Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Jackie Chan, Bill Tung,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

Actors : Roseanne Barr, Meryl Streep, Linda Hunt, Ed Begley Jr.,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.

Actors : Lena Farugia, N!xau, Eiros, Hans Strydom,
Directors : Jamie Uys,

Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Elizabeth Cheshire,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Aleksandar Bercek,
Directors : Slobodan Sijan,

It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.

Actors : Benji, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Joe Camp,

A murdered detective must avenge his murder after he is reincarnated as a dog.

Actors : Cyndy Schneidau, Jean Michel Basquiat, Richard Weigand, John Lurie,
Directors : Edo Bertoglio,

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets ...

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Bogdan Diklic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Mija Aleksic,
Directors : Slobodan Sijan,

The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Peter Boyle, Graham Chapman, Cheech Marin,
Directors : Mel Damski,

Yellowbeard, a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure. He finds that his wife neglected to tell him that he now has a son, 20, and shame ...

Actors : Biao Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan, Dick Wei,

Fighting against pirates in "old Hong Kong". Chinese costume drama with plenty of over-the-top tongue in cheek action and music.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Hans Man in 't Veld, Carol van Herwijnen,
Directors : Tommy Chong,

Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party/festival in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money, and the ...

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Martha Gehman, Matt Dillon, Molly McCarthy,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

Set in Brooklyn, 1963, Jeffrey Willis has just finished high school and isn't quite sure what the future holds. His parents expect him to go to college but he is starting to find his ...

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner,
Directors : Gene Wilder,

Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric ...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.

Actors : Barbara Durkin, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Emily Lloyd,
Directors : David Leland,

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age....

Actors : Terrence Mann, Scott Grimes, Don Keith Opper, Liane Curtis,
Directors : Mick Garris,

Eggs of the small, furry alien carnivores are left behind on Earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the town of Grover's Bend.

Actors : Reizl Bozyk, Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Joan Micklin Silver,

A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.

Actors : Joshua John Miller, Robyn Lively, Caren Kaye, Dan Gauthier,
Directors : Dorian Walker,

High school misfit Louise, at a loss for romance, discovers magical abilities, but the teenage witch finds that she cannot conjure herself true love, so what?

Actors : Billy Zane, Burt Young, Billy Bob Thornton, Adam Sandler,
Directors : Valerie Breiman,

A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.

Actors : Bryan Madorsky, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Bob Balaban,

A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers.