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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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
West of Hot Dog / The Sleuth (1925)
Director: Harry Sweet
Starring: Stan Laurel
In 'The Sleuth' Stan Laurel gets his man after adopting a series of comic disguises. In 'West Of Hot Dog' Stan Laurel also stars as the heir to a fort... Read more
Wetlands (2013)
5.8/10
Director: David Wnendt
Starring: Carla Juri
Get yourself ready for Helen. She likes to experiment with vegetables while masturbating and thinks that body hygiene is greatly overrated. She sho... Read more
What A Way To Go! (1964)
7/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Dean Martin, Robert Cu...
This exuberant '60s comedy stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa May, a woman who, despite her best efforts to marry for love, always winds up with a man w... Read more
What About Bob? (1991)
7/10
Director: Frank Oz
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Bill Murray
Hilarity abounds as neurotic Bill Murray discovers that his psychiatrist (Richard Dreyfuss) is about to go on vacation. What's a patient to do but tag... Read more
What Did You Do In The War Daddy? (1966)
6.8/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni, Giovanna Ralli, Harry Morgan
In World War II, a strategic Italian village agrees to surrender to the Allies only if it's allowed to organize a celebratory festival while giving ae... Read more