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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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Blu-ray) (1999)
6.6/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Elizabeth Hurley, Heather Graham, Michael York, Mike Myers, Rob Lowe, Robert Wag...
More swingin' 60s lunacy as Dr Evil returns to Earth with a time-travel machine and goes back to 1969 to steal Austin's mojo and terrorise the world w... Read more
Autumn Spring (2002)
7.6/10
Director: Vladimir Michalek
Starring: Vlastimil Brodsky, Stella Zazvorkova, Stanislav Zindulka, Ondrej Vetchy, Zita Ka...
Fanda (Vlastimil Brodsky) is an incurable prankster, even when faced with his own imminent death and a bemused and ungrateful family, Fanda wants to c... Read more
Avanti! (1972)
7.2/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Clive Revill, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills
A wonderful comedy about a stuffy millionaire who falls in love with the daughter of his late father's mistress when he comes to Italy to claim the ol... Read more
Away We Go (2009)
7.1/10
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels, Melanie Lynskey, Allison Janney, Paul Schneider,...
Sam Mendes directs this heartfelt comedy starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as an unmarried couple anticipating the birth of their first child.... Read more
Baby It's You (1983)
6.4/10
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano
Evocative and engaging romantic comedy, written and directed by John Sayles ("Passion Fish"), traces the relationship of a book-smart, street-dumb hig... Read more
Baby Mama (2008)
6/10
Director: Michael McCullers
Starring: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Sigourney Weaver...
SNL buddies Tina Fey ('30 Rock') and Amy Poehler ('Blades of Glory') get together for their first feature, with Tina as the corporate climber with a t... Read more
Babylon (2022)
7.2/10
Director: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Brad Pitt, Diego Calva, Margot Robbie, Flea, Olivia Wilde
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravi... Read more
Bachelor Party (1984)
6.3/10
Director: Neal Israel
Starring: Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen, William Tepper
This outrageous look at one man's final moments of bachelorhood stars Tom Hanks as Rick, reluctant recipient of a bachelor bash given by a group of fr... Read more
Back to Burgundy (Ce qui nous lie) (2017)
7/10
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Starring: Maria Valverde, Pio Marmai, Ana Girardot, Francois Civil, Jean-Marc Roulot
After a 10 year absence, Jean returns to his hometown when his father falls ill. Reuniting with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie, they have... Read more
Back to School (1986)
6.6/10
Director: Alan Metter
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Ned Beatty, Robert Downey Jr, Rodney...
Self-made wealthy guy Thornton Melon's (Rodney Dangerfield) son (Keith Gordon) is a college misfit, so Thornton decides to lend some fatherly support... Read more