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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My Bodyguard (1980)
7.1/10
Director: Tony Bill
Starring: Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Ruth Gordon, Martin Mull, John House...
A quietly compelling film exploring the hardships and anxiety of high school through the eyes of bookish student Clifford (Chris Makepeace). At a new... Read more
My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
5.4/10
Director: Bob Balaban
Starring: Traci Lind, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt, Jay O Sanders, Matthew Fox, Philip...
A teenage boy comes back from the dead because he is determined to win the most beautiful girl in school. Read more
My Brother is an Only Child (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Starring: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio
Growing up in small-town Italy during the '60s and '70s, brothers Accio and Manrico embody and celebrate opposing political stances, but share an impa... Read more
My Brother's Band (2024)
Director: Emmanuel Courcol
Starring: Benjamin Lavernhe
Acclaimed conductor Thibaut has leukemia and needs a bone marrow donor. Learning he was adopted, he finds an older brother, a musician and factory wor... Read more
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
7.5/10
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Starring: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne
A likeable comedy about a just graduated Brooklyn lawyer's (Joe Pesci) attempt to defend his innocent cousin (Ralph Macchio) and a friend on a murder... Read more
My Days of Glory (2019)
5.6/10
Starring: Vincent Lacoste, Emmanuelle Devos, Christopher Lambert
An actor who enjoyed success in his youth finds his career and life in a downward spiral as he gets older. Read more
My Dear Secretary (1948)
5.7/10
Director: Charles Martin
Starring: Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn
The battle of the sexes has never been funnier than in this zany screwball comedy focussing on skirt-chasing author Kirk Douglas. After hiring busines... Read more
My Family and Other Animals (2005)
7.5/10
Director: Sheree Folkson
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Tom Goodman-Hill, Matthew Goode, Omid Djalili, Russell Tovey, C...
Adapted by Simon Nye ('Men Behaving Badly') from Gerald Durrell's beloved book, this BBC made-for-tv production follows the eccentric Durrell family a... Read more
My Father, The Hero (1994)
5.4/10
Director: Steve Miner
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James
Gerard Depardieu recreates his role from the 1991 French film 'Mon Pere, Ce Heros' as a longtime absentee father who takes his resentful 14-year-old d... Read more
My Favourite Martian (1999)
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah, Ray Walston
Christopher Lloyd is the antennae-headed extraterrestrial stranded on Earth after his ship crashes, and Jeff Daniels is the TV reporter who agrees to... Read more