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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A Woman is a Woman ( Une Femme Est Une Femme ) (1961)
7.6/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
'A Woman Is A Woman'. Godard's light-hearted tribute to Hollywood musicals, with Anna Karina as a nightclub stripper who wants a baby and expects eith... Read more
Yojimbo (1961)
8.3/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Eijiro Tono, Seizaburo Kawazu, Toshiro Mifune
Kurosawa's first full-length comedy. Toshiro Mifune is the unemployed samurai warrior who comes to a small village torn apart by two warring factions... Read more
Late Autumn (1960)
8/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Yoko Tsukasa, Keiji Sada, Chishu Ryu, Shin Saburi
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends. Read more
The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960)
8.8/10
Starring: Anthony Newley
Gurney Slade wanders from place to place after breaking the fourth wall to escape from the mundanities of making a family sitcom. Read more
The Bellboy (1960)
6.5/10
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle
Jerry Lewis made his acclaimed directorial debut in this rollicking comedy hit. Anything can go wrong - and does - when Lewis Stars as Stanley, a non-... Read more
Doris Day Collection (1960)
Director: David Miller, Michael Gordon, Frank Tashlin
Starring: Doris Day, James Garner, Rod Taylor, Richard Harris, Ray Walston
'Mignight Lace' 1960 In London, the American housewife Kit Preston (Doris Day) has been married for three months with the British executive Anthony P... Read more
Man in the Moon (1960)
6.2/10
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Charles Gray, Kenneth More, Michael Hordern, Shirley Anne Field
Basil Dearden directs this sci-fi spoof starring Kenneth More as William Blood, a human guinea pig at a research centre set up to find a cure for the... Read more
Gold Cinema Collection: The League of Gentlemen / The Million Pound Note / Genevieve (1960)
Director: Basil Dearden, Henry Cornelius, Ronald Neame
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough, Gregory Peck, Joyce Grenfell,...
'The League of Gentlemen' (1960) After a forcible 'retirement ', Colonel Hyde is bitter about his country's ingratitude. He steals classified informat... Read more
Sophia Loren Collection: Heller In Pink Tights (1960) / Desire Under the Elms (1958) / A Breath of Scandal (1960)
Director: Delbert Mann, George Cukor, Michael Curtiz
Starring: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Burl Ives, Anthony Perkins, Maurice Chevalier, Ange...
This classic collection features three films from Italian screen beauty Sophia Loren. 'Heller In Pink Tights' - Based on the novel by Louis L'Amour, t... Read more
Carry On Collection Part One: ...Sergeant (1958) / ...Nurse (1959) / ...Teacher (1959) / ...Constable (1960) / ...Regardless (1961) / ...Cruising (1960)
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor, Dor...
A deliciously naughty box set containing six of the best from the Carry On team. Join William Hartnell, Hattie Jaques, Kenneth Williams, Sid James, C... Read more