Top Comedy Movies


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

41. Harold and Maude

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hal Ashby
Actors: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack
Plot: A dying old woman obsessed with living and a living young boy obsessed with dying meet to form a bond that can't be broken.

42. Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Hughes
Actors: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean
Plot: Uptight businessman Neal Page wants to get home for Thanksgiving, but when his flight is canceled due to bad weather, he is forced to procure other means of transportation and is joined by Del Griffith, a salesman with a big heart and even bigger mouth.

43. The Philadelphia Story

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Cary Grant, James Stewart, John Howard, Katharine Hepburn
Plot: A women who is about to remarry encounters her rich ex-husband and a reporter who try and woo her as she finds out her true self.

44. Spaceballs

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mel Brooks
Actors: Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga
Plot: Follow the expliots of a Druish princess, her loyal droid, a scruffy pilot and his loyal sidekick as they attempt to stop the ruthless Spaceballs led by President Skroob and Dark Helmet from their nefarious plan to steal all the air from the planet Druidia.

45. Juno

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jason Reitman
Actors: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney
Plot: A young girl is pregnant and doesn't want the baby. She decides to give it up for an adoption, but meets the future parents before the baby is even born. She struggles with the adoption as do the possible future parents.

46. Amélie ( Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le )

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta
Plot: A Paris woman, in search of helping others finds love in mysterious ways.

47. Singin' in the Rain

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Rita Moreno
Plot: Silent film actors and "singers" are trying to make the transition to "talkies" when one of them can't sing well, but no one seems to tell her.

48. The Gold Rush

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Charles Chaplin
Actors: Charles Chaplin
Plot: A man ventures into a new life looking for gold when he falls in love with Georgia. Will he strike it rich? Silent.

49. Snatch

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Dennis Farina
Plot: A slew of thieves posing as other professions try to track down a huge, priceless stolen diamond while putting to naive men in the middle.

50. The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe
Actors: Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, Maya Rudolph, Olivia Colman
Plot: When Katie Mitchell finds out she has been accepted into film school, her whole family decides to drive her down. But during the trip, a tech uprising interrupts their plans forcing the Mitchell family to band together to save themselves and perhaps the world.

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