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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Neighbors (1981)
6.3/10
Director: John G. John G. Avildsen
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Kathryn Walker
One man's quiet suburban life takes a sickening lurch for the worse when a young couple move into the deserted house next door. From the word go it is... Read more
Neighbours (1981)
5.6/10
Director: John G Avildsen
Starring: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty
In his last and some say best film, John Belushi is cast against type as a dull suburbanite whose peaceful existence is threatened by his bizarre new... Read more
Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)
6.5/10
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Starring: Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza
Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community of his cli... Read more
New Suit (2002)
5.8/10
Director: Francois Velle
Starring: Jordan Bridges, Marisa Coughlan, Heather Donahue, Dan Hedaya
A sharp-fanged Indie-Comedy about a young screenwriter who starts a rumor about a hot new script that doesn't even exist yet, but half of Hollywood wa... Read more
New York Stories (1988)
6.4/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen
Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Nick Nolte, Woody Allen
Three top filmmakers present a trio of dramatic, funny and touching stories about Big Apple living: Nick Nolte and Rosanna Arquette are a painter and... Read more
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
6.9/10
Director: Paul Mazursky
Starring: Christopher Walken, Ellen Greene, Shelley Winters, Lenny Baker
Paul Mazursky's autobiographical comedy centers on an aspiring actor's (Lenny Baker) adventures in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, as he leaves his ho... Read more
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (Blu-ray) (1976)
7/10
Director: Paul Mazursky
Starring: Christopher Walken, Ellen Greene, Shelley Winters, Lenny Baker
Paul Mazursky's autobiographical comedy centers on an aspiring actor's (Lenny Baker) adventures in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, as he leaves his ho... Read more
Nicholas on Holiday ( + Little Nicholas ) (2014)
6.2/10
Director: Laurent Tirard
Starring: Valerie Lemercier, Kad Merad, Dominique Lavanant, Francois-Xavier Demaison, Boul...
Nicholas, his parents and Granny hit the road, heading for the sea, and stay in the Beau-Rivage Hotel. At the beach, Nicholas wastes little time makin... Read more
Nickelodeon (1976)
6.3/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Stella Stevens, John Ritter
Ryan O'Neal stars as the ambitious young attorney who decides to go into the glamorous world of filmmaking, only to discover it's filled with dirty bu... Read more
Night at the Museum (2006)
6.4/10
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Bill Cobbs, Steve Coogan, Dick Van Dyke, Ricky Gervais, Carla Gugino, Kim Raver,...
Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is a frustrated inventor who takes a job working the graveyard security shift at the Museum of Natural History, just to keep... Read more