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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Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: George Segal, Hank Azaria, Jake Gyllenhaal, Oliver Platt, Anne Hathaway, Gabriel...
Academy Award Nominees Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway co-star in in this unconventional comedy. Hathaway lights up the screen as the free-spirited... Read more
Love Birds (2010)
6.4/10
Director: Paul Murphy
Starring: Bryan Brown, Rhys Darby, Sally Hawkins
New Zealand romantic comedy, from the director of Second Hand Wedding, that tells the story of a regular bloke on a quest to find true love all with... Read more
Love Comes Lately (2007)
5.7/10
Director: Jan Schutte
Starring: Otto Tausig, Tovah Feldshuh, Rhea Perlman, Barbara Hershey, Elizabeth Pena, Caro...
An elderly writer and unabashed lothario becomes lost in the romance and excitement of his own literary creations in this bittersweet comedy, vividly... Read more
Love Hurts (2009)
5.6/10
Starring: Richard E Grant, Carrie-Anne Moss
A newly separated father has to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl's heart. Read more
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
7.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver
The winning combination of Billy Wilder and writer I.A.L Diamond ('Some Like It Hot', 'The Apartment') and acting greats Audrey Hepburn and Gary Coope... Read more
Love Nest (1952)
6.4/10
Director: Joseph M Newman
Starring: Frank Fay, William Lundigan, Marilyn Monroe, June Haver
Marilyn Monroe co-stars as the 'other woman' in this post-war romantic comedy about an apartment building full of crazy characters. With June Haver, W... Read more
Love Sarah (2020)
6/10
Director: Eliza Schroeder
Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones, Celia Imrie, Bill Paterson
A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old frien... Read more
Love Songs for Tough Guys (2021)
Starring: Francois Damiens, Ramzy Bedia, Vanessa Paradis, Joey Starr, Bouli Lanners
In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, lov... Read more
Love Thy Neighbour: The Movie (1973)
7/10
Director: John Robins
Starring: Jack Smethurst, Kate Williams, Nina Baden-Semper, Rudolph Walker
The big screen version of the popular yet controversial sitcom in which West Indian Bill and Barbie Reynolds (Rudolph Walker and NIna Baden-Semper) la... Read more
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)
5.1/10
Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Maggie Grace, Diane Keaton, Jeremy Irons, Diego Boneta, Jesse McCartney, Chandra...
It is a multi-story romantic comedy about the people who work on weddings to create the perfect day for a loving couple - while their own relationship... Read more