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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Teacher's Pet (1958)
7.5/10
Director: George Seaton
Starring: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young
'Teacher's Pet' - Newspaper editor Clark Gable poses as a student and learns about writing and love from college journalism professor Doris Day in thi... Read more
Indiscreet (1958)
6.8/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff, Megs J...
Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant are perfectly cast in this witty comedy, adapted by Norman Krasna from his own stageplay, 'Kind Sir'. Bergman is a weal... Read more
Hoffman (1958)
7/10
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Starring: Sinead Cusack, Peter Sellers
This grand farce tells the story of the island of Gallardia, a British protectorate forgotten for 50 years; when discovered, bumbling Terry-Thomas of... Read more
You Bet Your Life! - The Best Episodes (1958)
Starring: Candice Bergen, Phyllis Diller, George Fenneman, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Johnn...
Groucho Marx hosted this classic 1950s game show where he had free reign to say and do pretty much whatever he liked - with hilarious results. Collect... Read more
Une Parisienne (1958)
Director: Michel Boisrond
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal
Brigitte Bardot is the daughter of the French Premier, and married to Henri Vidal, his chief aide. When Vidal shows signs of infidelity, Bardot fights... Read more
The Chaplin Revue (1958)
7.9/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin
Compiled by Chaplin himself in 1958 and featuring a musical score he composed, this rib-tickling collection features three of his finest short films.... Read more
Mon Oncle (1958)
7.9/10
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
A masterpiece by the great French comic Jacques Tati which concentrates on young Gerard Arpel and his Uncle Hulot (Jacques Tati) in a house where gadg... Read more
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
8.1/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Kurosawa takes the conventional Japanese period film and combines it with fairytale elements, the result is an energetic and brilliant farce. Toshiro... Read more
Houseboat (1958)
6.7/10
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Widower Cary Grant signs aboard Sophia Loren to care for his two children, but the two find themselves in a shipboard romance in this bouncy, romantic... Read more
The Sad Sack (1957)
5.9/10
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Phyllis Kirk, David Wayne
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tan... Read more