Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Michael Huddleston, Jim Metzler, Craig Wasson, 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 : Candice Azzara, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Anne Bancroft,

Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. ...

Actors : Evelyn Hamann, Katharina Brauren, Vicco von Bülow, Edda Seippel,
Directors : Vicco von Bülow,

Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the...

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

Actors : Sheila Kelley, Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Lorraine Toussaint,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.

Actors : Julie Hagerty, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Robert Altman,

This is an insane and fast-paced romantic comedy about a bizarre dinner date among Bruce (Goldblum) and Prudence (Hagerty), and their lunatic therapists, and Bruce's jealous, gun-wielding ...

Actors : Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt, Peter Frechette,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her, when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar,...

Actors : Suzanne Pleshette, George Burns, David Birney, Louanne,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan.

Actors : Lara Flynn Boyle, Corey Parker, Finn Carter, Anthony Edwards,
Directors : Savage Steve Holland,

The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. ...

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 : Traci Lords, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask, Arthur Roberts,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.

Actors : Laraine Newman, Paul Sand, Dudley Moore, James Coco,
Directors : Gary Weis,

Harvey and Zoey, two tourists travelling through Israel, discover an ancient scroll describing the life of Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to ...

Actors : Sky du Mont, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Jessika Cardinahl, Otto Waalkes,

Otto, a young man from East-Frisia comes to the big city (Hamburg) to make his fortune. Most of all he is engaged with two problems: How can he impress Silvia, a rich young girl, and where ...

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 : Janne Carlsson, Yvonne Lombard, Kim Anderzon, Stig Ossian Ericson,
Directors : Hans Iveberg,

To get an order for 1,000 yachts from a middle-east sheik, two boat companies have to race 'Göta kanal', a canal through Sweden, east to west. There are no rules in this game and the winner gets the order.

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 : Michael J. Fox, David Naughton, Debra Clinger, David Damas,

Leon planned "The Great Allnighter" by picking college students to participate in his night long scavenger hunt. The five teams, each designated by colors white (nerds who hate green),green...

Actors : Zeinab Botsvadze, Ketevan Abuladze, Ia Ninidze, Avtandil Makharadze,
Directors : Tengiz Abuladze,

The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the ...

Actors : Robert Loggia, John Cusack, Jerry Stiller, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Steven Lisberger,

Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must take a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from...

Actors : Ülkü Özen, Kemal Sunal, Turgut Özatay, Ali Sen,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

Rifki has lots of luck everything seems to go as he thinks. People of his village brand him as some sort of a holy man. He becomes the governor and tries to make his village a better place.