Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Jack Warden, Wallace Shawn, Sean Penn, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Louis Malle,

Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner ...

Actors : James Coco, Joan Hackett, Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Glenn Jordan,

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ...

Actors : Mel Smith, Diana Quick, Griff Rhys Jones, Alison Steadman,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Henry Wilt is a more or less failure of a teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party Wilt is stuck to an inflatable doll and makes a complete ...

Actors : Sreenivasan, Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, Parvathi, K.P.A.C. Lalitha,
Directors : Sreenivasan,

A man with a serious case of inferiority complex is married to a beautiful girl. Soon, his love and care turns into suspicion.

Actors : Nicole Alysia, Tom Alpern, Edwin Anthony, Charles Lane,
Directors : Charles Lane,

Nearly silent comedy filmed in black and white follows a street artist (Charles Lane), who rescues a baby after her father was murdered. The artist then sets off to find the mother, but has...

Actors : Heiner Lauterbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Janna Marangosoff, Ulrike Kriener,
Directors : Doris Dörrie,

A man's wife leaves him to take up with an artist, so the man responds by becoming the artist's roommate.

Actors : Federico Rizzo, Caterina Sylos Labini, Renato Scarpa, Maurizio Nichetti,
Directors : Maurizio Nichetti,

A movie resembling Ladri di biciclette (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.

Actors : Stoyan Gudev, Yordanka Stefanova, Todor Kolev, Itschak Fintzi,
Directors : Nikolai Volev,

This film is a comedy about a poor man, named Poorco. Poorco always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's.

Actors : Josie Bissett, Chris Young, Keith Coogan, Aeryk Egan,
Directors : Robert Shaye,

A friend delivers John Twiller greetings from a long gone high school girlfriend. This makes him open his school's yearbook - his "Book of Love" - and remember the old times, way back in ...

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, Rick Aviles, Richard Bassett, Glenn Athaide,
Directors : Melvin Van Peebles,

A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.

Actors : Hans-Joachim Grubel, Götz Kauffmann, Dieter Hallervorden, Tilo Prückner,
Directors : Reinhard Schwabenitzky,

A wealthy businessman and the owner of a rundown pub share one thing in common - they look like identical twins! When the businessman hears of a plot against him, he hires the pub owner as ...

Actors : Galina Petrova, Nikolay Karachentsov, Jerzy Stuhr, Vladimir Golovin,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odessa, USSR, and...

Actors : Pat Paulsen, Jack Riley, Jaye P. Morgan, Linda Blair,
Directors : Jackie Kong,

A hapless police officer is transferred to the night shift even as he clandestinely pursues a career as a stand up comedian.

Actors : Tommy Chong, C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Shelby Chong,
Directors : Tommy Chong,

An aging hippie sets out on a trip across America to find his family.

Actors : Virginia Madsen, Cynthia Gibb, Clayton Rohner, Daphne Zuniga,
Directors : Jerry Kramer,

A pair of women decide to prank their roommate's nerdy blind date after she stands him up, but end up developing a friendship with him after their practical joke sends them on an all-night odyssey through the 1980s club scene.

Actors : Betsy Russell, Richard Erdman, Kristi Somers, Gerard Christopher,
Directors : Herb Freed,

Scrappy, willful, and fiercely self-reliant spitfire hoyden automobile mechanic Tomasina 'Tommy' Boyd develops a huge crush on cocky race car driving dreamboat hunk Randy Starr after ...

Actors : Qingfu Pan, Hangcheng Dong, Mark Salzman, Xihong Jiang,
Directors : Shirley Sun,

Mark Salzman always was interested in Kung-Fu and the Chinese culture, claims to have seen every Kung-Fu movie. 1982, with a degree in Chinese literature, he visits a province university in...

Actors : Robert Trebor, Michele Little, Gina Gallego, Scott Valentine,
Directors : Charlie Loventhal,

A homeless street musician becomes a demon when sexually aroused.

Actors : Natasha Hovey, Elena Fabrizi, Glenn Saxson, Carlo Verdone,
Directors : Carlo Verdone,

An Italian-born actress turned stage mother brings her daughter Sandy to Rome for three months' work as a supermodel. Sandy, who's between "soap and water" and womanhood, needs a tutor. Mom...

Actors : Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Somr, Rudolf Hrusínský, Petr Cepek,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants...