Top Comedy Movies


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

321. Volver

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Chus Lampreave, Antonio de la Torre, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo
Plot: A woman and her daughter conspire to kill the woman's lover, a sexually abusive man.

322. Stir Crazy

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney Poitier
Actors: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, Barry Corbin, Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams
Plot: Two friends who wind up in prison must play the warden's games in order to get out.

323. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tom Stoppard
Actors: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Miles, Joanna Roth
Plot: Two minor characters from Hamlet are given the run of the show - but can't deviate from their scripted lives even as they ponder fate and destiny.

324. Muppet Christmas Carol

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Brian Henson
Actors: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, David Rudman
Plot: The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.

325. Down by Law

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin, Billie Neal
Plot: Three men in a Louisiana prison: DJ Zack, the pimp Jack and eccentric
Italian Roberto, hatch an escape plan.

326. Billy Elliot

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Daldry
Actors: Jamie Bell, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis, Stuart Wells, Mike Elliot
Plot: Billy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

327. Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, Kathy Bates, Marta Heflin

328. Day of the Wacko ( Dzien swira )

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marek Koterski
Actors: Marek Kondrat, Janina Traczykówna, Michal Koterski, Maria Ciunelis

329. Liberty Heights

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, David Krumholtz
Plot: Baltimore 1954-55 - the world is changing and a family is changing with the times. Ben, a high school senior, strikes up a friendship with black student Sylvia; his older brother Van parties in with the WASP crowd and becomes involved with a debutante and their father loses big in the numbers game but finds a way back in with Little Melvin.

330. Grosse Point Blank

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Armitage
Actors: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Hank Azaria
Plot: Martin Blank is a hit man with some unresolved emotional problems. Blank gets invited to his high school reunion, which he has no intention of attending until he gets hired for a job back in Grosse Point. When he gets back he has to deal with the girl he left on prom night, as well as, his hit.

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