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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Henry Poole is Here (2008)
6.5/10
Director: Mark Pellington
Starring: Luke Wilson, Radha Mitchell, Adriana Barraza, George Lopez, Cheryl Hines, Richar...
Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) has a great life, a beautiful fiancee and he's just found out he's going to die. Hoping to drop out and live his final days... Read more
The Battle Of Shaker Heights (2003)
6/10
Director: Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Amy Smart
A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler (Shia La Beouf) obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart (Elden Henson).... Read more
The Art Of Love (L'art d'aimer ) (2011)
6.1/10
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Starring: Emmanuel Mouret, Ariane Ascaride
The Art of Love (L'art d'aimer) is composed of several chapters following several Parisian couples. Isabelle (Julie Depardieu) has not had sex in a ye... Read more
All in Good Time (Blu-ray) (2012)
5.6/10
Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Harish Patel, Meera Syal
For Atul Dutt and his young bride Vina married life is proving far from straightforward, when it comes to their 'first night'. Atul is so woefully inh... Read more
The Sessions (Blu-ray) (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Ben Lewin
Starring: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, William H Macy, John Hawkes, Rhea Perlman, Moon Bloodgoo...
Candid and sensitive drama about the sexual awakening of a life-long polio sufferer. John Hawkes stars as Mark O'Brien, a writer in his late thirties... Read more
The Van (1977)
4.6/10
Starring: Danny DeVito
Bobby is a Los Angeles teenager who buys a customized Dodge van to pick up girls and spruce up his dull life, all while trying to win money racing oth... Read more
He Said, She Said (1991)
5.6/10
Director: Ken Kwapis, Marisa Silver
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Nathan Lane
TV viewers love seeing the two reporters with opposing views on the show "He Said, She Said". Womanizer Dan and Lorie fall for each other. Love? Read more
Johnny Dangerously (1984)
6.5/10
Director: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle, Dom DeLuise, Danny DeVi...
Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills. Read more
Three O'Clock High (1987)
7.2/10
Director: Phil Joanou
Starring: Casey Siemaszko, Annie Ryan, Richard Tyson
A nerd gets himself in hot water with the new bully, a quiet bad boy who challenges him to fight on the grounds of their high school after the day's e... Read more
Best Defence (1984)
Director: Willard Huyck
Starring: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years late... Read more