English-language black comedy films

1990 film by Brian De Palma

2012 film by Martin McDonagh

2018 film directed by Paul Feig

1974 film by Billy Wilder

2008 film by Jonathan Demme

2009 film directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra

1997 film by Gore Verbinski

1989 film directed by Ted Kotcheff

Saltburn is a 2023 dark comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Emerald Fennell, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe and Carey Mulligan. Set in Oxford and Northamptonshire, it focuses on a student at the University of Oxford who becomes fixated with a popular, aristocratic fellow student, who later invites him to spend the summer at his eccentric family's estate.

2023 film by Todd Haynes

1999 film directed by Mike Judge

1989 film by Susan Seidelman

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a 1989 American Christmas slapstick comedy film and the third installment in National Lampoon magazine's Vacation film series. It was directed by Jeremiah Chechik and written and produced by John Hughes. The film's ensemble cast is led by Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, and Randy Quaid, while also featuring Mae Questel in her final film role before her death in 1998.

2007 film directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly

2019 film directed by Hans Petter Moland

2005 film directed by Liev Schreiber

2017 film by Lucia Aniello

1994 film directed by Danny Boyle

1972 film by John Waters

1966 film by Billy Wilder

1999 film by Alexander Payne

Suburbicon is a 2017 American black comedy crime film directed by George Clooney and co-written by the Coen brothers, Clooney, and Grant Heslov. It stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, and Oscar Isaac, and follows a mild-mannered father in 1959 who must face his demons after a home invasion, all while a black family moves into the all-white neighborhood. The black family storyline is loosely based on a 1957 incident in Levittown, Pennsylvania, in which a black family moved into the previously all-white neighborhood, leading to racism and violence against the family.

2012 film directed by Sean Anders

2011 film by Ruben Fleischer

2009 film directed by Grant Heslov

Heathers is a 1989 American teen satirical black comedy crime film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts. The film stars Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker and Penelope Milford. The plot revolves around four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique at an Ohio high school, one of whose lives is disrupted by the arrival of Jason "J.D." Dean, a misanthrope intent on murdering the popular students and staging their deaths as suicides.

1995 film by Gus Van Sant

2000 film directed by Jonathan Glazer

2002 film by Roger Avary

1949 film directed by Robert Hamer

2006 American comedy film directed by Kevin Smith

1998 film by Peter Berg

1955 crime comedy film directed by Alexander Mackendrick

1991 film directed by Frank Oz

2005 film by Susan Stroman

2006 film by Liam Lynch

2000 film by Neil LaBute

2020 film directed by Christopher Landon

1987 film by Barbet Schroeder

2007 film by Frank Oz

2022 film directed by Tom Gormican

2006 film directed by Craig Brewer

1970 film directed by Mike Nichols

2018 film directed by David Robert Mitchell

2001 film by Demian Lichtenstein

1990 film by Dennis Dugan

1986 film by Abrahams and Zucker

2008 film directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer

2019 film directed by Lorene Scafaria

1956 film by Elia Kazan

1994 film by John Waters

1971 satirical film directed by Arthur Hiller

2022 film directed by Noah Baumbach

2010 film directed by Chris Morris

2005 film by Niall Johnson

1966 film by Roman Polanski

1990 film by Roger Donaldson

2020 film by J Blakeson

1990 film by Tom Stoppard

The 'Burbs is a 1989 American dark comedy film directed by Joe Dante and written by Dana Olsen. It stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman, Wendy Schaal, Henry Gibson and Gale Gordon.