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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Restless Natives (1986)
7.2/10
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Vincent Friell, Joe Mulloney, Ned Beatty
Unemployed Scottish lads Will (Vincent Friell) and Ronnie (Joe Mullaney) are living on a housing estate in Edinburgh. Broke, bored and in an effort to... Read more
Results (2015)
5.4/10
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Starring: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Michael Hal...
Writer/director Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess, 2013) returns with a fun, intimate fable that's utterly grounded in real life. Recently divorced, new... Read more
Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt (2003)
6.7/10
Director: Paul A Kaufman
Starring: Adam West, Burt Ward, Jack Brewer, Jason Marsden, Lyle Waggoner, Lee Meriwether,...
Holy Reunion Movie, Batman! When the original Batmobile is stolen, there's no time to call the police. This is a job for actors! Thirty-five years aft... Read more
Revenge of the Musketeers ( aka D'Artagnan's Daughter ) (1994)
5.9/10
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Sami Frey, Sophie Marceau, Claude Rich
The legendary swordsmen of 17th-century France are called back into action by D'Artagnan's daughter (Sophie Marceau) when her convent home offers sanc... Read more
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
6.6/10
Director: Jeff Kanew
Starring: Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley
One of the more engaging of the silly teen-sex comedies, with Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards leading fellow campus nerds to form their own frate... Read more
Revenge Of The Pink Panther (1978)
6.7/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon
Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom return for the fifth in the Pink Panther series, this one set in Hong Kong. With Dyan Cannon, theme music by Henry Manci... Read more
Rhinestone (1984)
3.7/10
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Dolly Parton, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Farnsworth
When Sly met Dolly... After a big-time country singer (Dolly Parton) brags that she can turn anybody into a country-singin' star, she's out to prove s... Read more
Rice Rhapsody (2004)
6.6/10
Director: Kenneth Bi
Starring: Sylvia Chang, Martin Yan, Melanie Laurent, LePham Tan, Craig Toh, Maggie Q
After being abandoned by her husband years earlier, Jen has raised three boys on her own. Her two eldest sons are gay, and fearing she will have no g... Read more
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
8.2/10
Director: Jeff Margolis
Starring: Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor is a comic genius at his prime in this 1979 live performance filmed in Long Beach. Considered by many critics to be Pryor's funniest and... Read more
Rick (2003)
6.1/10
Director: Curtiss Clayton
Starring: Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford, Agnes Bruckner, Dylan Baker, Sandra Oh
Curtiss Clayton, a veteran film editor who has worked with Gus Van Sant ('Drugstore Cowboy') and Vincent Gallo ('Buffalo 66'), makes his directorial d... Read more