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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Happy Go Lovely (1951)
6.5/10
Director: H Bruce Humberstone
Starring: David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero
A brisk and breezy musical comedy about an American theatre producer in Edinburgh who hires a young chorus girl in hopes that her millionaire boyfrien... Read more
Happy Tears (2009)
5.2/10
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Starring: Demi Moore, Ellen Barkin, Parker Posey, Rip Torn
Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their ailing father, Joe (Rip To... Read more
Happy thank you more please (2011)
Director: Josh Radnor
Starring: Richard Jenkins, Kate Mara, Malin Akerman, Zoe Kazan
Writer/director Josh Radnor's sharp urbane dramedy follows the trials and tribulations of six New Yorkers struggling to reach the cusp of true adultho... Read more
Happy, Happy (2010)
6.5/10
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Starring: Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens
Anne Sewitsky directs this offbeat black comedy/drama from Norway. Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen). She is a... Read more
Happy, Texas (1999)
6.3/10
Director: Mark Illsley
Starring: William H Macy, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam, Illeana Douglas, Ally Walker
Wanting the waning "Little Miss Fresh Squeezed" beauty contest to be an extravaganza Happy's town officials decide to bring in a pair of famous pagean... Read more
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
7/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sally Hawkins
Mike Leigh's infectiously entertaining comedy about Poppy (Sally Hawkins), a North London primary school teacher with a bright outlook on life. She lo... Read more
Hardware Wars (1978)
7/10
Director: Ernie Fossellus
Follow the adventures of Fluke Starbucker, Arty Deco, Ham Salad and the rest of the Red Eye Knights in this spectacle that was light years ahead of it... Read more
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Roger Bart, Neil Patrick Harris, Danneel Harris...
The cannabis-craving twosome return in this high-flying sequel that finds them labelled as terrorists after their pot-smoking paraphernalia is mistake... Read more
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
Director: Danny Leiner
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garces
Pothead pals Harold, a Korean-American investment banker, and Kumar, an Indian pre-med student, attempt to satiate their latest bout of the munchies w... Read more
Harold and Maude (1971)
8/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Cyril Cusack, Vivian Pickles
With the idiosyncratic American fable "Harold and Maude", countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era.... Read more