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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My Days of Glory (2019)
5.6/10
Starring: Vincent Lacoste, Emmanuelle Devos, Christopher Lambert
An actor who enjoyed success in his youth finds his career and life in a downward spiral as he gets older. Read more
Original Schtick (1999)
8/10
Meet Robert (Bob) Fischer - and then wish you never had. This exposé follows an American (con) artist on his forest fire tour of Melbourne. Bob, a col... Read more
Broken Flowers (2005)
7.2/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Julie Delpy, Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wr...
Bill Murray is at his deadpan best in this typically understated comedy/drama from unique auteur, Jim Jarmusch. Emotionally stilted Don Johnston (Mur... Read more
Unplugging (2022)
4.1/10
Starring: Keith David, Lea Thompson, Eva Longoria, Matt Walsh
To revive their marriage and reconnect, a couple takes a self-prescribed digital detox weekend to a remote mountain town. What starts as a perfect wee... Read more
My Old School (2022)
7.1/10
Starring: Alan Cumming
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the... Read more
The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna) (1990)
6.3/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Roberto Benigni
The Voice of the Moon (Italian: La voce della luna) is a 1990 Italian dramatic comedy film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Roberto Benigni,... Read more
Sweet Liberty (1986)
5.7/10
Director: Alan Alda
Starring: Alan Alda, Bob Hoskins, Lillian Gish, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer
A Hollywood film crew invades the small Southern town of the author whose Revolutionary War novel they've turned into a racy teen comedy, much to his... Read more
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
6.9/10
Director: Gene Saks
Starring: Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Jonathan Silverman, Judith Ivey
New York, the 1930s...and a young man's mind is on the Yankees and sex (not necessarily in that order), as well as trying to deal with his argumentati... Read more
Father Of The Bride (1950)
7.2/10
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G C...
This comic, sentimental gem stars Spencer Tracy as a dad, coping with one emergency after another, as daughter Elizabeth Taylor prepares to walk down... Read more
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
6.7/10
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Don Taylor, Billie Burke
This sequel to the 1950 comedy hit 'Father of the Bride' finds Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett returning as Stanley and Ellie Banks, the parents of new... Read more