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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Continental Divide (1981)
6.1/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Goorwitz, Carlin Glynn
Ernie Souchak (John Belushi) is a hard-nosed Chicago journalist who has put his feet a little too close to the fire and now has the mob after him. Hi... Read more
Conversations With My Gardener (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Jean Becker
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottencon, Hiam Abbass, Alexis Bar...
An artist moves to the country and strikes up an unlikely friendship with the gardener - a man he knew as a child many years before. As the men talk t... Read more
Conversations with Other Women (2006)
7.1/10
Director: Hans Canosa
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Aaron Eckhart
An intriguing romantic mystery with Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter as a couple who meet at a wedding and seem to have instant chemistry. The... Read more
Cookie's Fortune (1998)
6.9/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S Dutton, Patri...
Robert Altman's homespun comedy/mystery is set in a small southern town, where the suicide of wealthy, eccentric Cookie (Patricia Neal) brings out the... Read more
Cool Runnings (1993)
6.9/10
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Doug E Doug, John Candy, Malik Yoba
About the unlikely formation - but based on a true story - of a Jamaican bobsled team to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics. (The participants have n... Read more
Cop Out (2010)
5.6/10
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Bruce Willis, Guillermo Diaz, Kevin Pollak, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Tra...
Two long time NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia obsessed... Read more
Copacabana (2010)
6.8/10
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Aure Atika, Jurgen Delnaet, Lolita Chammah, Chantal Banlier
Babou (Isabelle Huppert) is the ultimate free spirit, an unemployed single mother living in the North of France, she has lived all over the world, tho... Read more
Corpse Bride (2005)
7.4/10
Director: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Starring: Voices Of, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Danny...
Tim Burton returns to the world of stop-motion with this macabre comedy about a man who accidentally marries a corpse! A hugely talented voice cast i... Read more
Corpse Bride (Blu-ray) (2005)
7.4/10
Director: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Starring: Voices Of, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Danny...
Tim Burton returns to the world of stop-motion with this macabre comedy about a man who accidentally marries a corpse! A hugely talented voice cast i... Read more
Corrina, Corrina (1994)
6.5/10
Director: Jessie Nelson
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Ray Liotta, Jenifer Lewis
A sweet-natured film about a young widower who hires a housekeeper to help take care of his young daughter - little dreaming how important she will be... Read more