Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Angela Lansbury, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Wilford Leach,

This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic has fallen in love with sweet innocent ...

Actors : Lara Flynn Boyle, Corey Parker, Finn Carter, Anthony Edwards,
Directors : Savage Steve Holland,

The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. ...

Actors : Michael Huddleston, Jim Metzler, Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town--who go their separate ways after high school in the innocence of 1961 and come together again at the end of the turbulent ...

Actors : Julie Hagerty, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Robert Altman,

This is an insane and fast-paced romantic comedy about a bizarre dinner date among Bruce (Goldblum) and Prudence (Hagerty), and their lunatic therapists, and Bruce's jealous, gun-wielding ...

Actors : Leonard Rossiter, John Moffatt, Malcolm McDowell, Brian Pettifer,
Directors : Lindsay Anderson,

Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal Highness is ...

Actors : Fred Gwynne, Rubén Blades, Hoyt Axton, Corbin Bernsen,
Directors : Jim Kouf,

Career criminal Frank plans a bank heist and sends for his buddies to help pull the job. Before his buddies arrive, he's caught, forcing his cohorts to pull the job alone. Frank soon escapes, setting off a search by the bumbling cops.

Actors : Sheila Kelley, Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Lorraine Toussaint,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.

Actors : Traci Lords, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask, Arthur Roberts,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.

Actors : Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, André Dussollier, Michel Boujenah, Roland Giraud,
Directors : Coline Serreau,

Actors : Imanol Arias, Marta Fernández Muro, Helga Liné, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza ...

Actors : Suzanne Pleshette, George Burns, David Birney, Louanne,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan.

Actors : Ronald Allen, Al Pillay, Kevin Allen, Dave Beard,
Directors : Peter Richardson,

Alex is a disgruntled waitress at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a ...

Actors : Candice Azzara, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Anne Bancroft,

Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. ...

Actors : Rudolf Hrusínský, János Bán, Marián Labuda,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Comedy about the people who inhabit a small town. For years the overbearing Pavek has endured Otik, the "town idiot," sharing his meals and the front seat of their dump truck. But Otik is ...

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Sequel to La Cage aux folles has homosexual nightclub owner Renato and his transvesitite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly...

Actors : Michael J. Fox, David Naughton, Debra Clinger, David Damas,

Leon planned "The Great Allnighter" by picking college students to participate in his night long scavenger hunt. The five teams, each designated by colors white (nerds who hate green),green...

Actors : Stefano Antonucci, Paolo Baroni, Walter Matthau, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Roberto Benigni,

Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a ...

Actors : Robert Loggia, John Cusack, Jerry Stiller, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Steven Lisberger,

Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must take a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from...

Actors : Ülkü Özen, Kemal Sunal, Turgut Özatay, Ali Sen,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

Rifki has lots of luck everything seems to go as he thinks. People of his village brand him as some sort of a holy man. He becomes the governor and tries to make his village a better place.

Actors : Richard Ng, Eric Tsang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Kiu Wai Miu,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

A police informant sent a letter containing sensitive information on an illegal drug operation to his friend, Yi-Ching. While on vacation in Thailand, the informant is assassinated by the ...