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 Milky Way (1936)
6.7/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Harold Lloyd
Mild-mannered milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Harold Lloyd) becomes the toast of the boxing world when he's accidentally credited with knocking out the cha... Read more
The Room Upstairs (1987)
5.8/10
Director: Stuart Margolin
Starring: Stockard Channing, Sarah Jessica Parker, Linda Hunt, Sam Waterston
Stockard Channing stars as a teacher of hard-to-reach kids who learns to reach out in her private life as well when she starts up a boarding house. Lo... Read more
Repo Chick (2009)
3.8/10
Director: Alex Cox
Starring: Chloe Webb, Karen Black, Robert Beltran, Rosanna Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jacl...
Spoiled rich girl Pixie De La Chasse has been disinherited by her family due to her numerous driving offences, her failure to get a job and her overal... Read more
Diagnosis Death (2009)
4.7/10
Director: Jason Stutter
Starring: Raybon Kan, Jessica Grace Smith, Suze Tye, Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement
Two people meet as guinea pigs in a weekend drug trial. Andre (an unethical high school teacher) and Juliet (a bookish teenager) soon discover their l... Read more
Infinitely Polar Bear (Blu-ray) (2014)
7/10
Director: Maya Forbes
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who d... Read more
Men in Black 3 (Blu-ray) (3D) (2012)
6.8/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Emma Thompson, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Jemaine Clement, Michae...
The Men in Black are back and this time Agent J (Will Smith) must take a trip into the past in order to save both the future and his taciturn partner... Read more
Without a Paddle (Nature's Calling) (2004)
5.9/10
Director: Ellory Elkayem
Starring: Oliver James, Rik Young
Zach and Ben have been best buddies since they were in grade school. They were those "two guys" that we all know, opposites, but still the same kid. T... Read more
Le Chignon d'Olga (2002)
6.8/10
Director: Jerome Bonnell
Starring: Nathalie Boutefeu
A bereaved young man falls in love with a shop assistant he glimpses in a window and secretly tries to get to know her better. Read more
Who's That Girl (1987)
4.8/10
Director: James Foley
Starring: Madonna , Griffin Dunne
The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove h... Read more
Strange Brew (1983)
6.7/10
Starring: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Max von Sydow
Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it. Read more