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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Nurse Betty (2000)
6.2/10
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Chris Rock, Renee Zellweger, Aaron Eckhart, Crispi...
This unpredictable, darkly comic road fantasy centres on Renee Zellweger, a Kansas waitress who becomes delusional after witnessing her husband's murd... Read more
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
7.8/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles D...
A wonderful, whimsical graft of Homer's "The Odyssey" telling the tale of three chain gang escapees in 1930s Mississippi. George Clooney is the slick... Read more
O Brother, Where Art Thou? ( Blu-ray ) (2000)
7.8/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: George Clooney, Charles Durning, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Jennifer Jason Leig...
A wonderful, whimsical graft of Homer's "The Odyssey" telling the tale of three chain gang escapees in 1930s Mississippi. George Clooney is the slick... Read more
O Lucky Man! (1973)
7.8/10
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Starring: Arthur Lowe, Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Helen Mirren
Developed from an original treatment by Malcolm McDowell, based on his experiences as a coffee salesman before he became an actor. Mammoth allegory wi... Read more
O'Horten (2007)
6.8/10
Director: Bent Hamer
Starring: Ghita Norby, Baard Owe, Espen Skjonberg, Bjorn Floberg
Now in his late sixties and approaching retirement, Norwegian train engineer Odd Horten (Baard Owe) embarks on a - dare one say it - odd journey of se... Read more
O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
5.3/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Neill Barry, Daniel Jenkins, Martin Mull, Dennis Hoppe...
Based on characters from a 'National Lampoon' magazine, O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban su... Read more
Observe and Report (2009)
5.8/10
Director: Jody Hill
Starring: Seth Rogen, Ray Liotta, Michael Pena, Anna Faris, Jesse Plemons, Dan Bakkedahl
Mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) patrols his domain with an iron fist - skateboarders and shoplifters beware. But his real ambition i... Read more
Obvious Child (2014)
6.8/10
Director: Gillian Robespierre
Starring: Gaby Hoffmann, Polly Draper, Richard Kind, David Cross, Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy,...
Jenny Slate and Jake Lacy star in this romantic comedy from writer and director Gillian Robespierre. When stand-up comedienne Donna (Slate) gets dumpe... Read more
Ocean's Eight (2018)
6.3/10
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Elliott Gould, Helena Bonham Carter, Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaw...
Five years, eight months, 12 days and counting -- that's how long Debbie Ocean has been devising the biggest heist of her life. She knows what it's go... Read more
Ocean's Eight (Blu-ray) (2018)
6.3/10
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway
Five years, eight months, 12 days and counting -- that's how long Debbie Ocean has been devising the biggest heist of her life. She knows what it's go... Read more