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 Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
6.8/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Alan Arkin, Laurence Olivier, Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave
Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna in order to place him in the care of Sigmund Freud after his abuse of cocaine starts to sp... Read more
The Shaggy Dog/The Shaggy D.A. (1959)
Director: Charles Barton, Robert Stevenson
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Tim Considine, Dean J...
The Shaggy Dog: The son of dog-hating former mailman Wilson Daniels (Fred MacMurray), young Wilby (Tommy Kirk) accidentally becomes a canine himself... Read more
The Sheep Detectives (2026)
7.4/10
Director: Kyle Balda
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Hong Chau, Molly Gordon, Nicholas Braun, Julia Loui...
In this witty, new breed of mystery, George (Hugh Jackman) is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they ca... Read more
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
6.8/10
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn
Harold Lloyd's final film is actually a sequel to his 1925 comedy "The Freshman." After being fired from his job, staid bookkeeper Lloyd goes on a dri... Read more
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
6.5/10
Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd
Based on Ann Brashares' best-selling novel in which four friends are spending their first summer apart. The eponymous travelling pants are a second-ha... Read more
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
6.2/10
Director: Sanaa Hamri
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Rachel Nichols, Tom...
The original cast return for this sequel as the four friends once again spend a summer apart. Lena takes a painting course in Rhode Island; Bridget he... Read more
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
7/10
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: John C Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Allison Tolman, Rutg...
It's 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. The Sisters brothers find the... Read more
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
6.8/10
Director: Craig Johnson
Starring: Luke Wilson, Joanna Gleason, Ty Burrell, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Boyd Holbrook
After ten years of estrangement, twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront how their li... Read more
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Bernard Miles, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenn...
Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them... Read more
The Smurfs (2011)
5.5/10
Director: Raja Gosnell
Starring: Hank Azaria, Paul Reubens, Jonathan Winters, Anton Yelchin, George Lopez, Sofia...
Director Raja Gosnell takes the helm for this live action/CGI comedy based on the popular characters created by Belgian cartoonist (Pierre Culliford)... Read more