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Comedy movies

Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 22,607 films · Page 450.

Kamillions (1989)

Comedy horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy

Robins plays bumbling mad scientist Nathaniel Pickman Wingate, of the Miskatonic University. He works on opening a portal to another dimension while his wife, Nancy (Laura O'Malley) and family prepare his fiftieth birthday party. When he succeeds with contact with the new dimension, two triops-like creatures escape.

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The Happy Thieves (1961)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Crime Comedy, Heist

A valuable painting belonging to Duchess Blanca is stolen at night from her castle in Spain by one of her houseguests, Jimmy Bourne, who replaces the original work with a duplicate. The debonair gentleman thief then passes the painting to his partner in crime, Eve Lewis. However, the artwork is subsequently stolen from them by a man acting on behalf of Dr.

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Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966)

Crime, Drama, Science fiction, Secret Agent, spy film

Adam Chance (Peter Mark Richman) works for an American agency called Human Aetiological Relations Machine, or H.A.R.M. He is assigned to protect Dr. Jan Steffanic (Carl Esmond), a recent Soviet defector who has developed a new weapon which fires spores that upon contact with human skin slowly dissolves it.

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The Salon (2005)

Comedy drama

Jenny Smith owns a modest neighborhood beauty parlor that is hugely popular with the folks who reside on her street, but mom-and-pop businesses are failing and a corporate giant has been clamoring to set up shop on the block. Despite formidable pressure from the Department of Water and Power, Jenny refuses to accept the offer made for her shop and decides to test her luck against the DWP in the local courthouse.

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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)

Comedy

The plot of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End revolves around attempts to exorcise the ghost of Humbert, the brother of drunken aristocrat Sir Henry (Trevor Howard) who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident whilst escaping trouserless from an illicit tryst. It transpires that Humbert's ghost will not rest until it is supplied with replacement trousers. Until then the ghost walks the corridors of Rawlinson End, often accompanied by that of Humbert's dog Gums which has repossessed its own body, now stuffed and mounted on a trolley.

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Lucky Jim (1957)

Comedy

Jim Dixon is a young lecturer in history at a redbrick university, who manages to offend his head of department and create various disastrous incidents. When he eventually delivers a lecture drunk, he feels forced to resign. But just as his career seems over, he is offered a job in London, and when he learns that the girl of his dreams is on her way to the railway station, he chases after her in the professor's old car.

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Outrageous! (1977)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy

Robin Turner is an inept hairdresser. He does hair and makeup for the local drag shows but longs to get up on stage himself. His best friend Liza is schizophrenic; she had been institutionalized but decided to leave the facility and be Robin's roommate.

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Move (1970)

Comedy, fantasy film

The film covers three days in the life of Hiram Jaffe, a would-be playwright who supplements his living as a porn writer and by walking dogs. He and his wife, Dolly, are moving to a new apartment on New York's Upper West Side. Jaffe is beset by problems, including his inability to persuade the moving man to move the couple's furniture, and retreats into fantasy.

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Storm in a Teacup (1937)

romantic comedy

A Scottish town's powerful provost (mayor) struts and brags about his city "improvements" while the cowed villagers are sullenly forced to put up with him. A free-spirited English reporter is brought from London to work for the local newspaper and soon clashes with the autocrat—while falling in love with his daughter. He strikes out against the provost by taking up the cause of a poor woman who sells ice cream from a pushcart, and has dared to protest against the provost's new "dog tax".

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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)

Comedy, Western

Shy naive Charley Bicker, the only blacksmith within 100 miles (161 km), begins corresponding with a potential mail-order bride, named Ellen, and sends her all his savings for a train ticket to the town of Calico. He kept his marriage plans secret from everyone except the storekeeper who sent off for a wedding ring, but the storekeeper told everyone else, so a crowd shows up at the train station when Charley goes there to meet his bride. The lady isn't on the train and Charley is humiliated, so pretends it was all a joke.

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Uncle Nino (2003)

Comedy drama

A father, Robert Micelli (Joe Mantegna), has become a stranger to his family and thinks only of his lawn and job. After decades of no contact, Robert's Uncle Nino (Pierrino Mascarino) flies to the United States for an unexpected visit, with a suitcase full of homemade Italian wine. Nino helps the family realize the true value of family.

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No Time for Comedy (1940)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film

Gaylord Esterbrook, a reporter from Redfield, Minnesota (pop. 786, including livestock), writes a play about Park Avenue high society, even though he has never been to New York City. The play is being staged, but needs rewriting, so the producers bring Gaylord to New York.

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Of Horses and Men (2013)

Comedy, Drama, romance film

In a remote Icelandic valley, there is not much to do other than observe the horses, the neighbors, and the neighbors' horses with binoculars. Undisturbed, the stallions and mares do what nobody else in the valley dares to even talk about: love. However, there is still a feeling of love among some of the valley dwellers.

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The Lady in Question (1940)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film

While serving on a Paris jury André Morestan (Brian Aherne) persuades his deadlocked peers to vote for the acquittal of Natalie Roguin (Rita Hayworth), a young woman on trial for the shooting death of a young man she had been seeing. Securing her acquittal, Morestan invites her to live and work at his bicycle and music shop when no one else will give her a job. However, he decides to keep her true identity a secret, which soon begins to raise doubts within his family.

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Birthmarked (2018)

Comedy

In 1977, Ben and Catherine, two respected scientists, leave their jobs to conduct an experiment into human identity. They aim to raise three children contrarily to their genetic predispositions, to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature. The parents get funding from Gertz to be able to carry out their experiment.

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If a Body Meets a Body (1945)

Comedy

The Stooges, currently unemployed, sift through job listings in search of employment. While preparing a meal, Curly inadvertently includes a horseshoe in the soup, mistaking it for a juicy bone, prompting frustration from his companions. Their ire escalates when they discover a newspaper article announcing Curly's inheritance from his deceased uncle Bob O.

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