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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Three Texas Steers (1939)
5.9/10
Director: George Sherman
Starring: John Wayne
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly... Read more
Threesome (1994)
6.2/10
Director: Andrew Fleming
Starring: Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Charles
Through a computer error, college student Lara Flynn Boyle is assigned to room with two guys - shy, intellectual Josh Charles, who may be gay, and in-... Read more
Throw Momma From The Train (1987)
6.2/10
Director: Danny Devito
Starring: Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey, Kate Mulgrew, Rob Reiner
Billy Crystal has two major problems in this slightly black comedy. One is a severe case of writer's block and the other is Owen, who wants his writin... Read more
Ticket To Paradise (2022)
6.2/10
Director: Ol Parker
Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Billie Lourd, Kaitlyn Dever
A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago. Read more
Ticket To Paradise (Blu-ray) (2022)
6.2/10
Director: Ol Parker
Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Billie Lourd, Kaitlyn Dever
A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago. Read more
Tickets (2005)
7/10
Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Ermanno Olmi, Ken Loach
Starring: Martin Compston, William Ruane, Carlo delle Piane, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Silva...
Three outstanding directors came together with the idea of making three separate films, then decided to weave their stories together using a train jou... Read more
Tideland (2005)
6.5/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Janet McTeer, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly, Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher, D...
Terry Gilliam's macabre and surreal fairytale centres on young Jeliza-Rose, the neglected daughter of a couple of strung-out drug addicts (Jeff Bridge... Read more
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
5.4/10
Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Ray Wise, Robert Loggia, William Atherton, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wa...
Provided with a billion dollars for film production, Tim and Eric squander every dime and elicit the wrath of the sinister Schlaaang Corporation. With... Read more
Time Bandits (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more
Time Bandits (Blu-ray) (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more