Highest-Rated Movies about 'Absurd Humor'

The Mouse That Roared (1959), Terribly Happy (2008), Brewster McCloud (1970), Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), After Hours (1985), The Ruling Class (1972), Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Absurd Humor movies.

#4. Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983)

Storyline: Vinod (Naseeruddin Shah) and Sudhir (Ravi Baswani) are two professional photographers trying to start a photo studio. The first real assignment that they get, from the activist magazine Khabardar (literally meaning beware), draws them into the shady world of Bombay real estate. They discover that one of the biggest builders in Bombay, Tarneja, is trying to bribe Municipal Commissioner D'Mello (Satish Shah) into giving him a bridge contract. Meanwhile D'Mello is negotiating with Tarneja's arch rival Ahuja (Om Puri). The contract is finally awarded to a third person. By chance Vinod and Sudhir find out that Tarneja has murdered D'Mello...

Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, indian cinema, political corruption, media satire, absurdist, social commentary ...

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#5. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Storyline: In 1982, the legendary English heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.

Plot Keywords: mockumentary, comedy, rock music, satire, british humor, band, cult film ...

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#6. After Hours (1985)

Storyline: A meek word processor in New York impulsively travels downtown to Soho for date with an attractive, but apparently disturbed young woman, and finds himself trapped in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.

Plot Keywords: black comedy, absurd, social satire, twist of fate, surreal, loneliness, paranoia ...

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#7. The Ruling Class (1972)

Storyline: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensues.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>

Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, psychological thriller, aristocracy, mental illness, social criticism, absurdism ...

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#8. Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)

Storyline: The Leningrad Cowboys, a fictional Russian rock band, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.—vukovarfilmfestival

Plot Keywords: musical comedy, road movie, cultural clash, indie film, mockumentary, satire, low budget ...

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#9. I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2007)

Storyline: This is just another roadside cafeteria. Gino, who enters it discreetly, is an armed robber ... without an arm! He tries to hold up the place but fails pitifully: the pretty waitress won't allow! Two amateur kidnappers take a rich teenage girl hostage and want to exchange her for ransom. But their victim is not easy to deal with. Two singers meet in the cafeteria by chance and talk about a stolen song and a stolen woman. Five seventy-year-old retired robbers also meet at the cafeteria - where their hideout used to be - and work out a last caper. In the end, after having tried to steal from each other, go away together.—Guy Bellinger

Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, black comedy, french film, indie film, short film, drama ...

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#10. How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

Storyline: Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his relationship with his wife, his friends and his boss, but also his own body - graphically demonstrated when he grows a large stress-related boil on his shoulder. But when the boil grows eyes and a mouth and starts talking, Bagley really begins to think he's lost his mind. But has he?—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>

Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, psychological thriller, surrealism, social criticism, workplace stress, absurdism ...

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#11. The Chumscrubber (2005)

Storyline: The Chumscrubber starts out with Troy, a normal teenager who supplies "feel good" pills to everyone in his high school (this way he spreads happiness all around). But when his friend Dean pays him a visit, Dean discovers Troy has hanged himself in his bedroom during one of his mother's pool parties. After the death, three local teens: Billy, Lee, and Crystal, want what's left of Troy's stash of pills and they know that Dean is the only one who knows where they are. But when Dean refuses to get the pills, the three teens kidnap Dean's little brother, until they realize they've kidnapped the wrong kid.

Plot Keywords: black comedy, suburban life, teen issues, psychological trauma, drug abuse, social satire, family breakdown ...

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#12. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

Storyline: The morning they return from their White Castle road trip, Harold and Kumar decide to go to Amsterdam because Harold doesn't want to wait ten days to see Maria again. On the plane, Kumar lights up his new bong, the air marshals think it's a bomb, and Harold and Kumar are arrested as terrorists and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Ordered to fellate a guard, they manage to escape, make their way to Florida, and head for Texas to find Kumar's ex-girlfriend's fiancé, the well-connected Colton, and get him to intercede with Washington on their behalf. Kumar still has a thing for Vanessa, the feds are in hot pursuit, and the legal weed of Amsterdam seems a long way away.

Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, road movie, buddy film, political satire, racial issues, american film ...

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#14. Bad Manners (1997)

Storyline: Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician and Kim is a computer specialist who helped Matt to make some discovery in his science. Wes suspects Kim of stealing 50 dollars from him and that starts tension, intrigues, mistrust.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, black comedy, american film, 1990s, independent film, violence ...

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