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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Bananas (1971)
7.1/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Carlos Montalban, Louise Lasser, Woody Allen
Absurd humour bordering on insanity marks 'Bananas'. Woody Allen stars as Fielding Mellish, a gadget tester who flees to South America and eventually... Read more
Bandidas (2006)
5.7/10
Director: Espen Sandberg, Joachim Roenning
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn, Dwight Yoakam, Sam Shepard
Latina heartthrobs Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek team up as sisters seeking revenge on the man who killed their daddy, in this comedy western. The ba... Read more
Barbarians At The Gate (1993)
7.3/10
Director: Glenn Jordan
Starring: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert
A dynamite serio-comedy based on the true story of the leveraged buyout of the giant congolomerate R J R - Nabisco in the greedy 80s. James Garner, Jo... Read more
Barbershop (2002)
6.3/10
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve , Keith David, Cedric The E...
Calvin (Ice Cube) is a would-be entrepreneur with big plans... and running his family's Chicago barbershop isn't one of them. But when he impulsively... Read more
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2003)
5.7/10
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Starring: Ice Cube, Cedric The Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve , Troy Garity, Harry...
After an inner-city entrepreneur opens a high-tech hair salon across the street, barbershop owner Ice Cube finds himself facing stiff competition. Whi... Read more
Barbie (2023)
7.1/10
Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Kate McKin...
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to... Read more
Barbie (Blu-ray) (2023)
7.1/10
Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Kate McKin...
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to... Read more
Barcelona (1994)
7/10
Director: Whit Stillman
Starring: Chris Eigeman, Mira Sorvino, Taylor Nichols
A young nerdy American businessman (Taylor Nicholls) living in Spain is joined by his naval officer cousin (Chris Eigeman); the two woo a variety of w... Read more
Barney's Version (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Richard J Lewis
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Paul Giamatti, Scott Speedman, Rosamund Pike, Rac...
You could say Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti) earned the right to be a cynical, hard-drinking S.O.B. - except that most of his problems seem to be mos... Read more
Barton Fink (1991)
7.7/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Jon Polito
The 44th winner of Best Film at Cannes was this dark comedy/thriller in which a renowned playwright (John Turturro) comes to 1941 L.A. to write a scre... Read more