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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. Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...

The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna) (1990)

6.3/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Roberto Benigni

The Voice of the Moon (Italian: La voce della luna) is a 1990 Italian dramatic comedy film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Roberto Benigni,... Read more

The Voices (2014)

6.4/10
Director: Marjane Satrapi
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver

Ryan Reynolds stars in this dark comedy thriller directed by Iranian graphic novelist and illustrator Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis"). Reynolds plays J... Read more

The Wackness (2008)

7/10
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jane Ad...

Set on the streets of '90s New York, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is in the sweet limbo between high school and college - chasing girls and trading pot fo... Read more

The Waimate Conspiracy (2006)

2.7/10
Director: Stefen Lewis
Starring: David McPhail, Mark Hadlow, Jim Moriarty, Helen Pearse-Otene, Janice Gray

Based on the director's comedic 1999 novel, 'The Waikikimukau Conspiracy', this grass-roots mockumentary focuses on a group of South Island Maori who... Read more

The War of the Buttons (2011)

Director: Yann Samuell
Starring: Alain Chabat, Mathilde Seigner, Eric Elmosnino, Fred Testot

Director Yann Samuell's adaptation of Louis Pergaud's classic 1912 novel about the rivalry between the children from two villages. Set in the South of... Read more

The War Of The Roses (1989)

6.8/10
Director: Danny Devito
Starring: Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Marianne Sagebrecht, Sean Astin

A wickedly delightful screwball comedy about how Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner take their divorce to the battlefield and the house comes off the... Read more

The War With Grandpa (2020)

5.6/10
Director: Tim Hill
Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman, Jane Seymour, Rob Riggle, Oakes...

Upset that he has to share the room he loves with his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back. Read more

The Waterboy (1998)

6.1/10
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Jerry Reed, Henry Winkler

Adam Sandler ("Happy Gilmore") is the crazed Cajun lad who loses his job as waterboy/punching bag for a top Louisiana university football team. Coach... Read more

The Way Way Back (2013)

7.4/10
Director: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Toni Collette, Amanda Peet, Allison Janney, Steve Carell, AnnaSoph...

During a vacation in a Northeast beach town, a lonely teenage boy, Duncan (Liam James), comes into his own over the course of a summer through an unli... Read more

The Way Way Back (Blu-ray) (2013)

7.4/10
Director: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Toni Collette, Amanda Peet, Allison Janney, Steve Carell, AnnaSoph...

During a vacation in a Northeast beach town, a lonely teenage boy, Duncan (Liam James), comes into his own over the course of a summer through an unli... Read more