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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Miss Firecracker (1989)
6.1/10
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Starring: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins
Playwright Beth Henley adapts her acclaimed serio-comedy set in a small southern town gearing up for its annual beauty pageant. With Holly Hunter and... Read more
Miss Meadows (2014)
5.8/10
Starring: Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale, Jean Smart, Mary Kay Place
Prim schoolteacher Miss Meadows (Katie Holmes) is not entirely what she appears. She is well-mannered, sweet, and caring, yes, but the candy-sweet ext... Read more
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Starring: Amy Adams, Frances McDormand, Lee Pace, Ciaran Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Tom Pay...
Frances McDormand is a frumpy governess in 1930s London whose job prospects have just become nil. Not one to take hard times lying down, Miss Pettigre... Read more
Miss You Already (2015)
6.8/10
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Jacqueline Bisset, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considin...
An honest and powerful story following two best friends, Milly and Jess, as they navigate life's highs and lows. Inseparable since they were young gir... Read more
Mixed Nuts (1994)
5.4/10
Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Rita Wilson, Rob Reiner
Steve Martin is the head of a suicide prevention hotline on Christmas Eve in this Hollywood remake of the grand French farce 'Le Pere Noel Est Une Ord... Read more
Modern Times (1936)
8.5/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin's silent homage to the human spirit in which Charlie Chaplin is the victim of industrial boom. Chaplin plays the factory worker gone looney by... Read more
Molly and Me (1945)
7/10
Director: Lewis Seiler
Starring: Gracie Fields, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Reginald Gardiner, Natalie Schafer
A vivacious actress in need of work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty old politician, and gives his life the good shaking-up that it needs.This music... Read more
Mon Oncle (1958)
7.9/10
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
A masterpiece by the great French comic Jacques Tati which concentrates on young Gerard Arpel and his Uncle Hulot (Jacques Tati) in a house where gadg... Read more
Monkey Business (1952)
7/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe
A romping screwball comedy about a genius chemist who invents a formula that delays the ageing process. A chimpanzee in the lab pours the formula in a... Read more
Monkeybone (2001)
4.7/10
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Chris Kattan, Whoopi Goldberg, Rose McGowan, Giancarlo Esposito, Bridget Fonda,...
From the graphic novel "Dark Town" comes this wacked-out comedy in which cartoonist Brendan Fraser soon becomes victim to his own creation, Monkeybone... Read more