Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Louise Lasser, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Sheree J. Wilson,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Pascale Ogier, Jean-François Stévenin,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A woman recently released from prison and a strange young female street urchin keep running into each other on the streets of Paris and finally become companions in a very strange and very ...

Actors : Griffin Dunne, Haviland Morris, John McMartin, Madonna,
Directors : James Foley,

The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Arye Gross,
Directors : Steve Miner,

To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.

Actors : Kevin Tighe, James Belushi, Ed O'Neill, Mel Harris,
Directors : Rod Daniel,

To stop an elusive criminal, a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog who's an unusually intelligent smart alec.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.

Actors : Jim Nabors, Ned Beatty, Parker Stevenson, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Hal Needham,

The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.

Actors : Harry Morgan, Christopher Plummer, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Tom Mankiewicz,

The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.

Actors : Fred Ward, Joel Grey, J.A. Preston, Wilford Brimley,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president.

Actors : Pamela Gidley, Jennifer Balgobin, David Andrews, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Steve De Jarnatt,

In the year 2017, a rich man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his animatronic ...

Actors : Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Glenda Jackson, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

Actors : David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Bubba Smith,
Directors : Alan Myerson,

The old Commandant Lassard, leader of the Police Academy (1984), goes to Florida to receive an award. In the city arrives also the cynic Captain Harris who wants to take Lassard's job. ...

Actors : Sonia Braga, Richard Bradford, Julie Carmen, Rubén Blades,
Directors : Robert Redford,

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom ...

Actors : Paul Reubens, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.

Actors : John Candy, Lonette McKee, Richard Pryor, Stephen Collins,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A minor-league baseball player has to spend $30,000,000 in thirty days in order to inherit $300,000,000. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the deal.

Actors : Connie Young, George Hardy, Michael Paul Stephenson, Margo Prey,
Directors : Claudio Fragasso,

A family vacationing in a small town discovers the entire town is inhabited by goblins in disguise as humans, who plan to eat them.

Actors : William Daniels, Paulina Porizkova, Tom Selleck, James Farentino,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows ...

Actors : Stacey Glick, Casey Siemaszko, Annie Ryan, Richard Tyson,
Directors : Phil Joanou,

A nerd gets himself in hot water with the new bully, a quiet bad boy who challenges him to fight on the grounds of their high school after the day's end.

Actors : Iron Eyes Cody, John Vernon, Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo,
Directors : John R. Cherry III,

Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents as well as stop a shady strip mining company from closing the camp.

Actors : Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit.