Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Charles Durning, Dom DeLuise, Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.

Actors : Corey Haim, Brian Kerwin, Sally Field, James Garner,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things ...

Actors : Ben Meyerson, Billy Warlock, Devin DeVasquez, Evan Richards,
Directors : Brian Yuzna,

An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.

Actors : J.W. Fails, Kathie Sileno, Kurt McKinney, Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Directors : Corey Yuen,

Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top ...

Actors : Steve Lawrence, Charles Grodin, Steve Martin, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.

Actors : Marisa Berenson, Julie Andrews, William Holden, Larry Hagman,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Actors : Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.

Actors : Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin O'Morrison, Joseph Maher, Chevy Chase,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be overrun with a gauntlet of crazy inhabitants.

Actors : Barbara Tyson, Gailard Sartain, Jim Varney, Bill Byrge,
Directors : John R. Cherry III,

Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank ...

Actors : Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

A dying millionaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. However, something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.

Actors : Tomas von Brömssen, Anton Glanzelius, Melinda Kinnaman, Anki Lidén,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A boy and his brother don't get along well. In order to let their ill mother rest, they're separated and sent each one with their relatives.

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 ...

Actors : Noah Hathaway, Michael Moriarty, Jenny Beck, Shelley Hack,
Directors : John Carl Buechler,

A wicked troll king in search of a mystical ring that will return him to his human form invades a San Francisco apartment complex where a powerful witch lives.

Actors : Charles Grodin, James Belushi, Anne De Salvo, Loryn Locklin,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

Actors : Zach Galligan, Jennifer Bassey, Joe Baker, Deborah Foreman,
Directors : Anthony Hickox,

A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jerome Benton, Prince,

Two brothers from Miami are in the Mediterranean, enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50,000,000 from her father. At ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Vincent Gardenia, Joel Brooks, John Ritter, Alyson Reed,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A womanizing, drunken, allelic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.