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 Dancing Masters (1943)
6.3/10
Director: Lee Marcus
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Robert Mitchum
Stan and Ollie show their artistic sides - not to mentoion their tutus - when they become dancing masters. Watch out for a very young Robert Mitchum... Read more
The Intervention ( aka Suicide, The Comedy ) (1998)
6.1/10
Director: Glen Freyer
Starring: Jamie Harris, Alison Eastwood, Chad Lowe, Phil LaMarr
Matt is a screenwiter who is having a little trouble getting pen to paper, not to mention his personal life could use some work. When he starts talki... Read more
Romance Collection: Made For Each Other (1939) / Meet John Doe (1941) / Penny Serenade (1941) / The Amazing Adventure (1936) / The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Director: Alfred Zeisler, Frank Capra, George Stevens, John Cromwell, Richard Brooks
Starring: James Stewart, Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Irene...
This collection of classic romances includes: 'Made For Each Other' - Carole Lombard and James Stewart star in a classic comedy-drama about a young ma... Read more
Redneck Zombies (1989)
4.3/10
Director: Pericles Lewnes
In the back-woods of America live a very special kind of people. Friendly, decent, hard-working dirt farmers. When they accidentally drink a barrel of... Read more
The Winning Season (2009)
6.6/10
Director: James C Strouse
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Rob Corddry, Emma Roberts, Rooney Mara, Shareeka Epps
Divorced deadbeat dad Bill (Sam Rockwell) gets a shot at redemption when he is brought on to coach a girls' high school basketball team. As soon as he... Read more
Otto; or Up With Dead People (2008)
5.3/10
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Olivia Barth, Keith Boehm, Jey Crisfar, Nicholas Fox Ricciardi, Marcel Schlutt,...
Controversial Canadian director Bruce La Bruce wowed them at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival with Otto, a gay neo-Goth zombie who hooks up with... Read more
Electric Dreams (1984)
6.5/10
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Bud Cort, Lenny von Dohlen, Maxwell Caulfield, Virginia Madsen
Lonely architect Miles purchases a fancy new "Pine cone" personal computer and clumsily spills champagne on it which, of course, imbues the computer w... Read more
Magic Mike XXL (Blu-Ray) (2015)
5.6/10
Director: Gregory Jacobs
Starring: Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel...
Picking up the 'story' three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, "Magic Mike XXL" finds the remaining Kings of Tam... Read more
The Merger (2018)
6.5/10
Director: Mark Grentell
Starring: John Howard, Penny Cook, Damian Callinan, Kate Mulvany
A former professional football player returns to his country town after his sporting career comes to an abrupt end, and takes on the position of coach... Read more
Doris Day Collection (1960)
Director: David Miller, Michael Gordon, Frank Tashlin
Starring: Doris Day, James Garner, Rod Taylor, Richard Harris, Ray Walston
'Mignight Lace' 1960 In London, the American housewife Kit Preston (Doris Day) has been married for three months with the British executive Anthony P... Read more