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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. Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...

Eddie Murphy: Delirious (1983)

8.2/10
Starring: Eddie Murphy

The year was 1983 and NOTHING was sacred! Jokes about puberty, dating, Mr T, disciplinarian mothers, and the personality traits of Michael Jackson wer... Read more

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

4.3/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Ted Wass, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Rob...

Not considered one of the better 'Pink' sequels, it concerns a bumbling New York cop who is mistakenly charged with finding both the Pink Panther jewe... Read more

The Secret Policeman's Private Parts (1983)

7.2/10
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Dame Edna Everage, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Clees...

SEE John Cleese as "The Pope", SEE Michael Palin as" The Transvestite Lumberjack" SEE Graham Chapman as " The Bent Copper", SEE Trerry Jones as "The H... Read more

The Survivors (1983)

5.8/10
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed

Donald Quinelle lost his job, his girlfriend and then he lost his mind. Sonny Paluso got held up, blown up and then he got a little fed up. When comed... Read more

The Lonely Guy (1983)

6.2/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Martin

Steve Martin is shy guy Larry Hubbard who suddenly finds himself back on the singles market in New York. Charles Grodin is his geeky pal in the same... Read more

Zelig (Blu-ray) (1983)

7.7/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Garrett Brown, Mia Farrow, Will Holt, Woody Allen

Woody Allen's side-splitting comic documentary and a scathing attack on the shallowness of American culture. Allen plays Leonard Zelig, a man famous f... Read more

Educating Rita (1983)

7.2/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael C Williams

An entertaining adaptation of Willy Russell's stage play about a young working class wife who wants to better herself and selects a boozy professor as... Read more

Local Hero (1983)

7.5/10
Director: Bill Forsyth
Starring: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Fulton MacKay

The delicate ecological balance of a small unspoiled Scottish village is threatened by the plans of a wealthy oilman. 'Local Hero' is a tender, very f... Read more

The Man With Two Brains (1983)

6.4/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner

Steve Martin stars in this very amusing takeoff of the 1950s horror sci-fi Bs as a scientist involved with two women - a nasty wife and a sweet patien... Read more

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

7.4/10
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid

Join The Griswald family on a madcap vacation trek through the US. On this trip , everything happens; cars go out of control, beautiful model Christi... Read more