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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Dragon Lord ( aka Young Master in Love ) (1981)
7.9/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chen Hui-min, Sidney Yim, Wong In-sik
Jackie Chan mixes comedy with remarkable martial arts expertise in this actioner that finds him an unwitting participant in a scheme to smuggle pricel... Read more
Neighbours (1981)
5.6/10
Director: John G Avildsen
Starring: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty
In his last and some say best film, John Belushi is cast against type as a dull suburbanite whose peaceful existence is threatened by his bizarre new... Read more
Stripes (1981)
6.9/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Warren Oates, P J Soles, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray
This box office hit is a routine army comedy about a loser who enlists and ends up in a platoon of volunteer misfits that a sergeant is doing his best... Read more
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Director: Jamie Uys
Starring: Hans Strydom, Lena Farugia, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xau
"The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1980, 104 mins.). A discarded coke bottle that a tribe of primitive Bushmen views as a "gift from the gods," an inept scient... Read more
Pepi, Luci, Bom ( Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom ) (1980)
6.3/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Carmen Maura, Olvido Gara, Eva Silva
The first feature from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, made while he was still working at the Post Office. Set during Madrid's post-Franco punk peri... Read more
Stir Crazy (1980)
6.8/10
Director: Sidney Poitier
Starring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
STIR CRAZY teams two of the most brilliant and zany comic performers of their day: Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) have... Read more
The Nude Bomb (1980)
5/10
Director: Clive Donner
Starring: Norman Lloyd, Rhonda Fleming, Sylvia Kristel, Pamela Hensley, Dana Elcar, Don Ad...
Get smart with the most bumbling - yet undeniably cool - spy ever! Join Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (aka Agent 86) of the original 'Get Smart' TV serie... Read more
Time Bandits (Blu-ray) (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more
Time Bandits (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more
Roadie (1980)
5.1/10
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Art Carney, Alice Cooper, Kaki Hunter, Meat Loaf, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Jr...
Down-home Texas boy Travis Redfish (Meat Loaf) falls hard for Lola, a glitter-spangled groupie determined to lose her virginity to Alice Cooper. Hopin... Read more