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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Tickets (2005)
7/10
Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Ermanno Olmi, Ken Loach
Starring: Martin Compston, William Ruane, Carlo delle Piane, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Silva...
Three outstanding directors came together with the idea of making three separate films, then decided to weave their stories together using a train jou... Read more
Tideland (2005)
6.5/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Janet McTeer, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly, Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher, D...
Terry Gilliam's macabre and surreal fairytale centres on young Jeliza-Rose, the neglected daughter of a couple of strung-out drug addicts (Jeff Bridge... Read more
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
5.4/10
Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Ray Wise, Robert Loggia, William Atherton, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wa...
Provided with a billion dollars for film production, Tim and Eric squander every dime and elicit the wrath of the sinister Schlaaang Corporation. With... Read more
Time Bandits (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more
Time Bandits (Blu-ray) (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more
Tin Men (1987)
6.5/10
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey
Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito star as aluminium siding salesmen involved in an escalating feud. Director Barry Levinson cagily captures what life... Read more
Tiny Furniture (2010)
6.2/10
Director: Lena Dunham
Starring: Merritt Wever, Alex Karpovsky, Lena Dunham, Jemima Kirke, Laurie Simmons, Grace...
Lena Dunham got her start making YouTube videos, but she emerged as a major talent thanks to the breakthrough success of this exceptionally sharp come... Read more
TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007)
6.3/10
Director: Kevin Munroe
Starring: Voices Of, Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako , Kevin Smith, Patrick Stewa...
The amphibious crime-fighters are back as computer animated 'heroes in a half shell', taking on a legion of malevolent monsters who gather just once e... Read more
To Be Or Not To Be (1983)
6.8/10
Director: Alan Johnson
Starring: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft are Polish actors who foil the Nazis at the outbreak of WW II. Charles Durning's Gestapo officer alone is worth the price... Read more
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
8.2/10
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Starring: Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack
The original WWII satire and comedy classic. Jack Benny is a hammy Shakespearean actor who, along with members of his Polish acting troupe, becomes in... Read more