Best Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner,
Directors : Amy Heckerling,

Set in the 1930's, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Actors : Linda Warren, Joel Murray, John Cusack, Demi Moore,
Directors : Savage Steve Holland,

An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.

Actors : Donna Dixon, Steve Forrest, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase,
Directors : John Landis,

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.

Actors : Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen,
Directors : Neal Israel,

A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party.

Actors : Jackie Gleason, Tom Hanks, Hector Elizondo, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

A highly successful advertising executive decides to put his job on hold after getting an update from his father that he and his wife are divorced and decides to extend his break after revealing that his father is a diabetic.

Actors : Jane Horrocks, Claire Skinner, Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

A waitress, her cook husband, & their twin daughters ponder their lives over a few weeks in a working-class suburb north of London.

Actors : Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Victoria Jackson, 'Weird Al' Yankovic,
Directors : Jay Levey,

An unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local public station. The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Ally Sheedy, Austin Pendleton, Fisher Stevens,
Directors : John Badham,

Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Sondra Locke, William Smith, Clint Eastwood,
Directors : Buddy Van Horn,

A trucker turned prize fighter, his brother and their pet orangutan have a series of misadventures involving the mob, corrupt cops, motorcycle gangs and pretty dames.

Actors : Dyan Cannon, Christopher Reeve, Irene Worth, Michael Caine,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Charles Grodin, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Jay Sandrich,

Wrongfully accused of a bank robbery, a writer seeks the help of his ex-wife, who is now married to the soon-to-be D.A. of California.

Actors : Dabney Coleman, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.

Actors : Don Calfa, Clu Gulager, James Karen, Thom Mathews,
Directors : Dan O'Bannon,

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Actors : Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Joey Lawrence, Richard Mulligan,
Directors : George Scribner,

A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.

Actors : Raymond Burr, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty,
Directors : Ken Finkleman,

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?

Actors : Demian Slade, John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby,
Directors : Savage Steve Holland,

A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier.

Actors : Julian Sands, John Goodman, Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak,
Directors : Frank Marshall,

A species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to the U.S. in a coffin and starts to breed and kill.

Actors : Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt C.I.A. airlift organization operating in Vietnam War-era Laos.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, CCH Pounder, Marianne Sägebrecht, Jack Palance,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at...