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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The Seven Year Itch (1955)
7.2/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Tom Ewell, Marilyn Monroe
While Hollywood censors carefully watched the filming of this notoriously racy production, Marilyn was pure perfection as a sexy, yet innocent, starle... Read more
Anger Management (2003)
6.2/10
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzman, Woody Harrelson, John T...
After a misunderstanding aboard an airplane that escalates out of control, the mild-mannered Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is ordered by Judge Daniels to... Read more
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
7.1/10
Director: George Clooney
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer
Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star in the comedy thriller that poses an irresistible question: what would happen if a... Read more
Matchstick Men (2003)
7.3/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce McGill
Obsessive-compulsive con artist Nicolas Cage and partner Sam Rockwell make good livings with slick scams in the Los Angeles area. Cage believes he has... Read more
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
5.9/10
Director: Ate De Jong
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason
Comic fantasy starring Phoebe Cates as a recently divorced woman who calls on her imaginary childhood friend to help her out of dire emotional straits... Read more
Blazing Saddles (1974)
7.8/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Mel Brooks, Harvey...
Hollywood Westerns were never the same after director/co-writer Mel Brooks put them through the comedy wringer with this tasteless, hilarious spoof. C... Read more
Another Year (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, Peter Wight
Writer/director Mike Leigh's moving and comic drama follows a year in the life of long-married couple Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), who... Read more
Mansfield Park (1999)
7.1/10
Director: Patricia Rozema
Starring: Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Frances O'Connor
Jane Austen's classic novel is the basis for this controversial and acclaimed adaptation from Canada's Patricia Rozema. Frances O'Connor is Fanny Pric... Read more
Ali G Indahouse (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Mark Mylod
Starring: Ali G, Sacha Baron Cohen, Michael Gambon, Charles Dance
In his big screen debut, popular British TV character Ali G gets mixed up in some political machinations in Parliament. Naturally, his clueless hip-ho... Read more
The Player (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Brion J...
A savagely satirical black comedy about a paranoid young movie executive (Tim Robbins), threatened by a disgruntled screenwriter - until he begins tak... Read more