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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I Love You To Death (1990)
6.4/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, Joan Plow...
An off-beat comic love story inspired by true events, about a wife who tried to kill her philandering husband several times, and yet at the court case... Read more
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
6.3/10
Director: Hy Averback
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young
Razor-sharp satire from co-writers Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker, with Peter Sellers as a fuddy-duddy lawyer who, after leaving his fiancee at the al... Read more
I Love You, Man (2009)
7/10
Director: John Hamburg
Starring: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J K Simmons, Jane Curtin, J...
With a nod and a wink to the traditional boy-girl rom-com, this Apatow-like comedy features Paul Rudd as the man with almost everything - great job, g... Read more
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Dan Aykroyd, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi...
Chuck and Larry (Adam Sandler and Kevin James) are two New York City firemen who have been fast friends for years. Strictly friends. But when widowe... Read more
I Sell the Dead (2008)
6.1/10
Director: Glenn McQuaid
Starring: Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Larry Fessenden, Angus Scrimm, John Speredakos, E...
A macabre comic-horror about two 18th century grave robbers, Arthur (Dominic Monaghan) and Willie (Larry Fessenden), who also hunt the undead that ref... Read more
I Spy (2002)
5.4/10
Director: Betty Thomas
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell
It's hate at first sight when CIA super-agent Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) is unwittingly paired up with undefeated middle-weight champion Kelly Robinson... Read more
I Survived a Zombie Holocaust (2014)
5/10
Director: Guy Pigden
Starring: Harley Neville, Jocelyn Christian, Ben Baker, Mike Edward
A young runner on a Zombie film set has the first day from hell when real Zombies overrun the set. Filmed in Dunedin, this homegrown horror/comedy is... Read more
I Used to Go Here (2020)
5.7/10
Starring: Gillian Jacobs, Jemaine Clement, Josh Wiggins, Forrest Goodluck, Kate Micucci
Following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate is invited to speak at her alma matter by her former professor. After accepting the inv... Read more
I Want to Go Home (1989)
5.7/10
Director: Alain Resnais
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, John Ashton, Micheline Presle, Adolph Green, Laura Benson, Cat...
Alain Resnais, the legendary French director of many groundbreaking films (including 'Hiroshima, Mon Amour' and 'Last Year at Marienbad'), collaborate... Read more
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
7.1/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Randy Stuart, Kenneth Tobey
After falling in love with french army officer Henry Rochard (Cary Grant), American WAC Lieutenant Catherine Gate (Ann Sheridan) is ordered back to th... Read more