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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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Burl Ives, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries, Dennis Price, Troy Donahue, Hermione...
In Victorian England, an American showman uses a wealthy Frenchman's finances to build a German explosives expert's giant cannon designed to fire a pe... Read more
Weekend (1967)
7.2/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
A mind-expanding anti-Western diatribe about one woman's road to guerrillahood is among Godard's more fully realised works, with a long traffic-jam se... Read more
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
7/10
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: George C Scott, Harry Morgan, Michael Sarrazin, Slim Pickens, Sue Lyon
George C. Scott plays Mordecai C. Jones (self-styled "M.B.S., C.S., D.D. - Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing!"), a drifting con... Read more
The Two of Us (1967)
7.8/10
Director: Claude Berri
Starring: Michel Simon, Alain Cohen
A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France's liberation... Read more
The Graduate ( Blu-ray ) (1967)
8/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, Murray Hamilton, William Daniels
A landmark film of the late '60s that's still just as pungent and funny. Dustin Hoffman, in his first major film role, plays an ultra-naive college gr... Read more
The Bobo (1967)
5.5/10
Director: Robert Parrish
Starring: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi, Adolfo Celi, Hattie Jacques, Kennet...
Peter Sellers is Juan Bautista, a hopeless matador who really wants to be a singer. Trying his luck in Barcelona, he gets a gig at a local hotspot wi... Read more
Woman Times Seven (1967)
6.2/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Alan Arkin, Rossano Brazzi, Michael Caine, Vittorio Gassman, P...
Vittorio De Sica directs this episodic sex comedy consisting of seven short stories each starring Shirley MacLaine. In "Funeral Possession," she plays... Read more
At Last The 1948 Show (1967)
7.8/10
Director: Ian Fordyce
Starring: John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Marty Feldman, Aimi MacDonald, D...
Combining the nascent talents of John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman this ground-breaking series was the direct fore-runn... Read more
The Magnificent Two (1967)
5.2/10
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Margit Saad
Comedians Morecambe and Wise here star as a pair of salesmen travelling to South America to peddle their wares. Unbeknownst to them, a revolution is i... Read more
Carry On: Don't Lose Your Head (1967)
7.2/10
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
The 'Carry On' gang are at it again in their 13th outing and this time it's the French Revolution that's in for the chop! The usual cheap gags and inu... Read more