Best Comedy movies of 1980s

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 : Rick Moranis, Melanie Mayron, Steve Martin, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

An all too uptight FBI agent must protect a larger than life mobster with a heart of gold, currently under witness protection in the suburbs.

Actors : Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

A race of small, furry aliens make lunch out of the locals in a farming town.

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall, Daryl Hannah, Steve Martin,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.

Actors : Andrew Dice Clay, Lauren Holly, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

A vulgar private detective is hired to find a missing groupie and is drawn into a mystery involving a series of murders tied to the music industry.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Julieta Serrano, Loles León,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.

Actors : Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Laurence Fishburne, Kyme,
Directors : Spike Lee,

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley, Maria Conchita Alonso, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Robert Bierman,

After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Betty Kennedy, Evelyn Guerrero,
Directors : Tommy Chong,

The two stoners and their friends go through another series of crazy, drug-influenced misadventures.

Actors : Maxwell Caulfield, Lorna Luft, Maureen Teefy, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Patricia Birch,

An English student at a 1960s American high school has to prove himself to the leader of a girls' gang whose members can only date greasers.

Actors : Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.

Actors : Karen Austin, Richard Crenna, Rip Torn, John Candy,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

An overworked air-traffic controller takes his family on a beach vacation but is soon beset by series of mishaps.

Actors : Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Eddie Murphy,

During the 1930s, a New York illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

Actors : Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey,
Directors : Danny DeVito,

A bitter ex-husband and a put-upon momma's boy both want their respective former spouse and mother dead. Who will pull it off?

Actors : Gregory Hines, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Ralph Brown, Richard Griffiths,
Directors : Bruce Robinson,

At the end of the 1960's, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.

Actors : Kevin Spacey, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Joan Severance,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Dave is deaf, and Wally is blind. They witness a murder, but it was Dave who was looking at her, and Wally who was listening.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Yeardley Smith, Emilio Estevez, Laura Harrington,
Directors : Stephen King,

A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.