Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at...

Actors : Rick Moranis, Melanie Mayron, Steve Martin, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

An all too uptight FBI agent must protect a larger than life mobster with a heart of gold, currently under witness protection in the suburbs.

Actors : Andrew Dice Clay, Lauren Holly, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

A vulgar private detective is hired to find a missing groupie and is drawn into a mystery involving a series of murders tied to the music industry.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Julieta Serrano, Loles León,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall, Daryl Hannah, Steve Martin,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.

Actors : Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, M. Emmet Walsh, Dee Wallace,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

A race of small, furry aliens make lunch out of the locals in a farming town.

Actors : Karen Austin, Richard Crenna, Rip Torn, John Candy,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

An overworked air-traffic controller takes his family on a beach vacation but is soon beset by series of mishaps.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Betty Kennedy, Evelyn Guerrero,
Directors : Tommy Chong,

The two stoners and their friends go through another series of crazy, drug-influenced misadventures.

Actors : Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Eddie Murphy,

During the 1930s, a New York illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.

Actors : Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Laurence Fishburne, Kyme,
Directors : Spike Lee,

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.

Actors : Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.

Actors : Maxwell Caulfield, Lorna Luft, Maureen Teefy, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Patricia Birch,

An English student at a 1960s American high school has to prove himself to the leader of a girls' gang whose members can only date greasers.

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley, Maria Conchita Alonso, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Robert Bierman,

After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.

Actors : Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey,
Directors : Danny DeVito,

A bitter ex-husband and a put-upon momma's boy both want their respective former spouse and mother dead. Who will pull it off?

Actors : Nicoletta Braschi, Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

Two innocent people are arrested. An interesting third person, with broken English, joins them in their cell. On his idea, they decide to escape from the prison. Their journey is the rest of the movie.

Actors : Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Tom Hanks, Reginald VelJohnson,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A detective must adopt the dog of a dead man to help him find the murderer.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Actors : Kevin Spacey, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Joan Severance,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Dave is deaf, and Wally is blind. They witness a murder, but it was Dave who was looking at her, and Wally who was listening.

Actors : William Daniels, Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, John Larroquette,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new ...