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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Viva Maria! (1965)
6.4/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton
Who doesn't want to see Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot costarring as turn-of-the-century vaudevillians who get mixed up with Mexican revolutionarie... Read more
Vivarium (2019)
5.8/10
Director: Lorcan Finnegan
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots
A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. Read more
Vivarium (Blu-ray) (2019)
5.8/10
Director: Lorcan Finnegan
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots
A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. Read more
Volunteers (1985)
5.5/10
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson
1962, after Yale graduation, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay. He takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps Volunte... Read more
Vulgaria (2012)
6.3/10
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Starring: Chapman To, Ronald Cheng, Dada Chan
To Wai-cheung (Chapman To), a long-time film producer, has yet to produce anything resembling a hit. Beset by financial troubles, he agrees to recreat... Read more
Wacko (1982)
4.9/10
Director: Greydon Clark
Starring: Stella Stevens, George Kennedy
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookou... Read more
Wag the Dog (1997)
7.1/10
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Anne Heche, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, William...
After a presidential scandal erupts two weeks before election day, Robert De Niro is the spin doctor called to the White House to deflect press attent... Read more
Wah Do Dem (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Ben Chace, Sam Fleischner
Starring: Carl Bradshaw, Ira Wolf-Tuton, Norah Jones, Sean Bones, Mark Gibbs, Patrick Morr...
Aka 'What They Do'. Young Brooklyn musician Max (Sean Bones) decides to go on a Caribbean cruise alone after his girlfriend Willow (Norah Jones) dumps... Read more
Wah-Wah (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Richard E Grant
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Nicholas Hoult, Emily Watson, Julie Walters,...
South African-born actor Richard E Grant makes his directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical comedy/drama set against the colonial British wit... Read more
Waiting For God: Series 3 (1992)
7.8/10
Starring: Graham Crowden, Stephanie Cole
At the Bayview Retirement Village the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort...but not if... Read more