Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Martin Mull, Peter Paul, David Paul, Ari Meyers,
Directors : Jon Turteltaub,

Two somewhat retarded truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.

Actors : Francesco Nuti, Novello Novelli, Ornella Muti, Roberto Alpi,
Directors : Francesco Nuti,

Actors : Brad Ellingson, Richard Lange, Glenn Scherer, Paul Callaway,
Directors : Bill Rebane,

When Kelly Morgan was 11 years old he had a terrifying encounter with Rana, a strange half man/half frog monster living in a lake. The creature killed his father and many other people ...

Actors : Roxana Berco, Julio Chávez, Villanueva Cosse, Ulises Dumont,
Directors : Carlos Sorin,

Buenos Aires movie director, very fond of the legend of the King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it. Despite of financial troubles, technical problems, misfortune ...

Actors : Mira Banjac, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Milena Dravic, Zoran Radmilovic,
Directors : Zdravko Sotra,

Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Zivota goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and others human misery. In the end ...

Actors : Michael Tucker, Kathleen York, Melanie Mayron, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : David Leland,

A successful family man, who works for an airline, becomes consumed by fear of death after his colleague and best friend dies in front of him from heart attack while telling the setup for the joke: "Why don't Italians like barbecues?"

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Dominique Lavanant, Luis Rego, Josiane Balasko,
Directors : Jean-Marie Poiré,

Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiance when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

Actors : Naima Al Soghayar, Youssra, Adel Imam, Hafez Amin,
Directors : Ahmed Yehia,

Having lost their home, a man strives to provide shelter to his family in different Cairo settings underestimating the funny complexities that come with it.

Actors : John Glover, Tim Matheson, Kate Capshaw, Edward Herrmann,
Directors : Bruce Paltrow,

The story of one man's hilarious - and doomed - attempts to wield life's ultimate double-edged sword: infidelity.

Actors : Patti Chambers, Carla Bragoli, Carrie Gordon, Carmine Capobianco,
Directors : Gorman Bechard,

A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family ...

Actors : Billy Lau, Fong Lui, Richard Ng, Ching-Ying Lam,
Directors : Ricky Lau,

Expelled by a band of restless ghosts in his village, Taoist Priest Mao Ming, and his two spirit companions, visit another village to seek wealth. There, Ming meets Master Gau, the "Vampire...

Actors : Reb Brown, Catherine Hickland, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

A clone/mix of PREDATOR and ROBOCOP gone nuts jungle flick with an international cast, exotic locale and good electronic music.

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Nobuko Miyamoto, Tetsurô Tanba, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.

Actors : Robby Benson, Jack Lemmon, Colleen Dewhurst, Lee Remick,
Directors : Bob Clark,

A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.

Actors : Laurent Romor, Johnny Hallyday, Fanny Ardant, Guy Marchand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

French rocker Johnny Hallyday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".

Actors : Akbar Abdi, Manouchehr Azari, Farhang Mehrparvar, Azita Hajian,
Directors : Mohamad Reza Honarmand,

Leila and Bahram's mother wants to get a loan to buy a house for her children to live in. But the villain old lady sends her son Ganjo to steal the money. The children decide to sell their ...

Actors : Ashok Kumar, Zeenat Aman, Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : S. Ramanathan,

This movie is a remake of the popular blockbuster Kannada movie Shankar Guru (1978) starring Dr.Rajkumar.

Actors : Viktor Andrienko, Vitali Vasilikov, Semyon Grigorev, Vyacheslav Dubinin,
Directors : David Cherkasskiy,

A USSR-made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This film covers the second half of the book. Part 1 came out in 1986.

Actors : Mike Genovese, Chynna Phillips, Jay Underwood, Wallace Langham,
Directors : Avery Crounse,

A nerdy teenage scientist discovers a formula for invisibility, and uses it to take revenge on all those who have wronged him--and also to spy on the girls' shower room.