Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Helen Martin, Robert Townsend, Starletta DuPois, Craigus R. Johnson,
Directors : Robert Townsend,

An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.

Actors : Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Austin Pendleton, Fisher Stevens,
Directors : John Badham,

Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.

Actors : Donna Dixon, Steve Forrest, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase,
Directors : John Landis,

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.

Actors : Carol Kane, Corey Haim, Richard Masur, Corey Feldman,
Directors : Greg Beeman,

A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test.

Actors : Linda Warren, Joel Murray, John Cusack, Demi Moore,
Directors : Savage Steve Holland,

An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.

Actors : Jane Horrocks, Claire Skinner, Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

A waitress, her cook husband, & their twin daughters ponder their lives over a few weeks in a working-class suburb north of London.

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Hughes,

Two high school nerds attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that.

Actors : Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen,
Directors : Neal Israel,

A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party.

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Charles Grodin, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Jay Sandrich,

Wrongfully accused of a bank robbery, a writer seeks the help of his ex-wife, who is now married to the soon-to-be D.A. of California.

Actors : Don Calfa, Clu Gulager, James Karen, Thom Mathews,
Directors : Dan O'Bannon,

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Actors : Dabney Coleman, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.

Actors : Julian Sands, John Goodman, Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak,
Directors : Frank Marshall,

A species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to the U.S. in a coffin and starts to breed and kill.

Actors : Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Joey Lawrence, Richard Mulligan,
Directors : George Scribner,

A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood,
Directors : Buddy Van Horn,

A trucker turned prize fighter, his brother and their pet orangutan have a series of misadventures involving the mob, corrupt cops, motorcycle gangs and pretty dames.

Actors : Raymond Burr, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty,
Directors : Ken Finkleman,

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?

Actors : Dyan Cannon, Christopher Reeve, Irene Worth, Michael Caine,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

Actors : Demian Slade, John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby,
Directors : Savage Steve Holland,

A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier.

Actors : Maureen Lipman, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Michael Caine,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, CCH Pounder, Marianne Sägebrecht, Jack Palance,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.

Actors : Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt C.I.A. airlift organization operating in Vietnam War-era Laos.