Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Pocketful of Miracles(1961)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.



Funny Lady(1975)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.



The Hospital(1971)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 9

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.



The Americanization of Emily(1964)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An American naval officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.



Crimes of the Heart(1986)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and ...



The Ruling Class(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.



Dad(1989)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him ...



Freebie and the Bean(1974)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 16

San Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process.



Butterflies Are Free(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.



The Four Seasons(1981)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.



A Thousand Clowns(1965)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.



Hear My Song(1991)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Owner of a failing club seeks infamous Irish singer Josef Locke in order to bring business and success to his club



Herbie Rides Again(1974)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.



Stay Hungry(1976)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships ...



Continental Divide(1981)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.



Switch(1991)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Steve Brooks is a sexist and the prototype macho. Unfortunately one day he is killed by one of his girlfriends. In heaven, though, there is no place for men like him and he is sent back to ...



Plaza Suite(1971)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.



Irreconcilable Differences(1984)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.



The Absent Minded Professor(1961)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.



Yours, Mine and Ours(1968)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.




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