Dark Comedy movies

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Playful Realistic Tense Fast-paced Stylish

Overview

After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.

Themes

Marital infidelity, Female solidarity, Deception and exposure, Business fraud exposure, Revenge through pranks, Leadership power shift

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Steady Intimate Claustrophobic Dry Deliberate

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Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a solipsistic muso—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, a London high-rise with the well-earned nickname Topper's Tower, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family. They become media sensations as the Topper House Four and search together for the reasons to keep on living.

Themes

Search for meaning, Media spectacle, Public scrutiny, Depression and resilience, Deception under scrutiny, Improvised family dynamics

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Realistic Tense Dry Clinical Witty

Overview

A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

Themes

Deception in relationships, Wealth and control dynamics, Risk and moral compromise, Social aspiration and emptiness, Desire and consequence, Transformation through chemistry

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Claustrophobic Dry Deliberate Stylish Intense

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Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.

Themes

Deception and manipulation, Loss of autonomy, Mind control ethics, Deprogramming coercion, Voyeuristic tension, Split self concept, Financial coercion

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Playful Bright Realistic Tense Intimate

Overview

When her idolized twin sister Audrey dies in a car accident, Laurel decides to take her place. But, as she eases into the life she has always wanted, she must decide between continuing the lie or revealing herself.

Themes

Deception and disguise, Appearance vs self, Social performance under scrutiny, Twin sister dynamics, Family longing and belonging, Accident-driven deception

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Claustrophobic Dry Eerie Fast-paced Cynical

Overview

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.

Themes

Voices guiding behavior, Therapy and medication, Mental illness pressures, Dual impulses and control, Pursuit of normalcy, Family trauma legacy

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Dry Relentless

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An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

Themes

Intergenerational conflict, Family secrets, Dysfunctional family dynamics, Addiction and illness, Affairs and betrayal, Power dynamics at home

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Tense Intimate Claustrophobic Atmospheric Dry

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How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual... until, aged 30, he meets the woman who, after his mother, will become the other woman in his life. Beyond this story of a heterosexual coming-out, the film tells the tale of an actor who never stopped loving women, maybe even a little too much.

Themes

Gender performance and conformity, Family pressure vs self-expression, Sexuality and self-acceptance, Parental control and rebellion, Therapy and transformation, Social ridicule and resilience

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Claustrophobic Dry Fast-paced Stylish Intense

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After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

Themes

Deception and manipulation, Loyalty under pressure, Economic desperation, Consequences of crime, Impulsive violence, Fatherhood and abandonment

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Tense Claustrophobic Dry Stylish Oppressive

Overview

A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.

Themes

Manipulation under pressure, Drugs and bipolar disorder, Misanthrope mindset, Promotion pursuit, Investigation under strain, Corrupt cop dynamics

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