Best Comedy movies of 1979

Actors : David Abraham, Amol Palekar, Tina Ambani, Asrani,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

Rosie Perreira is an overly anxious widow, living with her guitar-obsessed son, Sabhi, and a lovely daughter, Nancy, who she would like to get married to a wealthy young man. Her helpful ...

Actors : Eddie Burt, Richard Demarco, Tom Mannion, Alex Mackenzie,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money ...

Actors : Jim Dale, Kenneth More, Dennis Dugan, Ron Moody,
Directors : Russ Mayberry,

An astronaut and his android double travel back to the time of King Arthur.

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Sverre Holm, Carsten Byhring, Arve Opsahl,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

En tidligere høyt betrodd medarbeider i oljedirektoratet, nå finansmegler, Brock-Larsen, er på jakt etter en mikrofilm som inneholder opplysninger om nye oljeforekomster i Nordsjøen. Disse ...

Actors : Nancy Allen, Vincent Gardenia, Kirk Douglas, Mary Davenport,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

Keith Gordon is a creative young man who films the oddball doings of his family and peers. "The Maestro" appears frequently to give him pointers on his techniques. It's almost a film about ...

Actors : Conrad Bain, Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Chuck McCann,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the invention from him.

Actors : Josef Abrhám, Karel Kalas, Rudolf Hrusínský, Daniela Kolárová,

In the flat of the retired opera singer Bílek there is a meeting of people wishing to exchange their flats. The "duodeca-exchange" is organized by a lawyer Radosta (Rudolf Hrusínský), who ...

Actors : Olga Karlatos, Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi, John Sharp,

Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, ...

Actors : Diana Polakov, Cameron Mitchell, José Luis Ayestarán, Antonio Cantafora,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

The superhero Kronos, from a distant galaxy, tangles with the mad scientist Dr. Gulik over the fate of mankind.

Actors : Bill Adler, Melissa Prophet, Cynthia Wood, Dennis Bowen,
Directors : William Sachs,

A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.

Actors : Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Kedric Wolfe, Virgil Frye,
Directors : Charles B. Griffith,

A giant shark-like creature preys on a Hawaiian tourist community.

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, Siu Tin Yuen, Linda Lin, Shun-Yee Yuen,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from ...

Actors : Roy Sekoff, Robert Small, John DiSanti, Charles Pitt,
Directors : Ken Wiederhorn,

Frat boys -- or is that fart boys? -- compete in a farting contest.

Actors : Chiara Moretti, Dominique Laffin, Carlo Monni, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Roberto has a new job as the teacher at a nursery school. The first child he meets is Gianluigi, who's mute. Roberto is spirited, bringing a TV into class, then a donkey. He takes children ...

Actors : Maureen McCormick, Flip Wilson, Scott Baio, Ron Palillo,
Directors : William A. Levey,

At a roller disco competition, two rivals find themselves becoming good friends while competing for a prize of $1000 in cash.

Actors : Jennifer Hetrick, Jim Harris, Richard Gitlin, Helen Campitelli,
Directors : Lloyd Kaufman,

A male softball team is challenged by a female softball team to see who is best.

Actors : Rhonda Coullet, Michael O'Donoghue, Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd,

Mike O'Donoghue's parody of "Mondo Cane" showcases curious performers, strange musicians, celebrity mutations and unusual short films, including Thomas Alva Edison's "Elephant Electrocution".

Actors : Charles Grodin, Joan Collins, Art Carney, Farrah Fawcett,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up $5 million. A hotshot investigator Decker (Grodin) and a charming model (Fawcett) come in to check it out.

Actors : Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Tapio Hämäläinen,
Directors : Spede Pasanen,

A scientist creates a fully grown test tube baby from the cells of a mathematician, and the two are frequently mistaken for each other by gangsters, private investigators, the police, and the baby's creator himself.

Actors : Dennis Christopher, Glynnis O'Connor, Dorothy Tristan, Seymour Cassel,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.