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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Keeping Mum (2005)
6.8/10
Director: Niall Johnson
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith
Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson), the well meaning vicar of Little Wallop, is so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he is oblivious to hi... Read more
The Graduate (1967)
8/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, Murray Hamilton, William Daniels
A landmark film of the late '60s that's still just as pungent and funny. Dustin Hoffman, in his first major film role, plays an ultra-naive college gr... Read more
The Visitors ( Les Visiteurs ) (1993)
5.9/10
Director: Jean-marie Poire
Starring: Valerie Lemercier, Jean Reno, Christian Clavier
A record-breaking hit in its native France, Jean-Marie Poire's fantasy/comedy stars Jean Reno and Christian Clavier (who co-scripted with Poire) as a... Read more
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
7.3/10
Director: Peter Farrelly
Starring: Teri Garr, Lauren Holly, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels may be to the 90s what Laurel and Hardy were to the 30s in this tale of two dim-wits who unwittingly become involved in a... Read more
Harold and Maude (1971)
8/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Cyril Cusack, Vivian Pickles
With the idiosyncratic American fable "Harold and Maude", countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era.... Read more
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
7.7/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Joanna Cassidy
Groundbreaking blend of live-action and animation in which jaded, 1940's detective Bob Hoskins goes searching for a murderer with prime suspect, and c... Read more
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
7.8/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Jason...
Director/co-writer Wes Anderson's charming comedy/drama is set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965 and tells the story of... Read more
The Italian Job (1969)
7.3/10
Director: Peter Collinson
Starring: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Maggie Blye
An ex-con creates the world's biggest traffic jam in an attempt to steal millions in gold. Join Michael Caine and his gang of crooks for the ultimate... Read more
Local Hero (1983)
7.5/10
Director: Bill Forsyth
Starring: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Fulton MacKay
The delicate ecological balance of a small unspoiled Scottish village is threatened by the plans of a wealthy oilman. 'Local Hero' is a tender, very f... Read more
A Serious Man (2009)
7/10
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg
An original and darkly humorous story from Joel and Ethan Coen ("The Big Lebowski") about one ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics pr... Read more