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 Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 6 (1933)
7.6/10
A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three decade period. A cher... Read more
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
7.4/10
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Starring: Kyra Sedgwick, Woody Harrelson, Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson
Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) has never had it easy, finding it impossible to fit in at school due to her awkward ways, finding a more fulfilling friendsh... Read more
The Editor (2014)
6.1/10
Director: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Udo Kier, Paz de la Huerta, Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Rey Ciso was once the greatest editor the world had ever seen. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he's had... Read more
The Emperor's New Clothes (2002)
7/10
Director: Alan Taylor
Starring: Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny
Napoleon Bonaparte - defeated, powerless and exiled to the island of St. Helena to live out the rest of his life in lonely, faded isolation. Or was he... Read more
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