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 Tall Guy (1989)
6.2/10
Director: Mel Smith
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson
Written by Richard 'Black Adder' Curtis, telling the tale of an out of work American actor with hayfever who scores the part of 'The Elephant Man' in... Read more
The Taming of the Shrew (BBC) (1988)
7.2/10
Director: Jonathan Miller
Starring: John Cleese, Sarah Badel
Jonathan Miller's sympathetic, vibrant and hilarious adaptation brilliantly blends the more subtle essences of Shakespeare's classic comedy with the p... Read more
The Teacher (Ucitelka) (2016)
7.3/10
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Starring: Zuzana Mauréry, Zuzana Konecná, Csongor Kassai
Since the arrival of the new teacher, Maria Drazdechova, to a Bratislava suburban school in the year of 1983, life has turned upside down for students... Read more
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
6.9/10
Director: Daniel Mann
Starring: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo, Eddie Albert, Paul Ford
A whimsical, poignant adaptation of the hit Broadway play about an American G.I.'s experiences in Okinawa in 1944. Glenn Ford is given the task of 'de... Read more
The Ten (2007)
5/10
Director: David Wain
Starring: Adam Brody, Gretchen Mol, Oliver Platt, Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Liev Schreiber,...
Not to be confused with Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical epics, this Decalogue-centered comedy offers an irreverently funny series of stories in which char... Read more
The Terminal (2004)
7.3/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna
After arriving at New York's JFK airport, Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) gets unwittingly caught in bureaucratic glitches that make it impossible for him... Read more
The Thin Man (1934)
8.1/10
Director: W S Van Dyke
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
This madcap blend of screwball comedy and murder mystery marked the first pairing of what was to become one of the movies great romantic teams, Willia... Read more
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
7.4/10
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Myrna Loy, William Powell, Lucile Watson, Leon Ames, Harry Davenport
This fifth entry in MGM's 'Thin Man' series maintains the high production and story values of the first four, as Nick and Nora go to visit Nick's disa... Read more
The Thing About My Folks (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Raymond De Felitta
Starring: Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Olympia Dukakis, Elizabeth Perkins
Paul Reiser wrote the screenplay and stars in this 20 year pet project about a middle-aged man, Ben, who must come to terms with his parents' divorce.... Read more
The Three Ages (1923)
8.8/10
Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery
Keaton's first independently produced film sends up DW Griffith's 1916 epic 'Intolerance', only instead of greed and hatred through the ages, Buster t... Read more