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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Peter's Friends (1992)
7/10
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry
A 'Big Chill' style re-union of theatrical types leads to personal revelations, crisis and healing in this humorous and touching souffl from actor-dir... Read more
Phil The Alien (2004)
5.3/10
Director: Rob Stefaniuk
Starring: Rob Stefaniuk, Boyd Banks, Christopher Barry
Phil, an alien, crashes into a small town in Northern Ontario, befriends a young boy, and a super-intelligent beaver, and quickly develops a heavy dri... Read more
Philomena (2013)
7.6/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan
Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a "fallen woman". When her baby... Read more
Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
4.7/10
Director: Alfonso Arau
Starring: Woody Allen, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Cheech Marin, David Schwimmer, Kiefer Suthe...
"Like Water for Chocolate"'s Alfonso Arau directs this mystical comedy starring Woody Allen as a kosher butcher, relocated from New York to Arizona un... Read more
Pieces of April (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Peter Hedges
Starring: Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke, Oliver Platt, Sean Hayes
This intelligent and touching independent comedy stars Katie Holmes as a young woman who attempts to reconcile with her dysfunctional family by making... Read more
Pillion (2026)
6.9/10
Director: Harry Lighton
Starring: Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgard, Lesley Sharp, Douglas Hodge
Wallflower Colin (Harry Melling) leads a humdrum existence until he meets the impossibly handsome Ray (Alexander Skarsgard), a mysterious biker he is... Read more
Pineapple Express (2008)
7/10
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Gary Co...
From the writers of 'Superbad', this is a stoner/buddy/crime caper flick that delivers on all three levels with no small thanks to indie director Davi... Read more
Pineapple Express ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
7/10
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Ed Begley Jr, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Kevin Corri...
From the writers of 'Superbad', this is a stoner/buddy/crime caper flick that delivers on all three levels with no small thanks to indie director Davi... Read more
Pink Cadillac (1989)
5.3/10
Director: Buddy Van Horn
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bernadette Peters, Timothy Carhart
This slam-bang action comedy has Clint Eastwood after Bernadette Peters and the titular car, filled with funny money that belongs to a white supremaci... Read more
Pirates (1986)
6.1/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Walter Matthau, Richard Pearson, Damien Thomas, Cris Campion, Charlotte Lewis, R...
Comic-adventure film about buccaneers who take on a Spanish galleon filled with Aztec gold. Polanski is said to have spent $30 million on the film, of... Read more