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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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
David Holzman's Diary (1967)
6.5/10
Director: Jim McBride
This fake documentary which appears quite real on the surface is about a young man making a movie about his everyday life and discovering something im... Read more
Spaced (1999)
8.6/10
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, Nick Frost, Mark Heap, Bill Bailey
Friends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford. Read more
Habit (2021)
2.8/10
Starring: Bella Thorne, Gavin Rossdale, Josie Ho, Ione Skye
A street-smart party girl gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out by masquerading as a nun. Read more
Hi, Mom (2021)
7/10
A woman travels back in time to befriend her own mother in an attempt to make her life better. Read more
Little Nicholas' Treasure (2021)
Director: Julien Rappeneau
Starring: Audrey Lamy, Jean-Paul Rouve, Pierre Arditi, Gregory Gadebois, Jean-Pierre Darro...
What Nicholas (9) loves most is playing with his gang of middle school pals, The Invincibles. Adorable, yet mischievous, they have all sorts of advent... Read more
Your Friends and Neighbors (1998)
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Amy Brenneman, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric, Ben Stiller, Catherine Keener
The "In the Company of Men" director moves from the boardroom to the bedroom to serve up an incendiary cocktail of modern mores. The intimacy between... Read more
Carry On Camping (1969)
6.6/10
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw,...
Things get campy when the crew head towards the woods in the hopes of finding a nudist colony. But when they arrive in the great outdoors, there's no... Read more
Charlie Chaplin: Recreation (1914)
6.1/10
Starring: Charlie Chaplin
A collection of four classic shorts from the world renowned Charlie Chaplin. Includes: 'Recreation', 'A Woman', 'The Rival Mashers', and 'A Night in t... Read more