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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Starter For 10 (2006)
6.7/10
Director: Tom Vaughan
Starring: James McAvoy, Alice Eve, Rebecca Hall, Charles Dance, Lindsay Duncan
Set against the backdrop of 1980s England, this bittersweet British romantic comedy follows working-class college student Brian through his tumultuous... Read more
Starter For 10 (Blu-ray) (2006)
6.7/10
Director: Tom Vaughan
Starring: Charles Dance, Lindsay Duncan, Rebecca Hall, James McAvoy, Alice Eve
Set against the backdrop of 1980s England, this bittersweet British romantic comedy follows working-class college student Brian through his tumultuous... Read more
Starting Over (1979)
6.4/10
Director: Alan J Pakula
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhag...
Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he... Read more
State and Main (2000)
6.8/10
Director: David Mamet
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H Macy, Davi...
When a big-budget film crew takes over a small town, they shoot first...and ask questions later. Director Walt Price (William H Macy) has his work cut... Read more
Stay Tuned (1992)
6.1/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, Eugene Levy
John Ritter plays a terminal couch potato whose ritual TV watching is given a twist when Satan's helper (Jeffrey Jones) offers him 666 channels of the... Read more
Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
8/10
Director: Charles Riesner
Starring: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron
Buster Keaton plays the city-bred boy who returns to his steamboat captain father and reluctantly joins him in fighting off a rival trying to take ove... Read more
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
7.3/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Will Rogers, Ann Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette
John Ford directs Will Rogers in his final film. A fast-paced comedy and slice of Americana, Rogers stars as Dr. John, the proprietor of a travelling... Read more
Step Brothers (2008)
6.9/10
Director: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott, Kath...
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly had so much fun on 'Talladega Nights' they decided to re-team in this goofball gross-out comedy. They play a couple of... Read more
Step Brothers (Blu-ray) (2008)
6.9/10
Director: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott, Kath...
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly had so much fun on 'Talladega Nights' they decided to re-team in this goofball gross-out comedy. They play a couple of... Read more
Stepping Out (1991)
6.4/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters
Directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Liza Minnelli, written by Richard Harris and based on a play also written by Harris. Minnelli plays the role of a... Read more