Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

The Front(1976)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.



Avanti!(1972)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.



Mediterraneo(1991)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.



Still Crazy(1998)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

"Strange Fruit" had everything that makes a legendary rockband: Money, Fame, Success, Groupies, a Singer who died of drugs and even a divine ending, when lightning struck the stage during ...



Hopscotch(1980)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.



Doctor Dolittle(1967)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientèle, he and his friends escape their hometown to sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.



Topkapi(1964)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to retrieve a jeweled dagger.



Cactus Flower(1969)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.



California Suite(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.



The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming(1966)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Without hostile intent, a Soviet sub runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.



Husbands and Wives(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.



Mannequin(1987)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.



A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum(1966)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.



Outrageous Fortune(1987)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to ...



Casino Royale(1967)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.



Summer of '42(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 15

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.



The Electric Horseman(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are ...



Husbands(1970)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be ...



Ridicule(1996)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.



Harry and Tonto(1974)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.




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