Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Steve Miner,

A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt.

Actors : Ian Michael Giatti, Kristi Somers, Richard Blade, Biff Yeager,
Directors : Alan Metter,

Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular ...

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin,

A virtuous Hong Kong police officer must clear his good name when the drug lords he is after frame him for the murder of a dirty cop.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Emilio Estevez, Richard Dreyfuss, Aidan Quinn,
Directors : John Badham,

Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Bill Cosby, Moses Gunn, Tom Courtenay,
Directors : Paul Weiland,

A secret agent is called out of retirement to save the world from an evil genius.

Actors : Allison Barron, Cathy Podewell, Hal Havins, Alvin Alexis,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

Ten teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.

Actors : Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic, Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic,
Directors : Emir Kusturica,

In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

Actors : Douglas Seale, Noelle Parker, Jim Varney, Oliver Clark,
Directors : John R. Cherry III,

Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor.

Actors : John Gielgud, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

Arthur loses all his money, and his wife wants a baby.

Actors : Demi Moore, Robert De Niro, Hoyt Axton, Sean Penn,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

Actors : Cinqué Lee, Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Yûki Kudô,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Nancy Travis, Tom Selleck, Ted Danson,
Directors : Emile Ardolino,

Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken ...

Actors : Vincent Perez, Anne Brochet, Gérard Depardieu, Jacques Weber,
Directors : Jean-Paul Rappeneau,

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.

Actors : Fred Ward, Cecilia Pérez-Cervera, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : George Armitage,

When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student/prostitute ...

Actors : Marisa Berenson, Julie Andrews, William Holden, Larry Hagman,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Actors : Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.

Actors : David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Inspector Clouseau mysteriously disappears and a journalist attempts to uncover the mystery. New scenes are interspersed with old footage of Peter Sellers from the previous films.

Actors : Susan Saiger, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Mary Woronov,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Actors : Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.

Actors : Steve Lawrence, Charles Grodin, Steve Martin, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.