Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Angela Lansbury, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Wilford Leach,

This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic has fallen in love with sweet innocent ...

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Sequel to La Cage aux folles has homosexual nightclub owner Renato and his transvesitite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly...

Actors : David Patrick Kelly, Caitlin Clarke, Penn Jillette, Teller,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Penn & Teller enjoy playing jokes on each other. When Penn says on an interview show that he wishes he has someone threatening his life so that he "wouldn't sweat the small stuff," each of ...

Actors : Ronald Allen, Al Pillay, Kevin Allen, Dave Beard,
Directors : Peter Richardson,

Alex is a disgruntled waitress at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a ...

Actors : Leonard Rossiter, John Moffatt, Malcolm McDowell, Brian Pettifer,
Directors : Lindsay Anderson,

Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal Highness is ...

Actors : Lise Delamare, Jacques Spiesser, Jean Mercure, Catherine Ferran,
Directors : Jérôme Boivin,

A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.

Actors : Stephanie Lawrence, Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb,
Directors : David Green,

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.

Actors : Rudolf Hrusínský, János Bán, Marián Labuda,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Comedy about the people who inhabit a small town. For years the overbearing Pavek has endured Otik, the "town idiot," sharing his meals and the front seat of their dump truck. But Otik is ...

Actors : Michael Huddleston, Craig Wasson, Jim Metzler, Jodi Thelen,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town--who go their separate ways after high school in the innocence of 1961 and come together again at the end of the turbulent ...

Actors : Fred Gwynne, Rubén Blades, Hoyt Axton, Corbin Bernsen,
Directors : Jim Kouf,

Career criminal Frank plans a bank heist and sends for his buddies to help pull the job. Before his buddies arrive, he's caught, forcing his cohorts to pull the job alone. Frank soon escapes, setting off a search by the bumbling cops.

Actors : Stefano Antonucci, Paolo Baroni, Walter Matthau, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Roberto Benigni,

Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a ...

Actors : Imanol Arias, Marta Fernández Muro, Helga Liné, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Ayub Khan-Din, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with ...

Actors : Susie Coelho, Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.

Actors : Patrick Lowe, Jennifer Rhodes, Kimberly McArthur, Crystal Bernard,
Directors : Deborah Brock,

Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.

Actors : Vincent Price, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.

Actors : Jackie Chan, Mars, Wai-Man Chan, Shirley Yim,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

The adventures of a restless martial arts student called Dragon, who, while constantly pursuing a girl, gets involved in the affairs of a gang of thieves.

Actors : Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, André Dussollier, Michel Boujenah, Roland Giraud,
Directors : Coline Serreau,

Actors : Richard Ng, Eric Tsang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Kiu Wai Miu,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

A police informant sent a letter containing sensitive information on an illegal drug operation to his friend, Yi-Ching. While on vacation in Thailand, the informant is assassinated by the ...

Actors : James Belushi, Barbara Barrie, John Ritter, Bill Morey,
Directors : Dennis Feldman,

A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.