Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Peter Fahrni, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Frank Ripploh,

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...

Actors : Klaus Büchner, Andi Feldmann, Kulle Westphal, Rötger Feldmann,

Broesel has to make a Werner animation film but right now he has no real ideas for new stories. Thus he simply draws some stories from Werner's youth.

Actors : Marin Kanter, Peter Donat, Laura Dern, Diane Lane,
Directors : Lou Adler,

After her mother's death, teenager Corinne Burns forms a punk band with her sister and cousin, despite their lack of musical experience and talent.

Actors : Amanda Sandrelli, Massimo Troisi, Iris Peynado, Roberto Benigni,

A teacher (Saverio) and a schoolkeeper (Mario) get lost in the Italian countryside. They find themselves in the late 15th century, they met Leonardo da Vinci and try to teach him how to ...

Actors : Todd Graff, Robert Loggia, Julia Campbell, Dana Carvey,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

Two con men hide out in a house while the owner is away; one of them assumes the identity of the absent house sitter when the owner's relatives come to visit, only for further complications to set in.

Actors : David Tomlinson, Helen Mirren, Sid Caesar, Peter Sellers,

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, ...

Actors : Michael E. Knight, Emmanuelle Béart, Phoebe Cates, David Dukes,
Directors : Tom McLoughlin,

Jim is soon to be married to Patty, but when he wakes up after a bachelor party thrown by his friends, he finds an injured angel in his pool. When Patty sees her, she thinks he's seeing ...

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Adile Nasit, Erdal Özyagcilar,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Laudenbach,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers...

Actors : Turo Pajala, Matti Pellonpää, Susanna Haavisto, Eetu Hilkamo,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Ana Obregón, George Kennedy, Bo Derek,
Directors : John Derek,

A 1920s English heiress seeks ecstasy with a sheik in Morocco and a bullfighter in Spain.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Dennis Hopper, Paul Dooley,
Directors : Franco Amurri,

In 1989, clean-cut FBI man John Buckner is detailed to escort heavily-bearded Huey Walker back to jail for offenses dating back to his days as a celebrated hippie radical. After Walker ...

Actors : Courtney Love, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude, Sy Richardson,
Directors : Alex Cox,

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of ...

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Ilyas Salman, Yaprak Özdemiroglu,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

In the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot.

Actors : Charles Heung, Andy Lau, Joey Wang, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Jing Wong,

A master gambler loses his memory, and is befriended by a street hustler who discovers his supernatural gambling abilities.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Ken Marshall, Fred Dalton Thompson, Mary Gross,
Directors : Daniel Goldberg,

Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course in which they learn to deal with guns and recognize crimes. They also get ...

Actors : G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Tom Berenger, Andy Griffith,
Directors : Hugh Wilson,

While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlihan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and ...

Actors : Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras,

A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Stéphane Audran, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...

Actors : Luis Brandoni, Antonio Gasalla, Julio De Grazia, China Zorrilla,
Directors : Alejandro Doria,

Each member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.