Movies in the Thriller/Comedy genre
Those going to Cold Pursuit expecting a typical early-year Liam Neeson action thriller may be disconcerted by what Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland delivers. On the surface, this is a standard-order revenge movie: a snow-plow driver, Nels...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-02-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller/Comedy
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Cast: Liam Neeson, Domenick Lombardozzi, William Forsythe, ...
Dom Hemingway opens with Jude Law giving a bravura monologue praising the attributes of a certain body part that normally isn't compared to a Picasso or seen as worthy of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. If it was less profane, this might be highligh...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-04-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER/COMEDY
Director: Richard Shepard
Cast: Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, ...
When the Coen Brothers announced their (amicable) breakup following the release of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a great lamentation was heard throughout the population of cineastes. Of course, that wasn’t the end of the line for Joel and Ethan ...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-02-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: Thriller/Comedy
Director: Ethan Coen
Cast: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, ...
Emergency, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award winner at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, gives viewers things to think about, which is an infinitely preferable alternative to the kind of film where it’s possible to sense the mass demise of brain...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-05-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller/Comedy
Director: Carey Williams
Cast: RJ Cyler, Donald Elise Watkins, Sebastian Chacon, ...
On the surface, The Family appears to tell a familiar story: a mob enforcer turned informer is placed into the witness protection program while his former associates seek to find and terminate him. What differentiates this from its antecedents is t...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-09-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER/COMEDY
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, ...
Fargo takes the usual "caper gone wrong" storyline and applies a new twist. Based on a supposed series of "true events" from 1987 (a tongue-in-cheek claim made by a screen caption), the film examines what can happen when the police and criminals a...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-03-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: THRILLER/COMEDY
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Frances McDormand, ...
With a lighthearted caper movie, the formula is easy to understand if not execute. It's all about conning the viewer as effectively as the on-screen marks while camouflaging enough of the unavoidable plot holes to make things hold up on a second ...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-02-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER/COMEDY
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Cast: Rodrigo Santoro, Will Smith, Gerald McRaney, ...
The better you know movies, the more appreciation you'll have for the wit and energy of Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty. While it's quite possible for the cinematically unaware to enjoy this film -- it's got a fair amount of readily-accessible comed...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-10-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER/COMEDY
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, ...
As counter-intuitive as it might sound, chaos only works in a movie when it is carefully controlled and focused. Tarantino is one of several masters of this technique and there’s a sense during the course of Gringo that director Nash Edgerton...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-03-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller/Comedy
Director: Nash Edgerton
Cast: David Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Charlize Theron, ...
There are those, including the distributor, who would like audiences to believe that The Ice Harvest is a comedy. At first glance, that's not so hard to accept. After all, director Harold Ramis was one of the Ghostbusters co-writers and scored a ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-11-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER/COMEDY
Director: Harold Ramis
Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, ...