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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 571.

A Perfect Couple (1979)

Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy

An older man, played by Paul Dooley, tries romancing a younger woman, played by Marta Heflin. She is part of a travelling band of bohemian musicians who perform gigs in outdoor arenas around the country. He joins them on the road and tries to fit into their communal lifestyle.

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Box Car Blues (1930)

Cartoon

thumb|The film Bosko sings and dances with a banjo playing pig in the furthest boxcar of a train. They are quite jolly until Bosko starts a mournful rendition of Crying for the Carolines, at which the pig starts to cry. The train proceeds to go up an absurdly steep anthropomorphic mountain, knocking the pig out cold as they lose balance.

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Dear Wife (1949)

Comedy

Miriam Wilkins is a teenage girl who is campaigning for her brother-in-law Bill Seacroft to be elected to the state senate, but without his knowledge. Bill is a middle-aged war veteran who works at a bank and is frustrated by having to live with his wife Ruth's family. Bill wants to be more independent and stand on his own two feet.

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Music in the Air (1934)

musical film, romantic comedy

Aspiring songwriter Karl Roder travels to the big city, along with a girl he is in love with, Sieglinde Lessing, and her father Walter Lessing, who has just written a new song that he thinks will take the world by storm (with lyrics by Karl). They stumble into the stormy relationship of opera star Frieda Hotzfelt and librettist Bruno Mahler, who constantly bicker and make up. When the composer for their new show suddenly leaves town, they decide to use Walter's song, partially out of convenience and party due to the fact that Bruno has fallen in love with Sieglinde, and Frieda has fallen in love with Karl, though he does not reciprocate.

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A Beginner's Guide to Snuff (2016)

Comedy horror

Two brothers, Dresden and Dominic, are aspiring actors that enter a horror film contest and make a found footage horror film, a fake snuff film. The film starts where Dominic and Dresden take auditions for an actress without giving them much clue as to the project. Here they decide on Jennifer to be the most suitable actress for the role.

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Rockin' thru the Rockies (1940)

Comedy

Set in the Rocky Mountains circa late 1800s, the Stooges are guides tasked with escorting a trio known as "Nell's Belles" through mountainous terrain en route to their performance destination in San Francisco. When Curly's carelessness with a rifle frightens off the horses, the group is stranded overnight at the behest of Native American inhabitants who advise them to vacate the area promptly. During the night, Curly is banished from the shared sleeping quarters due to his disruptive nocturnal behavior.

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Hokus Pokus (1949)

Comedy

The Stooges are employed as paperhangers who concurrently attend to the care of Mary, an invalid purportedly unable to walk. However, Mary's apparent physical limitations belie her clandestine scheme to defraud her insurance company of $25,000 by feigning disability. Amidst their professional duties of affixing posters, the Stooges chance upon an advertisement promoting the services of a renowned hypnotist, Svengarlic, renowned for his purported ability to elicit profound transformations in individuals.

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My Piece of the Pie (2011)

Comedy, Drama

Filmed after the 2008 financial crisis, and exploring themes of globalization, class distinctions and income inequality, the film opens in the French seaside town of Dunkirk. France (Karin Viard), a middle-aged divorcée, has just been laid off after 20 years at the same shipping company. She takes an overdose of pills but is rushed to hospital and makes a complete recovery.

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Triple Trouble (1918)

Comedy

thumb|thumbtime=5|Triple Trouble (1918) Charlie takes a job as a janitor in the home of Colonel Nutt, a munitions manufacturer. As the butler introduces Charlie to the ill-tempered cook, Colonel Nutt demonstrates his new wireless explosive device to his daughter. Meanwhile, agents of the "Pretzelstrass" meet with the Count to devise a plan to get at Colonel Nutt's device.

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The Night of the White Pants (2006)

Comedy drama

Max Hagan, a Texas oil tycoon, is going through a difficult divorce. When his soon-to-be ex-wife throws him out of his house with nothing but the clothes he's wearing (including the titular "white pants"), he becomes entangled in a sex, drugs and rock-'n'-roll-laden adventure with his daughter's punk-rocker boyfriend as he tries to make things right between himself and his dysfunctional family.

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Blood on the Highway (2008)

Comedy horror

The populace of the lethargic small town Fate, TX gathers for the grand opening of Consumart, a glossy new one-stop-shopping box store. The enthusiastic patrons merrily dispense into the store as the doors open at sunset. Before the unsuspecting shoppers have time to question the fact that the store is stocked with coffins, terror erupts and the store explodes into a bloodbath.

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Live Feed (2006)

Comedy horror

The movie tells the story of five friends, two couples (Emily, Darren, Sarah and Mike) and a single girl (Ashley) who are having a vacation in China. Along their trip they meet a Japanese cop (Miles), who was a spy working for the mafia, at a local bar owned by the same mafia. By misfortune, they stumble across the mafia boss and spill some beer on him, this causes him to grow remorse towards the travelers.

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High Freakquency (1998)

Comedy

24-7 Radio finds itself at the top of the charts, yet all is not well in radio paradise as a series of quirky and mentally challenged DJ's jockey for ratings and professional success. Station Manager Wes Thomas (John Witherspoon), is trying to force an inappropriate play list on station DJ and Program Director Jordan (Marcus Chong). Jordan resists the songs for music that moves the listeners.

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The District! (2004)

Animation, Comedy

The film displays the Hungarian, Roma, Chinese and Arab dwellers and their alliances and conflicts in a humorous way, embedded into a fictive story of a few schoolchildren's oil-making time-travel and a Romeo and Juliet-type love of a Roma guy towards a white girl.

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Dangerously Delicious (2012)

stand-up comedy

The stand-up material included commentary such as Southern culture, racism, wasting time Googling obscure subjects (such as the box office numbers for Home Alone vs Home Alone 2 and Joe Pesci trivia) and online pornography. He also revisited subjects from his previous stand-up special, Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening, including sharing stories about his young cousin Harris.

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Hobson's Choice (1931)

Comedy drama

In Salford, tyrannical widower Hobson runs a thriving boot shop with the help of his three daughters. Trouble starts when the eldest, Maggie, defies her father’s authority by selecting Will Mossop, his most talented craftsman, as her husband. When Will and Maggie leave to start their own shop, Maggie’s independent spirit soon spreads to her two younger sisters, who launch their own rebellions, driving a defeated Hobson to drink.

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