Someone Else's America (1995)
Comedy, Drama
Comedy movies
Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.
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Abdulla the Great (1955)
Comedy
The film is set in Bandaria, a Middle Eastern country whose absolute ruler, Abdullah, lives a life of great luxury, surrounded by lovely women. When Ronnie, a beautiful English model, arrives, Abdullah falls for her and offers her great riches. She resists his advances as she is more interested in Ahmed, an officer in the King's army.
Life Begins at Forty (1935)
Comedy drama
Kenesaw H.Clark is a small town newspaper editor and publisher. He is operating on a shoestring budget and sometimes accepts livestock in lieu of cash. When Clark hires an ex-convict Lee Austin to work on the paper, pompous town banker Colonel Abercrombie raises the roof.
Opie Gets Laid (2005)
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
At 30 years old, Opie (James Ricardo) is a virgin whose existence is made up of watching pornography and eating junk food. One day a drug dealer named Thai (April Wade) mistakenly comes to his door. She decides to help Opie by finding him a good woman, initially (and unsuccessfully) by online personal ads.
Quiz Whizz (1958)
Comedy
Quiz show victor Joe falls victim to the deceptive tactics of fraudsters G. Y. Prince and R.
Big News (1929)
Comedy
thumb|The film Steve Banks is a hard-drinking newspaper reporter. His wife Margaret, a reporter for a rival paper, threatens to divorce him if he does not quit the drinking that is compromising his career. Steve pursues a story about drug dealers even when his editor fires him.
Over the Garden Wall (1950)
Comedy
Working class couple Fanny and Joe are determined to give their daughter Mary and her husband a posh home-coming party. Trouble arises when the son of Joe's boss turns up and shamelessly flirts with their daughter.
About Fifty (2011)
romantic comedy
Buddies (1983)
Comedy drama
Young miners Mike (Colin Friels) and Johnny (Harold Hopkins) work in the gem fields of central Queensland around Emerald. Conflict arises when their pick-and-shovel operation is threatened by a large-scale bulldozer operator, Andy (Dennis Miller). Help arrives from a city doctor, George (Norman Kaye) and his family, who are passing though on holiday, and a pilot, Alfred (Simon Chilvers), who sells them a plane.
The Merry Monahans (1944)
Comedy drama, musical film
Talented vaudeville family the Monahans have one very big problem in the form of patriarch Pete, that his heavy alcoholism has gotten the performing clan blacklisted from nearly every significant venue. With little choice but to break away from Pete, his children, Jimmy and Patsy, devise their own act and take it on the road. The troupe enjoys some success, which motivates Pete to sober up.
The Stranger's Return (1933)
Comedy drama, Drama
Miriam Hopkins plays Louise Storr, a recently divorced New Yorker who travels west to Iowa to visit her paternal grandfather, a relation she has never met. Grandpa Storr (Lionel Barrymore) an 85-year-old patriarch, presides over his large farm and its employees. A number of distant relatives are long time residents in his household.
Where There's a Will (1936)
Comedy
Benjamin Stubbins is a penniless, bungling solicitor who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, that Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality, however, they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office.
You're Dead (1999)
Comedy, Crime, thriller film
Goof on the Roof (1953)
Comedy
The Stooges are informed of their roommate Bill's recent marriage, necessitating their relocation to accommodate his new wife. As a gesture of appreciation, they undertake the installation of Bill's newly acquired television antenna. However, their efforts quickly devolve into chaos, resulting in the destruction of both the television set and the household itself.
It's All Happening (1963)
Comedy, musical film
A talent scout for a record company is frustrated by his lack of progress with his career. When the orphanage where he was brought up is threatened with closing, he decides to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands.
Perfectly Normal (1991)
Comedy
Renzo Parachi, a mild-mannered man living in the small town of Long Bay, Ontario, whose quiet, unassuming life working at the local brewery and playing hockey for the company team is transformed when Alonzo Turner comes to town, ingratiating himself as Renzo's new roommate and convincing him to invest in an Italian restaurant where the servers will sing Bellini's Norma.
Sidekick (2005)
fantasy film
Norman Neale and his best friend Chuck have an ongoing debate on the subject of "what single superpower would you choose?" Then, one day, Norman notices Victor Ventura, a successful trader at Richmond financial, the company he works for. While the two are both getting coffee, Norman accidentally drops a mug. Victor amazingly catches the mug in midair.
Scram! (1932)
Comedy
Stan and Ollie find themselves entangled in a legal predicament, appearing before Judge Beaumont on charges of vagrancy. Despite their usual behavior, the judge's anger is palpable, aggravated further by the overcrowded jail, which prevents him from enforcing the standard sentence. Consequently, he issues a stern ultimatum, granting the duo one hour to vacate the town under threat of unspecified consequences.
Jungle Gents (1954)
Comedy
Sach obtains the ability to smell diamonds after he starts taking medication for a sinus infection. He and the boys go off to Africa in search of wealth, with Grimshaw as their guide. A gang of thieves comes along and tries to steal any diamonds that they may find.
Piccadilly Jim (1936)
romantic comedy
In London, American caricaturist Jim Crocker (Robert Montgomery) is a popular man-about-town, known by his pen name 'Piccadilly Jim'. He supports his father James (Frank Morgan), an out-of-work actor with a great admiration for Shakespeare, but also with an inability to remember lines from the Bard's work. Most characters in the film describe James as a ham.
Ninja Bachelor Party (1991)
Martial arts, Parody
Clarence Mumford is a Robitussin addict living with his parents. He is on a quest to become a ninja master much to the dismay of his parents. He leaves the house to visit his girlfriend Shotsi, only for her to cheat on him with a few other men, who beat him up.
The Town Went Wild (1944)
romantic comedy
Like Romeo and Juliet, next door neighbours David Conway and Carol Harrison are deeply in love with each other though their fathers have been feuding for a lifetime. With David due to go to the Alaskan Territory for engineering work for the United States Government, the pair decide to elope. David gets his best friend, Carol's brother Bob to witness their wedding at a Justice of the Peace in a neighbouring town using Millie, who has an infatuation with Bob to drive them to the town in her car and act as another witness.
Holding Trevor (2007)
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film
Young, friendly, and intelligent, Trevor Holden (Brent Gorski) is in a stalemate. Entangled in an unhealthy relationship with Darrell (Christopher Wyllie), a seductive but self-destructive heroin addict, and trapped at a low-paying job, Trevor finds scant comfort in Los Angeles' vapid party scene, where conversation rarely rises above inquiries like "So, are you an actor?" Worse still, he and his two best friends - roommate Andie (Melissa Searing) and singer Jake (Jay Brannan) - are being pulled apart by boredom and discontent. At the hospital for his boyfriend's latest overdose, Trevor finds a potential new beginning in Ephram (Eli…
Muscle Up a Little Closer (1957)
Comedy
Moe, Larry, and Joe find themselves on the brink of proposing marriage to their respective beloveds. However, their plans are disrupted when they discover that the engagement ring intended for Joe's fiancée has been stolen. Suspicions fall upon Elmo, a robust colleague employed at their workplace.