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 Ealing Comedy Collection: The Lavender Hill Mob / Whisky Galore! / Passport to Pimlico / School for Scoundrels / The Maggie (1951)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton, Henry Cornelius, Robert Hamer
Starring: Alastair Sim, Alec Guinness, Basil Radford, Ian Carmichael, James Robertson Just...
The legendary Ealing Studios were home to some of Britain's most enduring - and endearing - comedies. It is the oldest continuously-working studio fac... Read more
The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 1 (1930)
The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection - Volume 1 DVD Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Play... Read more
The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 2 (1930)
7.6/10
Product Description Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 2 DVD Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or regi... Read more
The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 3 (1932)
7.6/10
A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three decade period. A cher... Read more
The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 4 (1930)
7.6/10
A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three decade period. A cher... Read more
The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 5 (1936)
7.6/10
A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three-decade period. A cher... Read more
The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 6 (1933)
7.6/10
A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three decade period. A cher... Read more
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
7.4/10
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Starring: Kyra Sedgwick, Woody Harrelson, Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson
Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) has never had it easy, finding it impossible to fit in at school due to her awkward ways, finding a more fulfilling friendsh... Read more
The Editor (2014)
6.1/10
Director: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Udo Kier, Paz de la Huerta, Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Rey Ciso was once the greatest editor the world had ever seen. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he's had... Read more
The Emperor's New Clothes (2002)
7/10
Director: Alan Taylor
Starring: Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny
Napoleon Bonaparte - defeated, powerless and exiled to the island of St. Helena to live out the rest of his life in lonely, faded isolation. Or was he... Read more