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 Producers (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
Mel Brook's hilarious hit about a producer who comes up with a surefire scheme for making money... on a musical production that he is absolutely cert... Read more
The Proposal (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Anne Fletcher
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T Nelson, Betty White, De...
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds provide the yuks in this romantic comedy about a no-nonsense career woman (Bullock) who suddenly finds herself on the... Read more
The Puffy Chair (2004)
6.6/10
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Starring: Kathryn Aselton, Mark Duplass
Josh likes to be on time, he likes to dominate the small things in his world. Rhett likes to film lizards and talk at length about honesty and bad moj... Read more
The Pursuit of Love (2021)
6.7/10
Starring: Lily James, Dominic West, Emily Mortimer, Dolly Wells, Shazad Latif, Andrew Scot...
Set in Europe before World War II, the story follows the adventures of charismatic, fearless Linda Radlett and her best friend/cousin Fanny Logan. Con... Read more
The Racer (2020)
5.7/10
Director: Kieron J Walsh
Starring: Tara Lee
It follows a rider who, after being dropped from the team, is reinstated following a doping error. Read more
The Ref (1994)
6.9/10
Director: Ted Demme
Starring: Denis Leary, Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey
This caustic black comedy has a cat burglar (Denis Leary) on the lam holding a perennially bickering married couple (Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey) host... Read more
The Reivers (1969)
6.9/10
Director: Mark Rydell
Starring: Steve McQueen
An episodic jaunt from rural Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee, provides laughs and adventure for a young boy, a scampish farmhand (Steve McQueen) and... Read more
The Reluctant Infidel (2011)
Director: Josh Appignanesi
Starring: Matt Lucas, Omar Djalili, Richard Schiff, Archie Panjabi
For Mahmud Nasir, being a Muslim living in the UK hasn't been too easy these past few years, but just as he's learning to live with the suspicious loo... Read more
The Retirement Plan (2023)
5.1/10
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ashley Greene, Ron Perlman, Jackie Earle Haley, Ernie Hudson, Lynn...
When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to estranged father Matt, cur... Read more
The Return of Captain Invincible (1982)
5.7/10
Director: Philippe Mora
Starring: Alan Arkin, Arthur Dignam, Bill Hunter, Christopher Lee, David Argue, John Bluth...
During World War II, superhero Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin) helped us fight the cause and was called a hero. But soon after, he was labeled a commu... Read more