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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Our Miss Fred (1972)
5.4/10
Director: Bob Kellett
Starring: Danny La Rue, Alfred Marks, Lance Percival, Frances de la Tour
Shakespearian actor Fred Wimbush's drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking he... Read more
Out To Sea (1997)
6.1/10
Director: Martha Coolidge
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon
A chronic con man fools his pal into joining him for a Caribbean cruise but neglects to inform him that he's signed them both on as dance hosts. Jack... Read more
Outing Riley (2004)
Director: Pete Jones
Starring: Jeff Garlin, Michael McDonald, Nathan Fillion, Pete Jones
Director Pete Jones wrote, directed and stars in this hilarious comedy about a gay Chicago-based architect from an Irish-Catholic family who decides t... Read more
Outsourced (2007)
7.5/10
Director: John Jeffcoat
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Larry Pine
Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) gets the bad news from his boss: his job has been outsourced. Adding insult to injury, Todd must travel to India to trai... Read more
Overboard (1987)
6.8/10
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Roddy McDowall
A sentimental, old-fashioned comedy about a rich bitch who loses her memory and is taken in by a country boy. She hates him, he teaches her the ground... Read more
Oyster Farmer (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Anna Reeves
Starring: Alex O'Lachlan, Kerry Armstrong, David Field, Jim Norton, Diana Glenn, Jack Thom...
After hearing his sister has had a bad car accident, Jack Flange moves from Sydney to the small oyster-farming community where she lives to look after... Read more
P'tang Yang Kipperbang (1982)
7.2/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: John Albasiny, Abigail Cruttenden, Maurice Dee
Set in the early fifties and narrated by cricket commentator John Arlott, the simple plot has cricket-obsessed schoolboy Alan Duckworth (John Albasiny... Read more
P.S. (2004)
6.2/10
Director: Dylan Kidd
Starring: Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Rudd, Lois Sm...
Laura Linney plays Louise Harrington, a thirty-something divorcee with a great job in the Fine Arts School at Columbia University. At first glance sh... Read more
Pacific Banana (1981)
4.8/10
Director: John D Lamond
Starring: Graeme Blundell, Robin Stewart, Luan Peters, Deborah Gray, Alyson Best
Martin (Graeme Blundell) has got a little problem that keeps getting bigger all the time...and the girls will go to any lengths to help him stand up f... Read more
Paddington (2014)
7.2/10
Director: Paul King
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Nicole Kidman, Peter Capaldi, Sal...
Paddington has grown up deep in the Peruvian jungle with his Aunt Lucy who, inspired by a chance encounter with an English explorer, has raised her ne... Read more