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1. Duck Soup (1933)
Not Rated | 69 min | Comedy, Musical
Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 62,751
2. Animal Crackers (1930)
G | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
Director: Victor Heerman | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, The Marx Brothers
Votes: 15,270 | Gross: $0.91M
3. Horse Feathers (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers
Votes: 13,401
4. Monkey Business (1931)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx
Votes: 14,282
5. The Cocoanuts (1929)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.
Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 8,199 | Gross: $3.92M
6. The Candidate (1972)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter
Votes: 11,929 | Gross: $0.12M
7. A Night at the Opera (1935)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle
Votes: 34,768 | Gross: $2.54M
8. Skidoo (1968)
R | 98 min | Comedy
Infamous psychedelic all-star comedy about ex-gangster Tony Banks, who's called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark
Votes: 1,919
9. A Day at the Races (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones
Votes: 14,586
10. A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Family
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake
Votes: 7,482
11. Love Happy (1949)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls while thwarting diamond thieves.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey
Votes: 3,080
12. The Story of Mankind (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The Devil and the Spirit of Man argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx
Votes: 1,522
13. At the Circus (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical
The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker
Votes: 6,469
14. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell
Votes: 4,085
15. The Big Store (1941)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin
Votes: 5,467
16. Go West (1940)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Western
The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll
Votes: 5,829
17. Room Service (1938)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy
A penniless theatrical producer must outwit the hotel efficiency expert trying to evict him from his room, while securing a backer for his new play.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Lucille Ball
Votes: 5,547
18. Copacabana (1947)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
An agent has his only client pose as both a French chanteuse and Brazilian bombshell to fool a nightclub owner.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda, Steve Cochran, Andy Russell
Votes: 1,386
19. Double Dynamite (1951)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, Don McGuire
Votes: 1,292
20. A Girl in Every Port (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
Director: Chester Erskine | Stars: Groucho Marx, Marie Wilson, William Bendix, Don DeFore
Votes: 714
21. The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
Ex-King Alfred VII is a young, handsome, and charming erstwhile monarch who once ruled a nation of two million people. Now all he has left are his Count Humbert and Duchess Anna, along with... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Fernand Gravey, Joan Blondell, Edward Everett Horton, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 450
22. The Life of Riley (1949)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
A factory worker's family is thrown into an uproar when his teenage daughter starts to date his boss' son.
Director: Irving Brecher | Stars: William Bendix, Rosemary DeCamp, James Gleason, Bill Goodwin
Votes: 284
23. Yours for the Asking (1936)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear that he could ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: George Raft, Dolores Costello, Ida Lupino, Reginald Owen
Votes: 201
24. Birds Do It (1966)
88 min | Comedy, Family
Melvin Byrd, who dreams of being a scientist, is a Cape Kennedy "miniscule molecular particle surveillance monitor" - in short, a janitor. His job is to keep a major rocket project ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O'Connell, Edward Andrews
Votes: 149
25. Mr. Music (1950)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.
Director: Richard Haydn | Stars: Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 260
26. Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Passed | 132 min | Comedy, Romance, War
"Dakota" Smith (William Terry), a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and movies appear and host a recreational ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Judith Anderson, Kenny Baker
Votes: 1,828
27. Too Many Kisses (1925)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Richard Gaylord, Jr. is a modern Lothario who has so many sweethearts that his father does not know what to do with him. Tired of paying to get his son out of one romantic entanglement ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Richard Dix, Frank Currier, Albert Tavernier, Frances Howard
Votes: 249
28. A Kiss in the Dark (1925)
60 min | Comedy
Walter Grenham, who has a weakness for women, persuades an old friend, Janet Livingstone, to marry him, promising to remain faithful to her. They then prepare to embark for New York in the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Aileen Pringle, Lillian Rich, Kenneth MacKenna
Votes: 23
29. Candid Hollywood (1962)
115 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A compilation of Ken Murray home movies featuring dozens of Hollywood stars at rest and play.
Director: Ken Murray | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Pat Boone, Gary Cooper
30. The House That Shadows Built (1931)
55 min | Documentary
Paramount Pictures marked its 20th year in the business with this feature presentation of film clips, profiles of its then-current stars, and coming attractions.
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 87
31. Groucho Marx's Home Movies (1933)
2 min | Short, Documentary, Comedy
Director: Groucho Marx | Stars: Ruth Johnson, Arthur Marx, Groucho Marx, Miriam Marx
Votes: 88
32. The Unknown Marx Brothers (1993 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy, Documentary
A tribute to the lives and careers of the Marx Brothers utilizing rare archival footage and personal interviews.
Directors: David Leaf, John Scheinfeld | Stars: Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Leslie Nielsen, Maxine Marx
Votes: 329
33. Inside the Marx Brothers (2003 Video)
56 min | Documentary
Inside the Marx Brother is a look at the personal and professional lives of Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, and Gummo Marx, featuring classic clips from such Marx Brothers favorites as "... See full summary »
Stars: Frank Albertson, Eve Arden, Kenny Baker, Tallulah Bankhead
Votes: 57
34. The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (1982 TV Movie)
94 min | Comedy, Documentary
This salute to the famous comedy team of the Marx Brothers shows clips from many of their best-known films, including Duck Soup, Horse Feathers and Animal Crackers. Also shown are rare ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Patterson | Stars: Gene Kelly, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx
Votes: 126
35. The Marx Brothers: Hollywood's Kings of Chaos (2016)
80 min | Documentary
Documentary about the Marx Brothers. It chronicles how they got started in vaudeville and got involved in motion pictures. It concentrates on their first five movies done at Paramount.
Director: Constantine Nasr | Stars: F.X. Feeney, Leonard Maltin, David Mandel, Bill Marx
Votes: 70
36. The Marx Brothers Council Podcast (2018 Podcast Series)
Documentary
Stars: Matthew Coniam, Bob Gassel, Noah Diamond, Andrea Orlando
Votes: 20
37. The Marx Brothers and Leo McCarey (2003 TV Movie)
26 min | Documentary
Director: Laurent Preyale
38. The Groucho Marx Collector's Classic (1985 Video)
135 min | Documentary, Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Groucho Marx, Carole Landis, Carmen Miranda
39. Groucho (1983 TV Movie)
87 min | Biography
The life story of Groucho Marx.
Director: John Bowab | Stars: Gabe Kaplan, Concetta D'Agnese, Michael Tucci
Votes: 86
40. Groucho (1965– )
30 min | Comedy, Game-Show
Groucho in stand up comedy and meeting and greeting the British public with a casual version of 'You bet your life'. Keith Fordyce is on hand to explain any language colloquialisms which often lead to hysterical situations.
41. Tell It to Groucho (1961– )
30 min | Comedy
Groucho Marx engages in humorous conversation with studio guests followed by a photo recognition game.
Stars: Groucho Marx, Joy Harmon, Jack Wheeler, Betty Lawrence
Votes: 21
42. Groucho: A Life in Revue (2001 TV Movie)
82 min | Biography, Comedy
Groucho Marx recounts his life from a young performer to a beloved icon of entertainment.
Director: Steven Moskovic | Stars: Frank Ferrante, Roy Abramsohn, Marguerite Lowell, Scott Greer
Votes: 61
43. The One, the Only... Groucho (1991 TV Movie)
Documentary, Comedy
Groucho's life story, with jokes.
Director: Susan F. Walker | Stars: Groucho Marx, David Steinberg, Dick Cavett, Bill Cosby
Votes: 77
45. Le Marxisme tendance Harpo (2019)
37 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Bertrand Tessier | Star: Bill Marx
46. You Bet Your Life (1950–1961)
30 min | Comedy, Family, Game-Show
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of competitive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Stars: Groucho Marx, George Fenneman, Melinda Marx, Tuulikki Woods
Votes: 745
47. Humor Risk (1921)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
Harpo played the hero, a detective named Watson who "made his entrance in a high hat, sliding down a coal chute into the basement". Groucho played an "old movie" villain, who "sported a ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Smith | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 98
48. Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956)
Comedy, Animation, Short
Director: Shamus Culhane | Stars: Orson Bean, Salome Jens, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx
Votes: 43
49. Hollywood on Parade No. B-7 (1933)
11 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Buster Crabbe, W.C. Fields, Chico Marx, Robert Woolsey
50. Hollywood on Parade No. 11 (I) (1933)
Short, Comedy, Musical
Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, Groucho Marx
Votes: 16
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