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25 Best Dark Comedy Movies for Twisted Laughs

Updated: Mar. 31, 2024

You can count on dark comedy movies to mine taboo subjects for laughs. These are some of the best films in the genre.

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Hilarious dark comedy films

Dark comedy can encompass several genres at once. While many dark comedy movies are satires, others can be classified as horror movies or crime thrillers, but the common ground they all share is that they take serious or grim subjects and infuse a bit of humor. Do you want dark jokes about murder carried out by incompetent criminals? What about war crimes with a dash of slapstick? Dark comedies throw trigger warnings out the window, finding a dark sense of humor in even the bleakest subject matter. For that reason, you won’t find any family movies on this list. You’ll find films about hot-button issues like race, class disparity and warfare, with laughs serving as a way to punctuate the discomfort often felt when sitting with these subject matters.

How we chose the best dark comedies

Some of the best movies of the past century have been dark comedies made by some of the most original filmmakers and writers of our time, from Quentin Tarantino and Stanley Kubrick to Elaine May. While the definition of dark comedy can be broad and subjective, we’ve come up with a list of 25 films, most of which deal with serious or topical subjects and are filled with hilarious performances and biting commentary about the issues at hand. While some filmmakers, such as the Coen Brothers and Jordan Peele, have made several movies we think could fall into this genre, we’ve admittedly chosen our favorite films of theirs subjectively, based on personal preference, while acknowledging their other films that could have easily been a part of this list.

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Heathers
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Heathers

Released: 1988

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “What’s your damage, Heather?”

When I first set out to create this list, I asked some friends what they considered the best dark comedy movies, and without hesitation, almost everyone mentioned Heathers. Synonymous with dark comedy, Heathers has become part of the teen movie canon, though it still remains one of the most subversive and disturbing movies about high school ever made, thanks to its dark jokes about suicide and violence. Winona Ryder stars in the film as Veronica Sawyer, a teen at Westerburg High, a school where a popular clique of queen bees known as the Heathers makes life hell for anyone who’s not them. When Veronica meets JD (Christian Slater) and makes an offhand comment about wishing one of the Heathers dead, he inadvertently poisons her and stages the death as a suicide—and creates a plan to kill off other popular students in the same fashion.

The question that looms over Heathers and many other films on this list is whether a movie like this could even get made today, given the fear of violence in school. But Heathers remains popular for making such dark topics deeply funny, thanks to the hilariously quotable script including “Lick it up, baby, lick it up” and “Corn nuts.” The film satirized popularity and cultural norms while also being ahead of its time in addressing things like sexual assault and homophobia. And despite its reliance on scrunchies as a plot device, it remains as timeless as ever.

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But Im A Cheerleader
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But I’m a Cheerleader

Released: 1999

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “You are who you are. The only trick is not getting caught.”

Like many great cult films, But I’m a Cheerleader wasn’t a box-office hit, but it has gained in popularity in the decades since its release and is now more topical and respected as an influential LGBTQ movie than ever. (Given that so many dark comedies are also satires, they tend to be ahead of their time, and this film’s handling of sexual identities is proof of that.) Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan, a high school cheerleader who has struggled to keep her identity as a lesbian hidden. Her conservative parents, played by Bud Cort and Mink Stole, decide to send her to a conversion therapy camp so she’ll be straight, which only confirms Megan’s true identity as a lesbian. The film mines sexual identity (and the practice of conversion) for laughs, and the casting includes John Waters muse Stole, RuPaul (in one of his only roles out of drag), Clea DuVall and Melanie Lynskey.

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Fargo
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Fargo

Released: 1996

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “The little guy was kinda funny-lookin’.”

The Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, aren’t known for one single genre, but they’re masters of crime capers infused with comedy, from Raising Arizona and Barton Fink to Burn After Reading. Out of all their funny movies, 1996’s Fargo, for which the pair won an Oscar for their screenplay, remains a personal favorite, probably because of the way it combined brutal, bloody murder with so many Minnesota accents. The film is about a detective (Frances McDormand, who won an Oscar for her performance as pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson) investigating a kidnap-for-hire gone wrong, which resulted in the deaths of three people. It tackles the subject matter hilariously, thanks to the folksy patois and dialogue and ineptitude of its criminals. (True story, and perhaps the reason the movie remains a favorite for me: I purchased the film when it was released on VHS, and it came with a collectible snow globe with a diorama of the infamous body-in-a-wood-chipper scene in the film. When you shake it, both snow and blood settle to the bottom. It remains a cherished possession.)

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The Menu

Released: 2022

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Please don’t say mouthfeel.”

In the 2000s, restaurant and food culture experienced a boom that turned everyone with an Instagram account into a food critic. While haute cuisine and food lovers will always exist, most people nowadays bristle at the word “foodie.” The Menu, which could be considered a straight-up horror movie by many, takes aim not just at foodies but at critics, the wealthy and privileged, and anyone who seems to take life’s little pleasures for granted.

Ralph Fiennes stars as Julian Slowik, a renowned chef whose restaurant, Hawthorn, is located on a remote island only accessible by ferry. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Margot, the date to Nicholas Hoult’s obnoxious Tyler, a man obsessed with food. And they’re among the guests at what will be Slowik’s final dinner service. They, and the other guests, who include a restaurant critic, a financier, an actor and a bunch of corporate dudes, have no idea that this might be their last meal too. In a way, the film is not unlike the children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in that, one by one, each guest meets a gruesome end during the film. The comedy comes from the scathing dialogue that satirizes food culture and forces the privileged to acknowledge the sins they committed to get there. It turns out, Margot was not expected at the meal, so she and the chef face off as she tries to convince him to spare her life, lest she become one of his human s’mores.

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Triangle of Sadness

Released: 2022

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Never argue with an idiot, they’ll only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

Director Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, which is considered by some to be one of the best films of 2022, is a deeply funny examination of class and social status. At first, a group of beautiful and wealthy people set sail aboard a yacht, but eventually, the ship capsizes and they find that their survival relies on the skills of the crew they were accustomed to bossing and berating.

In one of his funniest roles in recent memory, Woody Harrelson plays the boat’s unhinged captain, who is full of funny one-liners and inspirational quotes. But what makes this film about the class divide so funny are the gags (literal gags, as in vomit) that occur in one of the most disgustingly funny scenes in which the ship’s wealthy diners experience collective seasickness and can’t keep their luxurious meal of oysters and caviar down. While physical and gross-out humor is not inherently dark, using it as excessively as Östlund does here as a way to take down society’s highest echelon is a pointed dig at the upper crust that is truly hilarious and a cruel joke all at once. Already watched Triangle of Sadness? Here are some more funny movies on Hulu to stream right now.

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The Death of Stalin

Released: 2017

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Nod as I’m speaking to you. People are looking to me for reassurance and I have no idea what’s going on.”

Armando Ianucci created one of the best sitcoms of all time, the political satire Veep, which made fun of American politics at the highest level. In The Death of Stalin, directed by Ianucci, he turns his eye toward Russia in the mid-20th century to depict the regime of Joseph Stalin as a chaotic farce. The film portrays the madness that ensued in the months after Stalin’s death, centered on a power struggle among the members of his cabinet, which caused infighting, uneasy alliances and eventual executions of some of the members (all of which is based on actual historical events). Here, the fighting and murders are played for laughs, in part to depict just how ridiculous politics and the quest for power can be.

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I Care a Lot

Released: 2021

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Playing fair is a joke invented by rich people to keep the rest of us poor.”

In the Netflix original movie I Care a Lot, Rosamund Pike plays a savvy con artist named Marla who defrauds the elderly and sells off their belongings for her own personal profit. The situation turns violent and even deadly when Marla messes with the wrong woman, a retiree named Jennifer (Dianne Weist), whose son is a crime boss. Her son has come looking for Jennifer and a stockpile of money and valuables she had been hiding, which Marla has planned to keep for herself. Pike’s performance as the calculating and amoral Marla is unsettling and hilarious, and earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical in 2021.

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Election

Released: 1999

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Dear Lord Jesus, I do not often speak with you and ask for things, but now I really must insist that you help me win the election tomorrow because I deserve it and Paul Metzler doesn’t, as you well know.”

Election gave Reese Witherspoon one of her most memorable roles ever as Tracy Flick, a smug overachiever running for president of her high school’s student government. Matthew Broderick stars as Jim McAllister, the high school teacher who hates Tracy and does whatever he can to throw the election so she won’t win, including encouraging a popular but dimwitted jock (Chris Klein) to run against her. The film is directed and co-written by Alexander Payne, whose other works include the well-loved dramedies About Schmidt, Sideways and his debut film Citizen Ruth, which is also on our list. Witherspoon, whose persona is often affable, has never been as off-putting as she is as Flick, and her stop-at-nothing-to-win drive pushes the film into delicious dark comedy territory.

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Harold and Maude

Released: 1971

Rated: PG

Our favorite quote: “Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can’t let the world judge you too much.”

The Hal Ashby film Harold and Maude is another example of a film that wasn’t a theatrical success but has developed a lasting cult following in the decades since it first came out. While there should be a big trigger warning for (albeit faux) suicidal content, the movie is an ode to life. Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) is a 20-year-old man so obsessed with death that he stages fake suicides for himself and drives a hearse. He’s uninterested in women until he meets 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon), a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp who teaches him how to live life to the fullest.

This dark and death-obsessed romantic comedy movie was panned early on by plenty of critics (Vincent Canby called Cort’s and Gordon’s performances “creepy and off-putting” in his 1971 review for the New York Times), but audiences disagree. How can you be mad at a film with a classic Cat Stevens soundtrack and Harold’s mother’s (Vivian Pickles) deadpan reactions to his fake suicides? (“Dinner at eight, Harold. And do try and be a little more vivacious.”) Even when dealing with the moribund, Harold and Maude is deeply funny and even uplifting.

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Serial Mom

Released: 1994

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Chip, you know how I hate the brown word.”

Director John Waters is a master of campy style, and Serial Mom, about a housewife named Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) who leads a double life as a serial killer, is a cult classic. From harassing her neighbors and running over her son Chip’s math teacher with her car to killing the boy who stood up her teenage daughter for a date, Beverly is unhinged.

But the film doesn’t just focus on the outrageousness of Beverly’s crimes, it also shows her becoming a media sensation once she’s actually tried for them. Not only is Beverly free of any remorse, she also justifies her crimes and keeps on killing. Waters is a master of casting, and the film has cameos from pop-culture icons like Patty Hearst, who plays a juror at Beverly’s trial; Suzanne Somers, who plays Beverly in the TV movie about her life; and Joan Rivers, who plays herself. Each appearance is a deliciously funny gem that gilds this dark, poisonous lily.

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A New Leaf

Released: 1971

Rated: G

Our favorite quote: “Madam, I have seen many examples of perversion in my time, but your erotic obsession with your carpet is probably the most grotesque and certainly the most boring I have ever encountered.”

A New Leaf (which might be one of the most obscure films on this list) is another movie that uses death as a punchline, which is unsettling for many, but thanks to Walter Matthau’s grumpy deadpan, it’s hilarious. Written by Elaine May, the film stars Matthau as Henry Graham, a formerly wealthy bachelor whose family fortune has run dry and needs money to maintain his lifestyle. Graham searches high society for a wealthy heiress to marry and ultimately finds the mousy, meek botanist Henrietta Lowell (played by May). While Henry marries Henrietta for her money and has every intention of killing her and inheriting her fortune, it turns out that he has a tender spot for her after all. May is a celebrated comedian best known for her partnership with Mike Nichols, but A New Leaf solidifies her status as a comedy legend in her own right.

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American Psycho

Released: 2000

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?”

In Bret Easton Ellis’s book American Psycho, which takes place in 1980s New York City, the titular character Patrick Bateman is obsessed with popular music. In the film version, songs like Huey Lewis and the News’s “Hip to Be Square” are perfectly placed to punctuate Bateman’s fury as he commits murder. In the film, Christian Bale plays Bateman, an investment banker obsessed with appearances and status who leads a double life as a serial killer. Bateman’s obsessions (music, working out, designer clothes, fancy restaurants) are all shallow and superficial—the joke is how seriously he takes it all. Deeply unsettling thanks to the gruesome violence (often against women), the film satirizes privilege, materialism and the yuppie culture of the ’80s and leaves the audience, and Bateman himself, wondering if he’ll ever be caught.

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Parasite

Released: 2019

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned.”

I have to say this right up top: I feel like it’s controversial to include Parasite on this list because it is truly more of a thriller movie than a comedy. And yet, the film wouldn’t be what it is without the biting humor that looms over its violence. Bong Joon-ho’s film, which won several Oscars, including Best Picture, is a commentary on class and the gap between the wealthy and the working poor that also finds humor in the brutal deaths of some of its characters. The film is structured around a wealthy family, the Parks, who hire Kim Ke-woo (Choi Woo-shik) to work for them as a tutor. Eventually, Ke-woo devises a plan so that every member of his family is hired by the Parks to work in domestic roles in and around their house. The Kims’ plan is to exploit the Parks, but when they make a shocking discovery in the Park home while the family is on vacation, the situation changes. We won’t spoil the twisty ending, but just know it’s a bloody mess that will leave you wondering who in the film is the actual parasite.

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Get Out

Released: 2017

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Oh Lord, Rod Williams from TSA.”

Before the release of 2017’s Get Out, Jordan Peele was best known as one half of the comedy duo Key and Peele. But with his screenwriting and directorial debut, he became one of the most highly regarded satirists and social commentators of our time (his subsequent films, Us and Nope, have proven him to be a master of psychological horror, infusing commentary about race with tension and dread).

Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris, a Black man dating a White woman named Rose (Alison Williams), who has invited him to her family home for the weekend. After he arrives, Chris becomes uneasy when Rose’s family members make unsettling comments about Black people, and the Black servants seem oddly dazed. At its core, the film is a critique on race and virtue-signaling liberals but uses supporting characters like Lil Rel Howery’s Rod to cut through the bleakness with humor. And while we’ve never included the Dirty Dancing theme “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” on a list of funny songs, its use in one particularly unsettling scene adds to the film’s dark humor.

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Trainspotting

Released: 1996

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Excuse me. I don’t mean to harass you, but I was very impressed with the capable and stylish manner in which you dealt with that situation. And I was thinking to myself, now this girl’s special.”

Danny Boyle’s drug-fueled film Trainspotting was a pop-culture phenomenon when it came out in 1996 and was a breakout performance for Ewan McGregor, who would later become a household name thanks to his role in the Star Wars movies. Based on Irvine Welsh’s novel, the film centers around a group of heroin addicts who live in Edinburgh, Scotland. McGregor plays Mark Renton, who, along with his friends (played by Ewen Bremner and Jonny Lee Miller), attempts to wean himself off drugs. But in the course of their attempts to get clean, they find themselves in increasingly wild and disturbing situations that depict the desperation that arises out of addiction.

The film can be tragic at times, and wildly funny at others. Many of the jokes revolve around toilet humor, which, while disgusting, brings unexpected laughs. One such scene involves a tug of war with a bedsheet covered in poop, while another memorable scene from the film shows Renton in a public restroom (described as the worst toilet in Scotland) and, in a fantasy sequence, getting sucked into the toilet. While the shock value of these moments are used for laughs, they’re also a real metaphor for these characters’ lives.

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Sorry To Bother You
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Sorry to Bother You

Released: 2018

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “You sidestep more than the f—ing Temptations!”

Sorry to Bother You stars LaKeith Stanfield as a Black telemarketer named Cash Green who works for a company called RegalView. When Cash realizes he’s much more successful at his job when he adopts a “white”-sounding voice, he earns accolades and is promoted. RegalView turns out to be completely corrupt and is owned by a parent company that does everything from selling arms to genetically modifying its employees to make them more profitable.

The film blends science fiction and a dour, near-dystopian setting with absurdist comedy and visuals for an unsettling commentary on race and capitalism. (Maybe most depressing and unsettling of all is the fact that the general premise of Cash code-switching to a white voice at work was actually inspired by writer-director Boots Riley’s real experiences working as a telemarketer.)

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Inglorious Basterds

Released: 2009

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Bingo! How fun! But I digress. Where were we?”

Inglorious Basterds is the first of two Quentin Tarantino movies on this list, and much like Jojo Rabbit, its humor comes from one of the darkest eras in modern history: the Nazi regime during World War II. The movie portrays two plots to kill a group of Nazi leaders including Hitler, one spearheaded by a Jewish woman named Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent), and another led by a group of soldiers known as the Inglorious Basterds, led by Brad Pitt’s Aldo Raine. As with many other films about the war, the Nazis, especially Christoph Waltz’s zealous SS officer Hans Landa, are depicted as both ruthless but also silly and sometimes inept. And that’s what makes this film as funny as it is, while also depicting the brutality of war.

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Dr. Strangelove

Released: 1964

Rated: PG

Our favorite quote: “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room.”

Stanley Kubrick’s oeuvre is nothing if not meticulous, intense, unsettling and stylized. It’s also often darkly funny. While films like A Clockwork Orange, Lolita or The Shining all contain moments of bleak humor throughout, it’s Kubrick’s 1964 satire Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb that is considered by many to be a masterpiece of satire and dark comedy. And much of that humor is owed to its star, comedian Peter Sellers.

The film sends up the Cold War panic that had seized the globe in the ’60s, and in it, Sellers plays three separate roles: British officer Lionel Mandrake, U.S. President Merkin Muffley and the titular Dr. Strangelove, a former Nazi who serves as an advisor to President Muffley. All of whom are desperate to thwart a nuclear attack on the U.S. while haplessly plotting one on Russia. Inspired by the novel Red Alert by Peter George, Dr. Strangelove is one of several movies based on books on our list. (The film version is much funnier than the book, thanks to Sellers and his co-stars George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and Slim Pickens.)

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Pulp Fiction

Released: 1994

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “You’ll be getting a call from my supervisor asking how my service was.”

Pulp Fiction is one of the best ’90s films and one of the all-time great crime films, thanks to its incredible cast, amazing movie soundtrack and memorable movie quotes. This was writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s second film, but it was the one that brought him into the mainstream thanks to this plot of three separate but connected stories filled with unsavory criminals doing terrible things. The violence and gore (of which there is plenty) is intercut with lengthy diatribes about everything from McDonald’s burgers (the infamous “Royale with Cheese” conversation between John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson’s characters) to a pocket watch hidden in a very uncomfortable body cavity. It all creates a vivid, tumultuous and ultimately hilarious movie.

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Citizen Ruth

Released: 2022

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “I slept in a few dumpsters. Maybe I slept on some babies.”

In Citizen Ruth, Laura Dern stars as Ruth Stoops, a drug-addicted mother of four who, upon discovering she’s pregnant, is arrested for endangering her fetus because of her drug use. Ruth is offered a reduced sentence if she agrees to get an abortion, and as a result, she finds herself at the center of a political firestorm. Being courted by both abortion supporters and anti-abortion protesters who all try to pay off Ruth so she can be a pawn for their causes. While abortion itself is a highly politicized and polarizing debate, the film takes aim not just at one side, but at activists on both sides whose passion turns into a kind of unsettling fanaticism and extremism. The film was director Alexander Payne’s debut, and it features several amazing cameos, including one from Tippi Hedren as an abortion-rights activist and Burt Reynolds mugging it up as a smarmy, massage-loving televangelist.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous

Released: 1999

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Can I? Amer-I-Can!”

Mockumentaries became big business in the 1990s thanks to films like Waiting for Guffman, Bob Roberts and Drop Dead Gorgeous. The latter, a satirical look at a small-town beauty pageant, is a straightforward comedy tinged with dark humor thanks to the über-competitiveness of the contestants and their pageant moms. Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards and Brittany Murphy star as three of the contestants in the pageant, with Richards’s character, Becky Leeman, driven to succeed by her ruthlessly competitive mother Gladys, played by Kirstie Alley. The film has earned cult status thanks to the script’s funny moments, the contestants’ hapless attempts at creating uplifting inspirational quotes during the pageant and the memorable comedic performances from everyone in the cast.

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Saved!

Released: 2004

Rated: PG-13

Our favorite quote: “I am filled with Christ’s love! You are just jealous of my success in the Lord.”

Before she was cast on one of the best TV shows in recent years, This Is Us, Mandy Moore starred in the subversive and hilarious religious spoof Saved! In the film, Moore stars as Hilary Faye, a devout Christian whose best friend Mary (Jena Malone) becomes pregnant out of wedlock after losing her virginity to her boyfriend Dean. Dean revealed to her that he’s gay, and she was attempting to convert him to heterosexuality. As if that over-the-top premise isn’t hilarious enough, Mary finds herself ousted from her friend group by the pious Hilary, who spirals out of control to viciously expose Mary’s pregnancy to the rest of their Christian school. Saved! exposes the hypocrisy of those who claim to follow Jesus’s message but whose actions prove otherwise, all under the guise of a wickedly funny teen movie.

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Zola

Released: 2020

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “Your brain is broke!”

Zola has the honor of being the only movie on this list inspired by a viral Twitter thread. The story, posted to the social media site in 2015, was written by a Detroit waitress and stripper named Aziah King (who also goes by the stage name Zola). It was about a trip she took with a fellow stripper to Florida. After agreeing to go to the Sunshine State to earn money stripping, it wasn’t until she arrived that Zola learned the other woman was actually a prostitute, and the trip they were taking was a ploy for both women to be pimped out by a man named Z.

Sex trafficking is no laughing matter, but the tone Zola used to tell the story was hilarious. It was filled with wisecracks and suspense, even as she regaled readers with threats of bodily harm and assault until she (safely) made it home. Director Janicza Bravo turned the tweets into a screenplay and cast Taylour Paige as Zola, and Riley Keough as Stefani, the stripper who lured Zola to Florida. Zola’s sloppy, sordid tale was brought to life in a film as tragicomic and exhilarating as the Twitter thread.

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Brazil
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Brazil

Released: 1985

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “That is your receipt for your husband … and this is my receipt for your receipt.”

Director Terry Gilliam cut his filmmaking teeth in the absurdist comedy group Monty Python, but his films often combine elements of fantasy and science fiction with bleak humor. Brazil (1985) is one of his most beloved movies.

Set in a grim, dystopian future, the film stars Jonathan Pryce as a government employee named Sam Lowry, whose work is banal, up until the day he realizes that a technical error has led to the arrest and killing of an innocent man who was confused for an actual criminal. This sequence of events exposes Sam to the ridiculousness of bureaucracy, surveillance states and reliance on technology. Gilliam’s Monty Python collaborator Michael Palin co-stars, along with Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins and Ian Holm.

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Promising Young Woman
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Promising Young Woman

Released: 2020

Rated: R

Our favorite quote: “You might be surprised to hear that gentlemen are sometimes the worst.”

Promising Young Woman is a feminist statement, a revenge fantasy and a comedy all wrapped into one movie that was written and directed by Emerald Fennell. The film stars Carey Mulligan as Cassie, a woman whose best friend Nina killed herself after being raped. Seeking revenge for her friend, Cassie seeks out everyone who ignored Nina or actively tried to protect her rapist to give them a taste of their own medicine. While the entire premise of the film is based around a series of distressing events, the supporting cast, which includes comedic actors like Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Jennifer Coolidge and Molly Shannon, is cast to perfection to lighten the tone.

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