Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Sheila Kelley, Jennifer Connelly, Lance Edwards, Patrick Dempsey,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

Michael, a college student, visits his girlfriend Gabriella and her family for Christmas in Canada. When he gets there, she tells him that she doesn't love him any more. Michael attempts to...

Actors : Richard Widmark, Kathleen Quinlan, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Completely innocent man, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

Actors : Deven Verma, Moushumi Chatterjee, Aruna Irani, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Gulzar,

Based on Shakespeare's 'A Comedy of Errors', this is a story of identical twins (2 pairs) and mistaken identities.

Actors : Catherine Jacob, Neige Dolsky, Isabelle Nanty, Tsilla Chelton,
Directors : Étienne Chatiliez,

Auntie Danielle, supposedly in ailing health but in reality just a nasty old bitch, lives with a paid housekeeper who she regularly abuses. When the housekeeper dies falling off a ladder, ...

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Frank Finlay, Michael York, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Richard Lester,

It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort....

Actors : Luis Brandoni, Antonio Gasalla, Julio De Grazia, China Zorrilla,
Directors : Alejandro Doria,

Each member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Judith Ivey, Edward Herrmann,
Directors : Frank Perry,

An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, Tim Robbins, Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Thomas Schlamme,

Carnelle isn't happy with her life, so in order to improve herself she enters a local beauty contest, trying to emulate her cousin Elain's win many years ago. Few think she can win, even ...

Actors : Kristine DeBell, José Ferrer, Mako, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

Actors : Chun Hsiung Ko, Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Ya-Lei Kuei,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Ronny Cox, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Bob Clark,

An unconventional cop who doesn't take any bull, is paired up with an amazing detective to capture some powerful criminals but the cop soon realizes that his by the book partner has split personality disorder.

Actors : Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp,
Directors : Alan Clarke,

Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns.

Actors : Anne Pitoniak, Andrea Burchill, Sara Walker, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

In the Pacific Northwest in 1955, two young sisters, abandoned by their mother, wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to ...

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Actors : Sevket Altug, Mehmet Ali Erbil, Osman Cavci, Savas Dinçel,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

A literature teacher who was born in a village comes to Hababam Sinifi. However, the students in the class mock him because of his accent.

Actors : Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Didier Pain, Nathalie Roussel,
Directors : Yves Robert,

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence (France). He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With ...

Actors : Deven Verma, Saeed Jaffrey, Madhuri Dixit, Aamir Khan,
Directors : Indra Kumar,

Raja lives a poor lifestyle along with his dad, Hazariprasad and mom. He attends college where he has several run-ins with wealthy fellow-collegian, Madhu Mehra. Matters escalate to such an...

Actors : Richard Ng, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Charlie Chin,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Two Hong-Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets ...

Actors : Charles Heung, Andy Lau, Joey Wang, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Jing Wong,

A master gambler loses his memory, and is befriended by a street hustler who discovers his supernatural gambling abilities.

Actors : Félix Rotaeta, Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Alaska,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

Pepi is raped by the policeman who catches her growing marijuana in her apartment. She seeks revenge by getting his masochist wife to leave him.