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 Predator (2018)
5.9/10
Director: Shane Black
Starring: Thomas Jane, Jake Busey, Yvonne Strahovski, Olivia Munn, Boyd Holbrook, Keegan-M...
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter a... Read more
The Predator (Blu-Ray) (2018)
5.9/10
Director: Shane Black
Starring: Thomas Jane, Jake Busey, Yvonne Strahovski, Olivia Munn, Boyd Holbrook, Keegan-M...
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter a... Read more
The Prince And The Showgirl (1957)
6.7/10
Director: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike
A handsomely mounted romantic comedy of a suave European prince and a simple chorus girl who meet in London during the 1911 Coronation. Fascinating pe... Read more
The Princess Bride (1987)
8.1/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Cary Elwes, Christopher Guest, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon, Wal...
A very special, engaging fairy-tale comedy which mixes romance, magic and swashbuckling action as told to a young boy by his grandfather (Peter Falk).... Read more
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
5/10
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: Elke Sommer, Lionel Jeffries, Peter Sellers
After the King of Ruritania dies in a hot air balloon accident, his eldest son is kidnapped by the evil Prince Michael, his younger brother, who hopes... Read more
The Producers (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Susan Stroman
Starring: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Eileen Essell, David...
Nathan Lane hams it up as Max Bialystock, a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer whose accountant Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick who, with Lane, starred i... Read more
The Producers (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
Mel Brook's hilarious hit about a producer who comes up with a surefire scheme for making money... on a musical production that he is absolutely cert... Read more
The Proposal (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Anne Fletcher
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T Nelson, Betty White, De...
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds provide the yuks in this romantic comedy about a no-nonsense career woman (Bullock) who suddenly finds herself on the... Read more
The Puffy Chair (2004)
6.6/10
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Starring: Kathryn Aselton, Mark Duplass
Josh likes to be on time, he likes to dominate the small things in his world. Rhett likes to film lizards and talk at length about honesty and bad moj... Read more
The Pursuit of Love (2021)
6.7/10
Starring: Lily James, Dominic West, Emily Mortimer, Dolly Wells, Shazad Latif, Andrew Scot...
Set in Europe before World War II, the story follows the adventures of charismatic, fearless Linda Radlett and her best friend/cousin Fanny Logan. Con... Read more