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 Night in Casablanca (1946)
7.1/10
Director: Archie Mayo
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Lisette Verea, Charles Drake
Groucho, Harpo and Chico involved in a nest of Nazi spies in a Casablanca hotel. One of the later Marx Brothers' films, but still a good one, with gre... Read more
Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
6.8/10
Director: Ray Taylor
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Keye Luke
American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel. Read more
The Bullfighters (1945)
6.4/10
Director: Mal St Clair
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Laurel and Hardy are detectives on the trail of petty thief, Larceny Nell, that leads them south of the border. They lose the girl but end up in the... Read more
Laurel & Hardy Collection: The Big Noise / A-Haunting We Will Go / Jitterbugs / Great Guns / The Dancing Masters / The Bullfighters (1945)
Director: Alfred L Werker, Mal St Clair, Lou Breslow
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
'The Bullfighters' (1945) - Our 2 intrepid detectives head to Mexico City to catch a thief and end up in the bullfighting ring instead! 'Dancing Maste... Read more
Molly and Me (1945)
7/10
Director: Lewis Seiler
Starring: Gracie Fields, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Reginald Gardiner, Natalie Schafer
A vivacious actress in need of work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty old politician, and gives his life the good shaking-up that it needs.This music... Read more
Along Came Jones (1945)
6.6/10
Director: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea, Frank Sully
A light-hearted spoof on Westerns and Cooper's own heroic movie persona. The iconic western star plays Melody Jones, a mild-mannered cowboy who drift... Read more
Blithe Spirit (1945)
7.2/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Rex Harrison, Margaret Rutherford
David Lean adapts Noel Coward once again ('This Happy Breed', 'Brief Encounter') with excellent results. Rex Harrison is an author writing a book on... Read more
Abbott And Costello In Society (1944)
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree i... Read more
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
8/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Josephine Hull, Jean Ad...
An hilarious adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's hit play about two seemingly harmless old ladies who murder lonely gentlemen callers - out of the goodn... Read more
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
7.4/10
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Myrna Loy, William Powell, Lucile Watson, Leon Ames, Harry Davenport
This fifth entry in MGM's 'Thin Man' series maintains the high production and story values of the first four, as Nick and Nora go to visit Nick's disa... Read more