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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The Freshman (1990)
6.5/10
Director: Andrew Bergman
Starring: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Maximilian S...
This off-beat comedy stars Matthew Broderick as a N.Y. University film student who gets a summer job with an Italian-American importer who looks suspi... Read more
The Frighteners (1996)
7.1/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson
Peter Jackson's wild horror-comedy principally filmed in Lyttelton, and starring Michael J. Fox as a psychic con-artist who uses a trio of ghosts he's... Read more
The Frighteners (Blu-ray) (1996)
7.1/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Michael J Fox, Peter Dobson, Trini Alvarado
Peter Jackson's wild horror-comedy principally filmed in Lyttelton, and starring Michael J. Fox as a psychic con-artist who uses a trio of ghosts he's... Read more
The Frisco Kid (1979)
6.4/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George Dicenzo, Leo Fuchs
Gene Wilder saddles up in this kosher comedy western as a Polish rabbi, on his way to the wild west to set up a synagogue in San Francisco. Luckily f... Read more
The Front (1976)
7.4/10
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Andrea Marcovicci, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Woody Allen, Zero Mostel
This acclaimed comedy with a serious theme stars Woody Allen, in a rare non-Allen vehicle, as Howard Prince, a cashier who is convinced to 'front' for... Read more
The Front Page (1974)
7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne, Alle...
BIlly Wilder's sharp remake of the classic 'His Girl Friday' (in turn a remake of a 1931 film, based on a play from 1928!) stars Jack Lemmon as ace re... Read more
The Full Monty (1997)
7.2/10
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy
Six unemployed men inspired by a troupe of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a show of their own but with one differe... Read more
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
6.7/10
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Starring: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert
Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend's kit without permission and her... Read more
The Garden Of Eden (1928)
6.8/10
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Lowell Sherman
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually... Read more
The Garth Method (2006)
4.7/10
Director: Gregory Pakis
Starring: Gregory Pakis, Katrina Baylis, Scott Terrill, Jamie Unicomb, Jo Buckley, Elena N...
Writer/director Gregory Pakis also stars in this nutty mockumentary about an out-of-work actor so desperate he decides to make his own film - by kidna... Read more