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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High Heels (1991)
7.2/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Victoria Abril, Miguel Bose, Marisa Paredes
A famous torch song singer (Marisa Parides) returns to Spain from Mexico with the hope of being reunited with the daughter (Victoria Abril) she previo... Read more
High School Revolution ( The Trotsky ) (2009)
6.9/10
Director: Jacob Tierney
Starring: Genevieve Bujold, Michael Murphy, Saul Rubinek, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Jay Baruchel...
AKA "The Trotsky" When your name overly resembles that of a revolutionary leader, you can be forgiven for supposing your life to be weighted with the... Read more
High School USA (1983)
5.7/10
Director: Rod Amateau
Starring: Michael J Fox, Todd Bridges
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique. Read more
High Spirits (1988)
5.7/10
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Tilly,...
Impoverished Peter Plunkett (Peter O'Toole) hatches the perfect plan to save his debt-ridden Irish castle - lure American tourists by advertising his... Read more
Higher Love (1998)
Director: John Huddles
Starring: Minnie Driver, Rufus Sewell, Nigel Hawthorne, Amelia Heinle
Minnie Driver, Nigel Hawthorne and Rufus Sewell star in this offbeat, laid-back comedy from director John Huddles, about a young man (Sewell) trying t... Read more
Historias Minimas (Intimate Stories) (2002)
7.5/10
Director: Carlos Sorin
Starring: Javier Lombardo, Javiera Bravo, Antonio Benedictis
A deceptively simple, yet delightful road movie concerned with three disparate characters headed for the Argentine city of San Julian amid the beautif... Read more
Hit and Run (2012)
6.1/10
Director: Dax Shepard, David Palmer
Starring: Beau Bridges, Tom Arnold, Michael Rosenbaum, Joy Bryant, Dax Shepard, Kristin Ch...
Former getaway driver Charlie Bronson (Dax Shepard, who also scripted and co-directed) leaves the Witness Protection Program when he agrees to move to... Read more
Hit and Run (Blu-ray) (2012)
6.1/10
Director: Dax Shepard, David Palmer
Starring: Beau Bridges, Tom Arnold, Michael Rosenbaum, Joy Bryant, Dax Shepard, Kristin Ch...
Former getaway driver Charlie Bronson (Dax Shepard, who also scripted and co-directed) leaves the Witness Protection Program when he agrees to move to... Read more
Hocus Pocus (1993)
6.8/10
Director: Kenny Ortega
Starring: Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw, Omr...
This lively, special effects-filled fantasy tells of three 17th-century witches who find themselves in a cauldron of trouble when three children use a... Read more
Hoffman (1958)
7/10
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Starring: Sinead Cusack, Peter Sellers
This grand farce tells the story of the island of Gallardia, a British protectorate forgotten for 50 years; when discovered, bumbling Terry-Thomas of... Read more