Top 5 Black Comedies

Mine

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Arsenic and Old Lace
3. Fargo
4. The War of the Roses
5. American Beauty

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Election
Death to Smoochy
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Withnail and I
The Royal Tennenbaums

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harold and maude
mash
brazil
dr. strangelove
being there

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

the only "black" comedy that i know of that i remember is death to smoochy which i loved. non stop laughs. I'M RAINBOW FU!KING RANDALPH!!!

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In no particular order, and doubless forgetting tons...

Repo Man
Return of the Living Dead
Putney Swope
Tetsuo: the Iron Man
King of Hearts

Barbershop
Barbershop 2:Back in Business
Mo' Money
The Cookout
Brown Sugar



I never knew any of your picks were black comedies.

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Well then you shouldn't be able to resist Putney Swope either .

LMFAO AT THIS THREAD!!!!!

Sorry, had to do it!

No particular order...

Welcome To The Dollhouse
Secretary
Man Bites Dog
Spun
Fargo

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1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick)
2. After Hours (Scorsese)
3. To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
4. Delicatessen (Caro & Jeunet)
5. Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)

and MASH, Harold & Maude, Eating Raoul, The Butcher Boy, Drowning by Numbers, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Schizopolis, To Die for, The Great Dictator, The War of the Roses, Freeway, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Heathers, Arsenic & Old Lace, A Fish Called Wanda, Gremlins, Election, One Two Three, Monty Python's Life of Brian and on and on and on.

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1. Arsenic and Old Lace
2. Addicted to Love
3. A Fish Called Wanda
4. Nurse Betty
5. Little Shop of Horrors


and runner up Novocaine.

my favs (INPO):

After Hours
Heathers
Delicatessen (make with the DVD already dammit!!!)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Brazil

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It's so dark it's hard to tell people to rent it. I'm always afraid they'll think I'm nuts for enjoying it. Damn, it was painfully funny in parts.

"Special People means retarded. Your club is for retards."

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Ya got me feelin' hella good so let's just keep on dancin'

My taste has been classified by most people I know in real life as "weird". Erasure? "They're weird." Rowan Atkinson? "He's weird." I tell them to watch things like Rushmore, Harold and Maude and Hedwig and the Angry Inch and they come back with "that was... interesting... (by which they mean 'weird')".

It's why I like to come here.

I get that a lot too. I refuse to view movies that are the same ol' Hollywood formula. I like when I sit down to watch a film that I know nothing about and I've never heard of any of the actors.

What exactly constitutes 'black' comedy? Some of the choices are not what i'd expect for this genre, is it any film that makes you laugh at something that (being PC) you shouldn't?

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ooo yeah i fogot about the Whole 9 Yards and Arsenic and Old Lace. also Wag the Dog

I think the definition of a black comedy is in order:

1. black humor, black humour -- (the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect)

So really a balck comedy should make you feel a little uncomfortable that you're laughing. Welcome to the Dollhouse is the perfect example. It feels uncomfortable to laugh at some of the situations but they were meant to provoke laughter. Therefore, it's black/dark.

1. Arsenic and Old Lace

2. Dr Strangelove

3. The secretary

4. Delicatessen

5. Mash

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