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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. 24,193 films · Page 480.

Something to Sing About (1937)

Comedy, musical film

"Terry Rooney" (James Cagney) is the stage name of Thaddeus McGillicuddy, a popular New York band leader and hoofer with a radio show, who gets an offer to go to Hollywood to make movies. He leaves behind his fiancée, the band's singer, Rita Wyatt (Evelyn Daw), and finds himself in the hands of studio boss B.O. Regan (Gene Lockhart), who sets a team of studio professionals to mold Rooney into a star.

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Miss Robin Hood (1952)

Comedy, Crime Comedy

A writer named Henry Wrigley creates a comic strip character named Miss Robin Hood for a children's story paper. It is a modernized retelling of the Robin Hood legend in which the heroine robs banks with the assistance of a gang of teenage girls and then redistributes the money. Unfortunately the cartoon is dropped from the paper, and Wrigley leaves his job.

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The Night Watchmen (2017)

Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Silly Movie, Vampire

A group of overnight security guards are hazing a new recruit who has been hired on to guard a Baltimore newspaper office. Part of the hazing includes forcing him to wear a uniform bearing the name "Rajeeve" and answering to this name. He also meets Karen, an attractive reporter that is frequently ogled by the guards.

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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)

Comedy, romantic comedy

For Ellen Grant, the worst student at the Woodruff Secretarial School, it comes as a great surprise when Dick Richmond hires her to work at his realty company. Actually, it is her apparent empty-headedness that has won her the job. The real estate firm, and now Ellen, are merely fronts for a bookmaking operation run from the back of the office, where Dick and his associates, Gleason and Kilcoyne, take bets on races.

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A Pain in the Pullman (1936)

Comedy

The Stooges are struggling actors rehearsing their act in a rooming house. The establishment's other tenants include the vain actor Paul Payne, who becomes enraged when the Stooges' pet monkey, Joe, steals his toupee. In response to a telephone call from a booking agent, the Stooges rush to board an overnight train to meet a theatrical commitment.

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High Hopes (2006)

Comedy, Crime

Hollywood hopeful Tom Murphy and his posse of pals conspire to get into the big leagues. Pinning their hopes of industry success on Tom's famous girlfriend starring in their first feature, falls to pieces when she dumps him. Tom and his pals learn of another possibility and devise a plan to steal a fenced case of government issued marijuana, return it to the FBI and use the reward money to finance their movie.

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For Richer, for Poorer (1992)

Comedy

Aram Katourian (Jack Lemmon) is atop a bridge considering whether to jump to his death when a homeless woman (Madeline Kahn) -- fascinated by seeing a person die—interrupts him. He finally does not have the courage to commit suicide, and instead tells the woman his story: Aram is a self-made millionaire who owns twelve successful stores and makes an average of 3.2 million dollars a year. He married his greedy high school sweetheart Millie (Shire) and have an adult son, Michael (Silverman).

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Basic Training (1985)

Comedy

Melinda is a female employee of The Pentagon's public information service, who loses her job when she refuses to give in to her male superiors' sexual advances. She then becomes outraged by the Pentagon's "un-patriotic" actions, and takes revenge on them by using her physical charms to seduce the top brass into letting her back into the Pentagon. After being re-employed, she sets out to manipulate them to her will and destroy their careers, thus ridding the US government of what she sees as "perverts", who care more about cheap thrills than national security.

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ALTO (2015)

Comedy, Drama, lesbian-related film, LGBTQ-related film

Frankie is an Italian American pursuing a career as a singer-songwriter with her band while balancing her relationship with a man whose dream is to start a frozen food label. Frankie's life becomes interesting when she discovers a dead body in her rental car and turns it over to the police. Frankie lives with her sister Heather who is obsessed with the mob lifestyle.

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The Keyhole (1933)

Comedy, Tragicomedy

Anne Brooks, wife of wealthy businessman Schuyler Brooks, is being blackmailed by her former husband Maurice Le Brun, who never finalized their divorce and lied to her about it. Acting on advice from Brooks' sister, Anne books a cruise ship passage to Havana, Cuba, to lure Le Brun out of the United States so that he can be blocked from re-entering. Suspicious of her behavior, Brooks hires private detective Neil Davis to follow her and report on whether she is having an affair, but tells him that she is merely a young woman that he's interested in.

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It's Got Me Again! (1932)

Cartoon

thumb|left|The full short. One night, a mouse crawls out of a mouse hole and attempts to sneak out only to be scared back by a grandfather clock's chimes and gets its tail stuck in a mousetrap. After escaping the trap by returning to the hole, the mouse exits, eats the cheese on the mousetrap and continues trekking onwards.

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Jackie (2012)

Comedy, Drama, Family Drama, Road Movie, Tragicomedy

Sofie (Carice van Houten) and Daan (Jelka van Houten) are twin sisters who were raised by two fathers (Paul Hoes and Jaap Spijkers). When they get a phone call from America that their biological mother, Jackie (Holly Hunter) is in a hospital with a complicated leg fracture awaiting transfer to a rehabilitation center, the two end up in an adventure where everything they believed in is called into question. This results in an unforgettable journey to New Mexico with the strange and inappropriate Jackie where the lives of the two sisters will change forever.

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Pardon My Sarong (1942)

Adventure, Comedy, musical film

Tommy Layton, a wealthy bachelor, rents a city bus to take him from Chicago to Los Angeles to participate in a yacht race to Hawai’i. The bus drivers, Algy and Wellington, are pursued by a detective hired by the bus company. They escape capture by driving the bus off a fishing pier.

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Egg (2018)

Comedy

An unflinching comedy about why women choose motherhood, why they revere it, fear it, and why some women choose to forgo it. Over the course of one explosive evening, two couples and a surrogate must face their own ridiculous and sometimes heartbreaking shortcomings.

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The Sporting Club (1971)

Comedy

James Quinn, depressed over the sale of his family business to a larger competitor, retreats to The Centennial Club, a summer sporting resort for upper-class Michigan families, which his family has belonged to for generations. Upon arriving, he is told by longtime club manager Jack Olson that James’s former Harvard roommate, Vernor Stanton, another legacy member, is in residence with a new wife, and that this weekend will bring the large Centennial Day celebration, where several club members will converge to open a century-old time capsule buried by their ancestors. When Jack tells James that Vernor wants to fire him, James checks in on…

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Roseanna's Grave (1997)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy, Romantic drama, Tragicomedy

Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.

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My Super Psycho Sweet 16 Movie II (2010)

Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, teen film

Following the events of the first film, Skye Rotter has a nightmare following the memorial for the teens murdered at the Roller-Dome. In the dream, she stabs Derek repeatedly in the neck and Brigg, seeing Skye as he is about to escape through a back door, is stabbed in the back. After waking, Skye drives away in Madison's car and takes it to a dealership.

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The Sunshine Boys (1996)

Comedy, Tragicomedy

Al Lewis and Willy Clark are two old comedians who were once a popular comedy act known as "Lewis and Clark" and also called the Sunshine Boys. After 43 years together, they parted ways 11 years ago on unfriendly terms and have not spoken to each other since then. A reunion is planned for a major network special on the history of comedy.

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