{"title":"Best Dark Comedy Movies","theme":"dark comedy","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/dark-comedy","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":118,"listedFilms":78,"frames":8768,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"blood","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.05,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00653,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00318,"observedInFrames":330},{"element":"wood paneling","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.94,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00346,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00179,"observedInFrames":175},{"element":"glasses","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.73,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00893,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00515,"observedInFrames":451},{"element":"lamp","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.58,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00382,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00242,"observedInFrames":193}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8473,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.23}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.444,"ratio":0.98},{"hue":"red","share":0.191,"ratio":1.26},{"hue":"blue","share":0.149,"ratio":0.86},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.074,"ratio":0.96}],"meanSaturation":0.254,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.423,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Abigail","year":2024,"director":"Matt Bettinelli-Olpin","cinematographer":"Aaron Morton","exemplarScore":2,"framesIndexed":225,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/abigail-2024"},{"rank":2,"title":"Get Out","year":2017,"director":"Jordan Peele","cinematographer":"Toby Oliver","exemplarScore":1.775,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/get-out-2017"},{"rank":3,"title":"Serial Mom","year":1994,"director":"John Waters","cinematographer":"Robert M. Stevens","exemplarScore":1.576,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/serial-mom-1994"},{"rank":4,"title":"Mandy","year":2018,"director":"Panos Cosmatos","cinematographer":"Benjamin Loeb","exemplarScore":1.497,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/mandy-2018"},{"rank":5,"title":"Uncut Gems","year":2019,"director":"Benny Safdie","cinematographer":"Darius Khondji","exemplarScore":1.478,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/uncut-gems-2019"},{"rank":6,"title":"The Monkey","year":2025,"director":"Osgood Perkins","cinematographer":"Nico Aguilar","exemplarScore":1.5,"framesIndexed":146,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-monkey-2025"},{"rank":7,"title":"Intolerable Cruelty","year":2003,"director":"Joel Coen","cinematographer":"Roger Deakins","exemplarScore":1.397,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/intolerable-cruelty-2003"},{"rank":8,"title":"Shallow Grave","year":1994,"director":"Danny Boyle","cinematographer":"Brian Tufano","exemplarScore":1.333,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/shallow-grave-1994"},{"rank":9,"title":"A Serious Man","year":2009,"director":"Joel Coen","cinematographer":"Roger Deakins","exemplarScore":1.281,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/a-serious-man-2009"},{"rank":10,"title":"The Gentlemen","year":2020,"director":"Guy Ritchie","cinematographer":"Alan Stewart","exemplarScore":1.201,"framesIndexed":124,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-gentlemen-2020"}],"outlier":{"title":"Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure","year":1985,"exemplarScore":0,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}