Best Comedy movies of 1980s

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 : Christine Paul-Podlasky, Stanislaw Tym, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Barbara Burska,
Directors : Stanislaw Bareja,

The main character is the manager of a sport club, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a ...

Actors : Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark, 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 : 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 : 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 : Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Kris Kristofferson, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey,
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 : Franco Fabrizi, Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Friedrich von Ledebur,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It's both a touchingly nostalgic ...

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 : Courtney Love, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude, Sy Richardson,
Directors : Alex Cox,

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of ...

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 : Ann-Marie MacDonald, Paule Baillargeon, Richard Monette, Sheila McCarthy,
Directors : Patricia Rozema,

Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle ...

Actors : River Phoenix, Meredith Salenger, Ione Skye, Ann Magnuson,
Directors : William Richert,

A charming womanizer has to find a way to get $80 to elope to Hawaii with his one true love, or else go to his father's chosen business school.

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 : Rebecca De Mornay, Ken Marshall, Fred Dalton Thompson, Mary Gross,
Directors : Daniel Goldberg,

Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course in which they learn to deal with guns and recognize crimes. They also get ...

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

Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. He decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.

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.