Best Comedy movies of 1984

Actors : Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Kimberly Stringer,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

Actors : Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

Actors : Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan, Hoyt Axton, John Louie,
Directors : Joe Dante,

A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

Actors : Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Murphy,
Directors : Martin Brest,

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

Actors : John Candy, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.

Actors : Zack Norman, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Emilio Estevez,
Directors : Alex Cox,

Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result.

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Justin Henry,
Directors : John Hughes,

A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special, as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : W.D. Richter,

Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.

Actors : Timothy Busfield, Anthony Edwards, Robert Carradine, Andrew Cassese,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

At Adams College, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self-respect.

Actors : G.W. Bailey, Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith,
Directors : Hugh Wilson,

A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.

Actors : Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz,
Directors : Frank Oz,

Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Jeremy Kemp, Lucy Gutteridge, Val Kilmer,

Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

Actors : Alejandro Rey, Robin Williams, Cleavant Derricks, Maria Conchita Alonso,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.

Actors : Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen,
Directors : Neal Israel,

A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Maureen Stapleton, Marilu Henner, Joe Piscopo,
Directors : Amy Heckerling,

Set in the 1930's, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Actors : Eszter Balint, Cecillia Stark, Richard Edson, John Lurie,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along...

Actors : Lucinda Dickey, Ben Lokey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.

Actors : Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Nick Apollo Forte, Sandy Baron,
Directors : Woody Allen,

In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.

Actors : Catherine Mary Stewart, Sharon Farrell, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran,
Directors : Thom Eberhardt,

A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.