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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Buster Keaton: Volume 2 (Steamboat Bill Jr./Convict 13/Daydreams) (1928)
8.9/10
Director: Anon
Starring: Buster Keaton
Comedy genius Buster Keaton features in this compilation of two one reel shorts and a feature-length classic. They are; "Steamboat Bill Jnr." (1928, 6... Read more
Laurel and Hardy (1928)
7.5/10
Director: Various
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were, in their time, the world's most popular comedy duo and from 1928 made many successful films together, the bulk of t... Read more
Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
8/10
Director: Charles Riesner
Starring: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron
Buster Keaton plays the city-bred boy who returns to his steamboat captain father and reluctantly joins him in fighting off a rival trying to take ove... Read more
The General (1927)
8.2/10
Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
One of the greatest films from the silent period, a true classic. Buster Keaton is an engineer on 'The General', a Confederate train during the Civil... Read more
College (1927)
7.1/10
Director: James W Horne
Starring: Buster Keaton, Ann Cornwell, Snitz Edwards
University life is spoofed in this Buster Keaton feature with him playing a bookish student who tries to woo a co-ed with an eye for athletes. Read more
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
5.8/10
Director: Frank Capra, Harry Edwards
Starring: Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford
When baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon left Mack Sennett Studios to make features for First National, he wisely brought along the two Sennett staffers... Read more
Bromo and Juliet (1926)
6.2/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, Corliss Palmer
Star of the Hal Roach studios, Charley Chase is the main player in these two two-reelers, the first of which 'Bromo and Juliet' sees him reluctantly t... Read more
Go West (1925)
7.2/10
Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West... Read more
Seven Chances (1925)
8/10
Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton
When he stands to inherit a fortune if he can get married by 7 o'clock, Buster Keaton becomes the quarry of an army of would-be brides (and gets caugh... Read more
West of Hot Dog / The Sleuth (1925)
Director: Harry Sweet
Starring: Stan Laurel
In 'The Sleuth' Stan Laurel gets his man after adopting a series of comic disguises. In 'West Of Hot Dog' Stan Laurel also stars as the heir to a fort... Read more