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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You, Me and Dupree (2006)
5.6/10
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Starring: Amanda Detmer, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, Kate Hudson, Seth Rogen, Owen Wilso...
Carl and Molly (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson) are a recently married thirty-something couple settling down into their cozy new home. Dupree (Owen Wils... Read more
You, The Living (2007)
7.5/10
Director: Roy Andersson
Starring: Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Bjorn Englund, Leif Larsson
A tragi-comic panorama of the human condition, Swedish director Roy Andersson ('Songs from the Second Floor') has stitiched together 50 short scenes o... Read more
Young Adult (2011)
6.3/10
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Reaser, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson
"Juno" director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody team up again to tell the darkly comic story of a divorced, alcoholic writer (Charlize Theron) in... Read more
Young Adult (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.2/10
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Reaser, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson
"Juno" director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody team up again to tell the darkly comic story of a divorced, alcoholic writer (Charlize Theron) in... Read more
Young Einstein (1988)
5.1/10
Director: Yahoo Serious
Starring: Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard
At the turn of the last century, the son of a Tasmanian apple grower discovers the theory of relativity, splits the beer atom, discovers gravity and i... Read more
Young Frankenstein (1974)
8/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachm...
Ranking among the most hilarious comedies of all time, this is Mel Brooks' take on the biggest monster myth of them all. Neurosurgeon Dr. Friedrich vo... Read more
Young Frankenstein ( Blu-ray ) (1974)
8/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter...
Ranking among the most hilarious comedies of all time, this is Mel Brooks' take on the biggest monster myth of them all. Neurosurgeon Dr. Friedrich vo... Read more
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997)
6.7/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Koji Chihara, Seiji Chihara, Sarina Suzuki, Kyosuke Yabe, Moeko Ezawa, Marie Kik...
A vaguely autobiographical and sometimes violent comedy/drama from the eclectic and prolific Takashi Miike which he followed with the prequel, 'Young... Read more
Your Friends and Neighbors (1998)
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Amy Brenneman, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric, Ben Stiller, Catherine Keener
The "In the Company of Men" director moves from the boardroom to the bedroom to serve up an incendiary cocktail of modern mores. The intimacy between... Read more
Your Sister's Sister (2011)
6.7/10
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass, Mike Birbiglia
Still struggling with his brother's death a year earlier, aimless thirtysomething Jack (Mark Duplass) takes up best friend Iris' (Emily Blunt) offer o... Read more