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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That Old Feeling (1997)
6.1/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Bette Midler, Dennis Farina
When former spouses Bette Midler and Dennis Farina arrive, each with new mate in tow, to attend their daughter's wedding, the sparks that fly between... Read more
You Move You Die (2007)
4.5/10
Director: Ketzal Stirling
Starring: Ketzal Sterling, Julian Harrison, Patrick Clarke, Jonathan Allen, Simon Prast
Mike has the girl, the time, and the place. The problem is... he doesn't have the ring. Before Mike has the chance to make his proposal, he's mugged a... Read more
Corvette Summer (1978)
5.5/10
Director: Matthew Robbins
Starring: Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche
A post 'Star Wars' Mark Hamill stars in this lively teen comedy-drama in which the car-obsessed Kenny (Hamill) trails a Corvette Stingray from Califor... Read more
Suso's Tower (2007)
Director: Tom Fernandez
Starring: Javier Camara
Having moved to Argentina years earlier to seek a new life, Cundo is forced to return to his hometown in Northern Spain after the death of his childho... Read more
Whisky Galore! (2016)
5.6/10
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Starring: Eddie Izzard, Gregor Fisher, Naomi Battrick, Sean Biggerstaff, Kevin Guthrie, El...
During World War II, the tiny Scottish island of Todday runs out of whisky. When the freighter S.S. Cabinet Minister runs aground nearby during a heav... Read more
Silver Bears (1977)
6/10
Director: Ivan Passer
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, David Warner, Michael Caine, Tom Smothers
Michael Caine and Cybill Shepherd star in this witty and intriguing story of crosses, double crosses, wheeler-dealing, comedy, adventure and romance o... Read more
Extract (2009)
6.2/10
Director: Mike Judge
Starring: Ben Affleck, Clifton Collins Jr., Jason Bateman, David Koechner, Mila Kunis, J K...
The creator of "Office Space", writer-director Mike Judge, moves from cubicles to the assembly line with "Extract" - his outrageous return to workplac... Read more
Baby It's You (1983)
6.4/10
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano
Evocative and engaging romantic comedy, written and directed by John Sayles ("Passion Fish"), traces the relationship of a book-smart, street-dumb hig... Read more
Married to the Mob (1988)
6.1/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Dean Stockwell, Matthew Modine, Mercedes Ruehl, Michelle Pfeiffer
There's loads of larcenous laughs in Jonathan Demme's offbeat comedy of Mafia manners. When Michelle Pfeiffer's hit man husband is bumped off, she tri... Read more
Man in the Moon (1960)
6.2/10
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Charles Gray, Kenneth More, Michael Hordern, Shirley Anne Field
Basil Dearden directs this sci-fi spoof starring Kenneth More as William Blood, a human guinea pig at a research centre set up to find a cure for the... Read more