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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Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell (1968)
6.8/10
Director: Melvin Frank
Starring: Gina Lollobrigida, Janet Margolin, Lee Grant, Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers, Shell...
With her long-held secret about to emerge, ravishing and resourceful Carla Campbell (Gina Lollobrigida) is in a fix. It seems that during World War II... Read more
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
6.1/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Bert Lahr, Britt Ekland, Denholm Elliott, Elliott Gould, Forrest Tucker, Harry A...
A flavourful comedy, set in the Burlesque years, about an Amish girl (Britt Ekland) who comes to N.Y.C., gets involved with a comic (Jason Robards), a... Read more
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
6.4/10
Director: Howard Morris
Starring: Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin
A Doris Day favourite in which she plays a widow with three sons. She starts dating a man with a teenage daughter but when they announce their marriag... Read more
Madigan's Millions (1968)
4.1/10
Director: Stanley Prager
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Cesar Romero, Elsa Martinelli
Jason Fister (Dustin Hoffman) is an Internal Revenue Service agent sent to Rome to investigate the hidden money of late gangster Mike Madigan (Cesar R... Read more
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
5/10
Director: Bud Yorkin
Starring: Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Patrick Cargill, Delia Boccardo, Beryl Reid
When Peter Sellers refused to play Clouseau for a third time, Alan Arkin stepped up to the plate - not his best career move, though a bold one. Patri... Read more
Father, Dear Father: Series 1 (1968)
7.7/10
Director: William G Stewart
Starring: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Patrick Glover (Patrick Cargill) is divorced and writes tacky thrillers for a living, he has custody of his two teenage daughters, is having an affair... Read more
That Riviera Touch (1968)
5.8/10
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Suzanne Lloyd
Legendary British comedy duo Morecambe and Wise star in this hilarious farce as unpopular traffic wardens, fleeing for what they hope are friendlier s... Read more
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
6.3/10
Director: Hy Averback
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young
Razor-sharp satire from co-writers Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker, with Peter Sellers as a fuddy-duddy lawyer who, after leaving his fiancee at the al... Read more
The Party (1968)
7.6/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion
Peter Sellers in one of his best roles plays a clumsy Indian bit player who has just destroyed a remake of 'Gunga Din', and finds himself at a posh pa... Read more
The Producers (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
Mel Brook's hilarious hit about a producer who comes up with a surefire scheme for making money... on a musical production that he is absolutely cert... Read more