Starstruck (1998)
Comedy drama
A temp/aspiring screenwriter in Los Angeles befriends a washed up, former teen idol and develops an unhealthy relationship with him.
Comedy movies
Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.
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The Good Fairy (1935)
romantic comedy
Luisa Ginglebusher has grown up in the Municipal Orphanage, delighting the other girls with her fairy stories. When Luisa is given a job as an usherette in a Budapest movie palace, the kindly orphanage director Dr. Schultz, herself somewhat inexperienced, sends the young woman into the world with instructions to do a good deed every day and be friendly to everyone, as well as a little (off screen) advice about the male gender.
Very Important Person (1961)
Comedy
Sir Ernest Pease, a brilliant but acerbic scientist, is the subject of a television programme based on This Is Your Life during which he is re-united with past acquaintances. He does not remember the senior British Army officer at all. A flashback ensues.
They Still Call Me Bruce (1987)
Parody
The film begins with Bruce in Houston on a search for the American G.I. who helped Bruce when he was just a child in Korea. With little more than a name and a fuzzy memory of his hero, Bruce is determined to find G.I.
Over the Moon (1939)
Comedy
Jane Benson falls for local Yorkshire doctor Freddie Jarvis. Freddie sells his practice to avoid spending their married life in Yorkshire. Before they can leave, Jane suddenly inherits £18,000,000.
Fire Sale (1977)
Comedy
Benny Fikus decides to cash in on his business' fire insurance by committing arson. Benny plans to have Sherman, who is in a mental hospital believing that World War II is still being fought, escape and burn down Benny's failing Fikus & Son Department Store which he has made Sherman believe is a Nazi military headquarters. During a vacation trip with Marion, Benny has a heart attack, and his sons Ezra and Russell take over the store.
Lonesome (1928)
Comedy, part-talkie, romance film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Lonesome (1928) In New York City, Mary is a telephone operator who lives alone and is lonely. Jim is a factory worker who also lives alone and feels disconnected from the world. During the Independence Day weekend, both Mary and Jim decide to visit Coney Island alone after finishing their Saturday half-day work shifts.
Eaten by Lions (2018)
Comedy
Half-brothers Pete and Omar's parents are eaten by lions when their hot air balloon crashes in a safari park, so their grandmother takes them in. When she dies she leaves Omar info about his father kept secret from him. The boys' aunt Ellen and uncle Ken take in Peter easily, but are icy to Omar as he's half Indian and not related by blood.
Archangel (1990)
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, war film
Archangel is set in 1919 in the northern Russian area of Archangel, during a brief historical moment of Canadian intervention in the Russian Civil War following the end of World War I. One-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles sighs on the rail of a steamship over the ashes of his dead lover Iris.
The Happy Time (1952)
Comedy, Coming-of-age, Tragicomedy
Young Robert "Bibi" Bonnard is raised in Ottawa, Ontario with his parents, Jacques and Susan, and his grandfather, Grandpère. Across the street is his uncle, amiable drunkard Louis, who ignores the complaints of his hard-working dressmaker wife Felice and her worries about the future of their daughter Yvonne. Louis is anxious about meeting his prospective son-in-law, Alfred Grattin, a teetotaler bank clerk.
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills (1996)
Comedy
Paleontologist Dick Chandler (Brad Wilson) discovers a dinosaur egg, prompting an eccentric witchdoctor named Salvador Dalí (Brion James) to put a curse on Chandler's wife, Pixie (Beverly D'Angelo), causing her to slowly and intermittently transform into a pterodactyl. After Pixie lays an egg, Dick tracks down Salvador Dalí and apologizes, and the curse is lifted.
Bigger Than The Sky (2005)
Drama, romantic comedy
After being rejected by his girlfriend, Peter Rooker, an art-department employee in Portland, Oregon, decides to audition for a small role in an upcoming local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite the fact that Peter has no experience or skill as an actor, the director casts Peter as Cyrano, the lead character. Peter soon becomes caught up in the various intrigues of the "theater people", including the charming but mercurial Michael Degan, the beautiful leading lady Grace Hargrove, and a cast of other eccentric players.
The Pool Boys (2010)
Comedy, Silly Movie
After Alex Sperling, a Harvard-bound valedictorian, loses his summer internship, he heads to Los Angeles to work for his cousin Roger. Unfortunately, Roger is not the successful businessman he has made himself out to be, having dropped out of Harvard and becoming a pool boy. After a series of mishaps force Alex and Roger to squat in the mansion of one of Roger's clients, they join forces with a local escort to start an escort business.
The Duke (1999)
Comedy
When the kind-hearted Duke of Dingwall dies, he leaves his estate and his dukedom to his Black and Tan Coonhound, Hubert, with Charlotte, the Butler's niece, as his guardian. Two greedy relatives, however, have it in for the dog, as they scheme to take over the manor.
The Woman Chaser (1999)
Parody
Set in Los Angeles in 1960, Richard Hudson is a shrewd car dealer who moves from San Francisco and sets up a used-car dealership. Tiring of this job, he turns the lot over to an assistant Bill and starts writing his first film, The Man Who Got Away. It turns out to be an uncommercial picture, chronicling the story of a truck driver who goes berserk, runs over a little girl and dies fending off a platoon of police officers.
My New Gun (1992)
Comedy, independent film
A New Jersey doctor named Gerald buys his trophy wife, Debbie, a revolver against her wishes. Trouble ensues when their eccentric slacker neighbor, Skippy, takes the gun and doesn't want to give it back. After an accident lands Gerald in the hospital, it's up to Debbie to get the gun back and try to figure out why Skippy took it in the first place.
The Milky Way (1936)
boxing film, Comedy, Splatstick
Timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan works for the American company Sunflower Dairies. Two drunk men try to chat up Mae, Sullivan's sister, and he chances by. In an ensuing brawl, Speed McFarland, the world middleweight champion, gets knocked out, but Sullivan never in fact threw a punch; he merely ducked to get out of the way of a punch thrown by Speed's bodyguard which brought the champ down.
Stalled (2013)
Comedy horror, Zombie
On Christmas Eve, office maintenance worker W. C. (Dan Palmer) attempts to avoid being eaten by zombies after he becomes trapped in a woman's toilet cubicle during the zombie apocalypse.He must rely on his wits, his toolbox and the stall room walls to keep him alive while figuring out a way to survive and escape this dire situation.
The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
Comedy, musical film
The opening panel reads: "This story takes place in Balkany. The time we cannot fix it. When Russians Prussians Turks and Czechs were reticent to mix it." Karl Lang and Maria Lanyi are not only successful opera stars, they have also recently been married.
Monster in a Box (1992)
Comedy
A Nanny for Christmas (2010)
Christmas film, Comedy, Family Comedy
Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is a smart young career woman who finds herself needing a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom who's always too busy to take care of her kids. Danny Donner (Dean Cain) is the tough-guy owner of a chocolate company who wants a major hit ad for his company.
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
In 1861, Countess Angelina, ruler of Bergamo in North Italy near the Swiss border, marries Mario, a baron she has known since childhood. When the castle is threatened by Hungarian hussars led by Colonel Teglash on their wedding night, Mario flees. At midnight, the paintings in the ancestral gallery come to life, and their subjects ask Francesca, Angelina's great-great-great-great-grandmother who looks exactly like Countess Angelina, to save the castle just as she did in the 16th century.
30 Years to Life (2001)
Comedy
A handful of close friends, due to turn 30, discover that their dreams for the future are running headfirst into the realities of adulthood in this character-driven comedy-drama. Natalie is a banker who is happy with her job, but is tired of being single, and her pursuit of a husband is taking her down several blind alleys in the world of dating. Joy has developed a similar desire to settle down and get married, but while she has a long-term boyfriend, Leland, he is not so sure he wants to make a lifetime commitment.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
Comedy, crossover fiction, Parody
Willie Piper is in a nickelodeon watching a silent film: "Eliza and the Bloodhounds" a melodrama which ends with a mother and small child escaping in a snowstorm across a frozen river from a pack of hounds. He gets thrown out for being too demonstrative in the film. His friend Harry Pierce is waiting outside, he shows him an advert in a newspaper looking for people to invest $5,000 in a motion picture studio, exactly the amount of cash they have.