Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Susan Saiger, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Mary Woronov,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Michael D. Roberts, Mary Crosby, Robert Urich,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found ...

Actors : Demi Moore, Robert De Niro, Hoyt Axton, Sean Penn,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

Actors : Rick Hearst, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes, Gordon MacDonald,
Directors : Frank Henenlotter,

One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.

Actors : Brian Kerwin, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very ...

Actors : Michael Caine, Jeffrey Jones, Ben Kingsley, Lysette Anthony,
Directors : Thom Eberhardt,

A drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective - Dr Watson.

Actors : David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Inspector Clouseau mysteriously disappears and a journalist attempts to uncover the mystery. New scenes are interspersed with old footage of Peter Sellers from the previous films.

Actors : Donal McCann, Steve Guttenberg, Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.

Actors : Paul McCrane, Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.

Actors : Howie Mandel, Daniel Stern, Fred Savage, Margaret Whitton,
Directors : Richard Greenberg,

A boy discovers an incredible and gruesome world of monsters under his bed.

Actors : James Karen, Michael Kenworthy, Thor Van Lingen, Thom Mathews,
Directors : Ken Wiederhorn,

Curious kids unearth the barrels that helped revive the dead of the first film, which proves the second time's an undead charm.

Actors : Lola Forner, Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan,

Jackie Chan and his bumbling sidekick are sent on a quest through Europe to find a mysterious treasure held by a shadowy organization of monks.

Actors : Pamela Springsteen, Tony Higgins, Valerie Hartman, Renée Estevez,
Directors : Michael A. Simpson,

Angela, supposedly reformed and living under an assumed surname, is working at a summer camp. However, when the campers start misbehaving, she soon reverts to her old ways.

Actors : Patty Mullen, Joanne Ritchie, J.J. Clark, James Lorinz,
Directors : Frank Henenlotter,

A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.

Actors : Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Gabriel Axel,

During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.

Actors : John Candy, Tim Thomerson, Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, ...

Actors : Jack Nance, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Peter Liapis,
Directors : Luca Bercovici,

A young man and his girlfriend move into an old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a desire to control ancient demons.

Actors : Eric Deacon, Brian Deacon, Andréa Ferréol, Frances Barber,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, J.T. Walsh, Emily Longstreth,
Directors : Christopher Guest,

Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.

Actors : John McIntire, Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, Alexa Kenin,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the ...