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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The Wrong Box (1966)
7/10
Director: Bryan Forbes
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John M...
Some of Britain's best known comics appear in this screwball farce about two zany families who battle over an inheritance in Victorian England. John M... Read more
Don't Look Now We're Being Shot At (1966)
Director: Gerard Oury
Starring: Andre Bourvil, Claudio Brook, Louis De Funes, Terry-Thomas
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Nort... Read more
They're a Weird Mob (1966)
6.7/10
Director: Michael Powell
Starring: Chips Rafferty, Walter Chiari
1960s Sydney - a sprawling city of three million easy going, down to earth and hilariously funny people. Fresh off the boat is innocent Italian immigr... Read more
After the Fox (1966)
6.5/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Martin Balsam, Akim Tamiroff, Paolo...
This wildly funny farce gives the comic genius of Peter Sellers free reign as he assumes several wacky personalities, each one funnier than the last!... Read more
A Countess from Hong Kong (1966)
6.1/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren, Margaret Rutherford
Charlie Chaplin's final directorial effort stars Marlon Brando as a wealthy American diplomat, en route to New York from the Far East on an ocean line... Read more
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Judi West
Jack Lemmon and Oscar-winning Walter Matthau star in Billy Wilder's hilarious, cynical fable about a TV cameraman who is injured while shooting a foot... Read more
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
6.5/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Rod Taylor, Dom DeLuise, Paul Lynde, Er...
A lively mix of comedy and romance, this wacky Bond spoof has Doris Day as a public relations specialist for NASA who inadvertantly meets her boss (Ro... Read more
How to Steal a Million (1966)
7.6/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith
The daughter (Audrey Hepburn) of a wealthy Frenchman (Hugh Griffith) who creates counterfeit art learns that her father is in danger of being exposed... Read more
How to Steal a Million (Blu-ray) (1966)
7.5/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Peter O'Toole
The daughter (Audrey Hepburn) of a wealthy Frenchman (Hugh Griffith) who creates counterfeit art learns that her father is in danger of being exposed... Read more
What's Up Tiger Lily? (1966)
6/10
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi, Woody Allen
Starring: Tatsuya Mihashi, Miya Hana, Woody Allen, China Lee
Woody Allen provides the dubbed dialogue for a chopped up Japanese sexy spy thriller where the object of international intrigue is a recipe for egg sa... Read more