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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Divine Madness (1980)
7/10
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Bette Midler
Bette Midler's dynamic and bawdy live show 'Divine Madness' was filmed with ten cameras to create this electrifying film. Featuring such musical hits... Read more
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)
6.9/10
Director: Steve Roberts
Starring: Trevor Howard, Patrick Magee, Denise Coffey, Harry Fowler, J.G Devlin, Sheila Re...
Based on a radio play by Vivien Stanshall (who acts as narrator), Trevor Howard stars as an eccentric-to-the-point-of-insane nobleman who attempts to... Read more
Smokey and the Bandit 2 & 3 (1980)
Director: Dick Lowry, Hal Needham
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Paul Willia...
The sequel to the smash-hit of 1977 continues the good ol' boy antics with Burt Reynolds and company once again tangling with Sheriff Buford T Justice... Read more
My Bodyguard (1980)
7.1/10
Director: Tony Bill
Starring: Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Ruth Gordon, Martin Mull, John House...
A quietly compelling film exploring the hardships and anxiety of high school through the eyes of bookish student Clifford (Chris Makepeace). At a new... Read more
Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980)
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung
Action legend Sammo Hung re-invented action-comedy by combining it with supernatural horror in this inventive and incredible showcase of his martial a... Read more
Seems Like Old Times (1980)
6.7/10
Director: Jay Sandrich
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin
Adapted from Neil Simon's play Chevy Chase is a novelist abducted by criminals and made to be the fall guy for a bank robbery. After his arrest he es... Read more
Hopscotch (1980)
7.2/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom, Ned Beatty
Miles Kendig knows too much. One of the CIA's top international operatives, he suddenly finds himself relegated to a desk job in an agency power play.... Read more
Stardust Memories (Blu-ray) (1980)
7.2/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper
Woody Allen plays a troubled filmmaker attending a film seminar weekend where space aliens confide that they enjoyed his earlier, funnier movies. He a... Read more
Melvin and Howard (1980)
6.9/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen
This gem tells the offbeat true story of a chance encounter between eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes and an unsuspecting labourer named Melvin Dumm... Read more
Caddyshack & Caddyshack II (1980)
7.3/10
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dyan C...
Caddyshack (1980): Good taste is thrown by the wayside as Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield are just two of the crazy members of an exclusive country... Read more