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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Lucky Them (2013)
6.1/10
Director: Megan Griffiths
Starring: Johnny Depp, Oliver Platt, Thomas Haden Church, Toni Collette, Ahna O'Reilly, Ry...
Ellie Klug is a music critic in her 40s at a dying underground magazine, Stax. Her editor, Giles (Oliver Platt), assigns Ellie to write a piece on Mat... Read more
Lunatics: A Love Story (1991)
6.3/10
Director: Josh Becker
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Deborah Foreman, Ted Raimi
In the seedy part of Los Angeles, a man who writes poetry has spent six months without leaving his apartment because of his paranoid delusions involvi... Read more
Lupin the Third: The Secret of Mamo (1978)
7.9/10
Director: Yasuo Otsuka, Soji Yoshikawa
In this prequel to classic anime 'The Castle of Cagliostro', iconic anime character and master thief, Lupin III, is dead, though the skeptical Inspect... Read more
Lymelife (2008)
7/10
Director: Derick Martini
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Timothy Hutton, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy, Cynthia...
Based on the semi-autobiographical childhood experiences of director Derick Martini, 'Lymelife' is the coming-of-age story of 15-year old Scott (Rory... Read more
M*A*S*H (1969)
8.4/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff,...
Director Robert Altman's innovative dark comedy about the everyday escapades of an Army medical unit during the Korean War stars Elliott Gould, Donald... Read more
M*A*S*H ( Blu-ray ) (1969)
8.4/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Rene Auberjonois, Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerm...
Director Robert Altman's innovative dark comedy about the everyday escapades of an Army medical unit during the Korean War stars Elliott Gould, Donald... Read more
MacGruber (2010)
5.5/10
Director: Jorma Taccone
Starring: Powers Boothe, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer, Maya Rudolph, Will Forte, Kristen Wii...
Only one operative has been awarded 16 Purple Hearts, and only one guy is man enough to still sport a mullet. In the 10 years since his fiancee was ki... Read more
Machete (2010)
6.6/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis
Starring: Cheech Marin, Don Johnson, Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Lohan, Robert De Niro, Steven Sea...
A bad-ass, star-studded action-thriller from Robert Rodriguez (Desperado), Machete is an over-the-top homage to 1970s exploitation movies, starring D... Read more
Machete Kills (2013)
5.6/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Charlie Sheen, Cuba Gooding Jr, Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Wi...
Danny Trejo returns as legendary ex-Federale Machete Cortez in this action-packed thrill ride from innovative director Robert Rodriguez. In his latest... Read more
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (2000)
3.3/10
Director: Michael Kalesniko
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright, Lynn Redgrave, Jared Harris, Peter Riegert
This over-looked gem is a smartly written slice-of-life centred on jaded L.A. playwright, Peter (Kenneth Branagh). His wife (Robin Wright Penn) is fu... Read more