Best Comedy movies of 1980s

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 : Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Michael Moriarty, Garrett Morris,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.

Actors : Robbie Coltrane, Janet Suzman, Camille Coduri, Eric Idle,
Directors : Jonathan Lynn,

Brian and Charlie (B & C) work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B...

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.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Sarah Rowland Doroff, Martin Short, James Earl Jones,
Directors : Francis Veber,

A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.

Actors : David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Bubba Smith,
Directors : Peter Bonerz,

Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.

Actors : Jimmy Cliff, Rick Moranis, Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Harold Ramis,

Injured while risking his life to save an angry German shepard, Chicago Firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small carribean island named St. Nicholas. There, he is befriended by...

Actors : Sally Field, John Goodman, Tom Hanks, Mark Rydell,
Directors : David Seltzer,

Steven Gold is a stand-up comedian who is flat broke and has recently dropped out of medical school. He and several others work regularly at the Gas Station, a New York comedy club. The ...

Actors : Robert Prosky, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, Shelley Long,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to ...

Actors : Divine, Edith Massey, Tab Hunter, David Samson,
Directors : John Waters,

A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.

Actors : Pamela Reed, Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Fran Drescher,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

Joe's a car salesman with a problem. He has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (...

Actors : Andrew McCarthy, James Spader, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty,
Directors : Michael Gottlieb,

A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.

Actors : Debra De Liso, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Michelle Michaels,
Directors : Amy Holden Jones,

A high school student's slumber party turns terrifying as an escaped mental patient with a drill decides to crash the party.

Actors : John Gielgud, Dudley Moore, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

Arthur loses all his money, and his wife wants a baby.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Bill Cosby, Moses Gunn, Tom Courtenay,
Directors : Paul Weiland,

A secret agent is called out of retirement to save the world from an evil genius.

Actors : Dee Hepburn, John Gordon Sinclair, Jake D'Arcy, Clare Grogan,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson,
Directors : Craig R. Baxley,

Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

Actors : Fred Ward, Cecilia Pérez-Cervera, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : George Armitage,

When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student/prostitute ...