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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Be Kind Rewind (2007)
6.4/10
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Jack Black, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Mos Def
A freak accident magnetises Jack Black's brain, leading him to erase the contents of the VHS inventory inside his favourite (and failing) New Jersey v... Read more
Beaches (1988)
6.8/10
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: John Heard, Barbara Hershey, Bette Midler, Spalding Gray
They met at the beach when they were children and formed a friendship that would last a lifetime. Filled with song and sentiment, this is a serio-comi... Read more
Bean (1997)
6.4/10
Director: Mel Smith
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed
Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson) does his big screen thing as the rubber faced, accident prone loon causing chaos across America after becoming inadvertently... Read more
Bean-tastic - Mr Bean Boxset (1989)
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Emma De Caunes, Willem Dafoe, Jean Rochefort, Peter MacNicol, Pa...
'Bean' - Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson) does his big screen thing as the rubber faced, accident prone loon causing chaos across America after becoming inadv... Read more
Beat The Devil (1954)
6.6/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre
An audacious offbeat comedy with Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida and Peter Lorre, and screenplay by Truman Capote, about a motley group of petty th... Read more
Beautiful Lies (2010)
6.5/10
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou, Sami Bouajila
Director Pierre Salvadori (Priceless) reunites with Audrey Tautou (Coco Avant Chanel) in this fresh romantic comedy about a chatty hairdresser who con... Read more
Becky (2020)
5.8/10
Starring: Kevin James, Joel McHale
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives. Read more
Bedazzled (2000)
6/10
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Orlando Jones, Miriam Shor, Frances O'Connor
Director/co-writer Harold Ramis' witty updating of the 1967 Dudley Moore/Peter Cook comedy stars Brendan Fraser as a nerdish office worker in love wit... Read more
Bedroom Mazurka (1970)
4.8/10
Director: John Hilbard
Starring: Ole Soeltoft, Birte Tove
Max (Ole Soeltoft) is the popular teacher at a public school who needs a new schoolmaster. In an effort to entice him to take the vacated position, th... Read more
Bedtime Story (Blu-ray) (1964)
6.7/10
Starring: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, Marie Windsor
Two scam artists prey on women for their money. They clash in a Mediterranean hot spot. Will the cultured, high-class con artist come out on top, or w... Read more