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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Divorcing Jack (1998)
6.8/10
Director: David Gaffrey
Starring: David Thewlis, Rachel Griffiths, Jason Isaacs
This black romantic comedy set around the troubled "peace process" focuses on Belfast hack Dan Starkey whose life is about to change after he finds th... Read more
Do The Right Thing (Blu-Ray) (1989)
7.9/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Bill Nunn, Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro, Martin Lawrence, Oss...
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), become... Read more
Doc Hollywood (1991)
6.1/10
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Barnard Hughes, Bridget Fonda, David Ogden Stiers, Frances Sternhagen, Julie War...
Lively and bittersweet comedy stars Michael J. Fox as a crass young physician who finds himself stuck in a small South Carolina town while his car is... Read more
Doctor At Sea (1955)
5.8/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, Brenda De Banzie
Ex sex-kitten Brigitte Bardot cruises the high seas as Dirk Bogarde, preferring the bachelor life, signs on as ship's doctor. Read more
Doctor Detroit (1983)
5.3/10
Director: Michael Pressman
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon
A pimp (Howard Hesseman) on the run trusts his call girls to a meek professor of literature (Dan Aykroyd), who accepts the challenge. Clifford Skridlo... Read more
Doctor In The House (1954)
6.7/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More
This was the first in the 'Doctor' series spawned by Richard Gordon's novels about the antics of some medical students intent on studying beautiful wo... Read more
Doctor in Trouble (1970)
5.4/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe, James Robertson Justice, Robert Morley
Our hero, Dr Burke, greatly resents the success of the heart-throb television doctor, Basil Beauchamp (alias Dr Dare). When Basil is admitted to hospi... Read more
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
6.7/10
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Starring: Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Vince Vaughn
When his rundown gym is threatened with foreclosure, owner Vince Vaughn has 30 days to come up with $50,000. His solution: assemble a ragtag team of f... Read more
Doghouse (Blu-ray) (2009)
6/10
Director: Jake West
Starring: Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke
Vince is handling his divorce badly. He's depressed. Gone to pieces. But his mates aren't giving up on him. Struggling with their own women troubles,... Read more
Dogma (1999)
7.3/10
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Ben Affleck, Chris Rock, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Bud Cort
Wayward angels Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, exiled in Wisconsin for millenia, discover that a New Jersey church holds the theological key to their gett... Read more