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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Loves of a Blonde ( A Blonde In Love ) (1965)
7.7/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Hanna Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik
Milos Forman's great comedy is an acute satire of Czech daily life. The film focuses on the relationship of a factory girl and a touring piano player.... Read more
Lovesick (1983)
5.2/10
Starring: Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, Christine Baranski
A psychiatrist, who falls in love with a patient, is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it. Read more
Lowdown Dirty Criminals (2020)
4.2/10
Director: Paul Murphy
Starring: Rebecca Gibney, Cohen Holloway, Robbie Magasiva, Grant Roa, James Rolleston, Tho...
Follows two naïve young men who are in search of a better life, encountering unsavoury situations and people along the way. Read more
Luca (2021)
7.5/10
Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan
A young boy experiences an unforgettable seaside summer on the Italian Riviera filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these... Read more
Luca (Blu-ray) (2021)
7.4/10
Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan
A young boy experiences an unforgettable seaside summer on the Italian Riviera filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these... Read more
Luca (Blu-ray) (2021)
7.5/10
Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan
A young boy experiences an unforgettable seaside summer on the Italian Riviera filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these... Read more
Lucky (2017)
7.4/10
Director: John Carroll Lynch
Starring: David Lynch, Ed Begley Jr, Harry Dean Stanton, James Darren, Ron Livingston, Tom...
A 90-year-old atheist has outlived and out-smoked his contemporaries, and as he comes to terms with his own mortality, he searches for ever-elusive en... Read more
Lucky Break (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Starring: James Nesbitt, Christopher Plummer, Timothy Spall, Olivia Williams, Bill Nighy,...
Tired of prison life, incompetent crook Jimmy enlists the aid of his offbeat fellow inmates to stage an amateur musical production that's actually a r... Read more
Lucky Grandma (2019)
6.4/10
Director: Sasie Sealy
Starring: Tsai Chin, Hsiao-Yuan Ha, Michael Tow
In the heart of Chinatown, New York, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old grandma (Tsai Chin) is eager to live life as an independent w... Read more
Lucky Jim (1957)
6.2/10
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Maureen Connell, Sharon Acker
Ian Carmichael stars as an young, accident-prone lecturer at a small university who spends one hell of a weekend at the home of his disagreeable Profe... Read more