Best Comedy movies of 1970s

Actors : Franck Cabot-David, Hervé Bellon, Georges Audoubert, Louis de Funès,

Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose ...

Actors : Jacques François, Fabrice Greco, Pierre Richard, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Francis Veber,

When François, a journalist, is touring a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. All afraid of the despotic industrialist who is also...

Actors : Dick Gautier, Ed McMahon, George Segal, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Actors : Sevket Altug, Kemal Sunal, Gölgen Bengü, Nisan Akman,
Directors : Ergin Orbey,

Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much.

Actors : Moira Orfei, Alessandro Momo, Vittorio Gassman, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Dino Risi,

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every ...

Actors : Lisa London, Susan Kiger, Pamela Jean Bryant, Kimberly Cameron,
Directors : Gerald Seth Sindell,

College exploitation film focusing on the wild escapades of the women of H.O.T.S. Sorority. The antics include but are certainly not limited to a wet t-shirt contest, a sky-diving episode, ...

Actors : Morgan Woodward, Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Michael Schultz,

Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their...

Actors : Perry King, Louis Gossett Jr., Clyde Kusatsu, Charles Durning,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.

Actors : Tomas Milian, Franco Nero, Fernando Rey, Jack Palance,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.

Actors : David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern,
Directors : Norman Tokar,

Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. ...

Actors : Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins, Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper,
Directors : John Byrum,

A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Sequel to La Cage aux folles has homosexual nightclub owner Renato and his transvesitite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly...

Actors : Mae West, Tony Curtis, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : James Goldstone,

A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

Actors : Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Amy Stryker, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.

Actors : Turi Ferro, Laura Antonelli, Tina Aumont, Alessandro Momo,
Directors : Salvatore Samperi,

A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Yavuz Karakas, Saadet Gürses, Defne Yalniz,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

A poor grocery owner becomes a popular goalkeeper.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Aysen Gruda, Adile Nasit, Meral Zeren,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

A version of "Bingo Bongo" by Adriano Celentano, a Turkish version, of course with the perfect performance by Kemal Sunal

Actors : Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.

Actors : Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Ashok Kumar, Asrani,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

Arun (Amol Palekar) is a shy accountant in Bombay who dreams of romancing Prabha (Vidya Sinha), but never gets past following her around without managing to actually speak up. While Arun ...