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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No. 2 (2006)
5/10
Director: Toa Fraser
Starring: Mia Blake, Ruby Dee, Taungaroa Emile, Rene Naufahu, Tuva Novotny, Miriama McDowe...
Nana Maria (Ruby Dee) is a feisty eighty-something matriarch who decides to host a family get-together to announce the heir to her estate. Not as eas... Read more
Nobel Son (2007)
6.4/10
Director: Randall Miller
Starring: Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Danny DeVito, Ernie Hudson, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Da...
Offbeat mix of dark comedy and crime thriller about a Ph.D. student (Bryan Greenberg) who is kidnapped just before his self-centered, philandering fat... Read more
Nobody's Baby (2001)
6.5/10
Director: David Seltzer
Starring: Gary Oldman, Skeet Ulrich, Radha Mitchell, Gordon Tootoosis, Anna Gunn, Peter Gr...
When two escaped cons find an orphaned baby, their lives go from the state pen to the play pen. Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Buford (Gary Oldman) are on t... Read more
Noel (2004)
6.3/10
Director: Chazz Palminteri
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Paul Walker, Alan Arkin, Penelope Cruz, Marcus Thomas
A group of disparate characters look for understanding and compassion in the midst of a lonely holiday season, in this comedy/drama from first-time di... Read more
Noises Off (1992)
7.5/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Mar...
This energetic filming of Michael Frayn's play is an outrageously funny look at love, lies and deceit that takes place behind the scenes as a group of... Read more
Non Fiction (2018)
6.5/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne
Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing... Read more
Norman (2010)
6.4/10
Starring: Dan Byrd, Emily VanCamp, Richard Jenkins, Adam Goldberg
A troubled high-school kid pretending to be dying of cancer confronts problems with his new girlfriend and terminally ill father as he struggles with... Read more
Norman Wisdom: Volume One - Follow A Star / The Bulldog Breed / The Early Bird / Just My Luck / Man of the Moment / One Good Turn (1954)
Director: John Paddy Carstairs, Robert Asher
Starring: Eddie Byrne, Edward Chapman, David Lodge, Norman Wisdom, Dandy Nichols, Charles...
Volume 1 of 2. This definitive "Norman Wisdom Collection" captures the genius of one of Britains' finest ever comics at his hilarious best. Titles inc... Read more
Norman Wisdom: Volume Two - On The Beat / Press For Time / The Square Peg / A Stitch In Time / Trouble in Store / Up in the World (1953)
Director: John Paddy Carstairs, Robert Asher
Starring: Honor Blackman, Derek Bond, Edward Chapman, Peter Jones, David Lodge, Norman Wis...
Volume 2 of 2. This definitive "Norman Wisdom Collection" captures the genius of one of Britains' finest ever comics at his hilarious best. Titles inc... Read more
Normandy Nude (2018)
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Francois-Xavier Demaison, Julie-Anne Roth
A French mayor has to convince his villagers to pose naked for an American photographer. Read more