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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Drillbit Taylor (2008)
5.7/10
Director: Steven Brill
Starring: Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, David Dorfman, Josh Peck, Alex Frost, Stephen Root
Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson) may be an ex-Army Ranger highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat. Then again, he could be a shiftless bum looking to reloc... Read more
Drinking Buddies (2013)
6.1/10
Director: Joe Swanberg
Starring: Ron Livingston, Olivia Wilde, Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson
Luke (Jake Johnson) and Kate (Olivia Wilde) are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They're perfect fo... Read more
Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
5.6/10
Director: Ethan Coen
Starring: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro...
In search of a fresh start, two women embark on an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, Fla. However, things quickly go awry when they cross paths with... Read more
Driving Lessons (2006)
6.8/10
Director: Jeremy Brock
Starring: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell, Jim Norton, Michell...
Rupert Grint took a break from Hogwart's School of Magic to make this sweet coming-of-age comedy alongside his Harry Potter mum, Julie Walters. Ben i... Read more
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
5.9/10
Director: Ate De Jong
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason
Comic fantasy starring Phoebe Cates as a recently divorced woman who calls on her imaginary childhood friend to help her out of dire emotional straits... Read more
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
6.6/10
Director: Michael Patrick Jann
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Alley, Am...
Welcome to the annual Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pagent. This is going to be one wild competition, complete with slander, theft, bribery, arson... Read more
Drowning Mona (2000)
5.6/10
Director: Nick Gomez
Starring: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, Casey Affleck
Life in a small upstate New York town is changed, apparently for the better, when local harridan Bette Midler drives her Yugo into the Hudson River. P... Read more
Drug Wars ( aka Bristol Boys ) (2005)
Director: Brandon David
Starring: Daniel Franzese, Tom Guiry, Will Janowitz, Adrian Martinez, Kevin Toolen, Tammy...
Based on the true story of a bunch of arrogant slackers in Bristol, Connecticut who set up a marijuana distribution business, but get so caught up in... Read more
Duane Hopwood (2005)
6.7/10
Director: Matt Mulhern
Starring: David Schwimmer, Janeane Garofalo, Judah Friedlander, Susan Lynch, Dick Cavett,...
David Schwimmer shakes off his cutesy 'Friends' image to play a down-on-his-luck divorced dad in this comedy/drama in which he works the night shift a... Read more
Duck Season (2004)
7.3/10
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Starring: Diego Catano, Daniel Miranda, Enrique Arreola, Danny Perea
What starts off as a boring Sunday becomes a life-altering experience for an unlikely quartet of people in this affecting serio-comedy from Mexico. Wh... Read more