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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Johnny Dangerously (1984)
6.5/10
Director: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle, Dom DeLuise, Danny DeVi...
Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills. Read more
Draw! (1984)
6.3/10
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Starring: James Coburn, Kirk Douglas, Len Birman
Kirk Douglas is an old-time outlaw who finds himself trapped in a small Western town after a poker game ends in a gunfight and James Coburn is his old... Read more
Electric Dreams (1984)
6.5/10
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Bud Cort, Lenny von Dohlen, Maxwell Caulfield, Virginia Madsen
Lonely architect Miles purchases a fancy new "Pine cone" personal computer and clumsily spills champagne on it which, of course, imbues the computer w... Read more
Came a Hot Friday (1984)
6.9/10
Director: Ian Mune
Starring: Billy T James, Peter Bland, Philip Gordon
In 1949 Wes and his sidekick Cyril are conmen eking out a meagre living by scamming small-town bookies. They arrive in Tainui and go to work with the... Read more
Romancing the Stone ( Blu-ray ) (1984)
6.9/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Danny DeVito, Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner have the adventure of their lives in this hugely successful romantic caper co-starring Danny DeVito. When her sist... Read more
Gremlins ( Blu-ray ) (1984)
7.2/10
Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Hoyt Axton, Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan
A young man tries to save his small town from complete destruction as director Joe Dante provides the Grinch's version of 'It's a Wonderful Life' in w... Read more
Ghostbusters ( Blu-ray ) (1984)
7.8/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Annie Potts, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis,...
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis are three unemployed parapsychology professors who set up shop as a high-profile ghost removal service; but... Read more
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
6/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Beau Bridges, Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Wilford Brimley
Based on John Irving's ("The World According to Garp") serio-comic novel about an unconventional family and its bizarre adventures - social, sexual, a... Read more
The Ice Pirates (1984)
5.7/10
Director: Stewart Raffill
Starring: Mary Crosby, Anjelica Huston, Robert Urich, Michael D Roberts, John Matuszak, Ro...
In the future, Earth is starved for water, so whoever has the ice... rules. Robert Urich, Mary Crosby and Anjelica Houston star in this nifty outer-sp... Read more
American Dreamer (1984)
6.7/10
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Starring: JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini
A stifled housewife (JoBeth Williams) who loses herself in trashy romance novels wins a trip to Paris and, after a bump on the head, comes to believe... Read more