Best Comedy movies of 1970s

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Jim Kelly, Eric Laneuville, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A Mafia buy out of Papa Byrd's karate school downtown ends in his death. Byrd's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell, and wants revenge. Byrd's students call the Black Belt Jones for help. Jones reluctantly teams with Sydney in many battles.

Actors : Sanford Mitchell, J. Byron Foster, Sean Kenney, Monika Kelly,
Directors : Ted V. Mikels,

When the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners decide to find a new, cheap source of meat -- the local graveyard. Only one problem -- soon cats develop a ...

Actors : Paolo Turco, Anna Karina, Nino Manfredi, Ugo D'Alessio,
Directors : Franco Brusati,

Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.

Actors : Jim Backus, Ann Sothern, Stuart Whitman, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, ...

Actors : Michael Brandon, Bonnie Bedelia, Bea Arthur, Gig Young,
Directors : Cy Howard,

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife ...

Actors : Charles Hawtrey, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of ...

Actors : Albert Finney, Janice Rule, Frank Finlay, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley fulfills his Dashiell Hammett love by putting an ad in the paper as a private eye.

Actors : Frank Thornton, John Inman, Trevor Bannister, Mollie Sugden,
Directors : Bob Kellett,

The staff of Grace Bros. take a trip to Costa Plonka while the department is being remodeled.

Actors : Gregory Walcott, Terence Hill, Yanti Somer, Dominic Barto,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

In the Wild West, a dead Englishman's greenhorn son joins his father's old gang and becomes a real frontier-man.

Actors : John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi, Eliza Roberts,
Directors : John Landis,

A small town is terrorized by "The Banana Killer", which turns out to be the missing link between man and ape.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Elliott Gould, Herbert Lom, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Anthony Page,

Whilst traveling in pre-war Nazi Germany, a young couple realise a passenger seems to have been kidnapped off their train, but, no other passenger aside from themselves, recalls her.

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall, Ray Milland, Roger Perry,
Directors : Lee Frost,

Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.

Actors : Mirjana Bohanec, Franjo Majetic, Relja Basic, Mia Oremovic,
Directors : Kresimir Golik,

The story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, ...

Actors : Tapan Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

The musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.

Actors : Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Marquard Bohm, Lou Castel,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director ...

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Kemal Sunal, Serpil Çakmakli, Hüseyin Kutman,
Directors : Memduh Ün,

Indirect satire dramatization on the differences between social classes features a lazy but handsome underdog and a high-class society girl who falls in love with him just because he looks like "Jean-Paul Belmondo" in her starry dreams.

Actors : Gloria Delaney, Jimmy Lynch, Lady Reed, Rudy Ray Moore,
Directors : Cliff Roquemore,

A flabby black comedian defends his community from attacks by stereotypical whites.

Actors : Kenneth Williams, Suzanne Danielle, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American ...

Actors : Piero Galletti, Luisa Rossi, Nanni Moretti, Lina Sastri,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

An ironic peak into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.

Actors : Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms...