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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Mid-August Lunch (2008)
7/10
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Starring: Marina Cacciotti, Grazia Cesarini Sforza, Valeria De Franciscis, Alfonso Santaga...
A gentle slice of Italian life comedy, in which a middle aged man has to look after four elderly women for a few days. Still living with his 93-year-o... Read more
Middle Age Spread (1978)
6/10
Director: John Reid
Starring: Donna Akersten, Dorothy McKegg, Grant Tilly, Peter Sumner, Bridget Armstrong
A unique "comedy of manners", based on Roger Hall's stage play which was a smash hit in NZ and the UK. Colin (Grant Tilly) is the deputy principal of... Read more
Middle Men (2010)
5.8/10
Director: George Gallo
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, James Caan, John Ashton, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Pollak, Luke Wil...
Luke Wilson stars in this comedy/drama, very loosely based on actual events, as a businessman/problem-solver who helps a couple of degenerate upstarts... Read more
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
6.1/10
Director: Steve Carr
Starring: Rob Riggle, Griffin Gluck, Adam Pally, Lauren Graham, Thomas Barbusca, Andy Daly
Rafe has an epic imagination and a slight problem with authority. Both collide when he transfers to an oppressive, rule-crazy middle school. Drowning... Read more
Midnight in Paris (2011)
7.7/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Adrien Brody, Kathy Bates, Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Rachel...
Writer/director Woody Allen's hit comedy stars Owen Wilson as Gil, an American writer vacationing in Paris with his fiancee (Rachel McAdams). While st... Read more
Midnight Madness (2014)
6.4/10
Starring: David Naughton, Michael J Fox
Leon planned "the great all-nighter" by picking college students to participate in an all-night long scavenger hunt. The 5 teams are given clues to so... Read more
Midnight Run (1988)
7.6/10
Director: Martin Brest
Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto
Robert De Niro plays a bounty hunter assigned to find and return Charles Grodin to a sleazy L.A. bail bondsman. Grodin embezzled millions from the Mob... Read more
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
7.1/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Mira Sorvino, Woody Allen
A deliciously comic performance by Mira Sorvino as a naive prostitute is the main attraction in this comedy from actor-writer-director Woody Allen who... Read more
Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001)
6.8/10
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Ricky Tomlinson, Amanda Redman, Philip Jackson
The latest in the ubiquitous mockumentary genre, "Mike Bassett: England Manager" follows the eponymous hapless head-honcho of the England Squad throug... Read more
Military Wives (2019)
6.4/10
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas
With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media... Read more