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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Last Vegas (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro
Billy (Michael Douglas), Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline) have been best friends since childhood. So when Billy,... Read more
Late Autumn (1960)
8/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Yoko Tsukasa, Keiji Sada, Chishu Ryu, Shin Saburi
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends. Read more
Late Night (2019)
6.6/10
Director: Nisha Ganatra
Starring: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, Max Casella, Hugh Dancy, John Lithgow, Denis O'Hare...
A late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her first and only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over di... Read more
Laugh-a-Palooza (2005)
Starring: Tim Minchin, Eddie Perfect, Scared Weird Little Guys, GUD , Sista She, etc ...
Mixing serious musos with comic musicians, Laugh-a-poolooza is a celebration of all the shapes and sizes of music and comedy from solo artists, duos a... Read more
Laurel & Hardy Collection: The Big Noise / A-Haunting We Will Go / Jitterbugs / Great Guns / The Dancing Masters / The Bullfighters (1945)
Director: Alfred L Werker, Mal St Clair, Lou Breslow
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
'The Bullfighters' (1945) - Our 2 intrepid detectives head to Mexico City to catch a thief and end up in the bullfighting ring instead! 'Dancing Maste... Read more
Laurel & Hardy: Bogus Bandits ( aka The Devil's Brother ) (1933)
4.7/10
Director: Charles R Rogers, Hal Roach
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson
Olio and Stanlio are a couple of incompetent bandits hired by Fra Davolio (the Devil's brother), a real-life bandit also known as Marquis de San Marco... Read more
Laurel & Hardy: The Soilers (1923)
4.7/10
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in this line-up of classic shorts including, 'Thundering Fleas' (1926), 'White Wings' (1923), 'Show' (1922) and 'The... Read more
Laurel and Hardy (1928)
7.5/10
Director: Various
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were, in their time, the world's most popular comedy duo and from 1928 made many successful films together, the bulk of t... Read more
Laurel and Hardy: Be Big / Laughing Gravy (1931)
7/10
Director: Various
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
In this extraordinary collection we are proud to present superb quality restorations of five distinct Laurel and Hardy motion pictures, including two... Read more
Laurel and Hardy: Kid Speed (1924)
7/10
Director: Stan Laurel
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Larry Semon
Oliver Hardy, Larry Semon and Dorothy Dwan participate in a side-splitting love triangle in 'Kid Speed' (1924); Stan Laurel co-directs 'Yes, Yes, Nane... Read more