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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Red Lion (1969)
7.1/10
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Etsushi Takahashi, Ito Yonosuke
The always mesmerizing Toshiro Mifune plays an enthusiastic, if dim-witted imperial emissary, sent to break the good news about the fall of the shogun... Read more
Take The Money And Run (1969)
7.3/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Woody Allen
Woody Allen's first film as writer/director/star. This fake documentary charts the life of bungling petty criminal Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen), usi... Read more
The Italian Job (1969)
7.3/10
Director: Peter Collinson
Starring: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Maggie Blye
An ex-con creates the world's biggest traffic jam in an attempt to steal millions in gold. Join Michael Caine and his gang of crooks for the ultimate... Read more
Alice's Restaurant (1969)
6.3/10
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant in this classic slice of 60s life, featuring troubadour Arlo Guthrie in his only major film appear... Read more
Carry On Camping (1969)
6.6/10
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw,...
Things get campy when the crew head towards the woods in the hopes of finding a nudist colony. But when they arrive in the great outdoors, there's no... Read more
The Out Of Towners (1969)
7.1/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis
Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are perfectly matched as the hapless Kellermans of Twin Oaks, Ohio, in Neil Simon's tumultuous comedy hit. The top candid... Read more
The Pink Jungle (1968)
6/10
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: James Garner, George Kennedy, Eva Renzi
A South American fashion photo shoot turns into a diamond mine seeking adventure for an American photographer and his model. Read more
What's So Bad About Feeling Good (1968)
6.8/10
Director: George Seaton
Starring: George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Don Stroud
A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others. Read more
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
5.3/10
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Raquel Welch, Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner, Raquel Welch, and some incompetent European gangsters kidnap an American gangster who they think has a lot of money. Read more
The Party ( Blu-ray ) (1968)
7.6/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Claudine Longet, Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers is a disaster-prone actor from India who is at first thrown off the set by the producer of a film then invited to his posh Hollywood par... Read more