Top Comedy Movies


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

11. The Big Lebowski

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Coen
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro
Plot: A slob of a man with the same name as a more wealthier person is mistaken and has his rug taken from him. With the help of his lazy friends, he tries to get his rug back.

12. Ghostbusters

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ivan Reitman
Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis
Plot: A unlikely group of friends, and parapsychology professors, start a business catching ghosts and demons in New York City.

13. Forrest Gump

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson
Plot: A "slow" man explains to people he meets on a park bench his life story which seems to encounter historic events.

14. The Princess Bride

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Rob Reiner
Actors: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage
Plot: Wesley, a peasant, goes on a fantastic journey to find his love, the soon-to-be princess Buttercup. A comedic fairytale like no other.

15. The Hangover

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Phillips
Actors: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha
Plot: Three groomsmen lose their charge on during drunken misadventures in Las Vegas. They find themselves retracing their steps in hopes of finding the missing groom-to-be.

16. Some Like It Hot

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, George Raft
Plot: When two men run from a murder, they disguise themselves as women, only to find themselves in more trouble when the both fall for the same girl, who only knows them as women.

17. Groundhog Day

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
Plot: A bored weatherman is sent to cover the ground hog and his shadow on Groundhog Day, only to discover that the same day repeats itself, no matter what he does.

18. Clerks

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kevin Smith
Actors: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Jason Mewes
Plot: A day in the life of two convienience store employees as they deal with customers, love, life and death.

19. Parasite ( Gisaengchung )

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Actors: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi
Plot: The Kim and Park family reside on opposite sides of the spectrum, but the affluent Park and street-wise Kim families are also about to collide in the most unexpected of ways. But even as the Kims revel in their newfound fortunes, something lurks beneath the surface and when a parasitic interloper arrives, it threatens everything they have planned.

20. National Lampoon's Animal House

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Landis
Actors: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce, Donald Sutherland
Plot: It's the lowbrow "animal" Delta House versus the uptight Dean Wormer as their increasingly lewd and crude behavior threaten to get their beloved fraternity shut down. You know what we are gonna do? Toga party.

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