Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Saori Yuki, Jûzô Itami, Ichirôta Miyakawa, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Yoshimitsu Morita,

A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the ...

Actors : Franklyn Ajaye, Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer,
Directors : Danny Bilson,

Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group of escaped convicts who mistake them ...

Actors : Stuart Fratkin, Olivia Barash, Billy Jayne, Judy Landers,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

Dr. Ackerman, the biology teacher at the local college, meets with an untimely demise when chased by a UFO. Wesley, one of his students, is having trouble attracting women. That all changes...

Actors : Liane Hielscher, Thomas Gottschalk, Gert Haucke, Mike Krüger,
Directors : Dieter Pröttel,

Actors : Franco Acampora, Massimo Troisi, Lina Polito, Giuliana de Sio,
Directors : Massimo Troisi,

Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Philippe Khorsand, Gérard Lanvin, Christian Clavier,
Directors : Jean-Marie Poiré,

They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a ...

Actors : Marjatta Raita, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Tapio Hämäläinen, Elli Castrén,
Directors : Ere Kokkonen,

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Tayfun Coragan, Dilek Damlacik, Perin Aytaç,
Directors : Serif Gören,

Actors : Nedumudi Venu, Karthika, Mohanlal, M.G. Soman,
Directors : Priyadarshan,

Vinod/Vinu (played by Mohanlal) is mentally ill and is hospitalized in the institution run by Dr. Ravindran ( M G Soman). Story progresses as Vinod recovers with the help of Dr. Savithri, ...

Actors : Harold Hopkins, Jack Thompson, Frank Wilson, Graham Kennedy,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Rae Dawn Chong, Danny Aiello III, Ric Abernathy,
Directors : Roger Young,

A mysterious black box spells danger to a con man and female detective.

Actors : Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis, Buster Crabbe, George Kelsey,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. ...

Actors : Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Bogdan Diklic, Predrag Lakovic, Snezana Niksic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Actors : Robert Culp, Angie Dickinson, Julie McCullough, Danielle Brisebois,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, ...

Actors : Bobby Porter, Ned Beatty, Shelley Winters, Linda Talcott,
Directors : Linda Shayne,

A kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two then proceed to help an elderly couple who are being evicted by their greedy landlord.

Actors : Jennifer Runyon, Joe Pantoliano, Donovan Leitch Jr., Bruce Kirby,
Directors : Mark Rosenthal,

A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance television show he becomes a star. The plot ...

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Philippe Noiret, Jacques François, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers.

Actors : Bruce Greenwood, Debra Blee, Amanda Horan Kennedy, Michael David Wright,
Directors : David Wechter,

Two brothers who have just graduated from college inherit a bikini store from their aunt.

Actors : Jon Cryer, Lynn Redgrave, JD Cullum, Robert Sedgwick,

A free-spirited teenager attempts to get back in touch with and loosen up his overly conservative parents after returning home from years away at a boarding school.

Actors : Teta Konstada, Yorgos Rigas, Steve Douzos, Stamatis Gardelis,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

A major hit in the Greek cinemas at the time, this comedy by Omiros Efstratiadis is about a bunch of teenagers who make things difficult for their teachers.