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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The Day Shall Come (2019)
5.9/10
Director: Christopher Morris, Chris Morris
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Kayvan Novak
An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for... Read more
The Daytrippers (1995)
6.9/10
Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Hope Davis, Parker Posey, Stanley Tucci, Liev Schreiber, Campbell Scott, Pat McN...
Happily married Eliza (Hope Davis) discovers a letter written to her husband Louis (Stanley Tucci), signed 'Forever Sandy'. Her curiosity pricked by t... Read more
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
5.5/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover,...
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. Read more
The Dead Don't Die (Blu-ray) (2019)
5.5/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover,...
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. Read more
The Deal (2008)
5.6/10
Director: Steven Schachter
Starring: Meg Ryan, William H Macy, LL Cool J, Elliott Gould, Jason Ritter, Fiona Glascott...
A Hollywood producer starts with his nephew's script on Disraeli, Jewish PM in 1800s UK, and ends filming in Cape Town with a black action star. Will... Read more
The Death of Mister Lazarescu (2005)
Director: Cristi Puiu
Starring: Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu
Plagued with a terrible headache that will not go away, elderly Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) calls an ambulance. As he makes his frustrating journey... Read more
The Death of Stalin (2018)
7.2/10
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Dermot Crowley, Jason Isaacs, Jeffrey Tambor, Karl Johnson, Michael Palin, Steve...
When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Am... Read more
The Delicate Art of Parking (2003)
6.4/10
Director: Trent Carlson
Starring: Dov Tiefenbach, Diana Pavlovska, Fred Ewanuick
An absurd comedy about a Parking Enforcement Officer, who - despite constant abuse from the public - finds truth, honour and serenity in the act of ti... Read more
The Descendants (2011)
7.3/10
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Beau Bridges, George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer
A high-powered Hawaii real estate lawyer (George Clooney) finds his ordered existence shattered when a boating accident leaves his wife in a coma, lea... Read more
The Descendants (Blu-ray) (2011)
7.3/10
Starring: George Clooney
A high-powered Hawaii real estate lawyer (George Clooney) finds his ordered existence shattered when a boating accident leaves his wife in a coma, lea... Read more