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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. 24,201 films · Page 487.

Common Law Cabin (1967)

Drama, exploitation film, Raunchy comedy

Dewey Hoople (Jack Moran) runs a broken down tourist trap along the Colorado River with his French wife Babette (Babette Bardot) and his daughter Coral (Adele Rein). Business is so bad that Hoople must pay a local alcoholic (Frank Bolger as "Cracker") to entice tourists, called "suckers", to spend some time and money there.

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Before Winter Comes (1969)

Drama, Tragicomedy, war film

Before Winter Comes takes place in the immediate aftermath of World War II. British Major Giles Burnside is assigned to a refugee camp in occupied Austria; his mission is to send the groups of displaced civilians to either the Russian zone or the American zone. Burnside is a by-the-book officer but he runs into trouble with the translation of the many different languages.

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Curveball (2020)

Comedy, Crime, Political Satire, thriller film

The film opens with the words: “A true story. Unfortunately.” Wolf, a biological weapons expert and Federal Intelligence Service (BND) agent, is obsessed with the idea that anthrax is still being produced in Iraq despite UN inspections. One day, his superior, Schatz, assigns him as the case officer for the Iraqi asylum seeker Rafid Alwan, who claims to have been part of Saddam Hussein’s secret biological weapons programme as an engineer.

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Here Come the Waves (1944)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

The film opens with naval scenes and a chorus of WAVES singing "The Navy Song" on stage, and continues with a sister act, the Allison Twins (both played by Betty Hutton), singing the same song in a night club. Identical, except that one is blonde the other brunette, they are temperamentally very different. Susie, the blonde, is brash and scatter-brained, while Rosemary is serious and reliable.

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Brain Dead (2007)

Comedy horror, Zombie

When a meteor strikes a man on the head, alien slugs take over his brain and turn him into a ravenous zombie. As a group of sorority sisters, born-again Christians, and escaped convicts converge in the remote area where he lives, he attacks them all.

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Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

When young Glaswegian cook Nina Shah (Shelley Conn) returns home for her father's funeral after three estranged years in London, England, she begins a romantic relationship with Lisa (Laura Fraser), an old childhood friend who now owns half the late father's Indian restaurant, The New Taj. Together they seek to save the restaurant by winning the national "Best in the West Curry Competition" for a third time. Nina's mother Suman (Veena Sood) and brother Kary (Atta Yaqub), however, want to sell the place to fellow restaurateur Raj (Art Malik), whose chef son Sanjay (Raji James) had been left at the altar by Nina.

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Bitten (2008)

Comedy horror, Vampire

Jack, a paramedic, is frustrated with his life after he breaks up with his girlfriend. He discovers a girl (Danika) in an alleyway covered in blood, clinging to life. Jack takes Danika in and soon discovers that she is a vampire.

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A Very Special Favor (1965)

romantic comedy

Paul Chadwick (Hudson) is a wealthy American oilman who is in a Parisian court, where he is up against the opposing lawyer Michel Boullard (Charles Boyer). Paul wins the case, but only by seducing the judge, who happens to be a woman. Shortly after, Boullard sets out to New York, where he plans on reuniting with his daughter Lauren (Caron), whom he has not seen for over 25 years, since his American wife divorced him for flirting with another woman.

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Home Town Story (1951)

Daffy Comedy, Drama

Defeated politician Blake Washburn becomes the editor of a small-town newspaper in an effort to promote his reelection. His campaign is intended as a continuing exposé of the evils of large industry, and his strategy is to publish daily screeds against enormous corporate profits that enrich shareholders. On a school outing to an abandoned mine, Washburn's younger sister is trapped in the collapse of a mine tunnel caused by a disgruntled employee's negligence, and the town's businesses come to her rescue.

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The Butcher Boy (1917)

Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, silent film

left|thumb|The full short Fatty, a butcher boy in a country store, is in love with Almondine, the daughter of the store's general manager Mr. Grouch. Fatty's attempts to get close to her are sidetracked when the store's clerk Alum, a rival for Alice's affections, starts a fight with the rotund butcher.

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The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)

Comedy

Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the ship San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.

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High Life (2009)

Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film

In 1983, a visit from his former sociopathic cellmate Bug (Stephen Eric McIntyre) has led to Dick (Timothy Olyphant) being fired from his job as a hospital janitor. Unemployed and in need of fast cash Dick gets the idea to rob one of the brand new ATMs, to "buy a little self-respect," as Dick announces to Bug and the team. Enter the charismatic, criminally-minded Donnie (Joe Anderson), and the front-man, the sexy, sleepy-eyed charmer Billy (Rossif Sutherland), and all of the pieces are in place.

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Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011)

Animation, Family Comedy, Superhero

For their first day on the job as the new protectors of Metro City after defeating the deranged villain Titan, Megamind and Minion are selling off their gadgets from their evil lair to the citizens for good purposes . All of their items get sold . As for the Dehydrating Gun, it gets sold to a boy named Damien, who accidentally uses on his mother and turns her into a cube.

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