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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It Ain't Half Hot Mum: Series 3 (1976)
7.1/10
Starring: Michael Bates, Windsor Davies, Melvyn Hayes, Donald Hewlett, Michael Knowles, Do...
Fall In!... for a feast of classic BBC comedy as the Concert Party dig in for another year of entertaining the troops in WWII India. Join the gaggle o... Read more
It Happened One Night (1934)
8.1/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Winner of five Academy Awards, this famous screwball comedy stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert as two mismatched lovers. Colbert escapes from her... Read more
It Happened To Jane (1959)
6.6/10
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
When a shipment of lobsters arrives spoiled thanks to some careless railroad workers, feisty New England businesswoman Doris Day, and best friend Jack... Read more
It Must Be Heaven (2019)
7/10
Director: Elia Suleiman
Starring: Elia Suleiman, Tarik Kopty, Ali Suliman
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine. Read more
It Runs in the Family (2003)
5.6/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Rory Culkin, Bern...
Three generations of the Douglas acting clan are united for this bittersweet comedy-drama in which Kirk is a cantankerous patriarch and recovering str... Read more
It Should Happen To You (1954)
7.3/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon
A very funny comedy about a model who rents a billboard overlooking a busy section of New York City and becomes a celebrity, sight unseen! Judy Hollid... Read more
It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)
6.3/10
Director: Nick Hurran
Starring: Kevin Zegers, Samaire Armstrong, Sharon Osbourne
Woody and Nell have lived side-by-side their whole lives - and have hated every moment of it. Sworn enemies since they were kids, they're now stuck at... Read more
It's A Disaster (2012)
6.4/10
Starring: David Cross, America Ferrera, Julia Stiles
Four couples meet for Sunday brunch, then discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end. Read more
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
7.6/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Roo...
A veritable 'who's who' of film comedy were brought together in this classic slapstick extravaganza about a race to find $350,000 in hidden loot. Spen... Read more
It's A Sin (2021)
8.8/10
Starring: Olly Alexander, Shaun Dooley, Keeley Hawes, Stephen Fry
A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS. Read more