If you want to have a lot of fun watching a movie, feel free to choose any from this selection. We have gathered the best comedies of 2025, full of irony and black humor about things people usually don’t dare to laugh at. We especially recommend watching them during tough emotional times. Furthermore, you probably haven’t even heard of many of the hidden gems in this collection.
Content
- Sentimental Value
- If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
- Sorry, Baby
- Die My Love
- The Studio
- The Residence
- Svodish s uma
- Étoile
- Le città di pianura
- La venue de l’avenir
Sentimental Value
IMDb: 7.9/10
2025, Drama
Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, UK, Turkey, R
Director: Joachim Trier
Top Cast: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
Two sisters, Nora and Agnes, have been estranged from their father for a long time. He was once very famous but was completely forgotten afterward. Everyone forgot about the film director, Gustav, almost immediately after his wife’s death.
The sisters travel to Oslo to clear out the family home, where they discover an autobiographical screenplay about their mother’s tragic life. Gustav wants to regain his former glory and offers Nora the leading role. When she refuses, their father invites a well-known young American actress for the part. This decision only made their already broken family relationship worse.
Sentimental Value is a therapeutic film that compels us to return to the places where our memories are stored.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
IMDb: 7.3/10
2025, Psychological Drama, Thriller, Comedy
USA, R
Director: Mary Bronstein
Top Cast: Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald
This is the story of Linda. Many people will see themselves in the main character: she is exhausted by motherhood, yet she approaches life with a sense of irony. However, even irony and therapy can’t save her from an impending nervous breakdown, as her daughter is suffering from an unknown illness and her husband is barely involved in family life. Then, to top it all off, the ceiling in her apartment collapses.
Linda is thus forced to move with her daughter to a run-down motel. Step by step, Linda’s life quickly falls apart.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You immerses the viewer in all the raw difficulties of motherhood, exploring the emotional pressure on a woman who has reached her breaking point.
Sorry, Baby
IMDb: 7.1/10
2025, Drama
USA, R
Director: Eva Victor
Top Cast: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi
This is Eva Victor’s debut film, which immediately captured the hearts of audiences. It tells the story of Agnes, a reclusive college literature professor in rural New England. The viewer is invited to observe five years of her life as she navigates the aftermath of sexual assault.
Despite her pain, Agnes is forced to deal with academic life, contend with a disciplinary board that fails to take action, and mend her relationship with her best friend, Lydie.
This does not sound like the plot of a light comedy. Sorry, Baby is not a light comedy, although it contains plenty of dark humor and irony about trauma, used as a means of healing.
Die My Love
IMDb: 6.5/10
2025, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
UK, USA, Canada, R
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Top Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek
This is yet another black comedy-drama in our selection. The story centers on Grace, a candid and uncompromising woman consumed by love and madness. She has a partner, Jackson, and after the birth of their son, they move from New York to Jackson’s remote childhood home in rural Montana.
As Grace attempts to adapt to domestic life, she begins to suffer from intense isolation and a postpartum psychological disorder, causing her mental health to deteriorate. This literally destroys their marriage.
The Studio
IMDb: 8.1/10
2025, Comedy, Drama
USA, TV-MA
Director: Seth Rogen
Top Cast: Seth Rogen, Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz
This is a satirical comedy series that plunges the viewer behind the scenes of Hollywood, a place where art doesn’t meet commerce as often as one might hope. Matt Remick knows this well, as he has been forced to take the helm of the failing Continental Studios.
Matt is also a passionate cinephile. He struggles desperately to find a balance between corporate demands and his desire to make quality cinema.
The show is full of neurotic characters, temperamental stars, and insatiable corporations methodically destroying the industry that Matt loves so much.
The Residence
IMDb: 7.7/10
2025, Mystery, Comedy Drama, Crime, Thriller
USA, TV-MA
Director: Paul William Davies
Top Cast: Uzo Aduba, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson
This is not just a black comedy; it’s a full-blown detective farce — a screwball whodunnit—based on the book by Kate Andersen Brower. The events take place in none other than the White House.
During a state dinner honoring the Prime Minister of Australia, a murder is committed: the body of the White House Chief Usher, A.B. Wynter is discovered. Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba) — an eccentric but brilliant detective — arrives to investigate and immediately refutes the theory of suicide.
The resulting investigation, which covers the entire “upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs,” leaves her with 157 suspects among the guests and staff. So, who is the killer?
Svodish s uma
IMDb: 6.9/10
2025, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Russia
Director: Darya Lebedeva
Top Cast: Elshan Aleskerov, Anton Artemev, Lyudmila Artemeva
This is a Russian-made film that has become unusually popular globally. The mysterious plot of the movie is likely responsible for this success.
A young woman moves into a large, old apartment in St. Petersburg. One day, her mirror begins to malfunction, showing her a parallel reality of the exact same apartment. However, the person living in this parallel apartment is not the main character, but a guy she doesn’t know who loves to spend his time partying.
The characters won’t simply observe each other; they will attempt to meet in reality and touch one another.
Étoile
IMDb: 7.5/10
2025, Drama
USA, TV-MA
Director: Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino
Top Cast: Luke Kirby, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou de Laâge
The series immerses viewers in the world of professional ballet, following the dancers and artistic staff of two of the world’s most famous ballet companies: one in New York and the other in Paris.
Both institutions are struggling to attract audiences in a post-pandemic, technologically obsessed society. To save their legendary organizations, they decide on an ambitious exchange: swapping their most talented star dancers.
You will enjoy this series if you were captivated by Black Swan. The show reveals the harsh, unvarnished realities of ballet, its behind-the-scenes politics, and the constant tension between the pursuit of pure art and the need to be commercially successful.
Le città di pianura
IMDb: 7.4/10
2025, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Italy, Germany
Director: Francesco Sossai
Top Cast: Filippo Scotti, Sergio Romano, Pierpaolo Capovilla
Carlobianchi and Doriano are two friends in their 50s. Besides their age and long friendship, they are united by bankruptcy and alcoholism. The latter leads them to an acquaintance with Giulio, a shy and aimless architecture student.
This chance encounter escalates into a chaotic road trip across the Venetian Plain. Against a backdrop of endless bars, hangovers, and absurd advice from their older companions, the unexpected friendship forces the young man to rethink his plans for life and love.
This is a road movie that moves at the speed with which a buzz wears off, exploring themes of friendship, disillusionment, and the harsh truth of life.
La venue de l’avenir
IMDb: 7.4/10
2025, Drama, Comedy
France, Belgium
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Top Cast: Abraham Wapler, Suzanne Lindon, Vincent Macaigne
Think back to your last meeting with distant relatives. We suspect it was complicated. Now imagine sending your entire extended family to an old house in Normandy that has been abandoned since 1944. This is exactly what happens to the characters in this film — they inherit the deserted house. Four of them travel there to inspect their inheritance.
Inside, they find traces of the mysterious Adèle, who left Normandy in 1895 at the age of 20 to go to Paris during the peak of the industrial and cultural revolution of the Belle Époque.
The film is a moving and poetic comedy-drama that contrasts the modern digital age with Paris at the end of the 19th century.
