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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Lonesome (1928)
7.8/10
Director: Paul Fejos
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day tog... Read more
Lonesome Jim (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Steve Buscemi
Starring: Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Kevin Corrigan
Steve Buscemi directs this low-key comedy/drama about Jim (Casey Affleck) a chronically gloomy, aspiring novelist returning home to his parents' home... Read more
Long Story Short (2021)
6.8/10
Starring: Rafe Spall, Josh Lawson, Noni Hazlehurst
Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he's jumping forward to the next year of his life. Read more
Look Both Ways (2005)
7.1/10
Director: Sarah Watt
Starring: Justine Clarke, William McInnes, Anthony Hayes, Lisa Flanagan, Andrew S Gilbert,...
This inventive and impressive first feature from Australian Sarah Watt combines animation and real life to tell the stories of several disparate peopl... Read more
Looking for Eric (2009)
7.2/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Lucy-Jo Hudson, Steve Evets, Gerard Kearns, Eric Cantona, Matthew McNulty, Steph...
Eric (Steve Evets) the postman is not in a good place. His wife has left him, his stepsons are out of control and his house is a chaotic nightmare. In... Read more
Looking for Hortense (2012)
6.2/10
Director: Pascal Bonitzer
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Claude Rich, Isabelle Carre
A.k.a. "Cherchez Hortense". "Looking for Hortense" is a bittersweet comedy of manners that is French in spirit but universal in appeal. It tells the s... Read more
Loot (1970)
5.7/10
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Hywel Bennett, Milo O'Shea
An adaptation of Joe Orton's hilarious stage play, in which a young hood robs a bank and hides the money in his mother's coffin, but isn't able to ret... Read more
Loro (2018)
6.8/10
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Starring: Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Fabrizio B...
A wheeler-dealer weasels his way into the inner circle of Silvio Berlusconi, a wealthy and controversial Italian politician. Read more
Lost in America (1985)
7.1/10
Director: Albert Brooks
Starring: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Garry Marshall
Albert Brooks' masterpiece, an existential road film about an obsessive Yuppie couple (Brooks and Julie Hagerty) who drop out when Brooks' character i... Read more
Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus) (2016)
6.3/10
Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Starring: Fiona Gordon, Emmanuele Riva, Dominique Abel
Fiona is a Canadian librarian who flies to Paris and discovers that her 88-year-old aunt is missing. As Fiona scours the city looking for her, she enc... Read more