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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Louis Malle: Youth and Conflict ( Lacombe Lucien; Au Revoir, Les Enfants ) (1987)
8.3/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Daniel Gelin, Francine Racette, Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Pierre Blaise, A...
Louis Malle remains one of the most well-loved, and well-regarded French film makers from the 1960s right through to the 1990s. This double-pack compi... Read more
Louise-Michel (2008)
6.6/10
Director: Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Starring: Albert Dupontel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoit Poelvoorde, Bouli Lanners, Philippe K...
When a surprise downsizing leaves a group of French toy factory workers angling for revenge, slow-witted Louise (Yolande Moreau) comes up with a brigh... Read more
Love and Death (1975)
7.8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Woody Allen
One of Woody Allen's funniest films; Allen plays a bumbling Russian trying to avoid the draft during the Napoleonic war. Diane Keaton is his pretentio... Read more
Love and Friendship (2016)
Director: Whit Stillman
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Fry, Xavier Samuel
Beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out the colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through po... Read more
Love and Friendship ( Blu-ray ) (2016)
Director: Whit Stillman
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Fry, Xavier Samuel
Beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out the colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through po... Read more
Love and Human Remains (1993)
Director: Denys Arcand
Starring: Thomas Gibson, Ruth Marshall, Mia Kirshner
Quebec film-maker Denys Arcand's ('Jesus of Montreal') first English-language film is this dark comedy that follows a bunch of young urban adults in p... Read more
Love And Monsters (2020)
6.9/10
Starring: Dylan O'Brien, Michael Rooker, Dan Ewing
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O'Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant cre... Read more
Love And Other Catastrophes (1996)
6.3/10
Director: Emma-Kate Croghan
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Alice Garner, Radha Mitchell
Students Alice and Mia move into a new flat and plan a party while looking for another flatmate, as well as trying to sort out their loves and lives a... Read more
Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: George Segal, Hank Azaria, Jake Gyllenhaal, Oliver Platt, Anne Hathaway, Gabriel...
Academy Award Nominees Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway co-star in in this unconventional comedy. Hathaway lights up the screen as the free-spirited... Read more
Love Birds (2010)
6.4/10
Director: Paul Murphy
Starring: Bryan Brown, Rhys Darby, Sally Hawkins
New Zealand romantic comedy, from the director of Second Hand Wedding, that tells the story of a regular bloke on a quest to find true love all with... Read more