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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Private Benjamin (1980)
6.1/10
Director: Howard Zieff
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante
Goldie Hawn is delightful as a spoiled Jewish/American princess who decides to get away from her life by joining the "new liberal" Army. Her army camp... Read more
Private Parts (1997)
6.8/10
Director: Betty Thomas
Starring: Mary McCormack, Robin Quivers, Howard Stern, Paul Giamatti
This screen adaptation of Howard Stern's (the 90's Lenny Bruce) no-holds-barred autobiography charts his rise to power and notoriety. Follow the super... Read more
Private School (1983)
5.3/10
Director: Noel Black
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine
Chris from a girls' boarding school loves Jim from a nearby boys' boarding school. Jordan also wants Jim and plays dirty. Jim and 2 friends visit the... Read more
Private's Progress (1956)
6.6/10
Director: John Boulting
Starring: Dennis Price, Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas
This splendid farce on army life tells the tale of an undergraduate with no visible talents who joins the army in WWII and soon learns the best ways o... Read more
Privates On Parade (1983)
4.7/10
Director: Michael Blakemore
Starring: John Cleese, Denis Quilley, Nicola Pagett
John Cleese is the marvelous mad major in this sizzling mix of high camp, low farce and bitter tragedy about an army song-and-dance unit. Denis Quille... Read more
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
6.8/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, John Randolph,...
Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner in a black comedy about a Mafia hit man who falls in love with a beautiful free-lance killer. With Anjelica Huston... Read more
Project A Part II (1987)
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Bill Tung
A nice mix of farce and jaw-dropping action as Jackie Chan battles ornery crooks in turn-of-the-century Hong Kong. One of Buster Keaton's most famous... Read more
Project X (2012)
6.7/10
Director: Nima Nourizadeh
Starring: Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Miles Teller
It's Thomas Kubb's 17th birthday and all he wants to do is throw a small party with some friends to help raise his social status and maybe even get lu... Read more
Protectors of the Universe (1983)
Director: Larry M. Jackson
In the far reach of space, a new star evokes. At that very moment, a horrible roaring sweeps across the universe. This sudden roaring, like a helpless... Read more
Protocol (1984)
5.4/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory, Gail Strickland, Cl...
After saving an Arabian dignitary from an assassination attempt, Sunny Davis (Goldie Hawn), cocktail waitress, suddenly becomes Sunny Davis, Washingto... Read more