10 COMEDY films camouflaged with SUSPENSE!

Every work can at some point rely on its narrative structure in different cinematographic genres. This dynamism that many scripts seek can become a sure formula that captures attention. Well about that, we decided to create a list with 10 comedy films camouflaged with suspense!

See how they run

In the plot, the first feature film in the career of British filmmaker Tom George, set in London in the 1950s, more precisely in the trendy West End (like an English Broadway), we go behind the scenes of the play The Mousetrap, by the famous British writer Agatha Christie, where after a celebration of artists and producers for the 100th performance, Leo (Adrien Brody), the future director of the film adaptation of the work is found dead. From this crime, Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and the young police officer Stalker (Ronan Stewart) who engage in a series of interviews to solve the murder.

The ‘W’ of the Question

In the plot, we meet the curious housewife Magda (Anna Smolowik), a woman who lives in a very unhappy marriage with the clueless Tomasz (Przemyslaw Stippa). One day, after going for a walk with her dog at night and being surprised by the body of a young woman in the middle of a park in the city where she lives, she ends up involved and focused on finding answers to the crime and discovering all the truths behind that act. Thus, he counts on the help of inspector Jacek (Pawel Domagala) and both embark on a journey to discover the secrets of many of the region’s inhabitants.

Fresh

In the plot, we follow Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a lonely young woman, with few friends, almost no family, who seeks relationships through terrible encounters through messaging apps. One day, he ends up meeting the doctor Steve (Sebastian Stan) a super friendly man who soon generates an intense attraction in Noa. They bond for a while and plan a trip, but strange things start to happen when they stop at Steve’s house.

The Trip

In the plot, we meet Lisa (Noomi Rapac) E Lars (Aksel Hennie), a couple in their 40s who are in a huge crisis in their marriage. She is an actress frustrated by never getting big roles, he is a filmmaker who can only direct television commercials. To try to resolve the situation, they plan a weekend in a place far from the big city where several surprising situations put into question everything they thought about each other until then. Full of surprises, the project involves breathtaking action scenes and mocking dialogue throughout. Great script!

The Business Women’s Club

In the plot – which is very difficult to define in a simple and objective synopsis – we meet characters who come into total conflict, when two journalists decide to interview some powerful women involved in the most controversial situations. To worsen the tensions that arise, the escape of a dangerous animal brings terror and fear to everyone in the place.

The Crime is Mine

At a time when cinemas were showing Billy Wilder’s film Seed of Evil, we met Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) a young actress with a career that doesn’t take off, with conflicts in her love life, almost always without money, owing rent every month. She shares an apartment on the sixth floor of a building in Paris with her friend Pauline Mauléon (Rebecca Marder), a young jobless lawyer who appears to be Madeleine’s only support in the present. One day, after experiencing horrors in a meeting, the protagonist ends up being accused of murdering a famous producer. From then on, his life takes on new directions when truths appear.

Unhappy Night

In the plot, we meet the real Santa Claus (David Harbour) who here in this project is a drunkard, discredited, discouraged on the date where he is most remembered, even thinking about retiring. During his intense routine during Christmas, he ends up arriving at Trudy’s family home (Leah Brady), a child who still believes in Santa Claus and lives difficult days with his parents on the verge of separation. When a group of criminals decides to rob her family’s home just at Christmas, Santa Claus will do everything he can to protect Trudy and her entire family.

The Angels Club

In the plot, shown for the first time during the Gramado Festival, we meet a group of friends, from high school who, due to their shared taste for food, created a group where they met every month to delight in the best of cuisine. But over time, and with the death of the chef who cooked for them, the separation was logical. Only one of them, Daniel (Otávio Müller), unusually meets a mysterious chef named Lucídio (Matheus Nachtergaele) and thus invites all the members of the group to get together once again. After the meeting, and after all the eating, one of them wakes up dead. Seeking to understand what happened, they enter into great debates and doubt whether they should meet again.

Bloody Hell

In the plot, we meet Rex (Ben O’Toole), a former army soldier, psychologically disturbed, with a vision of himself that appears in the midst of all the conflicts he goes through. He is in a complicated situation after being the protagonist of a reckless attack inside a bank, which for some was a heroic act but ended up sending him to jail for eight years. As soon as he leaves prison, due to the repercussions of the story, he is chased by paparazzi and becomes a famous face in the crowd. Seeking to get rid of all this spotlight, he decides to buy a one-way ticket to Finland where he meets a terrifying family of psychopaths who even practice cannibalism.

Exit

In the plot, we meet Yong-Nam (Jung-suk Jo) a young man who is confused and pressured about his future as he does not have a steady job and has a passion/vocation for mountaineering. During a family commemorative date, with his entire family gathered in a beautiful room on the top floors of a commandeered building in the center of the largest city in South Korea, a crazy person stops a truck full of toxic gas leaving the protagonist and his family stranded and in search of a solution to escape the action of the terrorist act. Thus, gathering all his courage, alongside Eui-Joo (Yoon-ah Im), an old acquaintance from her initial mountain climbing classes and who now works at the catering company that was in charge of the party, Yong-Nam will need to climb complicated walls in search of a way out for everyone.