Palmer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAsylum escapees terrorize funhouse with matching-aesthetics irony; horror escalation becomes performance-art commentary on entertainment itself.
Six of the worlds scariest psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Funhouse whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror.
Directed by Don Mancini
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHollywood satire filtered through homicidal-doll family dynamics; show-business parody undermined by Chucky's domestic-violence pathology.
This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!
Directed by Tyler Perry
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMadea's matriarchal wisdom clashes with family dysfunction; comedic authority wields manipulation as tough love.
When Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley's three adult children are too preoccupied with their own troubled lives to pay attention to their mother. It is up to Madea, with the help of rowdy Aunt Bam, to bring the clan together and help Shirley deal with her crisis.
Directed by Deon Taylor
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlack family's Beverly Hills arrival timed with purge-night satire; racial displacement comedy weaponized against genre expectations.
As Carl Black gets the opportunity to move his family out of Chicago in hope of a better life, their arrival in Beverly Hills is timed with that city's annual purge, where all crime is legal for twelve hours.
Directed by Vincent Paronnaud
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStand-up comedy interrupted by narrative breakdown; fourth-wall collapse as meta-commentary on performance and audience manipulation.
Brandon prepares to give his last stand-up comedy show. As his stories and jokes pass, the public begins to cheer up. But at that precise moment Brandon will realize that these stories have a strong relationship with his past. More than he imagines.
Directed by Tyler Perry
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMadea's incarceration played for verbal-combat comedy; prison farce becomes vehicle for examining justice-system absurdity through sass and wisdom.
After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Josh Hardaway lands a case that's too personal to handle: that of a young prostitute and former drug addict named Candace, also a childhood friend. When Candace winds up in jail, Madea takes the young woman under her protective wing.
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