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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Unconscious (2004)
7.4/10
Director: Joaquin Oristrell
Starring: Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Alex Brendemuhl, Nuria Prims, Juanjo Puigcorbe
Set in 1913 Barcelona as psychoanalysis was captivating an entire generation, this unashamedly bawdy Spanish farce stars Almodovar darling Leonor Watl... Read more
Undead or Alive (2007)
5.3/10
Director: Glasgow Phillips
Starring: Chris Kattan, James Denton, Navi Rawat
AKA 'Undead or Alive: A Zombedy'. From the demented imagination of one of the writers of 'South Park' comes the first zombie Western! 'Blazing Saddles... Read more
Under The Vines. Series 1 (2021)
7.2/10
Starring: Rebecca Gibney, Cohen Holloway, Catherine Wilkin, Dean O'Gorman, Sara Wiseman, J...
Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards star as two city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand.. the only problems are that neither... Read more
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
Universal Language (2024)
6.9/10
An absurdist triptych of seemingly unconnected stories finds a mysterious point of intersection in this tale set somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran... 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