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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Flashback (1989)
6.2/10
Director: Franco Amurri
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Hopper, Carol Kane
Young straight-arrow FBI agent Kiefer Sutherland is ordered to transport a recently capturedundergroun political fugitive to the scene of his 60s crim... Read more
Fletch (1985)
6.9/10
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Chevy Chase
This may be Chevy Chase's funniest screen comedy. Chevy plays an investigative reporter who, while undercover, is offered $50,000 by a millionaire who... Read more
Fletch Lives (1989)
6.1/10
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, Richard Libertini, Randall Tex Cob...
In this surprisingly funny sequel, Chevy Chase returns as the glib, wise-cracking reporter Fletch who travels to the heart of Dixie when he inherits a... Read more
Flirting with Disaster (1996)
6.8/10
Director: David O Russell
Starring: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Tea Leoni, Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore, George S...
This original and often hilarious comedy from the director of "Spanking the Monkey" has neurotic Ben Stiller going cross-country searching for his bio... Read more
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
6.9/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Hugh Grant, Meryl Streep, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, Nina Arianda
In the 1940s, New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) dreams of becoming a great opera singer. Unfortunately, her ambition far excee... Read more
Flower Drum Song (1961)
7/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall, Benson Fong, Jack Soo
Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Music for Rodgers and Hammerstein, this classic, musical comedy-romance stars Nancy Kwan as a young C... Read more
Flux Gourmet (2022)
6/10
Director: Peter Strickland
Starring: Leo Bill, Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie
Set at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas, an... Read more
Flyfishing (2002)
6.3/10
Director: David Williams
Starring: Kate Ashfield, Frances Barber, Helen Baxendale, Nicky Henson, Adam Croasdell, Be...
Philip is polite, well spoken, good looking and skint. His flatmate James is pressing him for rent money - but he also has the answer to Phil's debt p... Read more
Flying Deuces (1939)
6.9/10
Director: Edward Sutherland
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Charles Middleton
Laurel and Hardy join the Foreign Legion, but it's not as much fun as they might have thought. Sinister Charles Middleton is the commander and he mean... Read more
Flying High! ( aka Airplane! ) (1980)
6.5/10
Director: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Starring: Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges
A funny spoof of 'Airport'-type disaster movies with non-stop hilarity that holds up to the end. Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, R... Read more