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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Frozen 2 (Blu-ray) (2019)
7.6/10
Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Starring: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff
Having harnessed her ever-growing power after lifting the dreadful curse of the eternal winter in Frozen (2013), the beautiful conjurer of snow and ic... Read more
Full Circle (2013)
6.8/10
Director: Solvan Naim, Olli Koivula
Starring: Rob Morgan, Kelvin Hale, Mario Corry, Solvan Naim
A young pizza delivery boy, Anthoni, faces a life-changing crisis when his curiosity pulls him away from his delivery order into an adjacent apartment... Read more
Full Moon High (1982)
4.8/10
Director: Larry Cohen
Starring: Adam Arkin, Elizabeth Hartman, Joanne Nail, Kenneth Mars, Ed McMahon, Roz Kelly
Details the comic misadventures of Tony Walker (Adam Arkin, son of Alan), a former high-school jock who is transformed into a werewolf during a family... Read more
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
6.5/10
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Jane Fonda, George Segal, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier, Allan Miller
Dick (George Segal) and Jane (Jane Fonda) have a habit of living beyond their means and even when Dick loses his high-paying job they still want the h... Read more
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
6.1/10
Director: Dean Parisot
Starring: Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins, Carlos Jacott, Richard Bur...
Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni provide the yuks in this remake of the 1977 hit that helped re-invigorate Jane Fonda's screen career. They are a high-powere... Read more
Funny About Love (1990)
4.9/10
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Starring: Anne Jackson, Christine Lahti, Gene Wilder, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky...
From director Leonard Nimoy ("Three Men and a Baby") comes a romantic comedy detailing what happens when the biological clock of famed cartoonist Gene... Read more
Funny Bones (1995)
7/10
Director: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Leslie Caron, Lee Evans, Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt, Richard Griffiths, Oliver Re...
Jerry Lewis is the famous father of struggling comedian (Oliver Platt) desperate to make his own name in the business. He is not making it in Las Veg... Read more
Funny Cow (2017)
6.4/10
Director: Adrian Shergold
Starring: Paddy Considine, Alun Armstrong, Kevin Eldon, Lindsey Coulson, Maxine Peake, Ste...
A comedian uses her own troubled past as material in her stand-up comedy routine, as she tries to break into the comedy circuit by playing Northern En... Read more
Funny Face (1956)
7.1/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thomas
Fred Astaire is a fashion photographer, Audrey Hepburn the shy young girl he makes over into a top model in this lavish musical with a winning Gershwi... Read more
Funny Farm (1988)
6.1/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith, Joseph Maher
When Chevy Chase as a Manhattan sportswriter abandons his career for country life, you know 'getting away from it all' will inevitably mean getting in... Read more