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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. Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...

Weekend With Kate (1990)

5.9/10
Starring: Colin Friels, Catherine McClements

Richard (Colin Friels) is juggling a high-powered career as a music promoter and an office affair with his domineering colleague Carla. Just as he is... Read more

Weird Science (1985)

6.6/10
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock

Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a wo... Read more

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

6.9/10
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Julianne Nicholson, Diedrich Bader, Lin-Manuel Miranda

Explores every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity lov... Read more

Weirdsville (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Allan Moyle
Starring: Scott Speedman, Taryn Manning, Wes Bentley

Set in the, well, weird town of Weedsville, Ontario, this inventive comedy follows a slacker as he tries to dispose of his girlfriend's body after she... Read more

Welcome (2007)

6.8/10
Director: Anees Bazmee
Starring: Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Paresh Rawal, Nana Patekar, Feroz Khan

Writer/director Anees Bazmee says he 'takes comedy seriously' and it shows in this accomplished farce featuring Bollywood's finest. Beautiful Sanjana... Read more

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)

5.9/10
Director: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins

A small American town is reluctantly preparing for a visit from a local woman who left years ago and became a national celebrity. Teen outcast Dinky B... Read more

Welcome to Collinwood (2002)

6.4/10
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Starring: William H Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, Michael Jeter, Luis Guzman, Pat...

Comic caper based on the classic 1958 Italian film "Big Deal on Madonna Street" that focuses on a group of Cleveland down-and-outers who want to go fo... Read more

Welcome to Mooseport (2003)

5.2/10
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, Maura Tierney, Christine Baranski,...

In his live-action screen debut (following his vocal stint in "Ice Age"), Ray Romano plays a hardware store owner who plans to run for mayor of his ho... Read more

Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)

7.4/10
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Brendan Sexton Jr, Heather Matarazzo, Matthew Faber, Eric Mabius

This Sundance winner follows the travails of Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo), the teen pariah who seems to invite the cruelties heaped upon her by cla... Read more

Welcome to the Sticks (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Dany Boon
Starring: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoe Felix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret, Anne Marivin

A huge hit in its native France, this 'city slicker meets the yokels' comedy stars Kad Merad as a postal worker whose attempts to orchestrate a transf... Read more