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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Tulpan (2008)
7.1/10
Director: Sergey Dvortsevoy
Starring: Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Ondasyn Besikbasov, Samal Yeslyamova
Acclaimed Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy's first narrative feature is a gorgeous melange of tender comedy, ethnographic drama and wildlife ext... Read more
Turbo (2013)
6.4/10
Director: David Soren
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Paul Giamatti, Michelle Rodriguez, Snoop Dogg, Ryan Reynolds,...
"Turbo" is a high velocity comedy about an underdog snail (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) who kicks into overdrive when he miraculously attains the power of... Read more
Turn Me On, Goddammit! (2011)
Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
Starring: Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjorhovde, Henriette Steenstrup, Beate Stofring, Matias...
Made from a female perspective, this is an honest and affectionately candid portrayal of adolescent eroticism and female division.15-year-old Alma and... Read more
Turner and Hooch (1989)
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T Nelson
Tom Hanks plays an officious police detective whose investigation of a murder is slightly hampered when the sole witness is a slobbering and very ugly... Read more
Tusk (2014)
5.3/10
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Michael Parks, Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez
From writer-director Kevin Smith ("Dogma", "Red State") comes this wickedly funny modern-day monster movie that will hold you in terror as it keeps yo... Read more
Twice Upon A Time (2006)
5.9/10
Director: Antoine de Caunes
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Jean Rochefort, Isabelle Nanty, Ian Richardson, Simon Kunz,...
A light comedy observing the long-delayed reunion between two former lovers, Alice (Charlotte Rampling) a British stage actress, and Louis (Jean Roche... Read more
Twin Falls Idaho (1999)
7.3/10
Director: Michael Polish
Starring: Mark Polish, Michael Polish, Patrick Bauchau, Michelle Hicks, Lesley Ann Warren,...
Taking the "love triangle drama" to new heights, filmmaking siblings Mark and Michael Polish play conjoined twins waiting in a rundown hotel room for... Read more
Twin Town (1997)
6.7/10
Director: Kevin Allen
Starring: Llyr Evans, Rhys Ifans, Dorien Thomas, Dougray Scott
An anarchic black comedy set in South Wales that centres on the Lewis Twins; two wayward lads high on drugs, sex and auto theft and hellbent on avengi... Read more
Twinkle Twinkle, Lucky Stars (1986)
6.5/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Andy Lau, Yuen Biao, Eric Tsang, Rosamund Kwan, Richard...
Hong Kong cops Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao and childhood friend/thief Sammo Hung must save a druglord from assassination by Thai gangsters in this OTT a... Read more
Twins (1988)
6/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston
About the coming together of two unlikely brothers, the result of an experiment in superior breeding, and their immensely funny, eventful journey to f... Read more