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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A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)
6.1/10
Director: Andy Cadiff
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Imelda Staunton, Derek Jacobi, Samantha Bond, Charles Durning
Fading Hollywood action star Jefferson Steel (Burt Reynolds) gets talked into doing King Lear in Stratford - not the famous one, but instead a sleepy... Read more
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
5.8/10
Director: Michael Winner
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Seagrove, Jeremy Irons, Patsy Kensit, Prunella Scales, Ri...
The film version of the hilarious Alan Ayckbourn stage play. Jeremy Irons is the protagonist who stirs up all sorts of intrigue in a small town when h... Read more
A Christmas Story (1983)
8/10
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon, Peter Billingsley
Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range Shot 200 BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his... Read more
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / The Emperor Waltz (1949)
Director: Billy Wilder, Tay Garnett
Starring: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Joan Fontaine, Ro...
This classic Bing Crosby Double Feature begins with 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' (1949). Adapted from Mark Twain's story, Bing is a... Read more
A Countess from Hong Kong (1966)
6.1/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren, Margaret Rutherford
Charlie Chaplin's final directorial effort stars Marlon Brando as a wealthy American diplomat, en route to New York from the Far East on an ocean line... Read more
A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
7.1/10
Director: Darren Thornton
Starring: Seana Kerslake, Tara Lee, Charleigh Bailey
"Mad" Mary McArdle (Seána Kerslake) returns to her hometown after a brief stint in prison and is immediately labeled as undatable, but she is determin... Read more
A Day At The Races (1937)
7.7/10
Director: Sam Wood
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Anyone for a tootsi-fruitsi ice cream? Side-splitting Marx Brothers comedy has horse doctor Groucho trying to keep Maureen O'Sullivan's sanitarium fro... Read more
A Deal Is A Deal (2008)
6.2/10
Starring: Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Gary Lewis, Imelda Staunton, Gemma Arterton
A comedy about ordinary people with unique dilemmas. How far will they go? Will the cocktail of desperation, friendship, loneliness, love and even a b... Read more
A Dirty Shame (2004)
5.1/10
Director: John Waters
Starring: Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak
John Waters returns to X-rated territory in this wildly over-the-top comedy. Tracey Ullman is Sylvia Stickles, a wife and mother who, after receiving... Read more
A Dog's Journey (2019)
7.4/10
Director: Gail Mancuso
Starring: Marg Helgenberger, Kathryn Prescott, Dennis Quaid, Josh Gad
Bailey is living the good life on the Michigan farm of his boy, Ethan and Ethan's wife Hannah. He even has a new playmate: Ethan and Hannah's baby gra... Read more