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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. Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...

Brewster's Millions (1985)

6.5/10
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee

Think it's easy being a millionaire? Wait 'til you see Richard Pryor try to spend a fortune in 30 days, in order to gain a huge inheritance, only to f... Read more

Bride Wars (2009)

5.5/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Bryan Greenberg, Candice Bergen, Chris Pratt, Steve...

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway play best buds whose friendship is put to the test when a clerical error sees their dream weddings (both at New York's P... Read more

Bridesmaids (2010)

6.1/10
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kristen Wiig

Thirty-something Annie (Kristin Wiig) has hit a rough patch but finds her life turned completely upside down when she takes on the Maid of Honor role... Read more

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)

6.6/10
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant

After jumping back into the dating pool, single mother Bridget Jones finds herself caught between a younger man and her son's science teacher. Read more

Brief Crossing (2001)

6.8/10
Director: Catherine Breillat

Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futur... Read more

Bright Young Things (2003)

6.6/10
Director: Stephen Fry
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Stockard Cha...

British writer/actor Stephen Fry makes his feature directorial debut with this witty, sophisticated comedy adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bod... Read more

Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

6.9/10
Director: Gene Saks
Starring: Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Jonathan Silverman, Judith Ivey

New York, the 1930s...and a young man's mind is on the Yankees and sex (not necessarily in that order), as well as trying to deal with his argumentati... Read more

Brigsby Bear (2017)

7.4/10
Director: Dave McCary
Starring: Claire Danes, Greg Kinnear, Jane Adams, Mark Hamill, Ryan Simpkins, Andy Samberg...

Having lived in a bunker since he was abducted as an infant, James Pope (Kyle Mooney) spent 25 years with little external stimulus beyond watching vid... Read more

Bring It On (2000)

6/10
Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Gabrielle Union, Jesse Bradford

Pert pom-pom waving comedy/drama stars Kirsten Dunst as the newly named captain of San Diego high school's cheerleader squad who tries to whip her fiv... Read more

Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis (1998)

5.2/10
Director: John Henderson
Starring: Rik Mayall, Jane Horrocks, Danny Aiello

Rik Mayall stars as an up-to-his-neck-in-debt record producer who can see no other way out of his hole but to do away with his class act - unfortunate... Read more