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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Arthur Christmas (2011)
7.1/10
Director: Barry Cook, Sarah Smith
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, James McAvoy, Ashley Je...
In this humorous computer-animated adventure from Aardman, multiple generations of Santas figure in the hijinks surrounding the family's job of delive... Read more
As You Like It (2006)
6.3/10
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Alfred Molina, Brian Blessed, Janet McTeer, Kevin Kline, Richard Briers, David O...
Kenneth Branagh adapts and directs this playful version of Shakespeare's comedy, setting the action in a time and place resembling 19th-century Japan.... Read more
As Young As You Feel (1951)
6.6/10
Director: Harmon Jones
Starring: Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters, Constance Bennett, Maril...
John Hodges (Monty Woolley) is due to be 'retired' when he turns 65, but his family don't want him hanging round the house and traditional pursuits of... Read more
Ask a Policeman (1939)
7.7/10
Director: Marcel Varnel
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt
Will Hay is a policeman investigating mysterious sightings of a headless horseman in a coastal town. Perennial sidekicks, grizzled Moore Marriott and... Read more
Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988)
4.6/10
Director: Anita Rosenberg
Starring: Nick Cassavetes, Elizabeth Kaitan, Christina Whitaker, Griffin O'Neal, Tammara S...
Sometimes great bodies disguise great brains. Not in "Assault of the Killer Bimbos". Go-go dancers Peaches (Christina Whitaker) and Lulu (Elizabeth Ka... Read more
Asterix and Obelix in Britain (2012)
Director: Laurent Tirard
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini, Gerard Depardieu, Valerie Lemercier, Bouli L...
A.k.a. "Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia". Led by Julius Caesar, Rome has just invaded Britain. Cordelia, the Queen of the Britons, sends her tr... Read more
Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)
5.1/10
Director: Frederic Forestier, Thomas Langmann
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alain Delon, Vanessa Hess...
While out hunting, Asterix and Obelix run across a local Roman sports champion named Gluteus Maximus who is about to participate in the Olympic Games.... Read more
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods (2014)
Director: Louis Clichy, Alexandre Astier
In order to wipe out the Gaulish village by any means necessary, Caesar plans to absorb the villagers into Roman culture by having an estate built nex... Read more
At Last The 1948 Show (1967)
7.8/10
Director: Ian Fordyce
Starring: Bill Oddie, Dick Vosburgh, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman...
Combining the nascent talents of John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman this ground-breaking series was the direct fore-runn... Read more
At War with the Army (1950)
5.8/10
Director: Hal Walker
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen
In this, their first starring feature, Dean Martin plays a sergeant in girl trouble who tries to get Private First Class Jerry Lewis to help him out.... Read more