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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Spies in Disguise (Blu-ray) (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
Spies Like Us (1985)
6.4/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison, Bernie Case...
From director John Landis ("The Blues Brothers", "National Lampoon's Animal House") comes this hilarious comedy of two misfits (Chevy Chase, Dan Aykro... Read more
Spinning Boris (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber
The incredible true story of three American political consultants (Jeff Goldblum, Anthony La Paglia, Liev Schreiber), who assisted in the 1996 re-elec... Read more
Splitting Heirs (1993)
5.5/10
Director: Robert Young
Starring: Rick Moranis, Eric Idle, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese
Comedy about a British Duke (Eric Idle) who is switched at birth when his parents accidentally leave him behind in a restaurant, picking up the wrong... Read more
Spud (2010)
6.7/10
Director: Donovan Marsh
Starring: John Cleese, Jeremy Crutchley, Julie Summers, Graham Weir, Troye Sivan, Aaron Mc...
John Milton (Troye Sivan), a.k.a. Spud, is a small boy from an ordinary background who wins a scholarship to an elite private school in South Africa.... Read more
Spud 2: The Madness Continues (2013)
6.3/10
Director: Donovan Marsh
Starring: John Cleese, Jeremy Crutchley, Troye Sivan, Jason Cope, Tanit Phoenix, Aaron McI...
The year is 1991, and Spud Milton's (Troye Sivan) long walk to manhood is still creeping along at an unnervingly slow pace. Approaching the ripe old a... Read more
Spy (2015)
7/10
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Jason Statham, Miranda Hart, Bobby Canna...
Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her... Read more
Spy Hard (1996)
5.3/10
Director: Rick Friedberg
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Barry Bostwick
Leslie Nielsen is Dick Steel, Secret Agent WD 40, on the trail of arch-villain General Rancor (Andy Griffith) in this zany spoof. Read more
St Ives (1976)
6.4/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Harry Guardino, Harris Yulin, Dana Elcar
Ex-crime reporter Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) has elegant taste, a yen for gambling and an unfinished novel in his typewriter. Hired to locate... Read more
St Trinian's (2007)
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
Starring: Colin Firth, Lena Headey, Rupert Everett, Mischa Barton
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls of St. Trinians's, the infamo... Read more