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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 598.

Weekend With Father (1951)

romantic comedy

Widower Brad Stubbs and widow Jean Bowen meet at Grand Central Station while sending their children to summer camp. After another chance encounter, Brad and Jean begin dating and are soon engaged. When Brad attempts to end his relationship with Phyllis Reynolds, an actress, she misunderstands and thinks that he wants to marry her.

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Where's That Fire? (1940)

Comedy

Incompetent Fire Captain Viking fails to find a large fire, gets lost in the process and ends up on a newspaper headline as 'The engine that never made it'. Finally upon arriving at the location of the fire (discovering it's been put out) he hears that his local town hall is on fire. After failing to appear before the town hall burns down, Fire Captain Viking is told to put out a fire successfully or else he and his men face the sack.

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Christmas with the Dead (2012)

Christmas film, Comedy horror, Dystopian, Zombie

Strange electrical currents hurtle towards Earth from outer space. Calvin lives a typical life with his wife Ella and daughter Tina in the fictional East Texas town of Mud Creek It's during the holidays and one night Ella harasses him to put up Christmas decorations on their home. Instead Calvin naps on the couch and then a freak lightning storm from the strange electrical currents causes everyone who sees it to drop dead.

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Kathy O' (1958)

Comedy, Drama

Kathy O'Rourke is a child actress who portrays girls such as Shirley Temple on the screen. However, in real life, Kathy is a self-centered brat. Publicity agent Harry Johnson is tasked by the studio with the job of keeping national magazine reporter Celeste Saunders, his ex-wife, from discovering that their child star is a devil and not an angel.

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Your Excellency (2019)

Comedy drama, Drama, Political Satire, Satire

A bumbling billionaire businessman and failed presidential candidate, Chief Olalekan Ajadi, is very much obsessed with US President Donald Trump. Just when his political campaign seems to be on the verge of another floppy disaster, Ajadi is anointed by a majority party and becomes a tough, credible contender with the assistance of the powerful social media.

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For the Love of George (2018)

Comedy, romantic comedy

The story begins in early 2014 in Surrey, England. Poppy Wakefield lives a charmed existence, playing domestic goddess for her husband Stephen and working as a freelance magazine journalist from her beautiful home. Her seemingly perfect, if predictable, life is shattered when she discovers that Stephen's recent birdwatching hobby is a cover for an affair.

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It's in the Bag! (1945)

Comedy

After changing the terms of his will, bequeathing all of his fortune to his long-lost grandnephew, millionaire Frederick Trumble slips a packet of money inside a chair seat. He is then shot and killed by an unseen assailant. When Trumble's grandnephew, flea circus operator Fred F.

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Stone Age Romeos (1955)

Comedy

The Stooges embark on a quest to validate the existence of contemporary cavemen, driven by the prospect of securing a monetary reward from museum curator B. Bopper. Armed with a 16mm camera, they venture into the wilderness, poised to document any evidence supporting their claim.

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The Weekend (2016)

Comedy

As Derrick returns to London from college, he bumps into a man who has stolen £100,000 from a crime boss known as the Butcher. Derrick is waiting for a ride home from his friend Malcolm, and the thief is fleeing the Butcher's two thugs, Tiny and Streets; distracted, the two men unknowingly exchange bags. After the thief is struck by a car and killed, Derrick leaves with Malcolm.

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My Horrible Year! (2001)

teen film

After fifteen-year-old Nik's (Mack) favorite uncle passes away, she feels like the world is about to collapse and considers suicide. In addition to dealing with typical problems such as school, bullies, wearing braces, body changes, and babysitting, she overhears a portion of a conversation between her parents, causing her to believe that her father is having an affair with her recently widowed aunt, which considerably adds to her stress. She fears that her parents are going to divorce on her sixteenth birthday.

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Slaphappy Sleuths (1950)

Comedy

The Stooges serve as investigators representing the Onion Oil company, tasked with resolving a series of robberies plaguing the company's service stations. Despite their diligent efforts to provide exemplary customer service, offering unconventional amenities such as shaves, manicures, cologne, and popcorn, the Stooges fall victim to theft while momentarily distracted. Following a trail of motor oil, they ultimately locate the hideout of the perpetrators, where they display unexpectedly proficient boxing prowess, surpassing their earlier detective endeavors.

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Diplomaniacs (1933)

Comedy

Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub are barbers with next to no customers: their shop is on an Indian reservation (an opening text states that the Indians do not grow facial hair). The tribe, newly rich from oil drilling, pays them to represent their Nation at a peace conference in Switzerland. Unbeknownst to them, an armaments manufacturer producing highly explosive bullets wants to ensure that the peace conference is a failure, and do everything they can to sabotage it: the general manager, Winkelreid, assisted by Wise Gai Chow-Chow, hires a vamp, Dolores, to distract Willy and Hercules and steal their secret documents.

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Junior Prom (1946)

Drama, musical film

Musical teacher Miss Hinklefink receives criticism from her student Lee Watson at Whitney High School, because of the poor plot of famous operas. Later during the lecture, when Miss Hinklefink is away for a few minutes, the students learn about meter from Harry "The Hipster" by listening to swing. When Lee as so often is in the principal's office, a local businessman enters the room and offers to pay for the football team's new uniforms if his son, Jimmy Forrest, is elected as student body president.

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Trojan Warrior (2002)

Comedy

Ajax (Stan ‘The Man’ Longinidis), was once an undercover operative, trying to infiltrate the business dealings of local gangsters, but was wronged by police in the process. When his cousin Theo (Arthur Angel), rats out the local mob boss, 'one-man-army' Ajax (Stan ‘The Man’ Longinidis), must rescue and protect him from the Melbourne underworld, who want to prevent Theo from testifying at a trial that would put them away for a very long time. Ajax must also battle his arch enemy, Super Don Armande Poroni in the process.

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Cold Feet (1983)

Comedy

Cold Feet is a romantic comedy-drama about a young man named Monty (Griffin Dunne), who is deeply in love with his fiancée, Deirdre (Marissa Chibas). Set in New York City, the film follows Monty as he experiences a severe case of "cold feet" just days before his wedding. Although he is excited about marrying Deirdre, he is overwhelmed by doubts and fears about committing to a lifetime with one person.

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I Me Wed (2007)

romantic comedy

Boston based home renovator Isabel Darden, is a successful, attractive 30-year-old woman. Isabel feels happy with her single life and loves herself. But her mother and friends are concerned, she will be a spinster if she doesn't find a husband soon.

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The Star Maker (1939)

Biography, Comedy, musical film

Loosely based on the life of vaudevillian Gus Edwards, the film follows the career of aspiring song writer Larry Earl (Crosby) who gives up his job as a night clerk and marries Mary (Louise Campbell). He is anxious to get his songs published and buys a piano which they can ill afford. He sees children performing in the street and has an idea to develop and produce their talent on stage.

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With Love and Hisses (1927)

Private Cuthbert Hope, a well-meaning but inept soldier, continually exasperates his superior, the irascible Sergeant Banner, who in turn answers to the equally temperamental Captain Bustle. While departing by train, Captain Bustle becomes distracted by a group of female admirers and inadvertently steps off the platform before boarding. Once aboard, he discovers Sergeant Banner occupying his compartment and helping himself to the captain's lunch.

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Hide-Out (1934)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film

Lucky Wilson, a charming but reckless New York City racketeer, enjoys a life of crime and luxury until he is wounded while evading the police. Forced to flee the city, he takes refuge on a quiet Connecticut farm, where he is taken in by the kind-hearted Miller family. As Lucky recovers, he struggles to adjust to the slower pace of country life but soon finds himself drawn to the farm’s simplicity and warmth.

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Arnold's Wrecking Co. (1973)

Comedy

From Boxoffice Magazine: "Arnold... a super-straight business student in college... [due to] his amazing agility with accounting practices, makes of cousin De Souza's modest "grass" enterprise one of the mightiest businesses on the stock exchange listings, much to the consternation of both the law-enforcement officialdom and crime syndicate chieftains of the City of Brotherly Love.""Arnold's Wrecking Co." Boxoffice Magazine.

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