Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Reuben, Reuben(1983)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.



It Started in Naples(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old...



Dear Heart(1964)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to ...



Butch and Sundance: The Early Days(1979)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A prequel of sorts to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) which chronicles the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the 1969 movie.



Can-Can(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female...



Plácido(1961)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...



The Sting II(1983)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Lonnegan is planning to get back at Gondorff and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorff and Hooker are planning their next caper. And their mark is a man ...



Star!(1968)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.



For Love of Ivy(1968)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...



A Majority of One(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.



Billy Rose's Jumbo(1962)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.



Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?(1971)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.



Pete 'n' Tillie(1972)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 3

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to ...



Heartbeeps(1981)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two household robots run away and try to start a family.



Bachelor in Paradise(1961)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S....



Yes, Giorgio(1982)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.



Bless the Beasts & Children(1971)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.



Only When I Laugh(1981)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ...



My Geisha(1962)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An actress disguises herself as a geisha in order to land the lead role in her director husband's film version of 'Madam Butterfly'.



Gigot(1962)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Jackie Gleason plays a mute janitor who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute.




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