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.
Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Shirley Henderson, Ricky Tomlinson, Fin...
Using the operatic style associated with Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, this offbeat comedy stars Robert Carlyle as a small-time hood who watches ex... Read more
One Battle After Another (2025)
7.9/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Chas...
Washed-up revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). Wh... Read more
One Battle After Another (Blu-Ray) (2025)
7.9/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro
Bob is a washed-up revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa. When... Read more
One Chance (2013)
6.8/10
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Colm Meaney, Julie Walters, Mackenzie Crook, James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Vale...
A rags-to-riches biopic starring James Corden as 'Britain's Got Talent' winner Paul Potts. "One Chance" charts Potts' rise to fame, from his humble be... Read more
One Eyed Monster (2008)
4.2/10
Director: Adam Fields
Starring: Ron Jeremy, Veronica Hart, Carmen Hart, Amber Benson, Charles Napier
Ron Jeremy plays himself (though not for long) in this way over-the-top horror spoof in which his tadger is possessed by a homicidal alien and starts... Read more
One Last Chance (2003)
5.8/10
Director: Stewart Svaasand
Starring: Iain Robertson, Dougray Scott, Kevin McKidd, Jamie Sives
Four friends from the Scottish Highlands plot to escape to somewhere more glamourous...like Glasgow. But through a mixture of over enthusiam, stupidit... Read more
One Last Thing... (2005)
6.7/10
Director: Alex Steyermark
Starring: Michael Angarano, Cynthia Nixon, Matt Bush, Gideon Glick, Gina Gershon, Wyclef J...
A seventeen-year-old boy discovers he has a cancer that will likely kill him before his eighteenth birthday. Though he takes the news surprisingly we... Read more
One More Night (2006)
6.9/10
Director: Sarah Kelly
Starring: Connie Britton, Tate Donovan, Ione Skye, Eric Stoltz, Sarah Clarke, Peter Facine...
AKA 'The Lather Effect'. While helping her parents clear out her childhood home, a nostalgia-gripped Valinda decides to throw an '80s-themed party for... Read more
One Night at McCool's (2001)
6.1/10
Director: Harald Zwart
Starring: Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, John Goodman, Paul Reiser, Michael Douglas
She's one hot lady, and after just one night at McCool's she's the only thing four unsuspecting men can think about. It's going to be nothing but hila... Read more
One, Two, Three (1961)
8/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: James Cagney, Arlene Francis, Horst Buchholz
James Cagney's 'retirement' film was this hilarious comedy about a Coke executive in contemporary West Berlin freaking out when the boss's visiting da... Read more