Best Comedy movies of 1979

Actors : Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Tapio Hämäläinen, Simo Salminen,
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 : Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Carlos Villagrán, Florinda Meza, Ramón Valdés,
Directors : Enrique Segoviano,

The life of an untalented, but extremely kind waterboy who works for a Mexican soccer team, and how his life unexpectedly changed, when his wife fell pregnant.

Actors : Jennifer Hetrick, Jim Harris, Richard Gitlin, Helen Campitelli,
Directors : Lloyd Kaufman,

A male softball team is challenged by a female softball team to see who is best.

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.

Actors : Dennis Christopher, Dorothy Tristan, Glynnis O'Connor, Seymour Cassel,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.

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 : 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 : Chiara Moretti, Dominique Laffin, Carlo Monni, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Roberto has a new job as the teacher at a nursery school. The first child he meets is Gianluigi, who's mute. Roberto is spirited, bringing a TV into class, then a donkey. He takes children ...

Actors : Bill Adler, Melissa Prophet, Cynthia Wood, Dennis Bowen,
Directors : William Sachs,

A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.

Actors : Lino Banfi, Paolo Giusti, Nadia Cassini, Karin Schubert,
Directors : Mariano Laurenti,

A story about a singer/showgirl who poses as a nurse to find some stolen paintings, which have been hidden in a military insane asylum.

Actors : Szu Shih, Feng Ku, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu,
Directors : Chung Sun,

Warrior Tuan Changqing (Ti Lung) meets courtesan Liu Yinxi (Shih Szu) in a small town. Liu pleads Tuan to kill underworld master Guo Tiansheng (Ku Feng), known as the "Killer Doctor", in ...

Actors : Giacomo Rizzo, Betty Vergès, Gianni Garko, Bea Fiedler,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

A descendant of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate. Being around so much naked and semi-naked flesh has the expected effect on him.

Actors : Paul Mazursky, Allan Kolman, Brooke Adams, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Noel Black,

The two least likely bank robbers in the known universe plan and execute... kind of... the ultimate heist.

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Georges Géret, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Pierre Tchernia,

Actors : Carlos Larrañaga, Alfredo Landa, Ángel Picazo, María Casanova,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

Rebolledo is an honest clerk, quiet and low profile that dreams during the week to rest in a villa which is in the suburbs. Hoping to find peace with his family everything goes wrong over the weekend.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Monica Vitti, Laura Antonelli,
Directors : Luigi Zampa,

An Italian comedy about a heist involving a princess's necklace, and a cast of character's who are not what they seem. They do about anything they can to get the necklace from each other.

Actors : Louise Cooper, Phil Askham, Stephen Hirst, Jean Franval,
Directors : Ken Loach,

A rediscovered classic from director Ken Loach (THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, KES) and one of the inspirations for Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM, BLACK JACK is a dark and complex ...

Actors : Niels Hinrichsen, Bodil Kjer, Karin Wedel, Henrik Koefoed,
Directors : Edward Fleming,

Actors : Sylvaine Charlet, Peter Cushing, Keenan Wynn, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Peter Curran,

A bumbling US marine Captain is assigned to retrieve a space capsule from a despotic African ruler.

Actors : Christian Marquand, Brigitte Roüan, Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbour from Africa... See full synopsis »