Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Tony Danza, Danny DeVito, Stacey Nelkin, Jessica Walter,
Directors : Jeremy Joe Kronsberg,

When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Foster inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the orangutans or ...

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Andréa Ferréol, Marie Trintignant, Colin Firth,
Directors : Otakar Votocek,

A famous movie actor (Peter O'Toole) claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengenfully kills him but then dies as a result of an ...

Actors : Judit Halász, Ferenc Kállai, János Körmendi, Ilona Béres,
Directors : József Nepp,

A farcical retelling of Snow White. Disillusioned Snow White isn't all that pretty or cute, her friends dwarfs aren't all that hospitable, her evil stepmother is an alcoholic and prince charming likes the ladies too much.

Actors : Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis, Buster Crabbe, George Kelsey,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. ...

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Dominique Lavanant, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent ...

Actors : Teta Konstada, Yorgos Rigas, Steve Douzos, Stamatis Gardelis,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

A major hit in the Greek cinemas at the time, this comedy by Omiros Efstratiadis is about a bunch of teenagers who make things difficult for their teachers.

Actors : Victor Rebengiuc, Petrica Gheorghiu, Mariana Mihut, Tora Vasilescu,
Directors : Lucian Pintilie,

A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon's lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza's lover, while she is ...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Tayfun Coragan, Dilek Damlacik, Perin Aytaç,
Directors : Serif Gören,

Actors : Harold Hopkins, Jack Thompson, Frank Wilson, Graham Kennedy,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.

Actors : Saori Yuki, Jûzô Itami, Ichirôta Miyakawa, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Yoshimitsu Morita,

A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Jack Lemmon, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Victoria Abril, Concha Velasco, Ana Belén,
Directors : Mario Camus,

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. ...

Actors : Thomas Gottschalk, Liane Hielscher, Gert Haucke, Mike Krüger,
Directors : Dieter Pröttel,

Actors : Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Jerzy Turek, Katarzyna Laniewska, Dariusz Siatkowski,
Directors : Roman Zaluski,

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Victoria Abril, Anne-Marie Besse, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.

Actors : Jerry Lewis, John Abbott, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn,
Directors : Steven Paul,

A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.

Actors : Jack Bernardi, Robin Altman, Brian O'Mullin, Chuck Barris,
Directors : Chuck Barris,

A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris who lives through a series of outrageous competitors, stressful situations, a nervous breakdown and other comical ...

Actors : Paco Cambres, Alfredo Landa, Alejandra Grepi, Tito Valverde,
Directors : José Luis Cuerda,

In the fantastic world of the "bosque animado" meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.

Actors : Jean Mersant, Sylvia Chang, Karl Maka, Samuel Hui,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must help the police recover it.

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the ...