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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Oscar Wilde Vol 2: An Ideal Husband (1969) / Lady Windemere's Fan (1985)
Director: Rudolph Cartier, Tony Smith
Starring: Margaret Leighton, Keith Michell, Jeremy Brett, Dinah Sheridan, Susan Hampshire,...
Volume 2 of the BBC's Oscar Wilde adaptations includes the comedies 'An Ideal Husband' (1969) with Margaret Leighton and Keith Michell; and 'Lady Wind... Read more
OSS 117 - Cairo: Nest of Spies (2006)
7.1/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre, Berenice Bejo, Jean Dujardin, Jean-Francois Halin...
Introducing Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, French special agent OSS 117. After the mysterious death of his colleague Jack Jefferson while on assignment... Read more
OSS 117 - From Africa With Love (2001)
7/10
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Pierre Niney, Natacha Lindinger, Wladimir Yordanoff
The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures. Read more
OSS 117 - Lost in Rio (2009)
6.9/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Rudiger Vogler, Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Alex Lutz
The year is 1967 and Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (Jean Dujardin) - or, OSS 117 - is a dashing French intelligence officer whose handsome looks and deb... Read more
Otis (2007)
6.9/10
Director: Tony Krantz
Starring: Jere Burns, Illeana Douglas, Ashley Johnson, Kevin Pollak, Daniel Stern, Jared K...
Otis just wants to go to the perfect prom with the perfect date, and to do so he's taken to kidnapping. When the Lawsons (Daniel Stern and Illeana Dou... Read more
Otto; or Up With Dead People (2008)
5.3/10
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Olivia Barth, Keith Boehm, Jey Crisfar, Nicholas Fox Ricciardi, Marcel Schlutt,...
Controversial Canadian director Bruce La Bruce wowed them at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival with Otto, a gay neo-Goth zombie who hooks up with... Read more
Our Idiot Brother (2011)
6.4/10
Director: Jesse Peretz
Starring: Paul Rudd, Shirley Knight, Steve Coogan, Emily Mortimer, Rashida Jones, Elizabet...
Is that any way to talk about Ned (Paul Rudd)? As trouble-prone as he is, Ned's heart always seems to be in the right place - plus, his girlfriend has... Read more
Our Man Flint (1965)
6.5/10
Director: Daniel Mann
Starring: James Coburn, Lee J Cobb, Gila Golan
Super Secret Agent Flint (James Coburn) of Z.O.W.I.E. sets out to foil a plot to control the worlds weather when an evil organisation called Galaxy se... Read more
Our Miss Fred (1972)
5.4/10
Director: Bob Kellett
Starring: Danny La Rue, Alfred Marks, Lance Percival, Frances de la Tour
Shakespearian actor Fred Wimbush's drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking he... Read more
Out To Sea (1997)
6.1/10
Director: Martha Coolidge
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon
A chronic con man fools his pal into joining him for a Caribbean cruise but neglects to inform him that he's signed them both on as dance hosts. Jack... Read more