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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. 24,273 films · Page 512.

The Affairs of Susan (1945)

Comedy, romance film

Susan Darell, a successful dramatic actress, returns to New York City from a tour entertaining the troops overseas. She is about to marry Richard Aiken, even though they have only known each other for a few weeks. Then Richard discovers that Susan has an ex-husband (and her current Broadway producer) named Roger Berton and two other former boyfriends when he sees their pictures in her living room.

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Three Summers (2017)

romantic comedy

The film's main plotline revolves around a blossoming romance between its two leads, pretentious theremin player Roland and down-to-earth pub band fiddler Keevy. They meet and fall in love at a music festival over three years, amid a microcosm of Australian society. The film has several subplots, including about Henry who came to Australia from the United Kingdom as a 7-year-old under the Home Children migration scheme and is now a Morris dancer with fiercely Australian attitudes, who meets a refugee boy and a group of Indigenous dancers, and is re-educated.

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Triggermen (2002)

comedy thriller, Crime Comedy

Pete Maynard (Neil Morrissey) and Andy Jarrett (Adrian Dunbar) are two con men down on their luck. They are holed up in a Chicago boarding room with their landlady harassing them for her long overdue rent. While attempting to scam someone he thinks is a businessman, Pete intercepts a briefcase full of cash intended for mobsters Terry Malloy (Donnie Wahlberg) and Tommy O'Brian (Michael Rapaport) as a payoff for a planned hit, as well as a key to a swank hotel room.

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High Strung (1991)

Comedy

The film centers on Thane Furrows, who spends the day in his apartment in an unknown location in Texas, complaining about various subjects. These include flies, popsicles, junk mail, his boss's wife, his upstairs neighbor, smoking, and salesmen. He also philosophizes on topics such as the morality of eating humans and the sensibility of keeping pets.

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I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)

Comedy drama, propaganda film, romantic comedy, war film

In the summer of 1943, after he is taken off combat operations for medical reasons, American Staff Sergeant John Patterson (Dean Jagger), an Army Air Force gunner, is billeted in the London home of the Duke of Exmoor (Robert Morley) in London's Grosvenor Square. He is befriended by the duke and British paratrooper Major David Bruce (Rex Harrison). The latter has taken leave from the army to contest a parliamentary by-election in Devon.

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Talk About Jacqueline (1942)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Two sisters, Jacqueline and June, are very close and stand by each other, even though their stories separate them. The older sister, Jacqueline, has a sexually liberal backstory, and the younger is quite unspoiled by life. Jacqueline travels to the French Riviera for a change of scenery and to look for new adventures and search for an eligible bachelor who has no prior knowledge about her promiscuous past.

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Surviving Desire (1991)

Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy

College professor Jude (Donovan) becomes smitten with a student named Sofie (Ward). The two enjoy a brief time together, only to find that numerous obstacles, both tangible and intangible, prevent them from moving forward. Their conflict begins to expose parallels with the themes Jude covers in his literature class.

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Torrid Zone (1940)

Adventure

Steve Case has to deal with trouble at his tropical fruit company's Central American banana plantation. A revolutionary, Rosario La Mata, is stirring up unrest among the workers, and the only man who can handle the situation, foreman Nick Butler, has just quit. Steve manages to persuade Nick to stick around (for a big bonus).

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Air Raid Wardens (1943)

buddy film, Comedy

Set during World War II, Stan and Ollie face a series of misfortunes, depicted through a montage of failed business ventures. Their attempts to enlist in various armed forces branches meet with similar disappointment. Returning to their hometown of Huxton, they discover their bicycle shop has been commandeered by Eustace Middling, a purported businessman secretly engaged in espionage on behalf of Germany.

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Almost Adults (2016)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

The film follows two best friends in their final year of college while they transition into adulthood. One embraces her sexuality and tries to catch up on everything she has missed during her teenage years, while the other ends a long-term relationship with her boyfriend and discovers her life isn't going as planned. Both struggle to keep their friendship together as they begin growing apart.

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Quality Street (1937)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, Tragicomedy

In 1805 England, eligible bachelors are scarce on Quality Street. Twenty-year-old Phoebe Throssel becomes very hopeful when one of the few, Dr. Valentine Brown, tells her he has something important to say to her that day.

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Bunny Whipped (2007)

Action Comedy

Bob Whipple (Esteban Powell) is a sportswriter stuck in a dead-end job. When he learns of the murder of high-profile white rapper Cracker Jack (Fred Maske), he is inspired to become the vigilante not-so-superhero The Whip. Whipple's high-school girlfriend Anne (Joey Lauren Adams), now an animal-rights activist, reaches out to The Whip to help rescue rabbits, but she is soon kidnapped by Kenny Kent (Laz Alonso), who is also the prime suspect in the rapper's murder.

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Killjoy 3 (2010)

Blaxploitation, Comedy horror, fantasy film, Slasher

Some time passes and Killjoy is once again called, this time through a blood pact. Immediately he resorts to using the blood spilled by his summoner to create three underlings, which he dubs new evil clowns, Punchy, Freakshow and Batty Boop. However the man does not name a victim for Killjoy, leaving the scene without doing so.

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San Ferry Ann (1965)

Comedy

A motley group of British characters ride the San Ferry Ann to France, where they embark on a weekend of calamity. A campervan family, led by Dad and Mum, create chaos from the moment they set their tyres on the shore, resulting in frequent run-ins with the Gendarmerie. Lewd Grandad finds his own misadventures with a newly acquainted friend, a crazy German ex-soldier.

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Belle of the Yukon (1944)

Comedy, musical film, Western

In a Yukon town called Malemute, a saloon owned by "Honest" John Calhoun gets a new star performer, Belle De Valle, while he is away. A stranger in town, Sam Slade, offers to keep an eye on things until the boss returns, while saloon manager Pop Candless and crooked town marshal Maitland keep a suspicious eye on him. As soon as Honest John gets back, Belle hits him with a vase.

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Hiling (1998)

The film revolves around the character of Anna (played by Camille Prats), an ordinary girl who on her mother's birthday was given a magical power by Manang Garcia (played by Gina Pareño), a mysterious stranger. Anna eventually discovers that she has the power to grant any wishes to other people by merely touching them with her palm. Her power would eventually change the lives of all the people around her including herself.

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Stand-In (1937)

Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy

During the Great Depression, Fowler Pettypacker, a Wall Street banker, is debating whether or not to accept an offer from Ivor Nassau to buy "Colossal Pictures," a fictional film studio on Poverty Row. The studio has not been turning a profit, but financial analyst Atterbury Dodd advises against selling. He stakes his reputation on his mathematical calculations that show Colossal should turn a profit.

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The Phantom President (1932)

Ghost, musical film

The Phantom President tells the fictional story of American presidential candidates, based on the novel by George F. Worts. A colorless stiff candidate for president is replaced in public appearances by a charismatic medicine show pitchman, from the day when the show included blackface makeup and eccentric dancing.

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Showboy (2002)

Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film

The film, a mockumentary that viewers are meant to believe is real, features around real-life screenwriter Taylor. Taylor is solicited by director Heymann to be the subject in a British television documentary series about British writers working in Hollywood. On the first day of filming this documentary, Taylor is fired from his real-life job as a screenwriter on the dramatic television series Six Feet Under.

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