Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "comedy-farce"

1. Clue (1985)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.

Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd

Votes: 109,258 | Gross: $14.64M

2. Heathers (1988)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime

At Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it's going to take a Veronica and mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count.

Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk

Votes: 115,812 | Gross: $1.11M

3. See How They Run (2022)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered.

Director: Tom George | Stars: Kieran Hodgson, Pearl Chanda, Gregory Cox, Harris Dickinson

Votes: 64,152

4. Hot Shots! (1991)

PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Comedy

A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.

Director: Jim Abrahams | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 116,590 | Gross: $69.47M

5. The War of the Roses (1989)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Romance

A married couple tries everything to drive each other out of the house in a vicious divorce battle.

Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht

Votes: 57,362 | Gross: $86.89M

6. Bachelor Party (1984)

R | 105 min | Comedy

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

Director: Neal Israel | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard

Votes: 42,569 | Gross: $38.44M

7. Werewolves Within (2021)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Feature adaptation of the video game where werewolves attack a small town.

Director: Josh Ruben | Stars: Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil, Sarah Burns

Votes: 25,124

8. Dick (1999)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy

After wandering off during a White House tour, two high school girls inadvertently become Richard Nixon's top secret advisers at the height of the Watergate scandal.

Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dan Hedaya, Will Ferrell

Votes: 21,362 | Gross: $6.24M

9. A Hard Day's Night (1964)

G | 87 min | Comedy, Musical

Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

Votes: 48,074 | Gross: $13.78M

10. Life After Beth (2014)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A young man's recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.

Director: Jeff Baena | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon

Votes: 23,827 | Gross: $0.08M

11. Bedazzled (1967)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch

Votes: 9,813

12. High Spirits (1988)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Fantasy

When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg, Donal McCann

Votes: 10,676 | Gross: $8.58M

13. Blithe Spirit (2020)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.

Director: Edward Hall | Stars: Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Michele Dotrice

Votes: 8,554

14. Eating Raoul (1982)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Crime

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger

Votes: 9,172

15. Casa de mi Padre (2012)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Western

Scheming to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.

Director: Matt Piedmont | Stars: Will Ferrell, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Nick Offerman

Votes: 21,616 | Gross: $5.90M

16. Lisztomania (1975)

R | 103 min | Biography, Comedy, Music

Composer and pianist Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey) attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas).

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr

Votes: 3,117

17. The In-Laws (I) (2003)

PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his future son-in-law's father is a free-wheeling international spy.

Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Albert Brooks, Michael Douglas, Ryan Reynolds, Lindsay Sloane

Votes: 17,877 | Gross: $20.44M

18. The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Passed | 125 min | Comedy, Romance

A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West

Votes: 15,569

19. After the Fox (1966)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Crime

An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Martin Balsam

Votes: 4,766

20. $ (1971)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob three safety deposit boxes containing $1.5 million in cash belonging to three very different criminals from a high-tech security bank in Hamburg, Germany.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber

Votes: 2,885 | Gross: $4.40M

21. Christmas Is Canceled (2021)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

Emma's father and her high school frenemy start dating so she embarks on a mission to break up the happy couple.

Director: Prarthana Mohan | Stars: Hayley Orrantia, Dermot Mulroney, Janel Parrish, Michael Naizu

Votes: 1,754

22. My Sister Eileen (1942)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy

Two sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom.

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias

Votes: 1,734

23. Popi (1969)

G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

A Puerto Rican widower concocts an extraordinary plan for making a better life for his two motherless sons.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Reuben Figueroa, Miguel Alejandro

Votes: 1,001

24. Birthmarked (2018)

90 min | Comedy

Two scientists raise 3 children contrarily to their genetic tendencies to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.

Director: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | Stars: Matthew Goode, Toni Collette, Andreas Apergis, Jordan Poole

Votes: 3,650

25. Your Past Is Showing (1957)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy

A very British comedy about a blackmailer and his victims.

Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton

Votes: 2,044

26. The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 3,732

27. À Nous la Liberté (1931)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Musical

Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier

Votes: 4,966

28. Jack Mimoun and the Secrets of Val Verde (2022)

104 min | Adventure, Comedy

Two years after surviving alone on the hostile island of Val Verde, Jack Mimoun has become an adventure star. The book recounting his experience is a bestseller and his television show ... See full summary »

Directors: Malik Bentalha, Ludovic Colbeau-Justin | Stars: Malik Bentalha, Joséphine Japy, Jérôme Commandeur, François Damiens

Votes: 959

29. Wish You Were Dead (2001)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.

Director: Valerie McCaffrey | Stars: Cary Elwes, Elaine Hendrix, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen

Votes: 501

30. The Smiling Ghost (1941)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

An heiress seems to be cursed as each of her intended grooms meets with a horrible end.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Alan Hale

Votes: 803

31. The Knot (2012)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

A couple endures a series of mishaps right before their wedding day.

Director: Jesse Lawrence | Stars: Noel Clarke, Mena Suvari, Matthew McNulty, Talulah Riley

Votes: 976

32. Honolulu (1939)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns, Gracie Allen

Votes: 759

33. Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)

G | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Married couple Pasquale and Maria live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard. he thinks the ghosts are at work, but it is ... See full summary »

Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Aldo Giuffrè

Votes: 589

34. Not So Dumb (1930)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Romance

Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Marion Davies, Elliott Nugent, Raymond Hackett, Franklin Pangborn

Votes: 1,147

35. The Doughgirls (1944)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy

While sharing a hotel suite during the World War II housing shortage in Washington, D.C., three friends discover that their respective marriages are not legally valid.

Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman

Votes: 775

36. Fools for Scandal (1938)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

After meeting her in Paris, a penniless marquis relentlessly pursues a famous actress.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravey, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 601

37. Should Ladies Behave (1933)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

An unhappy couple watch as their daughter throws herself at an older man because he is a sophisticated artist. The daughter doesn't know that her aunt is the man's lover. At a weekend ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady, Conway Tearle, Katharine Alexander

Votes: 234

38. La cambiale (1959)

109 min | Comedy

The well-known financier Pierluigi Bruscatelli is arrested after having paid two fraudsters with a bill of 100 000 lire.

Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Ugo Tognazzi, Giorgia Moll

Votes: 373

39. Flying Blind (1941)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama

A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Marie Wilson

Votes: 140

40. A Sweater Girl Comedy Cold Read (2019)

51 min | Comedy

A new actress dressed as a 50's "Sweater Girl" reads a movie script for a musical comedy farce. She also sings the songs in the script. The story is about two young women who feel that ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Cosmic | Star: Leialoha Smith