Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

The Brink's Job(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.



An Unmarried Woman(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.



Thank God It's Friday(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other ...



Come September(1961)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.



Used People(1992)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 11

At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice...



Robin and the 7 Hoods(1964)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In Chicago, during the Prohibition, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.



Goodbye, Columbus(1969)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archtypical Jewish American Princess, very emotionally involved...



That's Life!(1986)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Harvey and Gillian Fairchild face a very difficult weekend. Harvey, celebrating his 60th birthday, is stressed and depressed. Gillian is awaiting the results of a throat biopsy. Their lives...



The Fortune(1975)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.



The Reivers(1969)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.



Buster(1988)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.



The Pirates of Penzance(1983)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic has fallen in love with sweet innocent ...



Starting Over(1979)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.



You're a Big Boy Now(1966)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.



The Assassination Bureau(1969)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A woman causes a group of assassins to face their greatest challenge.



The Sterile Cuckoo(1969)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Pookie Adams...



Babes in Toyland(1961)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo ...



The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox(1976)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.



Claudine(1974)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.



Darling Lili(1970)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.




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