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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Ruby and Quentin ( Tais-toi! ) (2003)
4.9/10
Director: Francis Veber
Starring: Jean Reno, Gerard Depardieu
Ruby (Jean Reno) has only one thing on his mind: to avenge the death of the woman he loved at the hand of a criminal. Quentin (Gerard Depardieu) has v... Read more
Ruby and Rata (1990)
6/10
Director: Gaylene Preston
Starring: Vanessa Rare, Yvonne Lawley, Simon Barnett
The winning flick about Ruby, an elderly woman not yet ready for a retirement home and Rata, a would be rock singer and solo mother well practiced in... Read more
Ruby Sparks (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Elliott Gould, Steve Coogan, Paul Dano, Chris...
Suffering from writer's block ever since his success as a teenage author, Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) believes he's on the verge of a breakthrough... Read more
Ruby Sparks (Blu-ray) (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Elliott Gould, Steve Coogan, Paul Dano, Chris...
Suffering from writer's block ever since his success as a teenage author, Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) believes he's on the verge of a breakthrough... Read more
Rumble in the Bronx (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Stanley Tong
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Francoise Yip, Bill Tung
Jackie Chan's breakthrough into the Western market comes with this comic-book tale of him arriving from Hong Kong to attend a family wedding but getti... Read more
Rumour Has It... (2005)
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Mena Suvari, Ri...
Sarah (Jennifer Aniston) is the black sheep in the family, confused about her stalling journalistic career and her impending marriage to boyfriend Mar... Read more
Rumours (2024)
5/10
Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, Denis Menochet, Charles Dance, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ali...
Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies at the G7 su... Read more
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
6.6/10
Director: David Schwimmer
Starring: Hank Azaria, Simon Day, India de Beaufort, Thandie Newton, Harish Patel, Simon P...
In an attempt to win back the pregnant fiancee he left standing at the altar years earlier, the slightly flabby Dennis (Simon Pegg) decides to prove h... Read more
Run Tiger Run ( Liang zhi lao hu ) (1985)
5.1/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Hark Tsui
A comedy from John Woo's early career, Run tiger Run is a madhouse style, slapstick tale of mistaken identity. When his estranged son of a billionaire... Read more
Running with Scissors (2006)
6.2/10
Director: Ryan Murphy
Starring: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill...
Based on the memoir of Augusten Burroughs, this dysfunctional '70s family comedy/drama has an outstanding ensemble cast with Annette Bening as the del... Read more