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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Oh Boy ( A Coffee In Berlin ) (2012)
7.4/10
Director: Jan Ole Gerster
Starring: Michael Gwisdek, Ulrich Noethen, Tom Schilling, Frederick Lau, Katharina Schuttl...
Niko (Tom Schilling) is in his late 20s and recently dropped out of college. He lives for the moment, oblivious to his growing status as an outsider u... Read more
Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)
7.2/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, Jack H...
Based on a 1963 stage show by Charles Chilton, lampooning World War I and war in general, and focused on the Smith family who have five sons to send o... Read more
Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)
7.1/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf... Read more
Old Boys (2018)
6.1/10
Director: Toby MacDonald
Starring: Alex Lawther, Pauline Ettienne, Denis Menochet, Nicholas Rowe
During the production of "Cyrano" for a school play, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school hero pursue the... Read more
Old Dogs (2009)
5.4/10
Director: Walt Becker
Starring: John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Lori Loughlin, Matt Dillon, Robin Williams, Seth G...
Two best friends have their lives turned upside down when they're unexpectedly charged with the care of seven-year-old twins while on the verge of the... Read more
On A Clear Day (2005)
7/10
Director: Gaby Dellal
Starring: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley, Jamie Sives, Benedict Wong, Billy B...
Made redundant after a lifetime's work in the Glasgow shipyards, Frank (Peter Mullan) feels lost and discarded. His wife (Brenda Blethyn) and son are... Read more
On Air (2012)
6.3/10
Director: Pierre Pinaud
Starring: Karin Viard, Nicolas Duvauchelle
A.k.a. "Parlez-moi de vous". 40-year-old Claire Martin (Karin Viard) is the most famous voice in France. As 'Mélina', host of an evening radio program... Read more
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
7.1/10
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Starring: Doris Day, Gordon McRae, Mary Wickes, Billy Gray
Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories make charming material for this Doris Day musical in which the bubbly blonde plays tomboy Marjie Wilson who moves to... Read more
On My Way (2013)
6.4/10
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nemo Schiffman, Gerard Garouste, Camille , Paul Hamy, Mylene...
Deneuve plays over-60 ex-beauty queen Bettie. Jilted by her lover, harangued by her busybody mother, and about to lose the family seafood restaurant,... Read more
On The Avenue (1937)
6.9/10
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Starring: Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, Alan Mowbray, Cora Witherspoon
A young Broadway producer puts on a hit show mocking a New York socialite, but gets himself caught between the real (and charming) debutant and the st... Read more