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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Cactus Jack (1979)
8.3/10
Director: Hal Needham
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ann-Margret
Aka 'The Villain'. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the mysterious, handsome stranger in this combination of a western spoof and Road Runner cartoon. With Kir... Read more
Caddyshack & Caddyshack II (1980)
7.3/10
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dyan C...
Caddyshack (1980): Good taste is thrown by the wayside as Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield are just two of the crazy members of an exclusive country... Read more
Cadillac Man (1989)
5.6/10
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed
Slick-talking, womanising car salesman Robin Williams needs all of his oratorial skills when a confused young man (Tim Robbins) crashes into the showr... Read more
Calendar Girls (2003)
6.9/10
Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelo...
Based on a true story, this comedy with serious moments stars Julie Walters as a British housewife in her fifties who loses her husband to leukemia. W... Read more
California Suite (1978)
6.2/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Ri...
Neil Simon adapts his broadway play to the movies...."California Suite" is the story of five couples who, for diverse reasons, have all come to the B... Read more
Came a Hot Friday (1984)
6.9/10
Director: Ian Mune
Starring: Billy T James, Peter Bland, Philip Gordon
In 1949 Wes and his sidekick Cyril are conmen eking out a meagre living by scamming small-town bookies. They arrive in Tainui and go to work with the... Read more
Camille Rewinds (2012)
6.3/10
Director: Noemie Lvovsky
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Alvaro, Denis Podalydes, Michel Vuiller...
A.k.a. "Camille redouble". Camille was sixteen when she fell madly in love with Eric and gave birth to their daughter. On New Year's Eve twenty-five y... Read more
Camp (2003)
6.3/10
Director: Todd Graff
Starring: Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Robin de Jesus
Lively musical comedy-drama set at Camp Ovation, a place where high school kids interested in entering the world of show business go for two months to... Read more
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
7.2/10
Director: Marielle Heller
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant, Dolly Wells, Jane Curtin, Ben Falcone
Celebrity biographer Lee Israel makes her living profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilg... Read more
Canadian Bacon (1995)
5.9/10
Director: Michael Moore
Starring: Alan Alda, Kevin Pollak, John Candy, Rhea Perlman
What begins as a funny and savvy political comedy quickly dissolves into the kind of sophomoric drivel writer-director Michael Moore ('Roger and Me')... Read more