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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Larger Than Life (1996)
5.6/10
Director: Howard Franklin
Starring: Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo, Linda Fiorentino
When the circus clown father he never knew dies and leaves him with a four-ton elephant named Vera, Bill Murray sets off on a wild cross-country odyss... Read more
Larry Crowne (2011)
6.1/10
Director: Tom Hanks
Starring: Julia Roberts, Pam Grier, Tom Hanks, Cedric The Entertainer, Taraji P Henson, Br...
Academy Award winner Tom Hanks directed, co-wrote (with Nia Vardalos), and stars in this romantic and optimistic comedy about how it's never too late... Read more
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
7.3/10
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson
A delightful, sweet-natured, Capra-esque story about the affection painfully shy Lars (Ryan Gosling) bestows on his new girlfriend. This still comes... Read more
Last Action Hero (1993)
6.3/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance, Frank McRae,...
Schwarzenegger's 'Heaven's Gate'. Big, loud, expensive ... but with plenty of satire which was missed by many first time around. Worth re-assessing in... Read more
Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
7.2/10
Director: Jeremy Sims
Starring: Jacki Weaver, John Howard, Emma Hamilton, Michael Caton, David Field
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin... Read more
Last Call (2021)
4/10
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Taryn Manning, Zach McGowan, Jack McGee, Bruce Dern, Jamie Kennedy...
A local success story and real estate developer, Mick (Jeremy Piven), returns home to his offbeat blue collar Irish neighborhood in the shadows of Phi... Read more
Last Christmas (2019)
6.6/10
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Madison Ingoldsby, Emma Thompson, Henry Golding, Emilia Clarke
Nothing seems to go right for young Kate, a frustrated Londoner who works as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. But things soon take a turn for th... Read more
Last Flag Flying (2017)
6.9/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Cicely Tyson, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Yul Vazquel
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of... Read more
Last Hero in China (1993)
6.8/10
Director: Wong Jing, Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Jet Li, Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Man Cheung
Village girls have been mysteriously going missing. The elders request Wong Fei Hung (Jet Li) to investigate. Wong does not want to get involved, but,... Read more
Last Holiday (2006)
6.4/10
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: LL Cool J, Gerard Depardieu, Giancarlo Esposito, Timothy Hutton, Queen Latifah,...
Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is living an ordinary, unchallenging life in New Orleans despite her friend telling her she needs to live a little. When... Read more