Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Jenny Lewis, Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, Vince Trankina,
Directors : Todd Holland,

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.

Actors : David Forman, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais, Judith Hoag,
Directors : Steve Barron,

Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas.

Actors : Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam,

The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way.

Actors : Heather Langenkamp, John Tesh, Mitch Pileggi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Actors : Ronny Cox, Richard Pryor, Ray Sharkey, Margot Kidder,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir, David Hayman,
Directors : John Boorman,

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...

Actors : David Johansen, Jennifer Tilly, Teri Garr, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Joe Pytka,

A nosy cab driver gets a hot tip on a race horse and wins big, but he can't seem to stop gambling. Will he go broke or walk home with a pretty penny?

Actors : Christopher Murney, Vanity, Julius Carry, Taimak,
Directors : Michael Schultz,

In New York City, a young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way, he must fight a martial arts expert corrupted ...

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Tim Robbins, John Cleese, Eartha Kitt,
Directors : Terry Jones,

Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok.

Actors : Betty Thomas, Craig T. Nelson, Shelley Long, Mary Gross,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

A soon to be divorced Beverly Hills socialite is determined to prove to her husband and herself that she can finish what she starts out to do, by becoming a den mother to a troop of Beverly Hills Girl Scouts.

Actors : Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

Actors : Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.

Actors : Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer, Charles Durning, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Stan Dragoti,

A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.

Actors : Fabiana Udenio, Claude Earl Jones, Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs,
Directors : Brian Yuzna,

Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.

Actors : Tiffany Gail Robinson, Clint Eastwood, Timothy Carhart, Bernadette Peters,
Directors : Buddy Van Horn,

Skip tracer Tommy Nowak is tracking Lou Ann McGuinn for a bail bondsman in California. Lou Ann is also being chased by her husband Roy McGuinn and his birth right/neo-nazi friends for ...

Actors : Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Capaldi,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint discovers an odd skull amid the ruins of a convent that he is excavating. Shortly thereafter, Lady Sylvia Marsh returns to Temple House, a nearby mansion,...

Actors : Richard Pryor, Angel Ramirez Jr., Jimmy Hughes, Cicely Tyson,

Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old ...

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Nancy Travis, Tom Selleck, Ted Danson,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guys' girlfriends.

Actors : Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Janet Suzman, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Actors : Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Ernie Dingo,
Directors : John Cornell,

Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.