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 Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
6.5/10
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Glenn Close, Kathy Bates, Sophie Nelisse
A feisty foster kids outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences in The Great Gilly Hopkins, a funny, poignant... Read more
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
5.8/10
Director: Danny Leiner
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Jim Gaffigan, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Thomas McCarthy, N...
A rich drama with comic elements, set in New York a year after 9/11, tracing the aftershocks of that event on the lives of five disparate people. Com... Read more
The Great Outdoors (1988)
6.7/10
Director: Howard Deutch
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy
A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in. Read more
The Great Race (1965)
7.3/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Denver Pyle
Follows a pack of wacky racers including capital fellow Tony Curtis, dastardly villain Jack Lemmon, and femme fatale Natalie Wood, on a 22.000-mile ro... Read more
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
6.6/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Edward Herrmann, Geoffrey Lewis, Margot Kidder, Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon,...
It's the 1920s, ex-WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is on the barnstorming circuit, performing daring aerial stunts and wildly exaggerating his... Read more
The Great Yokai War (2005)
6.5/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Bunta Sugawara, Kaho Minam...
An extravagant fun-filled fantasy the whole family can enjoy from the prolific and versatile Japanese director, Takashi Miike. Embracing and re-inter... Read more
The Green Butchers (2003)
7.3/10
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Line Kruse, Bodil Jorgensen, Ole Thestrup, Nic...
A dark cannibal comedy from Denmark where two affable losers have opened a butcher's shop. Considering their lack of business know-how, the venture se... Read more
The Green Hornet (2011)
5.8/10
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Jay Chou, Seth Rogen
Action and comedy mix in this modern update of the classic crimefighter of radio, serial, comic, and TV fame. After his father's death, playboy and ne... Read more
The Green Hornet (Blu-ray) (2011)
5.8/10
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Jay Chou, Seth Rogen
Action and comedy mix in this modern update of the classic crimefighter of radio, serial, comic, and TV fame. After his father's death, playboy and ne... Read more
The Guard (2011)
7.3/10
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Fionnula Flanagan, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong, D...
Working a beat on the Irish coast, Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) experiences some culture shock when he is assigned a black American partner (Don... Read more