Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "dark-comedy", "stop-motion-animation"

1. Robot Chicken (2001–2022)

TV-MA | 11 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Pop culture references fly thick and fast as stop-motion animation is featured in sketches lampooning everything from television movies to comic books.

Stars: Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, Breckin Meyer, Tom Root

Votes: 46,239

2. The House (III) (2022)

TV-MA | 97 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

Directors: Paloma Baeza, Emma De Swaef, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Marc James Roels | Stars: Mia Goth, Matthew Goode, Claudie Blakley, Eleanor De Swaef-Roels

Votes: 22,581

3. Mary and Max (2009)

Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.

Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries

Votes: 186,743

4. Little Otik (2000)

TV-14 | 132 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový

Votes: 6,874 | Gross: $0.12M

5. Santa Inc. (2021)

TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

An elf working in Santa's Workshop in the North Pole dreams of becoming Santa Claus someday.

Stars: Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen, Maria Bamford, Joel Kim Booster

Votes: 15,559

6. Junk Head (2017)

100 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

In a distant future, humanity has lost its ability to reproduce. An expedition is sent to an underground city where artificial humanoids are still fertile.

Director: Takahide Hori | Stars: Takahide Hori, Atsuko Miyake, Yuji Sugiyama

Votes: 1,473

7. Robot Chicken: Star Wars III (2010 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 45 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The Emperor gets an upsetting phone call. George Lucas is saved from a mob of nerds by one helpful fan. Imperial officers learn how to survive Darth Vader in Orientation.

Directors: Chris McKay, Seth Green | Stars: Seth Green, Abraham Benrubi, Bob Bergen, Ahmed Best

Votes: 4,680

8. Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (1978)

102 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing ... See full summary »

Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Michal Docolomanský, Rudolf Hrusínský, Milos Kopecký, Václav Lohniský

Votes: 1,992

9. Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007 TV Short)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Short, Action

The first of three Star Wars themed Robot Chicken parodies.

Director: Seth Green | Stars: Seth Green, Candace Bailey, Abraham Benrubi, Bob Bergen

Votes: 8,550

10. Lunacy (2005)

Not Rated | 118 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Jan Tríska, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Martin Huba

Votes: 3,948 | Gross: $0.05M

11. Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II (2008 TV Short)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Short, Action

The second of three Star Wars themed Robot Chicken parodies.

Director: Seth Green | Stars: Seth Green, Abraham Benrubi, Bob Bergen, Ahmed Best

Votes: 5,007

12. Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)

12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

Director: Jan Svankmajer

Votes: 4,887

13. Grim Tales (1989–1991)

11 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Comedian and actor Rik Mayall energetically narrates a series of stories adapted from the tales written by the Brothers Grimm

Star: Rik Mayall

Votes: 238

14. Possessed (2014)

81 min | Animation, Comedy, Horror

Trini is the most famous flamingo dancer in the world and she has an envious life. Everyone loves her dancing, but when a seemingly innocuous domestic accident takes her husband's life, a ... See full summary »

Director: Samuel Ortí Martí | Stars: Anabel Alonso, Santiago Segura, Josema Yuste, Álex Angulo

Votes: 466

15. Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989)

Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.

Director: Jan Svankmajer

Votes: 4,877

16. One Night in a City (2007)

76 min | Animation, Comedy, Horror

A feature-length narrative animated film from one of the directors of Fimfárum 2. Mysterious and extraordinary stories of loneliness. What all can happen during one night in one city? Do ... See full summary »

Director: Jan Balej | Star: Jirí Lábus

Votes: 435

17. Klay World: Off the Table (2005 Video)

13+ | 90 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A bunch of blue clay men who live on a table are contacted by another species of clay people through radio. Now 4 brave blue clay men will leave the table for the first time ever in order to find these mysterious clay men.

Director: Robert Benfer | Stars: Robert Benfer, Sammie Penrod, Jason Steele, Tyler Vandenbergh

Votes: 611

18. Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3: Magical Friendship (2015 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Batman and Superman's bromance turns competitive and the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.

Directors: Tom Sheppard, Zeb Wells | Stars: Seth Green, Jonathan Banks, Dee Bradley Baker, Alex Borstein

Votes: 756

19. Meat Love (1989)

1 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

Director: Jan Svankmajer

Votes: 2,380

20. Not Without My Handbag (1993)

13 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A little girl witnesses her aunt being taken dragged into hell, for defaulting on a washing machine payment. The aunt, while officially dead, feels that she has forgotten something, and returns to find out what it is...

Director: Boris Kossmehl | Stars: Andrea Friedrich, Horacio Malviccino, Geraldine McEwan, Robert Booth

Votes: 386

21. What It's Like Being Alone (2006– )

30 min | Animation, Comedy

About freak orphans who are desperately trying to get adopted.

Stars: Adam Greydon Reid, Andrew Sabiston, Julie Lemieux, Peter Cugno

Votes: 255

22. To Die by Your Side (2011)

6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

At a bookstore after closing hours, the characters Macbeth and Mina Harker spring to life and immediately go on a fateful romantic escapade.

Directors: Simon Cahn, Spike Jonze | Stars: Pierre Le-Tan, Soko, Spike Jonze

Votes: 692

23. Moxina (2012)

Unrated | 16 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy

In the winter of 2008, two climbers encountered the Taiwanese legendary monster Moxina (a.k.a. Mô-sîn-á) at the evil mountain Wuzhishan. Ryota Nakanishi presents sixteen minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

Director: Ryota Nakanishi | Stars: Mario Bava, Pengquang Chen, Shunji Chen, Sean S. Cunningham

Votes: 766

24. Klay World Series (2003 Video)

Animation, Comedy

A series of short films about a bunch of little blue clay people who live on a table.

Director: Robert Benfer | Star: Robert Benfer

Votes: 236

25. Manly Games (1988)

Not Rated | 14 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Miroslav Kuchar

Votes: 1,374

26. Kybernetická babicka (1962)

29 min | Short, Animation, Horror

Trnka's sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Trnka | Stars: Otýlie Benísková, Jana Werichová

Votes: 223

27. Fat Feet (1966)

20 min | Short

"Fat Feet", eight months in production, is a pop-art view of life in the big city, complete with a fire-fighting episode and various street scenes. Three dimensional figures and real actors... See full summary »

Director: Red Grooms | Stars: Yvonne Anderson, Mimi Gross

Votes: 6

28. My Stuffed Granny (2014)

10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more?

Director: Effie Pappa | Stars: Jo Ann Kaplan, Agis Pirlis, Effie Pappa

Votes: 126

29. The Nectar Instead (2023)

16+ | 4 min | Animation, Short

A young fly gets trapped in the fly trap in the stop-motion studio only to have the existential realization that it spent its entire life chasing after the wrong thing.

Director: Yoo Lee | Stars: Frank Thon, Robert Werner

30. The Frogs Who Wanted a King (1922)

Not Rated | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their minds.

Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz

Votes: 639

31. Story Teller (2023)

13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Locked in a barren room and forced to write the "best story ever told", tortured artist Ivan must confront the pressure to make great art. However, the characters in his mind have other plans for him.

Director: N.M. Alvarez | Stars: N.M. Alvarez, Gino Angelini, Dante Dammit, Lily Farrel

Votes: 7

32. Trainaway

16+ | Animation, Action, Comedy | Completed

After Sebastian gets to drive the newest train in the station, somebody sabotages it. Can Sebastian stop the runaway train and save the world?.

Director: Grababana | Stars: Chris Parsons, JPB, Jack Bicket, Samantha Green

33. Down with the Ship (2021)

8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

When two men, a quick-witted sailor and a chauvinistic waiter, are left stranded aboard a sinking ocean liner, there's nothing they won't do to prove who deserves the last life vest.

Director: Alex L. Newman | Stars: Gary Schaffner, Alexander Wallis

34. Man with Issues (2004)

3 min | Animation, Short

A psychotic monologue by an old man with some serious problems and a disturbing secret.

Director: Tom Reilly

Votes: 25

35. The Devil & Manny Schmeckstein (2004)

7 min | Animation, Short

Tired and washed-up veteran Borsch Belt stand-up comedian Manny Schmeckstein dies of a heart attack while performing his lousy act on stage. Manny goes straight to hell for a lifetime of ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Goodman | Star: Dick Rodstein

Votes: 8

36. Zoom Shorts (2020– )
Episode: They Lived in the Attic (2024)

14 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two dolls tossed in the attic and left for trash are on a mission to take back their house from Jessica (the new owner) no matter what they have to do. What's it going to be? Murder? Mayhem... See full summary »

Director: Allie Radice | Stars: Barbara Goodman, Allie Radice