Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The son of a woman dying of a brain tumour tries to fulfil his mother's last wish: to meet Greta Garbo.

Actors : Carl Crew, LaNette La France, Rick Burks, Roger Dauer,
Directors : Jackie Kong,

Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to use their flesh in their new special dish at their rundown restaurant, while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.

Actors : Will More, Laura Cepeda, Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Miguel Zúñiga,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.

Actors : Mary Stuart Masterson, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Michael Dinner,

A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.

Actors : Ron Fazio, Rick Collins, John Altamura, Phoebe Legere,

The Toxic Avenger is tricked into traveling to Tokyo to search for his estranged father, leaving Tromaville open to complete domination by an evil corporation.

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine, Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love...

Actors : Taka Guadalcanal, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.

Actors : Roxanne Hart, George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to oblige. Oops! Seems the fellow was ...

Actors : Patti D'Arbanville, Dabney Coleman, Mary Kay Place, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Ken Shapiro,

Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.

Actors : Todd Graff, Julia Campbell, Robert Loggia, Dana Carvey,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

Two con men hide out in a house while the owner is away; one of them assumes the identity of the absent house sitter when the owner's relatives come to visit, only for further complications to set in.

Actors : Turo Pajala, Matti Pellonpää, Susanna Haavisto, Eetu Hilkamo,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Actors : Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Peter Fahrni, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Frank Ripploh,

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...

Actors : Marin Kanter, Peter Donat, Laura Dern, Diane Lane,
Directors : Lou Adler,

After her mother's death, teenager Corinne Burns forms a punk band with her sister and cousin, despite their lack of musical experience and talent.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Laudenbach,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers...

Actors : Michael E. Knight, Emmanuelle Béart, Phoebe Cates, David Dukes,
Directors : Tom McLoughlin,

Jim is soon to be married to Patty, but when he wakes up after a bachelor party thrown by his friends, he finds an injured angel in his pool. When Patty sees her, she thinks he's seeing ...

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Dennis Hopper, Paul Dooley,
Directors : Franco Amurri,

In 1989, clean-cut FBI man John Buckner is detailed to escort heavily-bearded Huey Walker back to jail for offenses dating back to his days as a celebrated hippie radical. After Walker ...

Actors : David Tomlinson, Helen Mirren, Sid Caesar, Peter Sellers,

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, ...

Actors : Amanda Sandrelli, Iris Peynado, Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni,

A teacher (Saverio) and a schoolkeeper (Mario) get lost in the Italian countryside. They find themselves in the late 15th century, they met Leonardo da Vinci and try to teach him how to ...

Actors : Klaus Büchner, Andi Feldmann, Kulle Westphal, Rötger Feldmann,

Broesel has to make a Werner animation film but right now he has no real ideas for new stories. Thus he simply draws some stories from Werner's youth.

Actors : Doug McKeon, Catherine Mary Stewart, Chris Nash, Kelly Preston,
Directors : Mel Damski,

In 1956, the shy Jonathan's luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious Gene as a friend in his last year of high school. Gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach Jonathan ...