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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 516.

Wake Me When the War Is Over (1969)

comedy television program

In January 1944, during World War II, a naive and inept Lieutenant Roger Carrington of the United States Army Air Forces accidentally falls out of a C-47 when attempting to drop airborne leaflet propaganda. He lands in German territory. Escaping pursuing German soldiers, he is hidden by a local baroness named Marlene.

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The Cook (1918)

Comedy

Fatty is the head chef at the "Bull Pup" restaurant where Keaton serves as the head waiter. One evening while service is in full flow Keaton and Fatty entertain the crowd with their dancing (despite breaking most of the plates and bottles in the restaurant in the process). The fun is soon spoiled when a "Holdup Man" comes in and begins ruining everyone's good time and dancing with the waitress against her will.

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Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

Comedy

Ambrose Wolfinger works as a "memory expert" for a manufacturing company's president. He keeps track of details about the clients President Malloy meets with, so that Malloy will never be embarrassed about not remembering things when meeting with them. But Ambrose doesn't keep files; all the documents are a huge mess of paper piled on his desk.

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The National Health (1973)

black comedy film

The film satirically interweaves the story of a depressing and poorly-equipped National Health Service hospital with a fantasy hospital which exists in a soap-opera world where all the equipment is new and patients are miraculously cured – although the only "patients" seen are doctors or nurses who are themselves part of the soap opera plots. In the real hospital, the patients die while the out-of-touch administrators focus on impressing foreign visitors.

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The Truth About Lies (2018)

romantic comedy

Gilby Smalls (Fran Kranz) is an aimless guy who is having a meltdown. He's just been fired from his job, lost his apartment in a fire and he's forced to move in with his booze-swindling, man-obsessed mother. Life is bleak and as he's desperate to turn things around when he meets his friend's beautiful sister, who appears to be everything he ever wanted.

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The Wild Pair (1987)

Action, buddy cop film, Comedy, Police Film

Detective Sgt. Ben “Benny” Avalon (Bubba Smith) is a tough but good-natured cop who is well-known around his inner city neighborhood and an active mentor to youth while off-duty. Avalon is unmarried but has a cat named Beatrice, and a pretty downstairs neighbor named Debby (Lela Rochon).

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The Magnet (1950)

Comedy

Eleven year old Johnny Brent is home from school during a scarlet fever outbreak, but not making much attempt to stay isolated. He lives in New Brighton on the North West coast. After watching his father board the ferry to his work as a psychologist in Liverpool, he spends the rest of the morning playing on the beach.

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The Last Laugh (2016)

Comedy, documentary film, Documentation

Is the Holocaust funny? This documentary looks at the taboo topic of humor, delving deep into pop-culture to find out where to draw the line, and whether that is a desirable—or even possible—goal. Much of the film is centered around Auschwitz survivor Renée Firestone who discusses humor in the concentration camps and finding enjoyment in life after the war.

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The Amorous Prawn (1962)

Comedy

General Fitzadam receives his final posting in the remote Scottish Highlands. When the general and his wife discover that they cannot afford the country cottage where they plan to retire, his wife decides to run their residence as a hotel for wealthy Americans using the services of soldiers and an expert poacher.

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The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)

Comedy

With Pa out of the way, Ma and the kids travel to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Ma and 13 of her 16 kids waste no time in turning both the train station waiting room and the train's day coach into a complete wreck. Upon arrival, Ma discovers Sedgwick is at least as lazy as Pa, if not worse.

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Coast to Coast (1987)

Comedy drama

White American soul fan John Carloff (John Shea) arrives in Liverpool on a tourist coach: he's there to answer a help ad placed by black Liverpudlian Ritchie Lee (Lenny Henry) regarding setting up a mobile soul disco. Both unemployed, they nonetheless both have something to offer: John has a five-foot-high stack of original soul singles, and Ritchie has disco equipment plus an old ice cream van which has been converted into what he describes as "the Popemobile with attitude." Although the duo bond over the music and the sense of adventure, things start off badly after they are mistakenly booked for a geriatrics evening entertainment.…

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AmeriQua (2012)

Drama, romantic comedy

Charlie (Bobby Kennedy) is an American hard-partying slacker and recent college graduate whose wealthy parents (Alec Baldwin and Catherine Mary Stewart) cut him off with a cheque for $5000 and an ultimatum to get a job. Instead, eager to explore Europe, he buys a plane ticket to Italy. On the plane, he meets the self-proclaimed "King" of Bologna, Lele (Lele Gabellone), who tells him he is welcome to stay with him, also making a strong impression by joining the mile high club with the woman he just met, Alessia ().

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Childstar (2004)

Comedy

Taylor Brandon Burns, who happens to be America's most famous child star, is in Canada to shoot a big-budget action film. Wanting to get away from his stage mom Suzanne and the pressures of show business, he runs off set with a fellow actress, Natalie. The film's producers, concerned with the money they are losing due to a delayed shooting schedule, enlist Rick Schiller, a down-on-his-luck indie filmmaker and Taylor's reluctant limo-driver, to find the boy.

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Kristin's Christmas Past (2013)

Christmas film, Comedy, comedy television program

Estranged from her family and alone on Christmas Eve, thirty-four-year-old Kristin (Shiri Appleby) wakes up Christmas morning seventeen years into her past to relive the worst Christmas of her life. Positioning herself as an older mentor to her younger self (Hannah Marks), Kristin now has a chance to change things – something that seems impossible, as her younger self is estranged from her mother, Barbara.

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