Best Comedy movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Ryan O'Neal, Sam Wanamaker,
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 : Joe Flood, Matthew Goldsby, Jerry Belson, Kristen Riter,

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

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 : Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Valérie Quennessen, Barbara Rush,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

A young American couple and a French woman engage in a threesome in the Greek Islands.

Actors : René van 't Hof, Tatjana Simic, Nelly Frijda, Huub Stapel,
Directors : Dick Maas,

A rather a-social family, gets a chance to live in an upper-class neighborhood. As they are not accepted by the snobs living there, they get in all sorts of trouble.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and ...

Actors : Gregory Hines, Vince Edwards, Sigourney Weaver, Chevy Chase,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A small time arms dealer in South America to sell weapons to the revolutionaries, winds up negotiating the sale of an experimental plane to the nation's dictator.

Actors : Dick Durock, Louis Jourdan, Sarah Douglas, Heather Locklear,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of ...

Actors : John Hurt, Roy Hyatt, Stephanie Lane, Theresa Russell,

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Michael Chiklis, Patti D'Arbanville, J.T. Walsh,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career, while journalist Bob Woodward researches Belushi's life as he prepares to write a book about the late comic actor.

Actors : Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy,
Directors : Lizzie Borden,

Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a dystopia in which the issues of ...

Actors : Molly Ringwald, Dennis Hopper, Robert Downey Jr., Danny Aiello,
Directors : James Toback,

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia.

Actors : Linda Fiorentino, Keith Carradine, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local cafés and pestering gallery...

Actors : Biao Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan, Pauline Yeung,

Three successful Hong Kong lawyers are hired by a chemical company of questionable ethics and must eventually make a difficult decision when their employer's motives become clear.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, Charles Durning,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.

Actors : Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Jacques François, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Jean Girault,

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them --...

Actors : Pai Wei, Biao Yuen, Jackie Chan, Lily Li,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

After failing his fellow students in a Lion Dance competition, Dragon (Jackie Chan) is sent away from his school in disgrace, on the condition that he must find his errant brother. Much ...