Best Comedy movies of 1979

Actors : Nancy Allen, Vincent Gardenia, Kirk Douglas, Mary Davenport,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

Keith Gordon is a creative young man who films the oddball doings of his family and peers. "The Maestro" appears frequently to give him pointers on his techniques. It's almost a film about ...

Actors : Jim Dale, Kenneth More, Dennis Dugan, Ron Moody,
Directors : Russ Mayberry,

An astronaut and his android double travel back to the time of King Arthur.

Actors : Josef Abrhám, Karel Kalas, Rudolf Hrusínský, Daniela Kolárová,

In the flat of the retired opera singer Bílek there is a meeting of people wishing to exchange their flats. The "duodeca-exchange" is organized by a lawyer Radosta (Rudolf Hrusínský), who ...

Actors : Conrad Bain, Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Chuck McCann,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the invention from him.

Actors : Titos Vandis, Paul Dooley, Belita Moreno, Marta Heflin,
Directors : Robert Altman,

A repressed, middle-aged divorced U.S. Greek meets a young singer through a dating service and becomes smitten.

Actors : Olga Karlatos, Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi, John Sharp,

Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, ...

Actors : Eddie Burt, Richard Demarco, Alex Mackenzie, Tom Mannion,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money ...

Actors : Dimitr Dimitrov, Moris Assa, Yevgeniya Bozhikova, Dimitar Ganev,
Directors : Ivanka Grybcheva,

'The Hedgehogs' are a group of youngsters who are trying to gain control of the empty space between the blocks of flats, which they want to convert into a basketball court. The resistance ...

Actors : Bernard King, Harold Sylvester, Gabe Kaplan, Michael Warren,
Directors : Jack Smight,

David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good...

Actors : Rhonda Coullet, Michael O'Donoghue, Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd,

Mike O'Donoghue's parody of "Mondo Cane" showcases curious performers, strange musicians, celebrity mutations and unusual short films, including Thomas Alva Edison's "Elephant Electrocution".

Actors : Donald Jones, Rutger Hauer, Rijk de Gooyer, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Wim Verstappen,

When a hanged man is found, the question is whether it is suicide or murder. Possible suspects are available; the world of drugs and a suspecious sect...

Actors : Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík, Libuse Safránková, Juraj Durdiak,
Directors : Václav Vorlícek,

The old King (Vladimír Mensík) is not satisfied with his four children. It is high time for the Princesses to get married and for the Prince to assume the reign. Once the King sets out to ...

Actors : Andrés Pajares, África Pratt, Antonio Ozores, Fernando Esteso,
Directors : Mariano Ozores,

Fernando Esteso, Andres Pajares and Antonio Ozores... funny, sexy and great movie!!!

Actors : Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Kedric Wolfe, Virgil Frye,
Directors : Charles B. Griffith,

A giant shark-like creature preys on a Hawaiian tourist community.

Actors : Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Tapio Hämäläinen,
Directors : Spede Pasanen,

A scientist creates a fully grown test tube baby from the cells of a mathematician, and the two are frequently mistaken for each other by gangsters, private investigators, the police, and the baby's creator himself.

Actors : Roy Sekoff, Robert Small, John DiSanti, Charles Pitt,
Directors : Ken Wiederhorn,

Frat boys -- or is that fart boys? -- compete in a farting contest.

Actors : Maureen McCormick, Flip Wilson, Scott Baio, Ron Palillo,
Directors : William A. Levey,

At a roller disco competition, two rivals find themselves becoming good friends while competing for a prize of $1000 in cash.

Actors : Judy Huxtable, Dudley Moore, Nicola Austin, Peter Cook,
Directors : Russell Mulcahy,

Russell Mulcahy (of "Highlander" fame) films British comedy luminaries Peter Cook and Dudley Moore recording their last comedy album featuring two of their most beloved characters, lavatory...

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, Siu Tin Yuen, Linda Lin, Shun-Yee Yuen,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from ...

Actors : Charles Grodin, Joan Collins, Farrah Fawcett, Art Carney,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up $5 million. A hotshot investigator Decker (Grodin) and a charming model (Fawcett) come in to check it out.