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 Duke (2020)
6.9/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Matthew Goode, James Wilby, Helen Mirren, Anna Maxwell Martin, Fi...
In 1961, 60-year-old Kempton Bunton stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sent ransom notes saying t... Read more
Limbo (2020)
7.2/10
Limbo is a wry and poignant observation of the refugee experience, set on a fictional remote Scottish island where a group of new arrivals await the r... Read more
Love And Monsters (2020)
6.9/10
Starring: Dylan O'Brien, Michael Rooker, Dan Ewing
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O'Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant cre... Read more
Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)
6.5/10
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Starring: Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza
Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community of his cli... Read more
The Wedding Speech (2020)
Director: Laurent Tirard
Starring: Benjamin Lavernhe, Julia Piaton, Kyan Khojandi
A recently dumped man awaits a reconciliation text message from his ex during a seemingly never-ending family dinner. Read more
The Big Hit (2020)
7.3/10
Director: Emmanuel Courcol
Starring: Kad Merad, Marina Hands, Laurent Stocker
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to st... Read more
Bye Bye Morons (2020)
6.8/10
Director: Albert Dupontel
Starring: Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marie, Jackie Berroyer
A seriously-ill woman tries to find her long-lost child with the help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist. Read more
Ellie and Abbie (And Ellie's Dead Aunt) (2020)
Starring: Marta Dusseldorp, Rachel House
17 year old Ellie is struggling to find the courage to ask her classmate, Abbie, to the formal. Luckily her Aunt Tara, a lesbian who died in the 80's... Read more
How To Be A Good Wife (2020)
Director: Martin Provost
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Yolande Moreau, Noemie Lvovsky, Edouard Baer, Francois Berlean...
Paulette and her husband have been running a housekeeping school. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the... Read more
The Man In The Hat (2020)
6.3/10
Director: John Paul Davidson
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Stephen Dillane, Maiwenn Le Besco, Muna Otaru
The Man in the Hat journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a... Read more