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 Rewrite (2014)
6.2/10
Director: Marc Lawrence
Starring: Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei, Bella Heathcote, J K Simmons, Chris Elliott, Allison J...
Fifteen years ago, Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant - Love Actually) was an Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter, but divorce and a string of unsuccessful f... Read more
The Road To Wellville (1994)
5.8/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick
Anthony Hopkins stars as Dr John Kellogg, of cereal fame, who later in life ran the spa/hospital Battle Creek Sanitorium. Kellogg's principals were ba... Read more
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
7.4/10
Director: Jim Sharman
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Tim Curry, Meat Loaf, Susan Sarandon, Richard O'Brien, Patricia...
This camp musical sci-fi horror movie spoof has become - thanks to elaborate audience participation on the midnight movie circuit - the definitive cul... Read more
The Rocky Horror Picture Show ( Blu-ray ) (1975)
7.4/10
Director: Jim Sharman
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Charles Gray, Richard O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry, Meat L...
This camp musical sci-fi horror movie spoof has become - thanks to elaborate audience participation on the midnight movie circuit - the definitive cul... Read more
The Rookie (2018)
8/10
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz
Starting over isn't easy, especially for John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of joining the LAPD. As their oldest ro... Read more
The Room Upstairs (1987)
5.8/10
Director: Stuart Margolin
Starring: Stockard Channing, Sarah Jessica Parker, Linda Hunt, Sam Waterston
Stockard Channing stars as a teacher of hard-to-reach kids who learns to reach out in her private life as well when she starts up a boarding house. Lo... Read more
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
7.6/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben S...
Gene Hackman is Royal Tenenbaum, a once prominent New York lawyer who fakes a terminal illness in order to reunite with estranged wife Anjelica Huston... Read more
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Roger Avary
Starring: James Van Der Beek, Jessica Biel, Kate Bosworth, Kip Pardue, Ian Somerhalder, Sh...
Meet Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), a womanizing drug dealer whose quest for a connection brings him face to face with Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon),... Read more
The Rules of Attraction ( Blu-ray ) (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Roger Avary
Starring: Faye Dunaway, James Van Der Beek, Jessica Biel, Swoosie Kurtz, Clifton Collins J...
Meet Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), a womanizing drug dealer whose quest for a connection brings him face to face with Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon),... Read more
The Ruling Class (1972)
7.6/10
Director: Peter Medak
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe
Outrageously funny satire features an Oscar-nominated performance by Peter O'Toole as a British earl who thinks he's Jesus Christ. Wicked barbs are th... Read more