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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Rhinestone (1984)
3.7/10
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Dolly Parton, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Farnsworth
When Sly met Dolly... After a big-time country singer (Dolly Parton) brags that she can turn anybody into a country-singin' star, she's out to prove s... Read more
Protocol (1984)
5.4/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory, Gail Strickland, Cl...
After saving an Arabian dignitary from an assassination attempt, Sunny Davis (Goldie Hawn), cocktail waitress, suddenly becomes Sunny Davis, Washingto... Read more
Bachelor Party (1984)
6.3/10
Director: Neal Israel
Starring: Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen, William Tepper
This outrageous look at one man's final moments of bachelorhood stars Tom Hanks as Rick, reluctant recipient of a bachelor bash given by a group of fr... Read more
Police Academy (1984)
6.7/10
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, George Gaynes
"Police Academy" salutes the men, women and borderline cases who protect the public from people very much like themselves. A comic success story for o... Read more
Top Secret! Special Edition (1984)
7.2/10
Director: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Starring: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Christopher Villiers
A likeably silly comedy from the writing-directing team that brought you 'Flying High' .. about an Elvis-like rock star who becomes embroiled in espio... Read more
Top Secret! (1984)
7.2/10
Director: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Starring: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Christopher Villiers
A likeably silly comedy from the writing-directing team that brought you 'Flying High' .. about an Elvis-like rock star who becomes embroiled in espio... Read more
Romancing the Stone (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
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
7.5/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Woody Allen
Sitting at the Carnegie Deli are some of the Catskills' greatest comics swapping stories about the infamous, lovable agent, Broadway Danny Rose (playe... Read more
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (Blu-ray) (1984)
7.6/10
Director: W D Richter
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Peter Weller
Buckaroo Banzai is a skilled neurosurgeon and physicist who becomes bored with his scientific and medical work and embarks on a career as a rock star... Read more
Gremlins (1984)
7.2/10
Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton
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