Best Comedy movies of 1970s

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...

Actors : Michael Constantine, Natalie Wood, Michael Caine, Kitty Winn,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Set in the 1940s, the story follows a private eye on a case to find a long lost daughter of an oddball client. Two goons are on a mission to stop him.

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

The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but ...

Actors : Paolo Turco, Anna Karina, Nino Manfredi, Ugo D'Alessio,
Directors : Franco Brusati,

Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.

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 : Jim Backus, Ann Sothern, Stuart Whitman, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, ...

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand,
Directors : Jean-Charles Tacchella,

Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.

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 : Gregory Walcott, Terence Hill, Dominic Barto, Yanti Somer,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

In the Wild West, a dead Englishman's greenhorn son joins his father's old gang and becomes a real frontier-man.

Actors : Bea Arthur, Gig Young, Michael Brandon, Bonnie Bedelia,
Directors : Cy Howard,

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife ...

Actors : John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi, Eliza Roberts,
Directors : John Landis,

A small town is terrorized by "The Banana Killer", which turns out to be the missing link between man and ape.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Elliott Gould, Herbert Lom, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Anthony Page,

Whilst traveling in pre-war Nazi Germany, a young couple realise a passenger seems to have been kidnapped off their train, but, no other passenger aside from themselves, recalls her.

Actors : Ariane Heller, Barbra Streisand, Terry Smith, David Selby,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

A bored housewife takes refuge in a fantasy world.

Actors : Ruth Trouncer, Tony Britton, Goldie Hawn, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Roy Boulting,

TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses...

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Jim Kelly, Eric Laneuville, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A Mafia buy out of Papa Byrd's karate school downtown ends in his death. Byrd's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell, and wants revenge. Byrd's students call the Black Belt Jones for help. Jones reluctantly teams with Sydney in many battles.

Actors : Philip Michael Thomas, Charles Gordone, Barry White, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Ralph Bakshi,

Rabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police.

Actors : Raymond Gérôme, Raquel Welch, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Dany Saval,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

The funny misadventures of a dating duo of film stunt professionals in France.

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Ray Milland,
Directors : Lee Frost,

Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.

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 : Geoffrey Lewis, Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful ...