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 Last Goon Show Of All (1972)
8.2/10
Starring: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan
From 1952 to 1960, 'The Goon Show' played the airwaves. For the BBC's 50th anniversary in 1972, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan reform... Read more
The Last Magic Show (2007)
6/10
Director: Andy Conlan
Starring: Jade Collins, Andy Conlan, Georgie Hill, Michael Hurst, Alexander Anderson, Matt...
The only thing darker than escape artist Ronny Roman's past is the 'mystical power' he believes he possesses. Never having recovered from the shock of... Read more
The Last Of The High Kings (1997)
6.3/10
Director: David Keating
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Jared Leto, Catherine O'Hara, Christina Ricci
Aka "Summer Fling". This warm-hearted sentimental Irish film is set in 1977 County Dublin focusing on the Griffin family and their aspirations. With G... Read more
The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
6.1/10
Director: Marty Feldman
Starring: Ann-Margret , James Earl Jones, Marty Feldman, Michael York, Peter Ustinov, Ter...
Set in England and Morocco in 1906, Marty Feldman's "remake" mocks all the do-or-die extravaganzas we've known and loved as he portrays Digby, identic... Read more
The Last Shot (2004)
5.7/10
Director: Jeff Nathanson
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Calista Flockhart, Ray Liotta, T...
After years of being on the A-List of complete failures, Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats (Matthew Broderick) meets Joe Devine (Alec Baldwin), a p... Read more
The Last Supper (1995)
6.8/10
Director: Stacy Title
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Courtney B Vance, Bill Paxton, Nora Dun...
Darkly comic satire in which five liberal graduate students share their weekly dinner together with a racist red neck who threatens them. After they k... Read more
The Last Word (2008)
6.3/10
Director: Geoffrey Haley
Starring: Winona Ryder, Wes Bentley, Ray Romano
An alienated poet (Wes Bentley), catering to self-destructive people lacking the literary talent to craft their own suicide notes, strikes up a friend... Read more
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
7.7/10
Director: Charles Crichton
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James
An excellent comedy with droll Alec Guinness, a timid bank clerk who has a perfect scheme for robbing a gold bullion truck, with a madcap chase climax... Read more
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
7.5/10
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Kieron Moore,...
A humorous, tension-filled heist film about a former British Army officer who organises a group of his somewhat dodgy friends to pull off a 1,000,000... Read more
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Steve Bendelack
Starring: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, David Warner, Michael Sheen
The freakish and bizarre inhabitants of Royston Vasey are unleashed on an unsuspecting world in this movie spawned from the cult TV series. All the f... Read more