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.
Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...
The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain (1995)
Director: Christopher Monger
Starring: Tara Fitzgerald, Hugh Grant, Colm Meaney
In 1917 two English map-makers arrive in a remote Welsh village to measure the first mountain in Wales only to find that it is in fact too short and h... Read more
The Errand Boy (1961)
6.5/10
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Dick Wesson
Le Grand Goofee, Jerry Lewis, is a film studio gopher who turns Tinseltown upside down one hilarious misadventure after another. Read more
The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection: Volume 1 (1914)
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
This collection of seven shorts from the legendary Charlie Chaplin includes: "Making A Living" (1914, 8 min.) - This typical Keystone slapstick comedy... Read more
The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection: Volume 2 (1914)
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand
This collection of seven shorts from the legendary Charlie Chaplin includes: "Cruel, Cruel Love" (1914, 9 min.) - Charlie, having been caught flirting... Read more
The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection: Volume 3 (1914)
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
This collection of seven shorts from the legendary Charlie Chaplin includes: "Mabel's Married Life" (1914, 13 min.) - Charlie leaves his wife Mabel (N... Read more
The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Volume 4 (1914)
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Ben Turpin
This collection of seven shorts from the legendary Charlie Chaplin includes: "The New Janitor" (1914, 11 min.) - Charlie has become a janitor only to... Read more
The Extra Man (2010)
5.9/10
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Starring: John C Reilly, Katie Holmes, Kevin Kline, Paul Dano
Louis Ives (Paul Dano) heads to New York City following an embarrassing incident that forces him to leave his job. He rents a room in the apartment of... Read more
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir (2018)
6.9/10
Director: Ken Scott
Starring: Berenice Bejo, Erin Moriarty, Barkhad Abdi, Gerard Jugnot, Ben Miller
In order to find his estranged father after his dedicated mother dies, an Indian street magician travels to France. Read more
The Family (2013)
6.3/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Dianna Agron, John D'Leo
Dark action comedy in which a Mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the Witness Protection Program after snitching... Read more
The Family (Blu-ray) (2013)
6.3/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Dianna Agron, John D'Leo
Dark action comedy in which a Mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the Witness Protection Program after snitching... Read more