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 Grand (2007)
6/10
Director: Zak Penn
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Dennis Farina, Richard Kind, Ray Rom...
A largely improvised mockumentary with Woody Harrelson as a playboy actor who enters a poker tournament in order to save his grandfather's hotel from... Read more
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
8.1/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, F Murray Abraham, Harvey Keitel, Jason...
Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the l... Read more
The Grand Budapest Hotel ( Blu-ray ) (2014)
8.1/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, F Murray Abraham, Harvey Keitel, Jason...
Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the l... Read more
The Grand Seduction (2013)
7/10
Director: Don McKellar
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Gordon Pinsent, Liane Balaban, Taylor Kitsch
In a Newfoundland fishing village, the arrival of a big-city doctor (Taylor Kitsch) is greeted with excitement by the locals, who hope he can be convi... Read more
The Greasy Strangler (2016)
5.6/10
Director: Jim Hosking
Starring: Michael St Michaels, Elizabeth De Razzo, Sky Elobar
Ronnie (Michael St. Michaels) runs a disco walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden (Sky Elobar). When a sexy, alluring woman named Janet (... Read more
The Great Dictator (1940)
8.5/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Paulette Goddard
Chaplin's first talkie stands as one of his greatest achievements. In this touching and often hilarious political spoof on the Third Reich, Chaplin pl... Read more
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
6.5/10
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Glenn Close, Kathy Bates, Sophie Nelisse
A feisty foster kids outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences in The Great Gilly Hopkins, a funny, poignant... Read more
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
5.8/10
Director: Danny Leiner
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Jim Gaffigan, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Thomas McCarthy, N...
A rich drama with comic elements, set in New York a year after 9/11, tracing the aftershocks of that event on the lives of five disparate people. Com... Read more
The Great Outdoors (1988)
6.7/10
Director: Howard Deutch
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy
A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in. Read more
The Great Race (1965)
7.3/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Denver Pyle
Follows a pack of wacky racers including capital fellow Tony Curtis, dastardly villain Jack Lemmon, and femme fatale Natalie Wood, on a 22.000-mile ro... Read more