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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Dr Seuss' The Lorax ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
Director: Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda
Starring: Danny DeVito, Betty White, Zac Efron, Ed Helms, Taylor Swift, Rob Riggle
From the "Despicable Me" team comes this charming, computer-animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' cautionary fable about Ted (voiced by Zac Efron), a 12-y... Read more
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...
A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more
Dr T and the Women (2000)
3.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Liv Tyler, T...
Robert Altman's ensemble comedy stars Richard Gere as a Dallas gynecologist who can't seem to stay away from women, whether in his busy office or at h... Read more
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
5.8/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman
Count on lots of laughs in this Mel Brooks vampire spoof starring Leslie Nielsen as the legendary bloodsucker, out looking for new necks to conquer. J... Read more
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
6.6/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Adriana Barra...
Sam Raimi returns triumphantly to his horror roots with this camp frightener about a good-hearted Southern girl who attracts a nasty curse. Christine... Read more
Dragnet (1987)
5.9/10
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul, Dabne...
Here are the facts, Ma'am: Dan Aykroyd is Sgt Joe Friday, following in his famed uncle's gumshoed footsteps. Tom Hanks is Friday's unconventional, wis... Read more
Dragon Lord ( aka Young Master in Love ) (1981)
7.9/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chen Hui-min, Sidney Yim, Wong In-sik
Jackie Chan mixes comedy with remarkable martial arts expertise in this actioner that finds him an unwitting participant in a scheme to smuggle pricel... Read more
Dragon Rider (2020)
5.5/10
Starring: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Freddie Highmore, Felicity Jones
A young silver dragon teams up with a mountain spirit and an orphaned boy on a journey through the Himalayas in search for the Rim of Heaven. Read more
Draw! (1984)
6.3/10
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Starring: James Coburn, Kirk Douglas, Len Birman
Kirk Douglas is an old-time outlaw who finds himself trapped in a small Western town after a poker game ends in a gunfight and James Coburn is his old... Read more
Dreambuilders (2020)
6.1/10
It centers on Minna, a young girl who misuses her newfound ability to create and control other people's dreams to teach her bothersome stepsister a le... Read more