Comedy, a list by Gary

7.1

/5929/

71

/195/

68

/32/

3.3

/34634/

63

/34/

2.0

age 17+

After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.

73

7.0

/9435/

72

/456/

70

/87/

3.5

/42843/

80

/150/

Audience

92

/142/

58

/38/

3.0

age 15+

When deeply conservative English local Edith Swan and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, her rowdy, foul-mouthed, Irish migrant neighbor Rose Gooding is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women—led by Police Officer Gladys Moss—begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect something is amiss and Rose may not be the culprit after all.

63

7.0

/7421/

71

/757/

70

/68/

3.2

/11911/

20

/5/

Audience

83

/801/

From his onstage tackle to the slap heard round the world, Dave Chappelle lets loose in this freewheeling and unfiltered stand-up comedy special.

84

7.9

/245677/

76

/7478/

78

/3130/

4.1

/1393143/

92

/367/

Audience

79

/1679/

88

/62/

4.0

age 17+

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a debauched lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

74

7.0

/138145/

72

/7584/

71

/2850/

3.3

/817445/

82

/320/

Audience

91

/5764/

66

/64/

3.0

age 8+

Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.

70

7.0

/203630/

71

/5602/

70

/1917/

3.4

/1668196/

71

/288/

Audience

79

/361/

61

/53/

3.0

age 16+

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

78

7.5

/74291/

75

/3069/

73

/720/

3.7

/360446/

93

/280/

Audience

96

/1295/

81

/54/

2.5

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

84

7.9

/136479/

77

/4731/

77

/1140/

4.2

/706324/

97

/354/

Audience

92

/1214/

82

/61/

3.5

age 15+

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

83

82

7.7

/7288/

81

/398/

81

/950/

4.1

/44836/

Audience

94

/101/

In post-war Italy, the family of typical housewife Delia is in turmoil over the impending engagement of beloved firstborn Marcella. The arrival of a mysterious letter, however, will ignite Delia's courage to face her abusive husband and imagine a better future.

75

7.1

/33388/

74

/1755/

71

/396/

3.4

/24885/

92

/123/

Audience

82

/734/

74

/23/

3.0

age 15+

When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice.

77

7.0

/5796/

69

/222/

66

/59/

3.8

/40569/

94

/111/

Audience

81

/144/

74

/25/

3.5

age 11+

A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality.

75

7.0

/48013/

74

/1876/

80

/1103/

3.1

/330709/

76

/116/

Audience

93

/4826/

62

/25/

3.5

age 15+

After an altercation between Alex, the president's son, and Britain's Prince Henry at a royal event becomes tabloid fodder, their long-running feud now threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations. When the rivals are forced into a staged truce, their icy relationship begins to thaw and the friction between them sparks something deeper than they ever expected.

79

7.9

/379847/

79

/17330/

79

/6187/

4.0

/1143314/

82

/403/

Audience

94

/15431/

64

/63/

3.0

age 13+

Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.

77

7.2

/7176/

70

/158/

70

/108/

3.7

/35778/

92

/120/

Audience

76

/72/

82

/28/

3.5

Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.

82

7.3

/27293/

72

/1216/

72

/278/

3.8

/177631/

99

/225/

Audience

95

/407/

84

/49/

3.5

age 11+

When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

72

7.1

/12026/

73

/448/

69

/62/

3.1

/11673/

86

/36/

Audience

87

/176/

60

/5/

age 13+

The true story of how Dave Fishwick, a working class man and self-made millionaire, fought to set up a community bank so that he could help the local businesses of Burnley not only survive, but thrive. In his bid to help his beloved community, he has to take on the elitist financial institutions of London and fight to receive the first, new banking license to be issued in over 100 years.

74

7.2

/224396/

74

/13443/

73

/3122/

3.5

/467728/

91

/313/

Audience

93

/4644/

72

/57/

2.0

age 12+

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

80

7.2

/12675/

73

/545/

70

/168/

3.9

/113903/

98

/134/

Audience

86

/342/

82

/31/

3.5

age 15+

Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.

81

7.4

/42170/

73

/2524/

71

/410/

3.8

/138332/

98

/207/

Audience

94

/1770/

78

/46/

3.5

age 15+

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.

71

69

7.0

/5515/

72

/302/

68

/111/

3.3

/18177/

60

/10/

Audience

93

/127/

age 15+

After finding an odd envelope, Policeman Ming-han's life takes a spooky turn: He's now wed to a ghost husband, and they must solve a crime together.

74

7.5

/157891/

78

/7423/

77

/2315/

3.5

/188555/

69

/208/

Audience

97

/5875/

51

/36/

3.0

age 13+

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

65

7.1

/167190/

69

/5415/

74

/2755/

3.8

/593394/

57

/361/

Audience

52

/1175/

61

/63/

2.5

age 17+

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

75

7.3

/7119/

73

/308/

70

/115/

3.6

/13478/

86

/96/

Audience

97

/91/

61

/22/

3.0

age 14+

Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

73

7.0

/28236/

70

/1348/

67

/688/

3.4

/125764/

93

/95/

Audience

72

/1160/

72

/28/

age 8+

An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.

74

7.2

/391477/

72

/13897/

72

/4336/

3.5

/1661937/

88

/328/

Audience

76

/1816/

71

/45/

3.0

age 15+

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

77

7.1

/440785/

72

/15021/

70

/5083/

3.5

/1584093/

92

/425/

Audience

92

/1010/

81

/62/

3.0

age 13+

World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.

81

7.7

/252618/

74

/6808/

75

/2496/

4.1

/844483/

96

/370/

Audience

75

/620/

87

/62/

3.5

age 15+

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

73

7.1

/15402/

68

/361/

73

/202/

3.7

/91531/

88

/66/

Audience

82

/83/

71

/14/

2.5

Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.

72

7.3

/177461/

69

/5668/

70

/1945/

3.7

/577103/

72

/276/

Audience

80

/192/

63

/47/

3.0

age 15+

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

66

7.3

/426450/

74

/17413/

74

/5549/

3.5

/1056169/

54

/340/

Audience

76

/7085/

49

/61/

2.5

age 16+

Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.

77

7.1

/26246/

74

/1010/

70

/302/

3.5

/50211/

94

/178/

Audience

93

/1297/

70

/37/

3.0

age 10+

A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.

72

7.3

/26473/

73

/1036/

71

/287/

3.8

/125302/

85

/229/

Audience

61

/51/

69

/42/

3.0

age 15+

Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.

78

7.2

/37531/

72

/1454/

69

/446/

3.6

/66706/

93

/229/

Audience

84

/711/

78

/34/

3.5

age 16+

Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.

79

7.1

/16670/

72

/581/

71

/392/

3.8

/77208/

94

/152/

Audience

72

/328/

77

/31/

4.0

Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.

68

7.6

/23478/

73

/1338/

74

/242/

3.3

/18837/

31

/16/

Audience

91

/1472/

With his signature pitch-black sense of humor, Ricky Gervais takes the stage at the London Palladium in this provocative stand-up comedy special.

79

74

7.0

/10789/

71

/597/

71

/231/

3.4

/12338/

96

/26/

Audience

100

/25/

The 'Beast Cop' Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.

77

7.0

/8755/

69

/362/

64

/74/

3.8

/65797/

84

/116/

Audience

80

/148/

74

/24/

4.0

age 16+

Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness lacking—so he figures he could use some help. As luck would have it, Val’s best friend, Kevin, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt, so he seems like the perfect partner for executing this double suicide plan. But before they go, they have some unfinished business to attend to.

75

7.0

/151054/

71

/7403/

67

/1799/

3.4

/321569/

87

/315/

Audience

87

/1486/

68

/52/

3.5

age 15+

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

83

7.8

/532175/

79

/22000/

77

/5982/

4.3

/2277975/

93

/405/

Audience

86

/5012/

81

/55/

3.5

age 15+

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

64

7.1

/6010/

70

/479/

67

/73/

3.1

/5200/

Audience

51

/75/

Jimmy Carr finds humor in the darkest of places in this stand-up special that features his dry, sardonic wit — and some jokes he calls "career enders."

74

7.1

/32979/

67

/1227/

67

/398/

3.9

/120330/

90

/207/

Audience

74

/676/

76

/49/

3.0

age 17+

Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop.

61

7.2

/601039/

70

/19096/

71

/7756/

3.0

/1442152/

55

/305/

Audience

78

/151/

49

/52/

1.5

age 16+

Two American astronomers attempt to warn humankind about an approaching comet that will wipe out life on planet Earth.

78

7.1

/140150/

69

/4314/

69

/2104/

3.6

/554665/

90

/326/

Audience

66

/1253/

90

/55/

4.0

age 15+

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

63

7.0

/218126/

72

/12642/

74

/4282/

3.0

/236616/

64

/308/

Audience

94

/7978/

45

/47/

1.0

age 10+

When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

73

7.0

/9351/

69

/237/

69

/293/

3.6

/30612/

83

/112/

Audience

75

/73/

76

/34/

3.0

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

76

7.1

/150443/

71

/4257/

71

/2422/

3.7

/688893/

75

/319/

Audience

76

/734/

75

/57/

4.0

age 15+

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

73

7.1

/13273/

71

/618/

69

/364/

3.6

/18645/

92

/110/

Audience

87

/98/

65

/23/

2.5

Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.

85

7.7

/97231/

76

/2336/

75

/1207/

4.1

/489453/

96

/250/

Audience

86

/982/

91

/47/