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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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
Privates On Parade (1983)
4.7/10
Director: Michael Blakemore
Starring: John Cleese, Denis Quilley, Nicola Pagett
John Cleese is the marvelous mad major in this sizzling mix of high camp, low farce and bitter tragedy about an army song-and-dance unit. Denis Quille... Read more
To Be Or Not To Be (1983)
6.8/10
Director: Alan Johnson
Starring: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft are Polish actors who foil the Nazis at the outbreak of WW II. Charles Durning's Gestapo officer alone is worth the price... Read more
Trading Places (1983)
7.5/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis
A grand comedy about what happens when an uptight broker and a black street-hustler switch places. Great casting of Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in th... Read more
Winners and Sinners (1983)
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Ching-Ying Lam
Jackie Chan plays an ex-con who forms a cleaning business with four other former crims looking to go straight. While working in a building, they run i... Read more
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Director: Terry Jones
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jone...
The Monty Python team embark on the holy grail of human understanding with a series of sketches aimed at discovering the meaning of life itself. Inclu... Read more
Zelig (1983)
7.8/10
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
Hanky Panky (1982)
5.6/10
Director: Sidney Poitier
Starring: Gene Wilder, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark, Gilda Radner
Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner make for a wacky team of sleuths in a comedic thriller that has Chicago architect Wilder on the run, with Radner in tow,... Read more