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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. 24,289 films · Page 551.

The Cat's-Paw (1934)

Comedy

Ezekiel Cobb, a naïve young man raised by missionaries in China, is sent to the United States to seek a wife. He is promptly enlisted by the corrupt political machine of the fictional city of Stockport, led by the corrupt boss Jake Mayo to run for mayor as phony "reform" politician. He is expected to be the "cat's paw" of the political machine.

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The Trygon Factor (1966)

Crime, Dark Comedy, Drama, Heist, thriller film

A Scotland Yard inspector is called to investigate a series of unsolved robberies. Inspector Cooper-Smith arrives at the country manor of a respectable English family. He discovers Livia Emberday, the mistress of the house, has turned to crime in order to bolster the family's flagging fortunes.

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Loco Boy Makes Good (1942)

Comedy

The Stooges get thrown out (literally) of a motel by their irascible landlord for having insignificant arrears in rent. Desperate to pay their rent, the Stooges contrive to get easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue and win a large settlement. However, they abandon their scheme when they discover that Mrs.

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Never Wave at a WAC (1953)

Comedy

Divorced socialite Jo McBain, daughter of United States Senator Reynolds, would like to join her boyfriend in Paris where he has been transferred with two other military comrades. She speaks with her father, who has the idea of her joining the army and getting her an officer's commission in the Women's Army Corps so she can be transferred to Paris. He sells her this idea, telling her that she would start as a general.

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The Visit (2015)

romantic comedy

Chidi Nebo (Femi Jacobs) and Eugenia Nebo (Bayray Mcnwizu) are a 'prim and proper' couple, who live their entire life on a schedule, which is always carefully and perfectly planned out by the extremely uptight wife, Eugenia. They are however joined as neighbours by another couple who lives exact opposite of the Nebos. Ajiri Shagaya (Nse Ikpe-Etim) and Lanre Shagaya (Blossom Chukwujekwu) are a spontaneous, carefree and totally disorganized couple.

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Week-End Marriage (1932)

Comedy

Lola Davis is enamored with her beau Ken Hayes, whose old fashioned morals dictate he earn enough to support a family before asking her to marry him. Despite Lola's protests, Ken takes an opportunity to travel to South America for an opportunity to get a pay raise, despite the fact that that will take him away from the country for two years. At her supremely modern sister-in-law Agnes' encouragement, Lola employs methods of passive aggressive manipulation in order to convince him to marry her immediately despite his plans.

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Compadres (2016)

Action, Comedy, Crime, fiction film

After being released from prison, former Mexican cop Diego Garza (Omar Chaparro) seeks revenge on Santos (Erick Elias). Santos has kidnapped his girlfriend María (Aislinn Derbez) and framed him for a crime he didn't commit. With the help of his former boss Coronado (José Sefami), Garza manages to escape with a tip about how to find Santos which leads him to San Diego in search of an "accountant." This said accountant is responsible for stealing $10 million from Santos and may know Santos' whereabouts.

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Manhood (2003)

Comedy drama

Jack (Carbonell) is a former womanizer and fashion photographer who is put in charge of his sister's 17-year-old-son when she leaves to find herself. During her leave, he attempts to revive his career while re-establishing a relationship with his nephew and son. In the midst of all this, Eli (Ritter), his sister's ex-husband moves in after he loses his job.

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The Great Lover (1949)

Comedy

In a Paris hotel, two American men drink champagne to celebrate their gambling wins. As the young man boasts, the old man strangles him from behind. The killer is identified almost instantly because of the signature napkin knot found around the victims throat - the signature of notorious card-playing killer C.J.

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Deathrow Gameshow (1987)

Dark Comedy, prison film, Satire On Media

Chuck Toedan is a TV producer who hosts a game show named Live or Die, where condemned prisoners participate for the chance to earn their freedom. If they fail, they are executed on live TV. The show is successful, however there are those who protest the show's cruelty.

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Torsk på Tallinn - En liten film om ensamhet (1999)

Comedy, Drama

Unsuccessful entrepreneur Percy Nilegård organizes a bus trip for lonely Swedish men to Estonia, where Nilegård's Estonian business partner Lembit Metsik has gathered Estonian women interested in meeting Swedish men. The group comprises a mixture of men from different parts of Sweden: Roland Järverup, a timid dansband fan from Karlskoga, the easy-going pick-up artists Micke and Slobodan from Skövde, who have grown tired of the local women, Magnus Ronell, a socially awkward and aggressive perpetual student, Lennart Sundström, an idealistic and argumentative sanitary worker who lives with his elderly mother in Vännäs, and several others.…

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Your Mother Wears Combat Boots (1989)

Comedy

Brenda Andersen (Barbara Eden) is an overprotective single mother from Iowa, who does not want her 18-year-old son Jimmy (David Kaufman) to follow in the footsteps of her late husband (who died in a parachute accident in Vietnam) by becoming an Airborne paratrooper in the US Army. Instead she sends him off to college, and then moves to Alaska to take up a new job. But once she moves, Jimmy leaves college and enlists in the army.

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Living in a Big Way (1947)

musical film, romantic comedy

Leo Gogarty (Kelly) marries Margaud Morgan (McDonald) after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. When he returns, he is surprised to discover not only that his bride is not what she led him to believe, but also that she expects a quick divorce. Mr.

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Front Page Woman (1935)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Ellen Garfield refuses to marry fellow reporter Curt Devlin until he admits she is as good at her craft as any man. The two work for rival newspapers, and their ongoing efforts to better each other eventually leads to Ellen getting fired when Curt tricks her into misreporting the verdict of a murder trial. The tables are turned when she scoops him by getting the real perpetrator, Inez Cordoza, to confess to the crime.

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Moby Presents: Alien Sex Party (2003)

Comedy, Gross Out Film, musical film, science fiction comedy

It's Christmas Eve and the staff of the adult video store, Amazing Video, are settling in for a long night. Not only will there be a crush of last minute shoppers, but porn star Dyanna Lauren is appearing to sign her latest release for her rabid, trench coat-wearing fans. Prudish new owner, Joe (Joe Smith) has recently inherited the store from his much wilder late sister.

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