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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Water (1985)
6.2/10
Director: Dick Clement
Starring: Michael Caine, Leonard Rossiter, Brenda Vaccaro, Billy Connolly
Michael Caine stars in this congenial comedy about the commercial and social exploitation of a small rundown Caribbean outpost, governed by Caine, upo... Read more
Back to the Future: Trilogy (1985)
6.4/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen
'Back to the Future' - Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd are a time-travelling duo who journey from the past to the future and back again in this n... Read more
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
5.7/10
Director: Jerry Paris
Starring: Colleen Camp, David Graf, Steve Guttenberg, Bruce Mahler, Marion Ramsey, Bubba S...
The new recruits are let loose on an unsuspecting public, now fully-fledged law enforcers and equally as clueless as they were back at the academy. T... Read more
Crimewave (1985)
5.8/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Louise Lasser, Paul Smith, Brion James, Reed Birney
After his successful debut with 'The Evil Dead', director Sam Raimi pays tribute to slapstick comedy with this weird crime story set in Detroit. Co-wr... Read more
My Lucky Stars (1985)
6.6/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Sibelle Hu, Richard Ng, Eric Tsang, Bolo Yeu...
The second in the Lucky Stars trilogy following 'Winners and Sinners' and followed by 'Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars'. Jackie Chan reunites with martia... Read more
Weird Science (1985)
6.6/10
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a wo... Read more
Oscar Wilde Vol 2: An Ideal Husband (1969) / Lady Windemere's Fan (1985)
Director: Rudolph Cartier, Tony Smith
Starring: Margaret Leighton, Keith Michell, Jeremy Brett, Dinah Sheridan, Susan Hampshire,...
Volume 2 of the BBC's Oscar Wilde adaptations includes the comedies 'An Ideal Husband' (1969) with Margaret Leighton and Keith Michell; and 'Lady Wind... Read more
Spies Like Us (1985)
6.4/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison, Bernie Case...
From director John Landis ("The Blues Brothers", "National Lampoon's Animal House") comes this hilarious comedy of two misfits (Chevy Chase, Dan Aykro... Read more
The Goonies (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
St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
6.4/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy
The new Brat Pack are featured as recent college grads having their problems. One critic referred to this as 'The Little Chill'. With Demi Moore, Rob... Read more