Top Comedy Movies


The Top Comedy Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Comedy List". Lists are calculated daily.

121. The King of Comedy

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard
Plot: A neurotic, imbalanced would-be comic and his equally imbalanced friend go to criminal lengths to gain the attention of the host of a popular late night talk show and his audience in this pitch black comedy.

122. Army of Darkness

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Richard Grove, Embeth Davidtz, Ian Abercrombie
Plot: The third part in the Evil Dead trilogy. An S-Mart employee is sucked into a time warp taking him to the fourteenth-century England. He fights demons with a chainsaw, shotgun and a '73 Oldsmobile to get a book to save the world.

123. Paper Moon

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Plot: A Depression-era con man, who hustles widows by selling them Bibles, picks up an orphaned girl who may or may not be his daughter. Their colorful trip to deliver her to her aunt is chronicled in this wistful comedy-drama.

124. La La Land

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Damien Chazelle
Actors: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, Sonoya Mizuno
Plot: An aspiring actress who rubs elbows with big stars only by delivering their lattes and a jazz pianist barely making ends meet by playing dingy bars form a quick bond. Yet as each comes closer to realizing their dreams, it starts to tear apart their relationship.

125. It's Such a Beautiful Day

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Don Hertzfeldt
Actors: Don Hertzfeldt

126. The Odd Couple

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Gene Saks
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman
Plot: The Neil Simon play is brought to the screen with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as divorced friends who move in together and strain their friendship.

127. Beetlejuice ( Beetle Juice )

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder
Plot: A ghost couple try to scare the new homeowners away. Beetle juice, Michael Keaton, teaches the ghosts how to scare them.

128. Big

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Penny Marshall
Actors: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, John Heard, Jon Lovitz
Plot: A twelve-year-old boy wishes he were big and the next thing he knows he is an adult trying to make a living while his friends are still in grade school.

129. Easy A

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Will Gluck
Actors: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Stanley Tucci
Plot: A teacher's pet manipulates the school's gossip mill and her own reputation to greatly increase her social and economic standing.

130. American Graffiti

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Lucas
Actors: Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark
Plot: A group of graduating high school students enjoy their last time together as they eat at the drive in, drive around, and woo the local girls.

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