Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Evan Mirand, LeeAnne Locken, Cheryl Pollak, Robert Sean Leonard,
Directors : Jimmy Huston,

After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Ann Wedgeworth, Kelly McGillis, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

After being dumped by his girlfriend, a boy runs away to California. But he ends up in heaven because he dies after trying to help a family from drowning in a river. In heaven he'll meet a beautiful girl, who has never reincarnated before.

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.

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 : Shashi Kapoor, Ayub Khan-Din, Frances Barber, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : David Patrick Kelly, Penn Jillette, Caitlin Clarke, 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 : 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 : 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 : Vincent Price, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, 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 : Roger Rose, Yvette Nipar, Leslie Jordan, T.K. Carter,
Directors : Rich Correll,

A developer attempts to sabotage the safety record of a ski resort.

Actors : Lun Hua, Lung Wei Wang, Hou Hsiao, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers ...

Actors : Philippe Taccini, Daniel Auteuil, Michel Galabru, Maria Pacôme,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

Baptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their carefree life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero ...

Actors : Iya Savvina, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Liya Akhedzhakova, Valentin Gaft,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a badly needed parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal...