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 Last Word (2008)
6.3/10
Director: Geoffrey Haley
Starring: Winona Ryder, Wes Bentley, Ray Romano
An alienated poet (Wes Bentley), catering to self-destructive people lacking the literary talent to craft their own suicide notes, strikes up a friend... Read more
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
7.7/10
Director: Charles Crichton
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James
An excellent comedy with droll Alec Guinness, a timid bank clerk who has a perfect scheme for robbing a gold bullion truck, with a madcap chase climax... Read more
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
7.5/10
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Kieron Moore,...
A humorous, tension-filled heist film about a former British Army officer who organises a group of his somewhat dodgy friends to pull off a 1,000,000... Read more
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Steve Bendelack
Starring: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, David Warner, Michael Sheen
The freakish and bizarre inhabitants of Royston Vasey are unleashed on an unsuspecting world in this movie spawned from the cult TV series. All the f... Read more
The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)
Director: Robert Carlyle
Starring: Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Robert Carlyle
A Scottish barber inadvertently stumbles into serial murder, with both absurd and macabre consequences as he tries to cover his crimes. Robert Carlyle... Read more
The Legend of Baron To'a (2020)
7.5/10
Director: Kiel McNaughton
Starring: Nathaniel Lees, Jay Laga'aia
Fritz, a young Tongan man grappling with his wrestling superstar father Baron To'a's legacy, both metaphorically and literally following in his deceas... Read more
The Legend of the Tamworth Two (2004)
5.8/10
Director: Metin Huseyin
Starring: Chris Langham, Gerard Horan, Emma Pierson, Darren Boyd, Alexei Sayle, Kevin What...
Not wanting to become just another roast dinner, two Tamworth pigs escaped from a slaughterhouse in January 1998. Butch and Sundance, as they were chr... Read more
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
7.3/10
Director: Chris McKay
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rosario Dawson, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis
In the irreverent spirit of fun that made "The Lego Movie" a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble - Lego Batman - sta... Read more
The Lego Batman Movie ( Blu-ray ) (2017)
7.3/10
Director: Chris McKay
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rosario Dawson, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis
In the irreverent spirit of fun that made "The Lego Movie" a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble - Lego Batman - sta... Read more
The Lego Movie (2014)
7.8/10
Director: Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Starring: Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Chris P...
"The Lego Movie" is a feature-length, computer animated movie which follows Emmet (voice of Chris Pratt), an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly aver... Read more