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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. Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...

Secret Agent X-9 (1937)

6.5/10
Director: Ford Beebe
Starring: Jean Rogers, Monte Blue, Henry Brandon, Lon Chaney Jr

In Chapter One (Modern Pirates), the G-Men learn that "Brenda", notorious jewel thief, is heading for the United States, to steal the Belgravian crown... Read more

Cruel World (2005)

3.8/10
Starring: Edward Furlong, Daniel Franzese, Andrew Keegan, Susan Ward, Sanoe Lake, Laura Ra...

Reeling from his dismissal from a reality show, a deranged runner-up holds a group of co-eds hostage on the set of his own fictitious show, where lose... Read more

Me Two (2008)

5.7/10
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Alain Chabat, Marina Fois, Francois Damiens

Ranu, a shy accountant, suddenly discovers a completely opposite personality living in his head: 80's singer Gilles Gabriel. Read more

The Wheeler Dealers (1963)

6.5/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Lee Remick, James Garner, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus

A big-time Texas wheeler-dealer (who's actually Ivy league-educated, but plays dumb) runs out of money, and goes to New York City to raise $1.5 millio... Read more

Burglar (1987)

5.1/10
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, G W Bailey, Lesley Ann Warren, John Goodman

A retired cop blackmails ex burglar Bernice into paying him $20,000 - thus burgling. Paid to get a dentist's jewelry back from her ex's apartment, som... Read more

Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)

6.3/10
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson

Tillie Shlai's not looking forward to meeting yet another blind date. This one's name being Pete Seltzer. Pete and Tillie are not a match made in heav... Read more

The Aki Kaurismaki Collection: Part: 2 (1983)

Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Starring: Kati Outinen, Markku Peltola, Ilkka Koivula

Aki Kaurismäki is known for his extremely minimalistic style. He has been called an auteur,[5][6] since he writes, directs, produces and usually edits... Read more

The Return of the Pink Panther (Blu-ray) (1975)

7.1/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk

An assortment of props, including a steam bath, vacuum cleaner, waxed dance room floor and a deliriously deranged monkey are the comic springs for Pet... Read more

Khrustalyov, My Car! (Blu-ray) (1988)

7.4/10
Director: Aleksei German

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-... Read more

Weekend With Kate (1990)

5.9/10
Starring: Colin Friels, Catherine McClements

Richard (Colin Friels) is juggling a high-powered career as a music promoter and an office affair with his domineering colleague Carla. Just as he is... Read more