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 Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
6.6/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Edward Herrmann, Geoffrey Lewis, Margot Kidder, Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon,...
It's the 1920s, ex-WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is on the barnstorming circuit, performing daring aerial stunts and wildly exaggerating his... Read more
The Great Yokai War (2005)
6.5/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Bunta Sugawara, Kaho Minam...
An extravagant fun-filled fantasy the whole family can enjoy from the prolific and versatile Japanese director, Takashi Miike. Embracing and re-inter... Read more
The Green Butchers (2003)
7.3/10
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Line Kruse, Bodil Jorgensen, Ole Thestrup, Nic...
A dark cannibal comedy from Denmark where two affable losers have opened a butcher's shop. Considering their lack of business know-how, the venture se... Read more
The Green Hornet (2011)
5.8/10
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Jay Chou, Seth Rogen
Action and comedy mix in this modern update of the classic crimefighter of radio, serial, comic, and TV fame. After his father's death, playboy and ne... Read more
The Green Hornet (Blu-ray) (2011)
5.8/10
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Jay Chou, Seth Rogen
Action and comedy mix in this modern update of the classic crimefighter of radio, serial, comic, and TV fame. After his father's death, playboy and ne... Read more
The Guard (2011)
7.3/10
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Fionnula Flanagan, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong, D...
Working a beat on the Irish coast, Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) experiences some culture shock when he is assigned a black American partner (Don... Read more
The Guard ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
7.3/10
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Fionnula Flanagan, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong, D...
Working a beat on the Irish coast, Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) experiences some culture shock when he is assigned a black American partner (Don... Read more
The Guilt Trip (2012)
5.8/10
Director: Anne Fletcher
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen
Road trip comedy starring Seth Rogen as a neurotic inventor who invites his overbearing mother (Barbra Streisand) on a cross-country road trip in orde... Read more
The Gumball Rally (1976)
6.3/10
Director: Chuck Bail
Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Gary Busey, Raul Julia
One phone call is all it takes, and one word mentioned - 'GUMBALL', and the contestants in an illegal cross-country road-race gather at the starting p... Read more
The Guru (2002)
5.4/10
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Starring: Christine Baranski, Heather Graham, Jimi Mistry, Rob Morrow, Marisa Tomei, Micha...
Bollywood meets Hollywood in this engaging comedy starring Jimi Mistry as a cinema-obsessed Indian dance instructor who moves to New York to make it i... Read more