Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Reuben, Reuben(1983)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.



Tempest(1982)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek ...



Plácido(1961)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...



Can-Can(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female...



The Sting II(1983)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Lonnegan is planning to get back at Gondorff and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorff and Hooker are planning their next caper. And their mark is a man ...



Summer Magic(1963)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.



Star!(1968)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.



A Majority of One(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.



For Love of Ivy(1968)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...



Kiss Me Goodbye(1982)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancé Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, ...



Pete 'n' Tillie(1972)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 3

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to ...



Yes, Giorgio(1982)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.



Billy Rose's Jumbo(1962)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.



Something for Everyone(1970)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 3

Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Before long the opportunistic boy is ...



Bless the Beasts & Children(1971)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.



Heartbeeps(1981)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two household robots run away and try to start a family.



Bachelor in Paradise(1961)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S....



Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?(1971)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.



First Monday in October(1981)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.



Do Not Disturb(1965)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

American couple Janet and Mike move to England for his business. She soon becomes paranoid that he is having an affair with his attractive secretary, and decides to get back at him by pretending she herself has been unfaithful.




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