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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Silver Linings Playbook ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
7.7/10
Director: David O Russell
Starring: Chris Tucker, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jacki Weaver
Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything - his house, his job and his wife. He finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and f... Read more
Silver Streak (1976)
6.9/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Clifto...
In this wild comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) pu... Read more
Simon Simon (1970)
6.1/10
Director: Graham Stark
Starring: Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Bob Monkhouse, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise
In this short 1966 slapstick comedy (30 mins), two crane operators distracted by some female passers-by are unable to complete their jobs, much to the... Read more
Simone (2002)
5.7/10
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jay Mohr, Rachel Roberts (2)
When a temperamental actress storms off the set of his unfinished film, desperate director Al Pacino turns for help to an engineer who's created a pro... Read more
Simple Simon (2010)
7.1/10
Director: Andreas Ohman
Starring: Martin Wallstrom, Bill Skarsgard, Cecilia Forss, Sofie Hamilton
Eighteen-year-old Simon (Bill Skarsgard) is a boy with Asperger's syndrome who likes space, science and circles. His world is suddenly turned upside d... Read more
Sing (2016)
7.1/10
Director: Garth Jennings, Christophe Lourdelet
Starring: John C Reilly, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Taron...
Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, "Sing" stars Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a dapper koala who presides over a once-gr... Read more
Sing ( Blu-ray ) (2016)
7.1/10
Director: Garth Jennings, Christophe Lourdelet
Starring: John C Reilly, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Taron...
Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, "Sing" stars Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a dapper koala who presides over a once-gr... Read more
Sing Street (2016)
8/10
Director: John Carney
Starring: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Aidan Gillen, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Kelly Thornton
From director John Carney (ONCE, BEGIN AGAIN), SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy named Conor (Ferdi... Read more
Sing Street ( Blu-ray ) (2016)
8/10
Director: John Carney
Starring: Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Lucy Boynton, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Kelly Thorn...
From director John Carney (ONCE, BEGIN AGAIN), SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy named Conor (Ferdi... Read more
Sink or Swim (2018)
7/10
Director: Gilles Lellouche
Starring: Guillaume Canet, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Leila Bekhti, Benoit Poelvoord...
Several 40-something guys, all on the verge of a mid-life crisis, decide to form their local pool's first synchronized swimming team -- for men. Read more