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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Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
6.4/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley
A father's attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal. Read more
Take Home Pay (2019)
Director: Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa
Two brothers, Alama and Popo, arrive for the first time in New Zealand as Seasonal Workers, making plenty of money to take back home to their families... Read more
Take The Money And Run (1969)
7.3/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Woody Allen
Woody Allen's first film as writer/director/star. This fake documentary charts the life of bungling petty criminal Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen), usi... Read more
Take This Waltz (2011)
6.6/10
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Michelle Williams, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen
Michelle Williams plays twenty-eight-year-old Margot, happily married to Lou (Seth Rogan), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Danie... Read more
Take This Waltz (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.5/10
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Michelle Williams, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen
Michelle Williams plays twenty-eight-year-old Margot, happily married to Lou (Seth Rogan), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Danie... Read more
Takeshis' (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyono, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Terajima Susumu, Tets...
Japanese film icon Beat Takeshi writes, directs, edits and stars as himself and his own doppelganger in this surreal, comic fantasy about a convenienc... Read more
Taking Woodstock (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Henry Go...
Director Ang Lee detours into comic territory with this true story, based on Elliot Tiber's book, about how he, an in-the-closet Greenwich Village int... Read more
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, Michael Clarke Duncan...
Will Ferrell brings his particular brand of nutty humour to this mock biopic of imaginary NASCAR legend, Ricky Bobby. John C Reilly is his capable Ma... Read more
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Blu-ray) (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, Michael Clarke Duncan...
Will Ferrell brings his particular brand of nutty humour to this mock biopic of imaginary NASCAR legend, Ricky Bobby. John C Reilly is his capable Ma... Read more
Tangerine (2015)
7.1/10
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian
It's Christmas Eve in West Hollywood. Two transgender prostitute BFF's talk trash and storm the LA streets in this R-rated comedy of infidelity, retri... Read more