Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Maureen Lipman, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Michael Caine,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Lorna Luft, Maxwell Caulfield, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Pat Hingle, Yeardley Smith, Emilio Estevez, Laura Harrington,
Directors : Stephen King,

A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.

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 ...

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 : Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Ralph Brown, Richard Griffiths,
Directors : Bruce Robinson,

At the end of the 1960's, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.