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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A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.3/10
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Starring: Kal Penn, John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris
Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, stoner buds Harold Lee and Kumar Patel cause a holiday fracas by inadvertently burning down Harold's f... Read more
A Very Peculiar Practice (1986)
8.6/10
Starring: Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn, David Troughton
A Very Peculiar Practice is a surreal black-comedy drama set in the health centre of a British university, produced by the BBC, which ran for two seri... Read more
A Walk in the Woods (2015)
6.3/10
Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Nick Nolte, Robert Redford, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen
In this comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Academy Award winner Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and bea... Read more
A Wedding (1978)
7.1/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Carol Burnett, Mia Farrow, Paul Dooley, Lillian Gish
A freewheeling satire on marriage, with a large cast, in the same vein as 'Nashville', although more defined. With Lillian Gish, Carol Burnett, Lauren... Read more
A Woman is a Woman ( Une Femme Est Une Femme ) (1961)
7.6/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
'A Woman Is A Woman'. Godard's light-hearted tribute to Hollywood musicals, with Anna Karina as a nightclub stripper who wants a baby and expects eith... Read more
A Woman of Paris (1923)
7.1/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou
The first film Charlie Chaplin wrote and directed, but didn't star in, was this melodrama of a French country girl whose search for love leads to trag... Read more
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009)
5.7/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Sun Honglei, Zhao Benshan, Dahong Ni, Xiao Shen-Yang, Yan Ni
It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end when a Chinese noodle shop owner plots to execute his unfaithful wife... Read more
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
6.4/10
Director: Alfred L Werker
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Stan and Ollie are recruited to transport a coffin containing a not-so-dead corpse, but things really go wrong when it gets switched with one of the p... Read more
Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man / Go to Mars (1951)
Director: Charles Lamont
Starring: Arthur Franz, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Meet the Invisible Man: Brand new detectives Bud Alexander (Bud Abbott) and Lou Francis (Lou Costello) agree to help prize fighter Tommy Nelson (Arthu... Read more
Abbott And Costello In Society (1944)
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree i... Read more