Movies: Absurdist humor

Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense....

The Jackass crew, along with some newcomers, returns for one final round of hilarious, absurd, and dangerous stunts....

A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste....

In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant journey over the course of one year. These shaggy and noble giants fight for sur...

Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year....

To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, but soon the situation will spiral out of control....

Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the sl...

Jim Gaffigan provides the skinny on everything from appetite suppressants to raising teenagers....

In 2016, journalism student Susana Rojas disappeared without a trace while making a documentary for her end-of-career work. After several years, her project is finally uncovered....

Twisting in from Chile, Guillermo Ribbeck’s phenomenal EMPTY JARS is a stylishly directed dark fantasy set in a decaying student residence where a woman (Ana Burgos, THE SEA) frees a ghost from a jar and works to find it a suitable human vessel to po...

A wife reveals to her younger husband that she is having an affair....

A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic....

An unexpected visit from an old friend and a protracted tea party disrupt the amateur musician's plans to take his life....

Five teenagers have one goal: to film a vlog together on their vacation. But things change after the sudden death of one of the girls. The group is forced to hide her dead body from her cousing, tasked to watch them....

When a tourist bus stops at a gas station, Chencho, one of the passengers, decides to go to the toilet....

He's hungry, and chances are you're also hungry, so tag along. Who knows, you might learn a thing or two....

Jean-Jacques Garbo is deeply dismayed by his wife's infidelity when he suddenly has inklings of another love affair....

When a young boy goes missing inside his own house, Detective Skok of the Missing Persons Unit immediately recognizes the unusualness of the case and takes the opportunity to have his team move in with the family and become residents of the crime sc...

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our short stories interlaced to create a surreal world of absurdity, in which characters try to find connections in the mundane....