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 Night of the White Pants (2006)
6/10
Director: Amy Talkington
Starring: Nick Stahl, Tom Wilkinson, Selma Blair, Frances Fisher
Max Hagan (Tom Wilkinson) has hit hard times. His soon-to-be ex has kicked him out of the house and he's completely penniless. An unlikely ally turn... Read more
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
6.1/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Bert Lahr, Britt Ekland, Denholm Elliott, Elliott Gould, Forrest Tucker, Harry A...
A flavourful comedy, set in the Burlesque years, about an Amish girl (Britt Ekland) who comes to N.Y.C., gets involved with a comic (Jason Robards), a... Read more
The Noble Family (2013)
7.4/10
Director: Gary Alazraki
Starring: Gonzalo Vega, Luis Gerardo Mendez, Karla Souza, Juan Pablo Gil
When a successful construction mogul, Germán Noble, realises that his adult children are spoiled beyond belief, he stages a fake company bankruptcy an... Read more
The Nude Bomb (1980)
5/10
Director: Clive Donner
Starring: Norman Lloyd, Rhonda Fleming, Sylvia Kristel, Pamela Hensley, Dana Elcar, Don Ad...
Get smart with the most bumbling - yet undeniably cool - spy ever! Join Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (aka Agent 86) of the original 'Get Smart' TV serie... Read more
The Nutty Professor (1963)
6.7/10
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore
Jerry Lewis is a mild mannered chemistry professor who follows in the footsteps of Dr Jekyll and becomes Buddy Love, a heartless lounge lizard and hea... Read more
The Nutty Professor (1996)
5.6/10
Director: Tom Shadyac
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn
Eddie Murphy scores 'big' laughs in this high-tech updating of the Jerry Lewis original. When good-natured but overweight Professor Sherman Klump conc... Read more
The Odd Couple (1967)
7.7/10
Director: Gene Saks
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are two divorced buddies who decide to be roommates in this classic film adaptation of the Neil Simon smash hit play. Read more
The Odd Couple (1979)
7.7/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Sammo Hung, Ka-Yan Leung , Liu Chia-Liang, Chan Lung, Chung Fat, Ching-Ying Lam
Every ten years the King of the Sword (Sammo Hung) and the King of the Spear (director Liu Chia-liang) meet for a duel that inevitably ends in a draw.... Read more
The Odd Couple II (1997)
6.4/10
Director: Howard Deutch
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski
Neil Simon wrote this sequel reuniting Felix and Oscar (Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau) after 17 years, when their children announce their impending m... Read more
The Oh in Ohio (2006)
5.6/10
Director: Billy Kent
Starring: Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Mischa Barton, Danny DeVito, Liza Minnelli, Miranda Bai...
Parker Posey plays Priscilla Chase - the woman who has everything - perfect job, perfect husband, perfect house. But something is missing in her sex-... Read more