Best Comedy movies of 1996

Actors : Rosie O'Donnell, Vanessa Lee Chester, Gregory Smith, Michelle Trachtenberg,
Directors : Bronwen Hughes,

Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy business?

Actors : Bruce Ramsay, William Baldwin, Lois Chiles, Angela Jones,
Directors : Reb Braddock,

Gabriella, a Colombian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with ...

Actors : Hulk Hogan, Don Stark, Garrett Morris, Robin Curtis,
Directors : John Murlowski,

An evil millionaire believes he is Santa Claus after an accident renders him amnesiac.

Actors : Pascal Duquenne, Daniel Auteuil, Henri Garcin, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Jaco Van Dormael,

An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.

Actors : Kyle Howard, Kevin Pollak, Jamie Lee Curtis, Herbert Russell,
Directors : Harry Winer,

A group of children, desperate to keep their various parents from getting divorces, kidnap them and hold them prisoner in a basement in order to force them to reconcile.

Actors : Karen Mok, Stephen Chow, Nancy Sit, Man-Tat Ng,

The most renowned and feared chef in the world loses his title of God of Cookery because of his pompous attitude. Humbled, he sets out to reclaim his title.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Daryl Hannah, Melanie Griffith, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Fernando Trueba,

A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.

Actors : Rupert Graves, Steven Mackintosh, Miriam Margolyes, Saskia Reeves,
Directors : Richard Spence,

Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, ...

Actors : Tim Daly, Eli Wallach, Dianne Wiest, Whoopi Goldberg,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

A comedy about making it on Wall Street. Prejudices are hard to break and Laurel Ayres quickly learns that in order for people to take her seriously she has to work for an older white man or be one.

Actors : Scarlett Johansson, Dean Silvers, Mary Kay Place, Aleksa Palladino,
Directors : Lisa Krueger,

A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

Actors : Tim Loane, Olwen Fouere, Ian Beattie, Shane Rimmer,
Directors : Stuart Gordon,

John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo...

Actors : Kari Väänänen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

The recession hits a couple in Helsinki.

Actors : Callum Keith Rennie, Hugh Dillon, John Pyper-Ferguson, Bernie Coulson,
Directors : Bruce McDonald,

A group of washed-up Canadian punk rockers get back together for a road trip in memory of a dear friend who was supposedly shot, or so rumors imply. As they travel, they ignore the underlying psychological darkness within each other.

Actors : Debbie Reynolds, Laura Weekes, Albert Brooks, Paul Collins,
Directors : Albert Brooks,

A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Sam Rockwell, John Turturro, Lisa Blount,
Directors : Tom DiCillo,

Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking ...

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Steven Mackintosh, Helena Bonham Carter, Imogen Stubbs,
Directors : Trevor Nunn,

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

Actors : Halle Berry, Bill Hunter, James Belushi, Casey Affleck,
Directors : Charles T. Kanganis,

A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.

Actors : Jennifer Aniston, Michael Landes, Ione Skye, Mackenzie Astin,
Directors : Tiffanie DeBartolo,

Girl leads a lonely life until she meets the boy of her dreams. The boy, however, has a live-in girlfriend.

Actors : Cher, Paul Mazursky, Ryan O'Neal, Chazz Palminteri,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.

Actors : Alice Garner, Matt Day, Matthew Dyktynski, Frances O'Connor,
Directors : Emma-Kate Croghan,

A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.