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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Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
6.4/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley
A father's attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal. Read more
First Night (2010)
5.3/10
Director: Christopher Menaul
Starring: Richard E Grant, Sarah Brightman, Oliver Dimsdale, Susannah Fielding, Nigel Lind...
Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the cap... Read more
Penda's Fen (Blu-ray) (1974)
Director: Alan Clarke
Starring: Spencer Banks
Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and pol... Read more
The Saragossa Manuscript (Blu-ray) (1965)
7.8/10
Director: Wojciech Has
Starring: Zbigniew Cybulski
Upon finding a book that relates his grandfather's story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a st... Read more
Dinner for Schmucks (Blu-ray) (2010)
5.9/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Paul Rudd, Ron Livingston, Jemaine Clement, Jeff Dunham, Steve...
American remake of Francis Veber's sparkling French comedy, 'The Dinner Game'. Paul Rudd stars as Tim, an ambitious business executive on his way up t... Read more
Zelig (Blu-ray) (1983)
7.7/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Garrett Brown, Mia Farrow, Will Holt, Woody Allen
Woody Allen's side-splitting comic documentary and a scathing attack on the shallowness of American culture. Allen plays Leonard Zelig, a man famous f... Read more
The Automatic Hate (2015)
6.3/10
Starring: Deborah Ann Woll, Joseph Cross, Adelaide Clemens, Richard Schiff, Ricky Jay, Cat...
Davis meets a cute young woman claiming to be his cousin. After confirming that his dad has a secret brother, he visits her and her two sisters. What... Read more
Harry And Walter Go To New York (Blu-ray) (1976)
5.4/10
Director: Mark Rydell
Starring: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, Lesley...
In 1892, two vaudevillians and petty con artists get involved, together with the most notorious bank robber, in a New York City bank heist. Read more
Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
5/10
Starring: Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price, Gareth Hunt, Don Warrington
Six scientists investigate a strange phenomenon at the creepy Headstone Manor, the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier that took the lives of... Read more
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (Blu-ray) (1976)
7/10
Director: Paul Mazursky
Starring: Christopher Walken, Ellen Greene, Shelley Winters, Lenny Baker
Paul Mazursky's autobiographical comedy centers on an aspiring actor's (Lenny Baker) adventures in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, as he leaves his ho... Read more