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 Intouchables ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
8.5/10
Director: Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet
A.k.a. "Intouchables", "Untouchable". Philippe (Francois Cluzet) is a wealthy Parisian left paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident.... Read more
Hercules Returns (1993)
7.6/10
Director: David Parker
Starring: David Argue, Bruce Spence, Mary Coustas
Three film entrepreneurs open an old cinema with the classic 'B' grade film 'Hercules'. However, on opening night they discover that it's in Italian w... Read more
Mozart and the Whale (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Petter Naess
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley, Erica Leerhsen
Donald (Josh Hartnett) is a taxi driver who also happens to suffer from Asperger's Syndrome, a type of autism. He likes routine, birds and has a supe... Read more
Love and Friendship (2016)
Director: Whit Stillman
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Fry, Xavier Samuel
Beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out the colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through po... Read more
In Her Shoes (2005)
6.5/10
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine, Toni Collette, Mark Feuerstein, Brooke Smith, Ri...
Sisters Maggie (Cameron Diaz) and Rose (Toni Collette) couldn't be more different. Maggie is irresponsible and free-spirited, always leaning on her s... Read more
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
8.1/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Kurosawa takes the conventional Japanese period film and combines it with fairytale elements, the result is an energetic and brilliant farce. Toshiro... Read more
In the Soup (1992)
7.1/10
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Will Patton, Carol Kane, Stanley...
A wonderfully bizarre comedy about a naive, ambitious writer (Steve Buscemi) who's penned a 500 page screenplay, and the eccentric flim-flam man (Seym... Read more
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
Director: Danny Leiner
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garces
Pothead pals Harold, a Korean-American investment banker, and Kumar, an Indian pre-med student, attempt to satiate their latest bout of the munchies w... Read more
Whisky Galore! (1949)
7.3/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Gordon Jackson
Ranked among the most popular and best-loved of Ealing Studio's comedies. When a ship carrying 50,000 cases of whisky runs aground, the inhabitants of... Read more
The Producers (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Susan Stroman
Starring: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Eileen Essell, David...
Nathan Lane hams it up as Max Bialystock, a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer whose accountant Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick who, with Lane, starred i... Read more