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 Wrong Box (1966)
7/10
Director: Bryan Forbes
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John M...
Some of Britain's best known comics appear in this screwball farce about two zany families who battle over an inheritance in Victorian England. John M... Read more
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
6.2/10
Director: Tara Johns
Starring: Gil Bellows, Macha Grenon, Julia Stone
It's 1976 and eleven-year-old Elizabeth (Julia Stone) is shocked to discover that she is an adopted child, but even more shocking is the person she fi... Read more
The Young Master (1980)
7.3/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Wei Pei, Yuen Biao, Li Li-Li, Sheck Kin
One of Jackie Chan's first films as director/star that rocketed him to world-wide recognition. This colourful period-comedy follows Jackie as he seeks... Read more
Their Finest (2016)
6.8/10
Director: Lone Scherfig
Starring: Richard E Grant, Bill Nighy, Rachael Stirling, Eddie Marsan, Gemma Arterton, Jac...
1940, London, the Blitz; with the countrys morale at stake, Catrin (Gemma Arterton), an untried screenwriter, and a makeshift cast and crew, work und... Read more
Then She Found Me (2007)
6/10
Director: Helen Hunt
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Colin Firth, Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Ben Shenkman
Helen Hunt directed, co-wrote and stars in this engaging seriocomedy about a middle-aged schoolteacher whose life is thrown into turmoil when her husb... Read more
There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
5.7/10
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Starring: Diana Dors, Goldie Hawn, Peter Sellers
Self-absorbed British cooking show host Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) went through women as often as he went through serviettes. He thought he'd foun... Read more
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
6.5/10
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Ga...
Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman head a performing family that includes Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor and Johnny Ray. They all like to sin... Read more
There's Still Tomorrrow (2023)
Director: Paola Cortellesi
Starring: Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Emanuela Fanelli,...
In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while enduring abuse at the hands of her husband. When a... Read more
These Foolish Things (2006)
5.9/10
Director: Julia Taylor-Stanley
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Zoe Tapper, Andrew Lincoln, Terence Stamp, David Leon, Lauren B...
A gentle romantic comedy, set in London during the approach of World War II, with a young actress, a playwright and a director all struggling to advan... Read more
They Call Me Bruce? (1982)
5.6/10
Director: Elliot Hong
Starring: Margaux Hemingway, Pam Huntington, Ralph Mauro, Johnny Yune
This crazy kung-fu parody stars Johnny Yune as a cook with an uncanny resemblance to a certain martial arts legend. When Yune unwittingly becomes a co... Read more