My top humorous comedies
by kafrstyle | created - 06 Dec 2014 | updated - 17 Apr 2016 | PublicThe movies are placed with no particular order (eg preferance).
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1. Being There (1979)
PG | 130 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden
Votes: 77,616 | Gross: $30.18M
There is not much to say, unless that Sellers won an Oscar in a comedy...
2. The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell, David Kossoff
Votes: 9,451
Α maddening concept: An army of 20 soldiers armed wit bows and arrows win the war they declared against the USA
3. Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
A corrupt hospital administrator decides to get as much money as possible from the patients by any means necessary--by lying, cheating, or stealing.
Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: Peter Sellers, Jo Ann Pflug, Rick Lenz, Harold Gould
Votes: 550
It could be the story of every human being that interracts with a health organization that is not public. A torrid story of a man that went to a hospital and couldn't leave until the clinic took all his money with unnecessary exams
4. Knocked Up (2007)
R | 129 min | Comedy, Romance
For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant with his child.
Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann
Votes: 384,415 | Gross: $148.73M
It could be a love story but... It is way better than this
5. Horrible Bosses (2011)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime
Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.
Director: Seth Gordon | Stars: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Steve Wiebe
Votes: 469,574 | Gross: $117.54M
Everyone has or had a boss that was cocky, unfair or abusive. That is by all means their social place behaviour. This is a farfetched version of the employee's routine in such a working environment that leads to hillarious situations.
6. Police Academy (1984)
R | 96 min | Comedy
The mayor declares that anyone can enroll in the police academy irrespective of their physical condition or education level, and many misfits descend on the academy, including a young troublemaker who's forced to apply or go to jail.
Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith
Votes: 137,321 | Gross: $81.20M
This is the beginning of a successful series of comedy that satirizes the police through the tragicomic situations of a police academy in a cult, 80's way
7. Moving Violations (1985)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
The goofy students of a remedial drivers education class find themselves butting heads with their abusive police instructors.
Director: Neal Israel | Stars: John Murray, Jennifer Tilly, James Keach, Brian Backer
Votes: 4,340 | Gross: $10.60M
The 80's made the "cult" their trademark, and this movie is no exception. A group of people are being fined to retake a driving lesson sessions from the most strict instructor...
8. Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy
When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them.
Directors: Jerry Paris, James Signorelli | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow
Votes: 59,175 | Gross: $55.60M
The second of a total of seven movieswith the name Police Academy, finds the fully trained calamities from the first movie out on the streets...
9. Top Secret! (1984)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke
Votes: 72,995 | Gross: $20.50M
If not the first, one of the first movies with the "parody" mark on them. Its target is the spy-James Bond movies.
10. The Ugly Truth (2009)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
An uptight television producer takes control of a morning show segment on modern relationships hosted by a misogynistic man.
Director: Robert Luketic | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner, Eric Winter
Votes: 230,338 | Gross: $88.92M
A control-freak woman takes cruel sessions of life from a man that leaves everything roll at the universe's will.
11. M*A*S*H (1970)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 76,892 | Gross: $81.60M
The rear front of the warzone is saving lives... On their free time!
12. The Great Dictator (1940)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 237,243 | Gross: $0.29M
A recital of acting for Charlie Choplin, in the role of Hitler!
13. Modern Times (1936)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 259,323 | Gross: $0.16M
A factory worker suffers a nervous breakdown, gets fired and wanders from place to place and from work to work
14. Fred Claus (2007)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Fred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole to help Santa and the elves prepare for Christmas in exchange for cash.
Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins
Votes: 47,792 | Gross: $72.01M
A mythbuster for Santa Claus. Apparently, Claus is a DICK!! The news came from his brother Fred...
15. Life of Brian (1979)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
Votes: 421,738 | Gross: $20.05M
A biographic film about Brian, the man who was born the same night with little Jesus, and the people mistook him for the Messiah!
16. Dumb and Dumber (1994)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy
After a woman leaves a briefcase at the airport terminal, a dumb limo driver and his dumber friend set out on a hilarious cross-country road trip to Aspen to return it.
Directors: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly | Stars: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr
Votes: 411,738 | Gross: $127.18M
Just watch... And feel free to take these two as a very good example to AVOID!!! One of the best movies for sure.
17. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Horror
The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis
Votes: 593,623 | Gross: $13.54M
If you have watced too many zombie films to think they can't give you something new, try this one. I bet you couldn't imagine that zombies could be so funny!
18. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
PG-13 | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman
Votes: 330,680 | Gross: $45.51M
They escape from prison. Then their quest begins. A western performance of Homer's "Oddyssey" that has some hillarious moments
19. L'armata Brancaleone (1966)
120 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli, Gian Maria Volontè
Votes: 5,269
A wannabe knight begins his quest of finding a royalty to serve and protect...
20. Groundhog Day (1993)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 684,709 | Gross: $70.91M
Carpe Diem... Live the day. If you don't, you are doomed to relieve the misery of the worst day of your life, only to realise that you define the day and not the opposite.
21. Meet the Parents (2000)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Romance
Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner
Votes: 354,977 | Gross: $166.24M
This is the climax of Murphy's law: Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong...In a movie that everyone gives a recital of acting, especially my personal favourite, Robert de Niro, who satirises former parts of his from other movies.
22. Meet the Fockers (2004)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Romance
All hell breaks loose when the Byrnes family meets the Focker family for the first time.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo
Votes: 286,420 | Gross: $279.26M
The sequel of "Meet the parents", that is just equally good as the first one. This time the parents of the bride are meeting the parents of the groom, and secrets of the past are revealed...
23. Analyze This (1999)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime
A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number-one patient is an insecure mob boss.
Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Chazz Palminteri
Votes: 161,629 | Gross: $106.89M
What would you do if you were a psychiatrist and your next client was a mobster boss with concience crisis?
24. The Onion Movie (2008)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
Satirical interpretations of world events and curious human behavior.
Directors: Tom Kuntz, Mike Maguire | Stars: Len Cariou, Sarah McElligott, Amir Talai, Daniel Chacón
Votes: 16,545
BREAK NEWS: The news as you 've never seen them before...
25. Two Night Stand (2014)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
A snowstorm forces two people who made an online connection to unwillingly extend their one-night stand as the blizzard goes through the night.
Director: Max Nichols | Stars: Miles Teller, Lio Tipton, Jessica Szohr, Kid Cudi
Votes: 73,839 | Gross: $0.02M
Because one is never enough...
26. Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
To become the greatest band of all time, two slacker, wannabe-rockers set out on a quest to steal a legendary guitar pick that gives its holders incredible guitar skills, from a maximum security Rock and Roll museum.
Director: Liam Lynch | Stars: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, JR Reed, Ronnie James Dio
Votes: 115,173 | Gross: $8.32M
Sell your soul to the devil just to be the best rock band in the world
27. La gran final (2006)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
A comedy about the attempts of tribal groups around the world to watch a soccer match.
Director: Gerardo Olivares | Stars: Atibou Aboubacar, Adalberto Jr., Ahmed Alansar, Tano Alansar
Votes: 537
4 semi-primal tribes try to watch the final of the soccer mundial
28. Murder by Death (1976)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
Director: Robert Moore | Stars: Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Eileen Brennan
Votes: 41,647
The best PIs' in the world recieve an invitation to a dinner and murder. The cast is one of the best recipies for comedy ever made: Truman Capote, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith and others complete the deal. Just watch and enjoy a strong comedy with many twists...
29. Le Dîner de Cons (1998)
PG-13 | 80 min | Comedy
A few friends have a weekly fools' dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prévost
Votes: 44,331 | Gross: $4.07M
Mr Piniot is invited at a dinner, wich is arranged by some friends who compete in inviting the biggest idiot...
30. Some Like It Hot (1959)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Votes: 283,402 | Gross: $25.00M
Given the time this movie was written and projected one can only say that it was radical, daring and generally speaking ahead of its time. Given the people who star, everybody can say it was right on time. In every way this is a movie everybody should watch. Two male musicians disguised as women participate in an all women band in order to hide from some mobster gang...
31. RRRrrrr!!! (2004)
98 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A tribe of prehistoric people is puzzled - a murder has happened. The first ever one.
Director: Alain Chabat | Stars: Marina Foïs, Gérard Depardieu, Damien Jouillerot, Samir Guesmi
Votes: 14,982
This is a surreal version of prehistoric tribes and their problems. The clean hair are in war with the dirty hair because they want to steal the shampoo recipie... Enjoy this movie for the mocking of the human reaction on every new discovery.
32. The Intouchables (2011)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot
Votes: 928,569 | Gross: $13.18M
I was conflicted for a long time. "Should I watch it? Or not?" I am just soooo happy that eventually I did watched this movie. It reminded me the French cinema from past decades. It was funny, smart, emotional and it had its own way to make you consider some things. I tend to categorise it with movies such as "Les vacances de monsieur Hilot", "Le diner de cons" and "The corsican file" although these are three totally different movies, but equally strong. This is the true story about an x-convicted guy gets hired by a very rich crippled guy as his personal assistand-nurse, and very soon a strong bond grows between the two men
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