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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Stone of Destiny (2008)
6.8/10
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Starring: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Billy Boyd, Robert Carlyle, Ciaron Kelly
In 1950, Ian Hamilton, a student and dedicated nationalist, reignited Scottish national pride with his daring raid on Westminster Abbey to bring back... Read more
Strange Bedfellows (2004)
6.4/10
Director: Dean Murphy
Starring: Paul Hogan, Michael Caton
Tells the hilarious and heartwarming story of two very straight country blokes who, out of financial desperation, declare themselves as a gay couple t... Read more
Strange Brew (1983)
6.7/10
Starring: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Max von Sydow
Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it. Read more
Strange Invaders / Invaders From Mars (1986)
Director: Michael Laughlin, Tobe Hooper
Starring: Nancy Allen, Paul LeMat, Fiona Lewis, Karen Black, Bud Cort
'Strange Invaders' (1983): A fun spoof of science fiction invader films of the '50s and '60s. A UFO lands in a remote area of the midwest during the 1... Read more
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
7.6/10
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson
Will Ferrell does a serio-comic turn as IRS agent Harold Crick, a pedantic number-cruncher who one day wakes up to find he can hear a woman's voice na... Read more
Strangers with Candy (2005)
6.1/10
Director: Paul Dinello
Starring: Amy Sedaris, Greg Hollimon, Paul Dinello, Deborah Rush, Stephen Colbert, Dan Hed...
A prequel to the brilliant comedy series of the same name about Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) an ex-drug addict who wants to come good - so she's going ba... Read more
Strays (2023)
Starring: Will Forte, Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher, Randall Park
Abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug, a naive but lovable dog named Reggie falls in with a fast-talking, foul-mouthed Boston... Read more
Stretch (2014)
6.5/10
Director: Joe Carnahan
Starring: Jessica Alba, Patrick Wilson, Ed Helms, James Badge Dale, Brooklyn Decker
Things perpetually go from bad to worse in Stretch the new action-comedy from Joe Carnahan (Smokin Aces). Stretch (Patrick Wilson, The Conjuring... Read more
Stripes (1981)
6.9/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Warren Oates, P J Soles, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray
This box office hit is a routine army comedy about a loser who enlists and ends up in a platoon of volunteer misfits that a sergeant is doing his best... Read more
Striptease (1996)
4.4/10
Director: Andrew Bergman
Starring: Demi Moore, Armand Assante, Burt Reynolds
Demi Moore takes it all off in this adaptation ofCarl Hiaasen's cunning satirical novel. When she loses custody of her child to her slimy husband, she... Read more