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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You Can't Take It With You (1938)
8/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart
James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Lionel Barrymore star in this 1938 Academy Award winning nutty comedy. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss... Read more
East Is East (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett
Funny, poignant and sometimes downbeat film stars Om Puri as a Pakistani immigrant who runs a fish and chip shop in 1970s Manchester, with his British... Read more
Bring It On (2000)
6/10
Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Gabrielle Union, Jesse Bradford
Pert pom-pom waving comedy/drama stars Kirsten Dunst as the newly named captain of San Diego high school's cheerleader squad who tries to whip her fiv... Read more
Joe Dirt (2001)
5.9/10
Director: Dennie Gordon
Starring: David Spade, Dennis Miller, Brittany Daniel, Kid Rock, Adam Beach
David Spade is the lead character, a stuck in the 70s radio station janitor who tells his sad and silly life story on the air to shock jock Dennis Mil... Read more
Purely Belter (2000)
6.7/10
Director: Mark Herman
Starring: Roy Hudd, Tim Healy, Alan Shearer
At the centre of this heart-warming comedy are two young boys who won't give up on the pursuit of their dreams. Gerry and Sewell are broke. Owning sea... Read more
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
6.8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Dan Aykroyd, David Ogden Stiers, Charlize Theron
Putting his own comic spin on a mix of "His Girl Friday" and "Double Indemnity," writer/director/star Woody Allen plays a crack insurance investigator... Read more
A Mighty Wind (2003)
7.3/10
Director: Christopher Guest
Starring: Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, M...
When folk music icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left behind a legacy of music and a family of performers he had shepherded to folk stardom. To... Read more
Ruby and Quentin ( Tais-toi! ) (2003)
4.9/10
Director: Francis Veber
Starring: Jean Reno, Gerard Depardieu
Ruby (Jean Reno) has only one thing on his mind: to avenge the death of the woman he loved at the hand of a criminal. Quentin (Gerard Depardieu) has v... Read more
Children On Their Birthdays (2002)
6.5/10
Director: Mark Medoff
Starring: Phyllis Frelich, Lucina Paquet, Cynthia Baker, Joe Pichler, Jesse Plemons, Ritch...
Billy Bob is growing up in post-war Alabama. His dad was killed in the war and his best friend has an untempered mischievous streak. When 13 year ol... Read more
Must Love Dogs (2005)
5.9/10
Director: Gary David Goldberg
Starring: John Cusack, Diane Lane, Elizabeth Perkins, Dermot Mulroney, Christopher Plummer...
Based on the best-selling novel, Sarah (Diane Lane) is still in a post-divorce funk when her sisters start thinking she needs to get back in the game... Read more