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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What's in a Name? ( Le prenom ) (2012)
7.3/10
Director: Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patelliere
Starring: Charles Berling, Francoise Fabian, Valerie Benguigui, Patrick Bruel, Judith El Z...
A.k.a. "Le prénom". Vincent (Patrick Bruel), a successful forty-something Parisian businessman, is about to become a father for the first time. He is... Read more
What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022)
6.3/10
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Lily James, Emma Thompson
In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family's Pakistani heritage. In... Read more
What's So Bad About Feeling Good (1968)
6.8/10
Director: George Seaton
Starring: George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Don Stroud
A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others. Read more
What's Up Tiger Lily? (1966)
6/10
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi, Woody Allen
Starring: Tatsuya Mihashi, Miya Hana, Woody Allen, China Lee
Woody Allen provides the dubbed dialogue for a chopped up Japanese sexy spy thriller where the object of international intrigue is a recipe for egg sa... Read more
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
7.8/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
A crazy female student latches onto a musicologist and makes life unbearable for him and his dowdy fiancee. A plot involving spies and a jewel theft a... Read more
Whatever Works (2009)
7.2/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Ed Begley Jr, Michael McKean, Patricia Clarkson, Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood,...
Meet New Yorker Boris Yellnikoff ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"'s Larry David): a sarcastic, bitter and brilliant misanthrope who almost won the Nobel Prize.... Read more
Wheels On Meals (1984)
7.2/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Richard Ng
A Jackie Chan spectacular with Jackie and Yuen Biao selling Chinese food from their van in Barcelona, Spain. Soon, their involvement with a pickpocket... Read more
Where Am I Going? ( Quo vado? ) (2016)
6.6/10
Director: Gennaro Nunziante
Starring: Eleonora Giovanardi, Checco Zalone
Checco is born on the privileged side of life in an Italian small town, with a guaranteed job as a public servant. When a new reformist government vow... Read more
Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
7.5/10
Director: Nadine Labaki
Starring: Nadine Labaki, Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Layla Hakim, Yvonne Maalouf
Christians and Muslims lived peacefully together for years in this small Lebanese village, but animosities begin to build among the men as a result of... Read more
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2020)
6.5/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, Laurence Fishburne
A loving mom becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Her leap of faith takes her... Read more