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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Spice World: The Movie (1997)
3.4/10
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring: Alan Cumming, Claire Rushbrook, George Wendt, Richard E Grant, Roger Moore, The...
Britain's chart-topping all-girl quintet, The Spice Girls, makes the jump to screen stardom with a glitzy musical that could have been called "A Hard... Read more
Spider and Rose (1994)
Director: Bill Bennett
Starring: Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell, Max Cullen
Spider McCall (Simon Bossell) is an ambulance driver with 'attitude'. His final day on the job lands him the assignment of driving a feisty 70-year-ol... Read more
Spies in Disguise (2019)
6.8/10
Director: Nick Bruno
Starring: Rachel Brosnahan, Jarrett Bruno
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is not. But what Walter... Read more
Spies in Disguise (Blu-ray) (2019)
6.8/10
Director: Nick Bruno
Starring: Rachel Brosnahan, Jarrett Bruno
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is not. But what Walter... Read more
Spies Like Us (1985)
6.4/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison, Bernie Case...
From director John Landis ("The Blues Brothers", "National Lampoon's Animal House") comes this hilarious comedy of two misfits (Chevy Chase, Dan Aykro... Read more
Spinning Boris (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber
The incredible true story of three American political consultants (Jeff Goldblum, Anthony La Paglia, Liev Schreiber), who assisted in the 1996 re-elec... Read more
Splitting Heirs (1993)
5.5/10
Director: Robert Young
Starring: Rick Moranis, Eric Idle, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese
Comedy about a British Duke (Eric Idle) who is switched at birth when his parents accidentally leave him behind in a restaurant, picking up the wrong... Read more
Spud (2010)
6.7/10
Director: Donovan Marsh
Starring: John Cleese, Jeremy Crutchley, Julie Summers, Graham Weir, Troye Sivan, Aaron Mc...
John Milton (Troye Sivan), a.k.a. Spud, is a small boy from an ordinary background who wins a scholarship to an elite private school in South Africa.... Read more
Spud 2: The Madness Continues (2013)
6.3/10
Director: Donovan Marsh
Starring: John Cleese, Jeremy Crutchley, Troye Sivan, Jason Cope, Tanit Phoenix, Aaron McI...
The year is 1991, and Spud Milton's (Troye Sivan) long walk to manhood is still creeping along at an unnervingly slow pace. Approaching the ripe old a... Read more
Spy (2015)
7/10
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Jason Statham, Miranda Hart, Bobby Canna...
Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her... Read more