Top Comedy Movies


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

171. History of the World: Part I

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mel Brooks
Actors: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Gregory Hines
Plot: Take a farcical journey through history as the Stone Age, Roman Empire and French Revolution are all skewered by Mel Brooks.

172. Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Actors: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon
Plot: A father finds himself in over his head when he's forced to deal with a marital crisis and maintain the relationship with his children.

173. Lady Bird

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Greta Gerwig
Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet
Plot: A rebellious girls attending a conservative Catholic high school in Sacramento looks to escape both her rote life and family by planning to attend college in New York.

174. Sixteen Candles

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Hughes
Actors: Molly Ringwald, Justin Henry, Haviland Morris, Michael Schoeffling
Plot: A sixteenth birthday party for a high school girl turns awry when everything goes wrong that can.

175. The Descendants

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexander Payne
Actors: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Robert Forster
Plot: Two teenage daughters push their father to his limit when they reveal their mother was having an affair before she had an accident.

176. Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nick Park
Actors: Peter Sallis
Plot: Wallace and Gromit are a dynamic duo - but Gromit finds himself being pushed out by a new lodger, and master criminal - who just happens to be a penguin. Using a pair of remote-controlled trousers, Wallace is about to become a criminal himself - but Gromit is wise to the ploy and will stop the penguin at any cost.

177. The Big Chill

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Actors: William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Meg Tilly, Tom Berenger
Plot: A group of friends converge on a house after a friend's funeral. They're all missing something in their lives after splitting up...

178. Chungking Express ( Chung hing sam lam )

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Mystery/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Valerie Chow, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Lee-na Kwan
Plot: A story of two cops and two stories all of which are told in beautiful splotches of color. Takes place in Hong Kong in the early 1990s.

179. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Actors: Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Justin Long
Plot: A local, home grown Jim is being threatened to be closed or overtaken when the gym particpants enroll in a dodgeball tournament to try to raise money to save the Gym.

180. Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keith Truesdell
Actors: Chris Rock
Plot: Chris Rock's razor-sharp wit and comedy comes through on this 1999 special (also released as an album) where he comments on everything from racism and gun control to black leaders and relationships.

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