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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Private Benjamin (1980)
6.1/10
Director: Howard Zieff
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante
Goldie Hawn is delightful as a spoiled Jewish/American princess who decides to get away from her life by joining the "new liberal" Army. Her army camp... Read more
The Blues Brothers (1980)
7.9/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, John Belushi, James Brown, Henry Gibson, Dan Aykro...
Engagingly nutty comedy about John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd trying to raise money to save an orphanage by reuniting their old band and nearly destroyin... Read more
Starting Over (1979)
6.4/10
Director: Alan J Pakula
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhag...
Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he... Read more
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
5.7/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Jeff Corey, Tom Berenger, William Katt
William Katt and Tom Berenger star in this prequel to the classic 1969 Western starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Made a decade after the origin... Read more
Mr Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
5/10
Director: Michael O'Donoghue
Starring: Bill Murray, Carrie Fisher, Dan Aykroyd, Deborah Harry, Jane Curtin, Joan Hacket...
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video is the wildly demented comedy from the mind of National Lampoon's and Saturday Night Live's notoriously funny writer/performer... Read more
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
5/10
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: Elke Sommer, Lionel Jeffries, Peter Sellers
After the King of Ruritania dies in a hot air balloon accident, his eldest son is kidnapped by the evil Prince Michael, his younger brother, who hopes... Read more
1941 (Theatrical Cut) (1979)
5.8/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Christopher Lee, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Ned...
Steven Spielberg's monumental comedy spectacular, based on a true incident, about the war panic that erupted in Southern California after a Japanese s... Read more
Meatballs (1979)
6.2/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Bill Murray, Kristine DeBell, Kate Lynch, Chris Makepeace, Sarah Torgov, Harvey...
Pack up and head off to Camp North Star, a small-time summer camp where crazy head counselor Bill Murray (in his first starring role) leads a ragtag b... Read more
The Secret Policeman's Ball Presents - Anniversary Comedy Edition (1979)
Starring: Michael Palin, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Rowan Atkinson, Barry Humphries, The Goo...
Celebrating 30 years since the first charity comedy concert, this collection features an array of side-splitting moments in comedy history with Britai... Read more
The Frisco Kid (1979)
6.4/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George Dicenzo, Leo Fuchs
Gene Wilder saddles up in this kosher comedy western as a Polish rabbi, on his way to the wild west to set up a synagogue in San Francisco. Luckily f... Read more