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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Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
3.5/10
Director: Alan Smithee
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Eric Idle, Coolio, Chuck D
Aka "An Alan Smithee Film". Eric Idle plays a filmmaker named Alan Smithee - but since that is the pseudonym directors' use when they don't want scree... Read more
Burnt (2015)
6.6/10
Director: John Wells
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Omar Sy, Daniel Bruhl, Matthew Rhys, Uma Thurman,...
Chef Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) had it all and lost it. A two-star Michelin rockstar with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of th... Read more
Burt Lancaster: Local Hero / The Flame and the Arrow / Executive Action / Seven Days in May (1950)
5.5/10
Director: Bill Forsyth, David Miller, Jacques Tourneur, John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas, Peter Riegert, Robert Ryan, Virgini...
Burt Lancaster Box Set. 'Local Hero' (1983) - Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert star in the wonderfully whimsical comedy of an oil company's planned bu... Read more
Burying the Ex (2014)
5.4/10
Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario, Oliver Cooper
When Max (Anton Yelchin) learns that his new live-in girlfriend, Evelyn (Ashley Greene) is controlling and manipulative, he is afraid to end the relat... Read more
Buster (1988)
5.8/10
Director: David Green
Starring: Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb
On August 8, 1963, the Royal Mail train, on its nighttime run from London to Glasgow, was robbed by 15 men who got away with 2.6 million pounds. It b... Read more
Buster Keaton Rides Again (Featuring: The Railrodder) (1965)
7.3/10
Starring: Buster Keaton
This film is a documentary about the filming of one of Buster Keaton's movies: The Railrodder (1965). Read more
Buster Keaton: 3 Films(Sherlock Jr., The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr.) (Blu-ray) (1924)
8.1/10
Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Between 1920 and 1929, Buster Keaton created a peerless run of feature films that established him as arguably the greatest actor-director in the histo... Read more
Buster Keaton: Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
8.9/10
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Starring: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood
A rare Buster Keaton film of the sound era in which he proves he was as brilliant as ever; Keaton is a sign-tacker hit by a car outside a mansion, bro... Read more
Buster Keaton: Silent Comedy Classics - Volume 1 (1920)
8.9/10
Starring: Buster Keaton
This collection of four classic Buster Keaton shorts includes: "Convict 13" (1920) - Buster is out playing golf when he gets knocked unconscious by a... Read more
Buster Keaton: The Complete Short Films 1917-1923 (1917)
8.7/10
Starring: Buster Keaton, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
A succession of the most timeless, classic comedy shorts ever realised in a luxurious four-disc box set, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK SY... Read more