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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Space Station 76 (2014)
4.9/10
Director: Jack Plotnick
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Matt Bomer, Marisa Coughlan, Jerry O'Connell, Keir Du...
Welcome to a 1970s version of the future, where the pants are wide, the music is groovy, and the new frontier is interplanetary. When a new assistant... Read more
Spaceballs (1987)
7.1/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patt...
The Farce will be with you in this outrageously hilarious send-up of epic sci-fi movies, created by comic genius Mel Brooks. Boasting a cast of cosmic... Read more
Spaced (1999)
8.6/10
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, Nick Frost, Mark Heap, Bill Bailey
Friends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford. Read more
Spanish Fly (1976)
4.9/10
Director: Bob Kellett
Starring: Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Frank Thornton, Graham Armitage, Nadiuska
Leslie Phillips is the debonair Mike Scott who visits Menorca to arrange a series of glamourous photo shoots. After arriving he meets up with an old... Read more
Sparkle (2007)
6.1/10
Director: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
Starring: Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head, Bob Hoskins, Lesley Manville, John...
An appealing British comedy with a fun concept, a witty script and an uplifting ending, from the writers of 'Lawless Heart'. Sam is a Northerner who d... Read more
Special (2006)
6.9/10
Director: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore
Starring: Michael Rapaport, Paul Blackthorne, Josh Peck, Robert Baker, Jack Kehler, Alexan...
Les leads an uninspiring life, doing little more than eating, sleeping, working, and reading comic books. That is until he decides to volunteer as a t... Read more
Speed Dating (2006)
4.9/10
Director: Tony Herbert
Starring: Hugh O'Conor, Flora Montgomery, Don Wycherley
Tony Herbert's comedic thriller concerns a man who has inherited millions and decides to end his lonesomeness through speed dating, a process whereby... Read more
Spice World: The Movie (1997)
3.4/10
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring: Alan Cumming, Claire Rushbrook, George Wendt, Richard E Grant, Roger Moore, The...
Britain's chart-topping all-girl quintet, The Spice Girls, makes the jump to screen stardom with a glitzy musical that could have been called "A Hard... Read more
Spider and Rose (1994)
Director: Bill Bennett
Starring: Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell, Max Cullen
Spider McCall (Simon Bossell) is an ambulance driver with 'attitude'. His final day on the job lands him the assignment of driving a feisty 70-year-ol... Read more
Spies in Disguise (2019)
6.8/10
Director: Nick Bruno
Starring: Rachel Brosnahan, Jarrett Bruno
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is not. But what Walter... Read more