Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker, Ryan O'Neal,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

Actors : Al Pacino, Bob Dishy, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.

Actors : Sean Young, William Petersen, Isabella Rossellini, Ted Danson,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners.

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alan Alda,
Directors : Alan Alda,

Michael has written a scholarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, ...

Actors : Kathryn Walker, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

A quiet man's peaceful suburban lifestyle is threatened by the new, obnoxious couple that moves in next door.

Actors : Richard Pryor, Beverly Todd, Stacey Dash, Raphael Harris,
Directors : Alan Metter,

Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Pembe Mutlu,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail. As a village rule he has to get revenge for his fahter or he can not get ...

Actors : Stacey Glick, Blythe Danner, Jonathan Silverman, Lisa Waltz,
Directors : Gene Saks,

Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to ...

Actors : Mr. T, Adam Baldwin, Charlie Barnett, Max Gail,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees ...

Actors : Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Elias Koteas, Doreen Lang,
Directors : John Cornell,

A small-time crook becomes convinced he has become an angel after a traumatic incident and resolves to perform the work of one.

Actors : Donna Dixon, Lydia Lei, Howard Hesseman, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets.

Actors : RCB, William Smith, Julius LeFlore, Roddy Piper,

After a nuclear war, the survivors are divided between horribly mutated beings who live on desolate reservations and fertile women who are searching for scarce virile men in order to multiply and start a new human society.

Actors : Matt Dillon, Armand Assante, Kristy McNichol, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

Actors : Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

Actors : Joe Flood, Matthew Goldsby, Jerry Belson, Kristen Riter,

A murderer known as "The Breather" kills off high schoolers.

Actors : Tony Curtis, Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

Actors : Leila Gastil, Richard Boes, Chris Parker, John Lurie,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.

Actors : Nancy Valen, Kate Jackson, Robert Ginty, Patrick Dempsey,
Directors : Joan Micklin Silver,

College sophomore Randy Bodek is unfocused. The only thing he knows is that he loves his roommate, Jenny Gordon, who feels unappreciated as other things in his life seem to take precedence ...

Actors : Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, Douglas Barr, J.J. Anderson,
Directors : Patrick Read Johnson,

Dimwitted Martians drop into a little Illinois town on the day that the local radio station happens to rebroadcast Orson Welles 1938 "War Of The Worlds".

Actors : Corynne Charbit, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Francis Veber,

When the accident-prone daughter of a French businessman disappears in Mexico and the detective sent down to find her returns empty-handed, the businessman's company psychologist comes up ...