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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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
6.8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Dan Aykroyd, David Ogden Stiers, Charlize Theron
Putting his own comic spin on a mix of "His Girl Friday" and "Double Indemnity," writer/director/star Woody Allen plays a crack insurance investigator... Read more
The Dancing Masters (1943)
6.3/10
Director: Lee Marcus
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Robert Mitchum
Stan and Ollie show their artistic sides - not to mentoion their tutus - when they become dancing masters. Watch out for a very young Robert Mitchum... Read more
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
7.2/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray
Not having spoken since their father's funeral a year earlier, three brothers (Owen Wilson, Adrian Brody and Jason Schwartzman) board a train travelli... Read more
The Darwin Awards (2006)
6/10
Director: Finn Taylor
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, Tim Blake Nelson, Wilmer Valderrama, David Arquett...
Joseph Fiennes is gifted, yet unsuitable, homicide detective Michael Burrows, fired from his job due to his propensity to faint at the sight of blood.... Read more
The Day Shall Come (2019)
5.9/10
Director: Christopher Morris, Chris Morris
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Kayvan Novak
An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for... Read more
The Daytrippers (1995)
6.9/10
Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Hope Davis, Parker Posey, Stanley Tucci, Liev Schreiber, Campbell Scott, Pat McN...
Happily married Eliza (Hope Davis) discovers a letter written to her husband Louis (Stanley Tucci), signed 'Forever Sandy'. Her curiosity pricked by t... Read more
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
5.5/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover,...
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. Read more
The Dead Don't Die (Blu-ray) (2019)
5.5/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover,...
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. Read more
The Deal (2008)
5.6/10
Director: Steven Schachter
Starring: Meg Ryan, William H Macy, LL Cool J, Elliott Gould, Jason Ritter, Fiona Glascott...
A Hollywood producer starts with his nephew's script on Disraeli, Jewish PM in 1800s UK, and ends filming in Cape Town with a black action star. Will... Read more
The Death of Mister Lazarescu (2005)
Director: Cristi Puiu
Starring: Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu
Plagued with a terrible headache that will not go away, elderly Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) calls an ambulance. As he makes his frustrating journey... Read more