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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Morons From Outer Space (1985)
4.5/10
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Jimmy Nail, Paul Bown
Hilarious misadventures of four ordinary aliens who crash on Earth. The aliens are quite uninterested in Earth, but curious humans find them to be so... Read more
Mr Vampire (1985)
7.6/10
Director: Ricky Lau
Starring: Ching-Ying Lam, Ricky Hui, Siu-hou Chin, Li Choi Fung
The first of a popular comedy/horror series featuring the Chinese version of a movie vampire, a more corpse-like creature than his Western counterpart... Read more
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
6.2/10
Director: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Jason Lively
The Griswald family is off on another hilarious holiday - but the Continent may never recover..... Read more
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
7/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton
You want some fresh air? Here it is! Pee-wee Herman goes on an adventure to recover his most important possession - a bicycle stolen by some nasties.... Read more
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
6.8/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, John Randolph,...
Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner in a black comedy about a Mafia hit man who falls in love with a beautiful free-lance killer. With Anjelica Huston... Read more
Rustler's Rhapsody (1985)
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Tom Berenger, G W Bailey, Marilu Henner, Sela Ward
When a dressed-in-white singing cowboy tries to clean up the real Old West, the results are hilarious comedy and a riotous send-up of the 40s Saturday... Read more
Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
5/10
Starring: Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price, Gareth Hunt, Don Warrington
Six scientists investigate a strange phenomenon at the creepy Headstone Manor, the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier that took the lives of... Read more
Crackers (1984)
5.2/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Christine Baranski
Reduced to minding the counter at a crusty pawn shop, Weslake tumbles onto a scheme by some disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than b... Read more
The Toughest Man In The World (1984)
5/10
Director: Dick Lowry
Starring: Mr. T, Dennis Dugan
Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with... Read more
No Small Affair (1984)
5.5/10
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Starring: Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt
16 y.o. Charles loves to photograph. A cute girl's photo ends up in his camera. He later sees the older Laura singing in a bar. He takes a lot more ph... Read more