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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My Father, The Hero (1994)
5.4/10
Director: Steve Miner
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James
Gerard Depardieu recreates his role from the 1991 French film 'Mon Pere, Ce Heros' as a longtime absentee father who takes his resentful 14-year-old d... Read more
My Favourite Martian (1999)
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah, Ray Walston
Christopher Lloyd is the antennae-headed extraterrestrial stranded on Earth after his ship crashes, and Jeff Daniels is the TV reporter who agrees to... Read more
My Fellow Americans (1996)
6.5/10
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd
Two ex-Presidents of the US - longtime enemies - are forced to work together to uncover a plot to blame one of them for a dirty deal conducted by a cu... Read more
My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
5.8/10
Director: Julian Kemp
Starring: Jane March, Naomie Harris, Cecile Cassel, Michael Sheen, Brendan Patricks
A British rom-com loosely based on the novel "Essays in Love" by Alain de Botton, "My Last Five Girlfriends" sees Duncan (Brendan Patricks), bruised a... Read more
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Sammi Cheng
A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate. Read more
My Little Chickadee (1940)
7/10
Director: Edward Cline
Starring: Mae West, W C Fields
American stalwarts W.C. Fields and Mae West team up in this comedy of unlikely heroes. He's a con man come into town to make a small fortune and she's... Read more
My Lucky Stars (1985)
6.6/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Sibelle Hu, Richard Ng, Eric Tsang, Bolo Yeu...
The second in the Lucky Stars trilogy following 'Winners and Sinners' and followed by 'Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars'. Jackie Chan reunites with martia... Read more
My Name is Bruce (2007)
6.3/10
Director: Bruce Campbell
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Taylor Sharpe, Ted Raimi, Ben L McCain, Ellen San...
B-movie icon Bruce Campbell directs and plays himself in this horror/comedy in which he is abducted by deluded fans of the 'Evil Dead' series and take... Read more
My Old Lady (2014)
6.4/10
Director: Israel Horovitz
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Noemie Lvovsky
An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident. Read more
My Old School (2022)
7.1/10
Starring: Alan Cumming
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the... Read more