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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Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982)
7.5/10
Director: Corey Yuen Kwai
Starring: Conan Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tai Bo, Hwang Jang Lee
Conan Lee plays a smug martial artist who comes to the aid of his teacher when the old man is attacked by a ninja assassin (Hiroyuki Sanada). Turns o... Read more
Ninotchka (1939)
8/10
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Greta Garbo, Ina Claire, Melvyn Douglas
A sparkling comic treat, boasting witty dialogue co-written by Billy Wilder and expert direction by Ernst Lubitsch, features a shining performance fro... Read more
No Blood No Tears (2002)
6.1/10
She drives a cab on the night shift and meets every scum there is. Gyung-sun lives a scant life day by day, but she used to be a professional safecrac... Read more
No Hard Feelings (2023)
6.4/10
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence
On the brink of losing her childhood home, a desperate woman agrees to date a wealthy couple's introverted and awkward 19-year-old son. However, he pr... Read more
No Limit (1936)
7.1/10
Director: Monty Banks
Starring: George Formby, Florence Desmond
'No Limit' is irrefutably a vehicle for chipmunk-cheeked British comic George Formby. He plays a provincial auto mechanic who dreams of the 'Main Chan... Read more
No Petrol, No Diesel! (2009)
Director: Stefen Harris
Starring: David McPhail, Mark Hadlow, Jim Moriarty, Helen Pearse-Otene
A small town, on State Highway 1, where nothing ever happens... Then Rex Devlin dies in a suspicious car wreck. And a mysterious stranger moves into t... Read more
No Sex Please - We're British (1973)
5.4/10
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Arthur Lowe, Beryl Reid, Ronnie Corbett, Ian Ogilvy
Nervous Ronnie Corbett is a bank clerk who is thrown into confusion when a parcel of dirty postcards arrives at the bank. His employer, bombastically... Read more
No Small Affair (1984)
5.5/10
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Starring: Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt
16 y.o. Charles loves to photograph. A cute girl's photo ends up in his camera. He later sees the older Laura singing in a bar. He takes a lot more ph... Read more
No. 2 (2006)
5/10
Director: Toa Fraser
Starring: Mia Blake, Ruby Dee, Taungaroa Emile, Rene Naufahu, Tuva Novotny, Miriama McDowe...
Nana Maria (Ruby Dee) is a feisty eighty-something matriarch who decides to host a family get-together to announce the heir to her estate. Not as eas... Read more
Nobel Son (2007)
6.4/10
Director: Randall Miller
Starring: Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Danny DeVito, Ernie Hudson, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Da...
Offbeat mix of dark comedy and crime thriller about a Ph.D. student (Bryan Greenberg) who is kidnapped just before his self-centered, philandering fat... Read more