10 Great Dark Film Comedies You Have To See

10. A Serious Man

Starring the tragically underrated Michael Stuhlberg and boasting the typical insanity and thoughtfulness of the Coen Brothers' other movies, 2009's A Serious Man is a wonderfully chaotic dark dramedy about a man (a serious one, if you'll believe it) who tries to figure out what's going wrong in his life whilst questioning his faith.

Stuhlberg stars as the titular man, a Jewish physics teacher called Larry Gopnik, who finds himself going through some tough spots in both his professional and personal lives. For one, his daughter is stealing money from him, and his son is seemingly addicted to marijuana. To make matters worse, his ex-wife has kicked him out of his house and his divorce bills are mounting. At school, he deals with a student who is trying to bribe him for a good grade.

All told, the film is a thrilling and bleakly funny look into the life of a very unfortunate man, told in a way only the Coen Brothers ever could. It's thoughtful, charming, and often hilarious.

And thanks to Stuhlberg's performance - playing Gopnick not as some pathetic man lost in his own pity, but rather as someone genuinely well-meaning who doesn't understand why bad things keep happening to him - and the Coen Brothers' typically seamless script, A Serious Man never once falters and achieves wonders.