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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Rock the Casbah (2013)
6.5/10
Director: Laila Marrakchi
Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal, Hiam Abbass
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for her father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed. "Rock the Casbah is consistently en... Read more
Rock the Kasbah (Blu-ray) (2015)
5.5/10
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Bill Murray, Kate Hudson, Bruce Willis
A down-on-his-luck music manager discovers a teenage girl with an extraordinary voice while on a music tour in Afghanistan and takes her to Kabul to c... Read more
Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)
6.8/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Reginald Gardiner
Jerry Lewis becomes a full-time baby-sitter for movie sex-siren Marilyn Maxwell, who doesn't want her public to know she's had triplets. Connie Steven... Read more
Rockabilly Vampire (2001)
4.7/10
Director: Lee Bennett Sobel
Starring: Stephen Blackeheart, Margaret Lancaster, Paul Stevenson, Valentine Miele, Wendy...
A low-rent horror spoof from the Troma team about Iris, a woman whose life is going downhill - she hates her job, her landlord is on her case and the... Read more
Rockers (1977)
7.7/10
Director: Theodoros Bafaloukos
Starring: Leroy Wallace, Richard Hall, Monica Craig
A funky drama/comedy about a Rastafarian drummer's efforts to earn money and crack the music establishment in 1970s Kingston. Superior reggae score fe... Read more
Rocket Science (2007)
6.7/10
Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Starring: Nicholas D'Agosto, Reece Thompson, Denis O'Hare, Margo Martindale, Anna Kendrick
'Rocket Science' follows the life of fifteen year-old Hal, an awkward kid with a stutter who wants to rise from obscurity and become an unlikely hero... Read more
Rocketman (1997)
5.9/10
Director: Stuart Gillard
Starring: Beau Bridges, Jessica Lundy, William Sadler, Harland Williams, Jeffrey DeMunn, J...
Geeky, accident-prone Fred Z. Randall (Harland Williams) is realising a dream. He's designed a spacecraft that can take a crew to Mars, and he's goin... Read more
Rockets Galore (1957)
Director: Michael Relph
Starring: Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver, Noel Purcell, Ian Hunter, Gordon J...
This slightly underwhelming sequel to the excellent 'Whisky Galore' sees the locals of Todday island again at odds with the mainlanders as the British... Read more
RocknRolla (2008)
7.3/10
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy...
Guy Ritchie returns to form with this cockney crime caper starring Tom Wilkinson as Lenny, a bungling London crime boss, and Gerard Butler as indie th... Read more
RocknRolla ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
7.3/10
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Mark Strong, Thandie Newton, Tom Wilkinson, Gerard Butler, Tom Har...
Guy Ritchie returns to form with this cockney crime caper starring Tom Wilkinson as Lenny, a bungling London crime boss, and Gerard Butler as indie th... Read more