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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David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)
6.3/10
Director: Ricky Gervais
Starring: Ricky Gervais
Now working as a rep selling cleaning (and ladies personal hygiene) products up and down the country, David Brent hasn't given up his dream of becomin... Read more
David Holzman's Diary (1967)
6.5/10
Director: Jim McBride
This fake documentary which appears quite real on the surface is about a young man making a movie about his everyday life and discovering something im... Read more
David Lean Double Feature: The Sound Barrier / Hobson's Choice (1952)
Director: David Lean
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin, Charles Laughton, John M...
David Lean dvd double feature. "The Sound Barrier" (1952) - The true story of the jet plane's early days and the committed men who risked all to test... Read more
Days Of The Bagnold Summer (2019)
6.6/10
Director: Simon Bird
The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird's directorial debut is a funny, charming and wince-inducingly accurate adaptation of Joff Winterhart's graphic novel,... Read more
Dazed and Confused (1993)
7.7/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Shawn Andrews, Milla Jovovich, Matthew McConaughey, Jason London
America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, Richard Linklater... Read more
Dead and Deader (2007)
Director: Patrick Dinhut
Starring: Dean Cain, Armin Shimerman, Dean Haglund, John Billingsley, Susan Ward
Dean Cain stars as Lt. Bobby Quinn, a Special Forces commando killed during a recon mission deep in the Cambodian jungle. But when Quinn interrupts hi... Read more
Dead Fish (2004)
8.4/10
Director: Charley Stadler
Starring: Billy Zane, Gary Oldman, Kevin McNally, Robert Carlyle, Terence Stamp, Jimi Mist...
German director Charley Stadler, best known for his stylized commercials, makes his feature debut with this comic crime caper starring Gary Oldman as... Read more
Dead Heads (Blu-ray) (2011)
Two inexplicably coherent zombies awake amidst a zombie attack, and decide to take a road trip to find the one's lost love, unaware they are being cha... Read more
Dead Heat (2002)
5.3/10
Director: Mark Malone
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Anthony LaPaglia, Radha Mitchell, Lothaire Bluteau, Daniel Be...
A heart problem forces the cop Pally to retire, and his wife Charlotte is separating him. Charlotte makes Pally's half-brother Ray visit, and he sugge... Read more
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
6.8/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Reni Santoni, Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner's comic salute to the gumshoe noirs of the 1940s stars Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon, Private Eye and a scene-stealing Rachel Ward as a ha... Read more