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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. 24,290 films · Page 588.

I Declare War (2012)

Action, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama

A neighborhood group of preteen friends play a game of capture the flag one Saturday afternoon in the local woods. However, their imaginations run wild, transforming their surroundings and equipment into a real warzone (sticks become rifles, slingshots become crossbows etc.) and before long, things get out of hand.

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The Romantic Age (1949)

Comedy, Drama

Middle-aged Arnold Dickson is an art master who joins the staff of the girls' school in which his daughter Julie is enrolled. He soon finds himself the target of Arlette, a sophisticated French exchange student who has more than education on her mind. On a dare, she seduces the professor into running off to Paris with her, a plot derailed by Julie when she orchestrates a scheme designed to help him put the affair into perspective.

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Live Evil (2008)

Action, Horror, thriller film, Vampire

Vampires are finding their own undead bodies being mutated by the pollution of the host's blood, tainted with hard drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, alcohol, diabetes, anti-depressants, and cigarettes: substances that change the blood and makes it undrinkable for vampires. The scarcity of good blood has incited an underground civil war between various groups of vampires. A clique of 4 vampires, led by Benedict (Mark Hengst), struggle to find sustenance by seeking victims with untainted blood.

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The Huggetts Abroad (1949)

Comedy, Tragicomedy

After Joe Huggett loses his job, the family decide to emigrate to South Africa, travelling via a land route that takes them across Africa. On their journey they become entangled with a diamond smuggler. Their truck breaks down in the desert and Joe and his son-in-law Jimmy Gardner have to trek across the sand to find help for the family.

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She Couldn't Say No (1940)

Comedy

Wally Turnbull is a partner in a law firm, Trumbull and Johnson, where his trusty secretary Alice Hinsdale is so much in love with Wally that she put aside her own ambitions of becoming an attorney. Wally is offered a chance to represent a wealthy old man, Eli Potter, in a business transaction. It turns out Potter is being sued for breach of promise by a lady, Pansy Hawkins, who needs a good lawyer.

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Thanks a Million (1935)

musical film, romance film

Stranded in a small town in a downpour, the manager of a traveling musical show convinces the handlers of a boring long-winded local judge running for governor to hire his group to attract people to the politician's rallies. When the show's crooner, Eric Land, upstages the judge, he is fired, but on a return visit he saves the day by standing in for the judge, who is too drunk to speak. Impressed by his poise, the party's bosses ask Eric to take over as candidate.

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Andre the Butcher (2005)

Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher

Four junior college students (James "Jimbo," Cookie, Jasmine, and Kristy) are driving along a deserted road in Florida on their way to a cheerleading competition. As Jimbo drives, Cookie performs fellatio on him while Jasmine secretly watches from the backseat. Distracted, Jimbo swerves and hits a utility pole, damaging the car.

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Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)

Comedy

thumb|left|220px|Lobby card thumb|thumbtime=0|Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) The vessel Merry Maiden is being loaded; the captain and the first mate are domineering figures among the crew. Meanwhile, on land, fisherman Willie Brisling is engaged to Nellie, with their affection evident. However, the captain spots Nellie, and develops an interest in her.

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Snafuperman (1944)

propaganda film

Snafu annoys his fellow soldiers by listening to loud swing music and banging pots and pans in rhythm. The other soldiers at the barracks are busy studying maps, field manuals, and air recognition charts. Snafu dismisses their interest in studying, and claims he is not going to clunk the enemy over the head with books.

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Sleeping with Strangers (1994)

romantic comedy

A popular actress (Shelly) and a rock star (McNeil) come to a small Canadian town with two competing hotels next door to each other. The rock star is escorted into one of the hotels and the actress checks into the other. Daniel (Duncan), the owner of one of the two hotels, is trying to stay afloat.

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Zulu Wedding (2019)

romantic comedy

A beautiful young dancer Lu Sabata (Nondumiso Tembe) who moves to US from her motherland South Africa in order to pursue her career in dancing, falls in love with Tex Wilson (Darrin Henson), a New York based man. However a complication is caused due to the family background of Lu who is from the royal Zulu family and is determined to fulfill her aspirations in the US, but is bound by an ancestral debt to marry a Zulu royal family member.

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Miss Polly (1941)

Comedy

In the very old-fashioned small town of Midfield, there hasn't been a marriage in more than two years and the young people are slowly leaving the town. Minerva Snodgrass, the strict and assertive leader of the town's Purity League, has created numerous restrictions to keep the girls and boys apart. Her next-door neighbor is Miss Panadora Polly, a friendly and tolerant old maid who lives with her handyman (and catastrophic hobby inventor) Slim Wilkins and her housekeeper and companion Patsy.

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Ramsbottom Rides Again (1955)

Comedy, Western

Yorkshire pub owner Bill Ramsbottom is finding the introduction of the "telly" has ruined his business at the "Bull & Cow". When he receives a cable from Canada, and learns that his grandfather "Wild Bill" Ramsbottom has left his estate to him, he confers with his family before deciding to set off for the frontier town of Lonesome in Canada to claim his inheritance. When all the family fortune is gathered together, there is not enough money to pay for tickets on a steamship for everyone.

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