Best Comedy movies of 1970s

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

Lady Divine becomes enraged when her boyfriend cheats on her, and descends into a life of murder and mayhem.

Actors : Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.

Actors : Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen, Anya Ormsby,
Directors : Bob Clark,

Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic ritual. It backfires with deadly consequences.

Actors : Vincent Price, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Diana Rigg,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

Actors : Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Paul Mace,

A group of kids in Brooklyn form a gang. From this moment on they do everything together. This makes things easier but at the same time they have to face new problems.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau, Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: ...

Actors : Kevin Miles, Terry Camilleri, Rick Scully, John Meillon,
Directors : Peter Weir,

The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Metin Akpinar, Meral Zeren, Zeki Alasya,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

The sequel of The Stupid Millionaire (1974), the fun continues this time in Ankara, after the 4 brothers find the heritage from their father which is a box-ful of gold.

Actors : Don Knotts, Susan Clark, Bill Bixby, Tim Conway,
Directors : Norman Tokar,

Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.

Actors : Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Competition between privately owned LA ambulance companies is played for humor.

Actors : Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Liz Renay, Susan Lowe,
Directors : John Waters,

A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen.

Actors : Strother Martin, Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Slapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide.

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Adile Nasit, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

A mid-aged couple with 6 kids who are running a pickle shop gets divorced with 3 kids each. The family members find each other years later with a funny story.

Actors : Meadowlark Lemon, Julius Erving, Jack Kehoe, Jonathan Winters,
Directors : Gilbert Moses,

The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.

Actors : Hervé Villechaize, Gisele Lindley, Jan Stuart Schwartz, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Richard Elfman,

The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Aurora Cornu,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

On holiday, a conflicted man lusts after beautiful stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter.

Actors : Anne Meara, Jack Lemmon, Sandy Baron, Sandy Dennis,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

An Ohio sales executive accepts a higher position within the company and travels to New York City with his wife for his job interview but things go wrong from the start.

Actors : Charles Durning, Robert De Niro, Allen Garfield, Lara Parker,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and views in other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers black theater.

Actors : Hiroko Berghauer, Barbara Laage, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives ...

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Lee Grant, Barbara Harris, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

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