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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The Heat (Blu-ray) (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Michael Rapaport, Sandra Bullock, Marlon Wayans, Melissa McCarthy, Demian Bichir
Outrageous action comedy from the director of "Bridesmaids". Uptight FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shan... Read more
The Hebrew Hammer (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Jonathan Kesselman
Starring: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Mario Van Peebles, Nora Dunn, Peter Coyote...
Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg), aka "The Hebrew Hammer", is part man, part street, 100% kosher. A sexy and powerful Jewish private eye who... Read more
The Hedgehog (2010)
7.4/10
Director: Mona Achache
Starring: Anne Brochet, Josiane Balasko, Ariane Ascaride, Wladimir Yordanoff, Garance Le G...
Eleven-year-old Paloma Josse is bored beyond belief. Despite living in a gorgeous apartment in the legendary city of Paris, young Paloma feels no conn... 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
The Hippopotamus (2017)
6.4/10
Director: John Jencks
Starring: Fiona Shaw, Matthew Modine, Tim McInnerny, Roger Allam
Roger Allam plays Ted Wallace, a formerly respected poet, who now masquerades as a journalist, really only in it for the free drinks at events hes hi... Read more
The History Boys (2006)
6.9/10
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Starring: Samuel Anderson, James Corden, Stephen Campbell Moore, Richard Griffiths, France...
Set in Thatcher's England, a group of clever, though working-class lads, attempt to earn the academic scores required for acceptance into the elite sc... Read more
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
6.8/10
Director: Garth Jennings
Starring: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis, Alan Rick...
Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) escapes Earth seconds before destruction with ET pal Ford (Mos Def) joining forces with galactic president Zaphod (Sam Ro... Read more
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( Blu-ray ) (2005)
6.8/10
Director: Garth Jennings
Starring: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis, Alan Rick...
Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) escapes Earth seconds before destruction with ET pal Ford (Mos Def) joining forces with galactic president Zaphod (Sam Ro... Read more
The Hoax (2006)
6.7/10
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Stanley Tucci, Julie...
In 1971, Clifford Irving pulled off a journalistic coup by obtaining the memoir of notoriously reclusive billionaire, Howard Hughes. No, actually he j... Read more
The Hollywood Sign (2002)
5.3/10
Director: Sonke Wortmann
Starring: Tom Berenger, Jacqueline Kim, Rod Steiger, Burt Reynolds
Based on the best-selling novel by Leon De Winter, "The Hollywood Sign" is a masterful ensemble and character-driven piece of story telling, starring... Read more