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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How High (2001)
6.3/10
Director: Jesse Dylan
Starring: Redman, Method Man
Multi-platinum Hip Hop superstars Method Man and Redman star in this off the wall student comedy about how much fun you can have getting high. A hilar... Read more
How Much Do You Love Me? (2005)
5.7/10
Director: Bertrand Blier
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Bernard Campan
The voluptuous Monica Bellucci stars as a prostitute hired to play wife to a lonely lotto winner in a role specifically written for her. Bumbling Fran... Read more
How To Be A Good Wife (2020)
Director: Martin Provost
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Yolande Moreau, Noemie Lvovsky, Edouard Baer, Francois Berlean...
Paulette and her husband have been running a housekeeping school. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the... Read more
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
7/10
Director: Bruce Robinson
Starring: Richard E Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson
Richard E. Grant is the endlessly suave Dennis Bagley, a high-strung advertising executive whose shoulder sprouts an evil, talking boil. The boil spea... Read more
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2008)
Director: Robert B Weide
Starring: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Megan F...
Simon Pegg is Sidney Young, a Brit-fish out of water in the Big Apple, charmingly obnoxious and unable to take the self-aggrandising celebrity culture... Read more
How To Make a Killing (2026)
6.5/10
Starring: Glen Powell
Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many re... Read more
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
7/10
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, Tom Ewell
A post World War II comedy in which Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall try to attract rich men to marry, but discover that love is prefera... Read more
How to Meet Girls from a Distance (2012)
6.1/10
Director: Dean Hewison
Starring: Aidee Walker, Jonathan Brugh, Richard Falkner, Scarlet Hemingway, Owen Black, Ha...
Toby (Richard Falkner) has always been unlucky with girls. Ever since getting stabbed in the throat after asking a girl out in a café, Toby has resolv... Read more
How to Steal a Million (1966)
7.6/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith
The daughter (Audrey Hepburn) of a wealthy Frenchman (Hugh Griffith) who creates counterfeit art learns that her father is in danger of being exposed... Read more
How to Steal a Million (Blu-ray) (1966)
7.5/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Peter O'Toole
The daughter (Audrey Hepburn) of a wealthy Frenchman (Hugh Griffith) who creates counterfeit art learns that her father is in danger of being exposed... Read more