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 Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
6.8/10
Director: Robin Swicord
Starring: Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Jimmy Smits,...
The lines separating fiction and reality become blurred for six California residents when they form a book club to study the novels of Jane Austen and... Read more
The Jerk (1979)
7.2/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams
Steve Martin made a very funny film debut in this wacky comedy about the misadventures of a terminally stupid young man. Watch out for the cat jugglin... Read more
The Keystone Comedies (1915)
Starring: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand
The Keystone Studios were founded in Glendale, California in 1912 by Mack Sennett (1880-1960) and soon became famous for a chaotic style of slapstick... Read more
The Kid (1921)
8.3/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan
For the first time as a filmmaker, Chaplin stepped into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down-but-never-out Tramp (Chaplin) and the a... Read more
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
7/10
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson
A lesbian couple (Annette Bening, Julianne Moore) must cope with having their already nontraditional family life rocked to the core when their two chi... Read more
The King is Dead! (2012)
5.6/10
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Anthony Hayes, Dan Wyllie, Gary Waddell, Bojana Novakovic, Luke Ford, Lani John...
Max and Therese have just brought a new house in a leafy suburb. Their suburban dreams are quickly shattered when they find they have the neighbours f... Read more
The King of Comedy (1982)
7.8/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Tony Randall, Sandra Bernhard
Robert De Niro is an obsessive stand-up comic performing in front of cardboard cut-outs in is mum's basement. Jerry Lewis is the host of a talk show t... Read more
The King Of Staten Island (2020)
7.1/10
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley
Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist un... Read more
The King Of Staten Island (Blu-ray) (2020)
7.1/10
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley
Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist un... Read more
The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2 (2010)
4.6/10
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Starring: Alex Dimitriades, Kevin Sorbo, Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Costas Kilias,...
Things haven't been going well for Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis... His one true love, a '69 Valiant Pacer, has just been seized, along with all his... Read more