Best Comedy Thrillers

An eccentric detective pokes holes in alibis at a family mansion full of greedy heirs. Rian Johnson delivers a modern whodunit full of verbal knife thrusts and subversive humor.

A cozy game night turns into a real kidnapping chaos. Fake guns, a live dog and bloodstains on trivia cards make for screaming panic and big laughs.

In the neon Los Angeles of 1977, a bumbling private eye and a cynical enforcer hunt for a missing girl linked to a dead adult film star. Shane Black serves up buddy chemistry, sleazy conspiracies and hard-hitting one-liners.

A thief stumbles into an audition, a private eye demonstrates sarcasm and Hollywood turns out to be deadlier than film noir ever predicted. Christmas lights, corpses and meta-humor crackle throughout.

Super cop Nicholas Angel discovers that his sleepy new village harbors a macabre secret society. Edgar Wright mixes countryside kitsch, police action and bloody slapstick.

Two hitmen hide out in picturesque Bruges. Medieval towers, a film shoot with a dwarf actor and existential guilt fill a comic yet tragic cat-and-mouse game.

A lost CD with a former CIA analyst's memoirs ends up with gym employees who think of blackmail. The Coen brothers show how sheer incompetence leads to bullets, hatchets and bone-dry bureaucratic humor.

A botched kidnapping plan leads to a trail of blood across the snow. Minnesota politeness clashes wonderfully with woodchippers and 'oh yah' accents.

A struggling screenwriter gets caught up in dog kidnapping, serial killers and a psychopath with a bunny. Absurd violence meets bone-dry self-reflection.

A stolen diamond, illegal boxing matches and a dog that swallowed a squeaky toy: Guy Ritchie's hyperactive editing keeps bullets and punchlines in sync.

The classic board game gets three possible endings and non-stop wordplay. Every door in the mansion hides a corpse... or a roaring joke.

A bounty hunter drags a chatty mob accountant across America while the FBI and the mafia chase them. Their bickering road trip delivers vintage '80s action and belly laughs.

A married couple discovers they're rival assassins assigned to kill each other. Faltering couples therapy gives way to rocket launchers at the kitchen table.

Detective Benoit Blanc unravels a murder mystery on a Greek private island full of egos, tech billions and killer one-liners. Twists serve up both satire and suspense.