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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Get Shorty (1995)
6.9/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Danny DeVito, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, John Travolta, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lin...
A clever black comedy about Chili Palmer (John Travolta), a collector for the mob who after being sent to LA on a mission, hooks up with a slick, grad... Read more
Get Smart (2008)
6.5/10
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, James Ca...
Based on the '60s hit TV series, Agent Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is sent on his most dangerous and important mission: to thwart the latest plot for... Read more
Get Well Soon (2014)
5.8/10
Director: Jean Becker
Starring: Gerard Lanvin, Fred Testot, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
AKA: Bon Rétablissement! From Jean Becker, director of My Afternoons with Margueritte, comes a heart-warming tale of finding friends (and hope) in the... Read more
Ghost Town (2008)
6.7/10
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Tea Leoni, Ricky Gervais, Billy Campbell, Dana Ivey, Kristen Wiig
In the wake of a near-death experience, self-absorbed dentist Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) acquires the annoying ability to see the dead - turns out... Read more
Ghost World (2001)
7.4/10
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Illeana Douglas, Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro
For sardonic high schoolers and best buds Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, the world around them is filled with living targets for their scorn and... Read more
Ghost Writer (1989)
5.6/10
Starring: Audrey Landers, John Matuszak, David Doyle
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously,... Read more
Ghostbusters (2016)
5.3/10
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Charles Dance, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Michael Kenneth Wi...
Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later, Gilbert lands a prest... Read more
Ghostbusters (1984)
7.8/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Po...
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis are three unemployed parapsychology professors who set up shop as a high-profile ghost removal service; but... Read more
Ghostbusters ( Blu-ray ) (1984)
7.8/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Annie Potts, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis,...
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis are three unemployed parapsychology professors who set up shop as a high-profile ghost removal service; but... Read more
Ghostbusters ( Blu-ray ) (2016)
5.3/10
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Charles Dance, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Michael Kenneth Wi...
Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later, Gilbert lands a prest... Read more