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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 524.

Meet the Baron (1933)

Comedy

Baron Munchausen has abandoned a couple of bunglers in the jungles of Africa. A rescue team mistakes Pearl for the missing Baron and takes the two of them back to America, where they receive a hero's welcome. The phony Baron is invited to speak at Cuddle College, run by Dean Primrose.

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The Last Fling (1987)

romantic comedy

Divorce attorney Phillip Reed is tired of one-night stands, like Joanne. He commiserates to happy couple, Linda and Jack, the lack of romance in his life. At a Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum football game, Gloria Franklin, marrying in two weeks, finds out her fiancé Jason is going to Vegas for a bachelor party weekend.

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Q Planes (1939)

Comedy, Mysterie, Science fiction, spy film, thriller film

In September 1938, advanced British aircraft prototypes carrying experimental and secret equipment are vanishing with their crews on test flights. No one can fathom why, not even spymaster Major Hammond (Ralph Richardson) or his sister Kay (Valerie Hobson), a newspaper reporter, who is working undercover in the works canteen at the Barrett & Ward Aircraft Company. At first, Major Hammond is seen as an outsider at the aircraft factory, especially by Mr.

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Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008)

Christmas film, Comedy, fantasy film

Just before Christmas, Nick Snowden, the son of Santa Claus, has his hands full so that all children can get their presents and celebrate the people of established traditions. This year he has Sandy, with whom he wanted to spend quiet holidays, but during the reindeer training, the reindeer have become too fat and cannot fly anymore. So he has to come up with something to get her in shape.

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The Bride Wore Boots (1946)

romantic comedy

Sally Warren runs a horse farm, but her husband Jeff has a dislike and fear of horses. He is a Civil War historian and lecturer, which bores Sally but is very popular with local ladies who call themselves the Mason-Dixon Dames. As a Christmas gift, Jeff intends to please his wife by buying her a horse called Albert, but her horse trainer Lance Gale, an old beau, insults Jeff about the kind of horse he picked.

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What Every Woman Knows (1934)

romantic comedy

Alick Wylie and his sons David and James are greatly concerned about Alick's daughter Maggie, who has been jilted by a minister. She is less than heartbroken, but they fear for her marital prospects at the age of 27. When they catch poor but ambitious 21-year-old John Shand breaking into their house late at night to use their library, they seize the opportunity.

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Lady in a Jam (1942)

romantic comedy

Jane Palmer's reckless spending and behavior concern her guardian Billingsley so much that he goes to a New York City clinic to seek psychiatric help for her. Dr. Enright, taking the case, sees how Jane refuses to even acknowledge that she has squandered her entire inheritance, and that her remaining possessions are being auctioned off.

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Love at First Sight (1976)

romantic comedy

A young woman, Shirley (Mary Ann McDonald), and a clumsy blind man named Roy (Dan Aykroyd) flee to Niagara Falls to open a restaurant with money given to them by Shirley's grandmother (Jane Mallett), after Shirley's controlling and unpleasant father Frank (George Murray) objects to their relationship.

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Seven Days' Leave (1942)

musical film, musical comedy

Army privates Johnny Grey, Speak Jackson and Buddy "Clarky" Clark were members of the Les Brown band before they joined the army. When they are granted seven days' leave before shipping out, they attend an old Les Brown concert, where Johnny renews his romance with band performer Mapy Cortés. Johnny then discovers that he is heir to his great-grandfather's $100,000 fortune.

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Dear Ruth (1947)

romantic comedy

Teenager Miriam Wilkins is an energetic activist during World War II. She blithely involves her family by enlisting them for causes without first gaining their consent. Her father Judge Wilkins and mother Edie are puzzled when Lieutenant William Seacroft, a complete stranger, appears at their home asking for their 22-year-old daughter Ruth.

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She Married Her Boss (1935)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Julia Scott is a very efficient secretary at a department store. She is in love with her boss, Richard Barclay, who pays no attention to her, unless it has to do with business. Julia goes to lunch with Martha Pryor, who tells her she has been offered a manager position of a department store in Paris.

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Booty and the Beast (1953)

Comedy

Inadvertently entangled in aiding a safe-cracker, the Stooges find themselves implicated in a criminal endeavor, prompting their subsequent pursuit of the perpetrator to Las Vegas. Embarking on a journey fraught with mishaps, the trio's endeavor is further complicated by the accidental release of a lion from the train's baggage car. Despite these challenges, the Stooges persist in their pursuit, ultimately apprehending the unnamed culprit and recovering the ill-gotten gains.

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The Girl from Monday (2005)

Science fiction, science fiction comedy

Some time in the future United States, a being from another planet (Abracos) arrives on Earth and takes human form. In voiceover, Jack Bell (Bill Sage), an advertising executive, explains how his ideas came to bring the "triple M" into power and reduce human beings to mere consumers, pawns of the corporation. Flash-forwards show his visit to a "gun boutique" to buy a pistol, and a suicide attempt in his car.

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Neighbors (1920)

Splatstick

thumb|thumbtime=5|Neighbors (public domain, full short)|left "The Boy" and "the Girl" are young lovers who live in tenements, the rear of which face each other, with backyards separated by a wooden fence. Their families constantly feud over the lovers' relationship. Each morning the Boy and the Girl exchange love letters through holes in the fence, much to the dismay of their families who insist they stay away from one another.

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Them Thar Hills (1934)

Comedy

Hardy's doctor, who is visiting to treat the gout in his right foot, informs him that gout is caused by "too much high living" and advises that he spend some time in the mountains, away from civilization, and drink lots of water. Laurel suggests that they rent a trailer to take into the mountains. Meanwhile, a group of moonshiners in a shootout with the police dump barrels of their product into the well behind their cabin before the police can get to it, but are arrested before they can get rid of it all.

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