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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Educating Rita (1983)
7.2/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael C Williams
An entertaining adaptation of Willy Russell's stage play about a young working class wife who wants to better herself and selects a boozy professor as... Read more
Edwin. My Life as a Koont (2012)
Director: Jason Stutter
Starring: Bryce Campbell
Edwin Rouper has a habit of annoying people within seconds of meeting them. Cursed with 'Koontz-syndrome', a neurological condition in which temper an... Read more
Eephus (2024)
Director: Carson Lund
Starring: Keith William Richards
A group of middle-aged men plays their last recreational baseball game before their field gets torn down to build a school. Read more
Eighth Grade (2018)
7.4/10
Director: Bo Burnham
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Elsie Fisher
An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school. Read more
El Narco ( aka El Infierno ) (2010)
7.8/10
Director: Luis Estrada
Starring: Damian Alcazar, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Maria Rojo, Joaquin Cosio
A.k.a. "El Infierno". Mexico 2010: Hell. Benjamin Garcia, Benny (Damian Alacazar), is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak p... Read more
Election (1999)
7.3/10
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell
In this nearly flawless, lacerating satire Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a goody-two-shoes student determined to be president of Carver High's... Read more
Electric Dreams (1984)
6.5/10
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Bud Cort, Lenny von Dohlen, Maxwell Caulfield, Virginia Madsen
Lonely architect Miles purchases a fancy new "Pine cone" personal computer and clumsily spills champagne on it which, of course, imbues the computer w... Read more
Ellie and Abbie (And Ellie's Dead Aunt) (2020)
Starring: Marta Dusseldorp, Rachel House
17 year old Ellie is struggling to find the courage to ask her classmate, Abbie, to the formal. Luckily her Aunt Tara, a lesbian who died in the 80's... Read more
Ellie Parker (2005)
5.7/10
Director: Scott Coffey
Starring: Naomi Watts, Scott Coffey, Chevy Chase, Rebecca Rigg, Mark Pellegrino
Naomi Watts produced and starred in this semi-autobigraphical story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Shot on digital and... Read more
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
6.5/10
Director: James Signorelli
Starring: Cassandra Peterson, Jeff Conaway, William Morgan Sheppard, Edie McClurg, Daniel...
When her great aunt dies, famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight New England town of Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house, a... Read more