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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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
6.7/10
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Starring: Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Vince Vaughn
When his rundown gym is threatened with foreclosure, owner Vince Vaughn has 30 days to come up with $50,000. His solution: assemble a ragtag team of f... Read more
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
6.8/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Reni Santoni, Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner's comic salute to the gumshoe noirs of the 1940s stars Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon, Private Eye and a scene-stealing Rachel Ward as a ha... Read more
Two Hands (1999)
7.2/10
Director: Gregor Jordan
Starring: Rose Byrne, Heath Ledger, David Field, Bryan Brown
From the gripping, innovative opening credits we know that writer/director Gregor Jordan means business. A young lad-on-the-make (Heath Ledger) finds... Read more
Very Annie-Mary (2001)
6.8/10
Director: Sara Sugarman
Starring: Rachel Griffiths, Jonathan Pryce, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys, Kenneth Griffith,...
In the type of film that the British have made their own, "Very Annie Mary" brings shades of "Billy Elliot" and "Little Voice" to the uplifting and of... Read more
Rushmore (1998)
7.7/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Seymour Cassel, Olivia Williams, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
A rebellious teenager (Jason Schwartzman), too involved with his extracurricular activities to bother with studies, befriends a depressed, middle-aged... Read more
The Mask (1994)
6.9/10
Director: Charles Russell
Starring: Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Green
Inspired by the manic 1940s cartoons of Tex Avery and based on the comic book of the same name, this loopy tale has a bank clerk discovering an ancien... Read more
Beginners (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Mike Mills
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor, Mary Page Keller, Melanie Laurent, Keegan Bo...
A semi-autobiographical comedy drama from Mike Mills, "Beginners" explores the confusion and surprises of love through Ewan McGregor's Oliver, who mee... Read more
Peter's Friends (1992)
7/10
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry
A 'Big Chill' style re-union of theatrical types leads to personal revelations, crisis and healing in this humorous and touching souffl from actor-dir... Read more
City Lights (1931)
8.6/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Chaplin's final silent film is one of the screen's true masterworks. Charlie plays the Little Tramp, who falls in love with a blind flower girl and vo... Read more
Men In Black (1997)
7.3/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony...
Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are the nattily-dressed government agents whose top secret job is to track down any extraterrestrials landing on Earth... Read more