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 One and Only (2009)
6.6/10
Director: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Renee Zellweger, Eric McCormack, Mark Rendall, Chris Noth, Logan Le...
When Anne Deveraux (Renee Zellweger) finds her bandleader husband Dan (Kevin Bacon) in bed with another woman, she packs her bags, empties the cash dr... Read more
My Piece of the Pie (2011)
5.8/10
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Starring: Karin Viard, Zinedine Soualem, Kevin Bishop, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Pierre Marti...
Her factory job of 20 years lost to a shutdown, a single mom (Karin Viard) has to scrape for whatever opportunity she can find, and unknowingly winds... Read more
My Science Project (1985)
6.1/10
Starring: Fisher Stevens, John Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Raphael Sbarge
A high school student and his friend find a strange, orb-like piece of equipment to use as a science project, but must stop it when it begins to threa... Read more
My Son The Vampire (1952)
Director: John Gilling
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan
The mysterious figure known as the Vampire comes to England to complete experiments in his mad bid to gain control of the world. When the radar-contro... Read more
My Spy (2020)
5.5/10
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Dave Bautista
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family. Read more
My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)
5.3/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jon Lovitz, Juliette Lewis, Kim Basinger, Alyson Hannigan
Physicist Dan Aykroyd gets rattled down to his slide rule when a radar beam he sends into deep space accidentally zaps a distant planet whose inhabita... Read more
My Twentieth Century (1989)
7.1/10
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Two twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of... Read more
My Year Without Sex (2009)
5.8/10
Director: Sarah Watt
Starring: Matt Day, Sacha Horler, Sonya Suares
A kind of love story about a family dealing with all the big questions and even more of the small ones. Set over one messy year, Ross (Matt Day) and N... Read more
My Young Auntie (1981)
7/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Liu Chia-Liang, Kara Hui, Hsiao Hou, Lung Wei Wang, Chia Hui Gordon Liu
A triumph of kung fu comedy with a female lead who knows how to kick butt, this Shaw Brothers classic sees Kara Hui marrying the dying patriarch of a... Read more
Mystery Date (1991)
6/10
Director: Jonathan Wacks
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara
Ethan Hawke stars in this high-energy, black youth comedy resembling Martin Scorsese's 'After Hours' but with even more unexpected twists. Read more