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 Kids Are All Right (2010)
7/10
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson
A lesbian couple (Annette Bening, Julianne Moore) must cope with having their already nontraditional family life rocked to the core when their two chi... Read more
The King is Dead! (2012)
5.6/10
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Anthony Hayes, Dan Wyllie, Gary Waddell, Bojana Novakovic, Luke Ford, Lani John...
Max and Therese have just brought a new house in a leafy suburb. Their suburban dreams are quickly shattered when they find they have the neighbours f... Read more
The King of Comedy (1982)
7.8/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Tony Randall, Sandra Bernhard
Robert De Niro is an obsessive stand-up comic performing in front of cardboard cut-outs in is mum's basement. Jerry Lewis is the host of a talk show t... Read more
The King Of Staten Island (2020)
7.1/10
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley
Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist un... Read more
The King Of Staten Island (Blu-ray) (2020)
7.1/10
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley
Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist un... Read more
The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2 (2010)
4.6/10
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Starring: Alex Dimitriades, Kevin Sorbo, Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Costas Kilias,...
Things haven't been going well for Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis... His one true love, a '69 Valiant Pacer, has just been seized, along with all his... Read more
The Kings of Summer (2013)
7.2/10
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Starring: Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Erin Moriarty, Ma...
Coming-of-age comedy following three friends in pursuit of independence. Joe Toy has long suffered under his controlling father Frank and when his hom... Read more
The Kitchen Brigade (2022)
Starring: Audrey Lamy, Francois Cluzet
Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hate... Read more
The Ladies Man (1961)
6.5/10
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Kathleen Freeman
Jerry Lewis at his zany best plays a woman-hating houseboy at a Hollywood home for wayward girls. Strangely enough, women fawn all over him! Helen Tra... Read more
The Lady in the Van (2015)
6.7/10
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Deborah Findlay, Alex Jennings, Frances de la Tour,...
Maggie Smith lets her hair down in the role of a real-life bumptious bag lady who lived in a van and found a permanent parking spot outside the Camden... Read more