Comedy
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
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Hating Alison Ashley (2005)
5.7/10
Director: Geoff Bennett
Starring: Saskia Burmeister, Delta Goodrem, Jean Kittson, Richard Carter, Craig McLachlan,...
14-year-old Erika (Saskia Burmeister), or Yuk, to her friends, is a melodramtaic teen living in a chaotic family. She dreams of a starry future for h... Read more
Haute Cuisine (2012)
6.4/10
Director: Christian Vincent
Starring: Hippolyte Girardot, Catherine Frot, Jean d'Ormesson
French comedy drama based on the extraordinary true story of President Francois Mitterand's private cook. Hortense Laborie, a renowned chef from the... Read more
He Said, She Said (1991)
5.6/10
Director: Ken Kwapis, Marisa Silver
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Nathan Lane
TV viewers love seeing the two reporters with opposing views on the show "He Said, She Said". Womanizer Dan and Lorie fall for each other. Love? Read more
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
6.4/10
Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly...
An all-star cast lined up for this filming of the wildly popular (as seen on 'Oprah') self-help book, here adapted by writers of 'Sex and the City'. T... Read more
Head of State (2003)
5.4/10
Director: Chris Rock
Starring: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Dylan Baker, Nick Searcy, Robin Givens, Lynn Whitfield,...
Chris Rock co-wrote, directed and stars in this hilarious comic outing about an obscure alderman who is selected to run for president when the current... Read more
Headrush (2003)
5.7/10
Director: Shimmy Marcus
Starring: Steven Berkoff, Wuzza Conlon, Gavin Kelty, Laura Pyper
A caper comedy about two young stoners, Charlie and T-Bag, orbiting society in a haze of dope and dreams. When Charlie gets dumped by his girlfriend V... Read more
Hear My Song (1991)
7.2/10
Director: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, Shirley Anne Field
This acclaimed film follows a fast-talking Liverpool club owner who, in order to keep his dying nitespot and his girlfriend, tries to track down the f... Read more
Heart Condition (1990)
5.6/10
Director: James D Parriott
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb, Roger E Mosley
Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins), is a racist cop who has it in for a black lawyer, Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington). That Stone is dating Moony's ex-girlfr... Read more
Heartbreak Hotel (2006)
5.2/10
Director: Colin Nutley
Starring: Helena Bergstrom, Maria Lundqvist, Claes Mansson, Johan Rabaeus
English filmmaker Colin Nutley once again works with his Swedish wife, Helena Bergstrom, in this intelligent and sharply funny drama about two forty-s... Read more
Heartbreakers (2001)
6.2/10
Director: David Mirkin
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman, Jason Lee, Ray Liotta, Jef...
Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt are a mother/daughter con-artist team who use their charms to trick money out of wealthy men in divorce sett... Read more