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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Adam's Rib (1949)
7.6/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Tom Ewell, Judy Holliday
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in one of their all-time great appearances as married attorneys who find themselves on opposite sides of a murder... Read more
Adaptation (2002)
7.7/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox
From the "Being John Malkovich" duo of director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman comes this stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fi... Read more
Adaptation ( Blu-ray ) (2002)
7.7/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Brian Cox, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep, Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton
From the "Being John Malkovich" duo of director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman comes this stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fi... Read more
Addams Family Values (1993)
6.7/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci, Ca...
Love is in the air and when that air surrounds the Addams Family, events unfold in delightfully unexpected ways. Take Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia... Read more
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973)
5.9/10
Director: Norman Cohen
Starring: Jim Dale, Arthur Lowe, Bill Maynard, Spike Milligan
Based on the first volume of Spike Milligan's wartime memoirs, this successful transition from page to screen takes us into the 56th Heavy Regiment, R... Read more
Adult Life Skills (2016)
6.2/10
Director: Rachel Tunnard
Starring: Brett Goldstein, Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne
Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her da... Read more
Adventureland (2009)
6.8/10
Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Margar...
It's the summer of '87, and uptight college grad James (Jesse Eisenberg) has just had to give up a trip to Europe for a job at the local amusement par... Read more
Adventures of Power (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Ari Gold
Starring: Michael McKean, Adrian Grenier, Jane Lynch, Ari Gold
An epic rock'n'roll comedy about the American dream, love and air-drumming. This is the story of Power (writer/director Ari Gold), a miner whose passi... Read more
Africa Screams (1949)
6.5/10
Director: Charles Barton
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Hillary Brooke, Max Baer
Mistaken for great hunters and Shanghaied to Africa, Abbott and Costello lead crooks on a safari for hidden diamonds. Lots of bungles in the jungle wi... Read more
After Henry: The Complete Series (1988)
7/10
Starring: Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Edward de Souza
Sarah France is the 42-year-old widow of a GP, Henry. She lives in an often volatile family situation with her mother, Eleanor Prescott, and her daugh... Read more