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 Ghost Train (1941)
6.3/10
Starring: Arthur Askey
High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches. Read more
The Gilded Cage (2013)
7.3/10
Director: Ruben Alves
Starring: Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud, Jean-Pierre Martins, Rita Blanco
Maria and Jose emigrated from Portugal 30 years ago. Ever Since, they have lived in the modest ground floor lodgings of a chic apartment building in P... Read more
The Girl Most Likely To (1973)
7.7/10
Director: Lee Philips
Starring: Stockard Channing, Edward Asner, Annette O'Toole, Larry Wilcox, Chuck McCann
Stockard Channing is the ugly duckling at high school until a car wreck has the fortunate spin-off of facial reconstruction and instant beauty. Now s... Read more
The Girl Next Door (2004)
6.7/10
Director: Luke Greenfield
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette, P...
Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight arrow, over-achiever who has never really lived life until he falls for his new neighbou... Read more
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
7.8/10
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
17-year-old Makoto is an outgoing tomboy of a girl, living a happy, carefree life - but on this particular day everything seems to be going wrong... i... Read more
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
6.5/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Rod Taylor, Dom DeLuise, Paul Lynde, Er...
A lively mix of comedy and romance, this wacky Bond spoof has Doris Day as a public relations specialist for NASA who inadvertantly meets her boss (Ro... Read more
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Director: Jamie Uys
Starring: Hans Strydom, Lena Farugia, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xau
"The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1980, 104 mins.). A discarded coke bottle that a tribe of primitive Bushmen views as a "gift from the gods," an inept scient... Read more
The Gold Rush (1925)
8.2/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
Considered by many to be Chaplin's finest comedy: Charlie is the gold prospector in the Yukon near starvation and treacherous villains. Many great sce... Read more
The Golden Age of Comedy Collection (1950)
Starring: Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Lou Costello, D...
Laugh out loud with some of the best and funniest live comedy moments from the 1950s and '60s, a time when a wildly creative group of comedic talents... Read more
The Good Girl (2002)
6.5/10
Director: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tim Blake Nelson, John C Rei...
Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston) is a genuine, down-to-earth good girl whose humdrum existence revolves around her clueless husband (John C Reilly), hi... Read more