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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Fraternity Vacation (1985)
5.2/10
Director: James Frawley
Starring: Tim Robbins
Theta Pi Gamma fraternity's newest pledge--a gawky, innocent, and utterly uncool bookworm--and two of his self-confident fraternity brothers embark on... Read more
Volunteers (1985)
5.5/10
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson
1962, after Yale graduation, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay. He takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps Volunte... Read more
Run Tiger Run ( Liang zhi lao hu ) (1985)
5.1/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Hark Tsui
A comedy from John Woo's early career, Run tiger Run is a madhouse style, slapstick tale of mistaken identity. When his estranged son of a billionaire... Read more
The Goonies ( Blu-ray ) (1985)
7.8/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano, Josh Brolin, Kerri Green, Martha Plim...
From the imagination of Steven Spielberg, 'The Goonies' plunges a band of small heroes into a swashbuckling, surprise-around-every-corner quest beyond... Read more
Back to the Future: Trilogy ( Blu-ray ) (1985)
6.4/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Michael J Fox...
Experience the time travel adventure of a lifetime with the 'Back to the Future' trilogy - 'Back to the Future' (1985, 116 mins), 'Back to the Future... Read more
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins... (Blu-ray) (1985)
6.4/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Charles Cioffi, Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Kate Mulgrew, Wilford Brimley, George Coe
Given a new face and identity, street-smart NYC cop Remo Williams (Fred Ward) is recruited into a super-secret organization which roots out crooks so... Read more
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins... (1985)
6.4/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Charles Cioffi, Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Kate Mulgrew, Wilford Brimley, George Coe
Given a new face and identity, street-smart NYC cop Remo Williams (Fred Ward) is recruited into a super-secret organization which roots out crooks so... Read more
A Private Function (1985)
6.6/10
Director: Malcolm Mowbray
Starring: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott
In 1947, people in England are having a thin time. In a little-known Yorkshire town, plans are afoot to fatten a contraband pig which is then stolen.... Read more
The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
6/10
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Starring: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, Kris McQuade, Max Gillies...
Eric Roberts plays Becker, an aggressive marketing executive for the Coca-Cola company, assigned to figure out why sales in hot, dry Australia are dro... Read more
Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
6.6/10
Director: Coline Serreau
Starring: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, Andre Dussollier
One of the funniest French films in recent years; the lives of three happy-go-lucky French bachelors are turned upside-down when a former lover of one... Read more