Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Rosanna Carter, Ray Ramirez, Daryl Edwards, Joe Morton,
Directors : John Sayles,

A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.

Actors : Shelley Long, Jack Gilford, Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Carl Gottlieb,

A cave-man seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cave-woman.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson,
Directors : Craig R. Baxley,

Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

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 : 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 : 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 : Debra De Liso, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Michelle Michaels,
Directors : Amy Holden Jones,

A high school student's slumber party turns terrifying as an escaped mental patient with a drill decides to crash the party.

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 : 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 : Dee Hepburn, John Gordon Sinclair, Jake D'Arcy, Clare Grogan,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Jennifer Lowry, Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Theo Barnes,
Directors : Frank Henenlotter,

One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.

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 : Michael Caine, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Thom Eberhardt,

A drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective - Dr Watson.

Actors : Brian Kerwin, Matthew Broderick, Anne Bancroft, Harvey Fierstein,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very ...

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Michael D. Roberts, Mary Crosby, Robert Urich,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found ...