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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Grilled (2006)
5.2/10
Director: Jason Ensler
Starring: Ray Romano, Kevin James, Juliette Lewis, Michael Rapaport, Burt Reynolds
This sleeper comedy stars real-life buddies Kevin James and Ray Romano as partners who sell meat door-to-door. When business gets slow, they are force... Read more
Critical Condition (1986)
5.2/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Ruben Blades
Playing a criminal who fakes insanity to avoid prison, Richard Pryor ends up in a hospital psychiatric ward. That's when the craziness starts as he es... Read more
Nickelodeon (1976)
6.3/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Stella Stevens, John Ritter
Ryan O'Neal stars as the ambitious young attorney who decides to go into the glamorous world of filmmaking, only to discover it's filled with dirty bu... Read more
The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2 (2010)
4.6/10
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Starring: Alex Dimitriades, Kevin Sorbo, Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Costas Kilias,...
Things haven't been going well for Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis... His one true love, a '69 Valiant Pacer, has just been seized, along with all his... Read more
Immigrants (2008)
5.9/10
Director: Gabor Csupo
Starring: Voices Of, Hank Azaria, Eric McCormack, Carl Lumbly, Freddy Rodriguez, Tom Kenny...
Hungarian, Joska and Russian, Vlad have just arrived for a fresh start in the U.S.A.. They have their hearts set on achieving the American Dream - ton... Read more
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
6.1/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Bert Lahr, Britt Ekland, Denholm Elliott, Elliott Gould, Forrest Tucker, Harry A...
A flavourful comedy, set in the Burlesque years, about an Amish girl (Britt Ekland) who comes to N.Y.C., gets involved with a comic (Jason Robards), a... Read more
The Garth Method (2006)
4.7/10
Director: Gregory Pakis
Starring: Gregory Pakis, Katrina Baylis, Scott Terrill, Jamie Unicomb, Jo Buckley, Elena N...
Writer/director Gregory Pakis also stars in this nutty mockumentary about an out-of-work actor so desperate he decides to make his own film - by kidna... Read more
CJ7 (2007)
6.5/10
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow, Xu Jiao, Kitty Zhang
Hong Kong comedy king Stephen Chow directs and stars in this sci-fi family comedy as a struggling single father whose quest to find his son the perfec... Read more
Dead and Deader (2007)
Director: Patrick Dinhut
Starring: Dean Cain, Armin Shimerman, Dean Haglund, John Billingsley, Susan Ward
Dean Cain stars as Lt. Bobby Quinn, a Special Forces commando killed during a recon mission deep in the Cambodian jungle. But when Quinn interrupts hi... Read more
Abbott And Costello In Society (1944)
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree i... Read more