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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. Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...

The Secret Policeman's: The Big Three-O (1991)

6.6/10
Director: David Hillier
Starring: Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, John Cleese, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Jonath...

The Secret Policemen are back for Amnesty's 30th Anniversary Special. Comedians include all the faves of the time - Alexei Sayle, John Cleese, Hale &... Read more

The Sessions (2012)

7.2/10
Director: Ben Lewin
Starring: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, William H Macy, John Hawkes, Rhea Perlman, Moon Bloodgoo...

Candid and sensitive drama about the sexual awakening of a life-long polio sufferer. John Hawkes stars as Mark O'Brien, a writer in his late thirties... Read more

The Sessions (Blu-ray) (2012)

7.2/10
Director: Ben Lewin
Starring: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, William H Macy, John Hawkes, Rhea Perlman, Moon Bloodgoo...

Candid and sensitive drama about the sexual awakening of a life-long polio sufferer. John Hawkes stars as Mark O'Brien, a writer in his late thirties... Read more

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

7.2/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Tom Ewell, Marilyn Monroe

While Hollywood censors carefully watched the filming of this notoriously racy production, Marilyn was pure perfection as a sexy, yet innocent, starle... Read more

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

6.8/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Alan Arkin, Laurence Olivier, Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave

Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna in order to place him in the care of Sigmund Freud after his abuse of cocaine starts to sp... Read more

The Shaggy Dog/The Shaggy D.A. (1959)

Director: Charles Barton, Robert Stevenson
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Tim Considine, Dean J...

The Shaggy Dog: The son of dog-hating former mailman Wilson Daniels (Fred MacMurray), young Wilby (Tommy Kirk) accidentally becomes a canine himself... Read more

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

6.8/10
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn

Harold Lloyd's final film is actually a sequel to his 1925 comedy "The Freshman." After being fired from his job, staid bookkeeper Lloyd goes on a dri... Read more

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

6.5/10
Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd

Based on Ann Brashares' best-selling novel in which four friends are spending their first summer apart. The eponymous travelling pants are a second-ha... Read more

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)

6.2/10
Director: Sanaa Hamri
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Rachel Nichols, Tom...

The original cast return for this sequel as the four friends once again spend a summer apart. Lena takes a painting course in Rhode Island; Bridget he... Read more

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

7/10
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: John C Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Allison Tolman, Rutg...

It's 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. The Sisters brothers find the... Read more