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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A Serious Man ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7/10
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg
An original and darkly humorous story from Joel and Ethan Coen ("The Big Lebowski") about one ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics pr... Read more
A Shock To The System (1990)
6.7/10
Director: Jan Egleson
Starring: Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Peter Riegert
Michael Caine shines as brilliantly as ever in this pitch black comedy about a harried ad executive who discovers how easy it is to kill anyone in his... Read more
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
7.6/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders
Quite possibly the best of the Pink Panther films finds the illogically inept Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) attempting to prove the innoc... Read more
A Simple Favour (2018)
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Jean Smart, Linda Cardellini, Blake Lively, Rupert Friend, Anna Kendrick, Andrew...
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. W... Read more
A Simple Favour (Blu-Ray) (2018)
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Jean Smart, Linda Cardellini, Blake Lively, Rupert Friend, Anna Kendrick, Andrew...
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. W... Read more
A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
5.6/10
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Marisa Pavan, Mireill...
Released originally in France as "L'événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune" or "The Most Important Event Since Man Walked... Read more
A Stasi Comedy (2022)
Starring: David Kross
After falling in love with the Nathalie and sleeping with his first target, Corinna, Ludger ends up living two lives - one as an underground poet and... Read more
A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
7.4/10
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt, Luke Treadaway, Bob the Cat, Anthony Head
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his homeless shelter, he had no idea just how much his life was about... Read more
A Swingers Weekend (2017)
7.6/10
Director: Jon E. Cohen
Starring: Mia Kirshner, Randal Edwards, Erin Karpluk, Michael Xavier, Erin Agostino, Jonas...
Seemingly perfect couple Lisa and Dan plan a steamy swingers weekend. However things go wrong when a third couple drops in unexpectedly. Read more
A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
5.6/10
Director: Arlene Sanford
Starring: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson, Paul Sutera
Camp out with the ever-groovy Bradys in the second send-up of the hit TV series. The family is thrown into chaos when a man claiming to be Carol's fir... Read more