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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Undercover (1983)
6.7/10
Director: David Stevens
Starring: Genevieve Picot, John Walton, Michael Pare, Peter Phelps, Barry Otto
True story set in the Roaring Twenties Sydney about the rise of Berlei, a popular Australian brand of women's lingerie, famous for its bras and girdle... Read more
Undercover Blues (1993)
6/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw
Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid play husband and wife espionage agents, who, having taken time off to have a baby, are pulled back into the realm of... Read more
Undercover Brother (2002)
5.8/10
Director: Malcolm D Lee
Starring: Aunjanue Ellis, Eddie Griffin, Chris Kattan, Denise Richards, Billy Dee Williams
Riotous spoof of blaxploitation films boasts Eddie Griffin as the title hero, an Afroed, kung fu-fighting fellow stuck in the 1970s, recruited by a se... Read more
Une Parisienne (1958)
Director: Michel Boisrond
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal
Brigitte Bardot is the daughter of the French Premier, and married to Henri Vidal, his chief aide. When Vidal shows signs of infidelity, Bardot fights... Read more
Unmade Beds (2009)
6.6/10
Director: Alexis Dos Santos
Starring: Fernando Tielve, Deborah Francois, Iddo Goldberg
Alexis Dos Santos' vivid and seductive feature is a lyrical tale of two solitary expats crossing paths in the cosmopolitan art-rock milieu of a sprawl... Read more
Unplugging (2022)
4.1/10
Starring: Keith David, Lea Thompson, Eva Longoria, Matt Walsh
To revive their marriage and reconnect, a couple takes a self-prescribed digital detox weekend to a remote mountain town. What starts as a perfect wee... Read more
Unstrung Heroes (1995)
6.7/10
Director: Diane Keaton
Starring: Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Michael Richards
Inspired by writer Franz Lidz's autobiographical book, this poignant comedy-drama focuses on a 12-year-old son of a wacky inventor and sickly mother w... Read more
Untold Scandal (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Je-yong Lee
Starring: Mi-suk Lee, Do-yeon Jeon, Yong-jun Bae, Hyeon-jae Jo, So-yeon Lee
An excellent Korean adaptation of the French novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, set amidst the aristocracy of the 18th century Chosun Dynasty. Lady Cho... Read more
Up (2009)
8.3/10
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, John Ratzenberger, Edward Asner, Bob Peterson...
Another animated masterpiece from the whizzkids at Pixar, telling the story of 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his... Read more
Up ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
8.3/10
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, John Ratzenberger, Edward Asner, Bob Peterson...
Another animated masterpiece from the whizzkids at Pixar, telling the story of 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his... Read more