Best Comedy movies of 1971

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford, Lester Rawlins, George C. Scott,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

In a Manhattan psychiatric hospital a man, convinced he is Sherlock Holmes, is treated by a female doctor who happens to be named Watson.

Actors : Sergey Filippov, Archil Gomiashvili, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Mikhail Pugovkin,
Directors : Leonid Gayday,

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once ...

Actors : Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel, François Maisongrosse,
Directors : Jacques Tati,

Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his usual comical, disastrous style.

Actors : Edward Everett Horton, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Poston, Pippa Scott,
Directors : Norman Lear,

Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson, Rock Hudson, John David Carson,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

California State Police Captain Sam Surcher investigates a string of teenage girl murders at Oceanfront High School.

Actors : Jagoda Kaloper, Milena Dravic, Tuli Kupferberg, Ivica Vidovic,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

A homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored.

Actors : Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, William Tepper, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Nicholson,

Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, ...

Actors : Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Tony Roberts, Joe Flynn,
Directors : Vincent McEveety,

Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, George Segal, Karen Black,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Actors : Alice Sapritch, Olivier De Funès, Geraldine Chaplin, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Serge Korber,

Politician get hitch hikers on road and in one car accident they all end up on a tree above the sea.

Actors : Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Deborah Winters, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Jack Lemmon,

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...

Actors : Kurt Russell, Wally Cox, Harry Morgan, Joe Flynn,
Directors : Robert Butler,

A young man who works in the mailroom at a TV network wants to move up the corporate ladder but finds himself stymied by his selfish boss. By chance he discovers that his neighbor's ...

Actors : John Laurie, Clive Dunn, Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier,
Directors : Norman Cohen,

The misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2.

Actors : Tracy Hyde, Mark Lester, Colin Barrie, Jack Wild,
Directors : Waris Hussein,

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible. The story is told from the children's point of view.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Michel Galabru, Claude Gensac, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Jean Girault,

Antoine Brisebard, a famous comedy playwright, is struggling with financial difficulties and is preparing to sell his country villa to an English couple. What no one knows, however, is that...

Actors : Charles Hawtrey, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up ...

Actors : Albert Finney, Janice Rule, Frank Finlay, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley fulfills his Dashiell Hammett love by putting an ad in the paper as a private eye.

Actors : Charles Hawtrey, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of ...

Actors : Sanford Mitchell, J. Byron Foster, Sean Kenney, Monika Kelly,
Directors : Ted V. Mikels,

When the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners decide to find a new, cheap source of meat -- the local graveyard. Only one problem -- soon cats develop a ...

Actors : Howard Kaylan, Ian Underwood, Mark Volman, Aynsley Dunbar,

"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the...