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 Phantom of Liberty (1974)
8/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Adolfo Celi, Adriana Asti, Bernard Verley, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Claude Brialy, M...
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel's surrealist gem "The Phantom of Liberty". Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet... Read more
The Pin-Up Girl (1944)
Director: H Bruce Humberstone
Starring: Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye, Joe E Brown, Eugene Pallette
Betty Grable stars in this flag-waving musical comedy as Lorrie Jones, a military canteen worker during World War I, who dreams of fame entertaining t... Read more
The Pink Jungle (1968)
6/10
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: James Garner, George Kennedy, Eva Renzi
A South American fashion photo shoot turns into a diamond mine seeking adventure for an American photographer and his model. Read more
The Pink Panther (1963)
7.2/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Capucine, Robert Wagner
This film established director Blake Edwards' slightly subversive point of view and heightened the diversity of Peter Sellers. Sellers is Inspector Cl... Read more
The Pink Panther (2006)
5.6/10
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Beyonce Knowles, Emily Mortimer, Henry Cze...
Steve Martin steps into the gumshoes of the world's most inept detective - Inspector Clouseau - as he attempts to break the case of murdered star socc... Read more
The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
5.6/10
Director: Harald Zwart
Starring: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina, Aishwarya R...
As the world's most precious artefacts start disappearing, the bumbling Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin) is called upon to join an international team... Read more
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
7.3/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down
The unflappable Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) has finally done it. After repeated run-ins with his boss, Chief Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), Clouseau ha... Read more
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
6.7/10
Director: Peter Lord
Starring: Hugh Grant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, David Tennant, Martin Freeman
Fun-filled computer-animated adventure from Aardman ('Wallace and Gromit", "Chicken Run") focuses on the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant), an ine... Read more
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! (Blu-ray) (2012)
6.7/10
Director: Peter Lord
Starring: Hugh Grant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, David Tennant, Martin Freeman
Fun-filled computer-animated adventure from Aardman ('Wallace and Gromit", "Chicken Run") focuses on the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant), an ine... Read more
The Player (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Brion J...
A savagely satirical black comedy about a paranoid young movie executive (Tim Robbins), threatened by a disgruntled screenwriter - until he begins tak... Read more