Top Comedy Movies


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

451. Babyfever

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Victoria Foyt, Henry Jaglom
Actors: Victoria Foyt, Matt Salinger, Eric Roberts, Frances Fisher, Dinah Lenney, Elaine Kagan
Plot: Gena is average in every way but her ordinary life is complicated by her current boyfriend, and his desire to marry and start a family, and the arrival of an ex-flame looking to rekindle things. To top matter off - she might even be pregnant. A trip to a baby shower proves that she's not the only one worried about the ever-ticking biological clock.

452. Parenthood

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Steve Martin, Dianne Wiest, Dennis Dugan, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis
Plot: A funny movie about family dynamics. It explores how different sets of parents, raise (their kids) and deal with the different sets of problems that their different aged children bring to the table.

453. Safety Not Guaranteed

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Actors: Aubrey Plaza, Jake Johnson, Mark Duplass, Karan Soni, Jeff Garlin, Mary Lynn Rajskub
Plot: A man places a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel. A local
magazine sends a reporter and two interns to track him down and find out
the truth (and the man) behind the ad.

454. Bachelor Mother

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Garson Kanin
Actors: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, E.E. Clive, Elbert Coplen Jr.
Plot: When Polly Parish goes looking for a new job she sees an woman leave a
baby on the steps of a foundling home. Worried that the baby may roll
off she picks it up, only to have the home think she is the mother.
Despite her emphatic denial, the home contacts Merlin Jr. of Merlin and
Son department store, where Polly was seasonally employed. Merlin
rehires her so she can be reunited with her baby, but Polly refuses to
be assigned a family and tries to return the baby to Merlin, causing
another employee the mistaken idea that Merlin is the father. He then
uses this information to blackmail his way to a promotion. Merlin Sr.
then decides to take the baby away from Polly, but she has become quite
attached. More mix-ups lead to a happy ending.

455. Milky Way, The ( voie lactée, La )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley, Michel Piccoli

456. Law of Desire, The ( ley del deseo, La )

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Fernando Guillén, Manuela Velasco

457. Girl Shy

Year of Release: 1924
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin
Plot: A shy, young man who finds it incredibly difficult to talk to women, none-the-less pens a novel for bachelors: "The Secret of Making Love". When he finds himself falling for a rich woman - it seems it is too late, as she is already betrothed - but a daring stunt may prove he is the true love after all.

458. The War of the Roses

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny DeVito
Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Sean Astin, Marianne Sägebrecht, Heather Fairfield
Plot: A couple's marriage falls apart as their story is told through the eyes of their lawyer.

459. A Shot in the Dark

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Tracy Reed, Graham Stark
Plot: A sexy parlor maid is accused of killing her lothario lover. Enter the
bumbling Inspector Clouseau, who's intent on proving the young beauty's
innocence even though the evidence indicates otherwise.

460. Guys and Dolls

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye
Plot: It is a great movie about mobsters in the mid 1950's just trying to get a lousy craps game together it stars Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando as the two mobsters

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