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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. 24,296 films · Page 620.

Shivering Shakespeare (1930)

Comedy

thumb|thumbtime=5|Shivering Shakespeare (1930) The gang participates in a play entitled The Gladiator's Dilemma, written, produced and directed by the wife of Kennedy the Cop. The badly written play goes comically wrong as the kids forget their lines, miss their cues and deal with unwieldy props and costumes. The audience members, unruly teenage boys, mercilessly heckle the kids and torment them by throwing food.

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Lust and Revenge (1986)

Comedy drama

Georgina Oliphant (Claudia Karvan) commissions her friend Lily Carmichael (Victoria Eagger) to create a sculpture for a new wing at the National Gallery. Georgina's wealthy father George (Chris Haywood), who owns a pharmaceutical company, is giving her daughter the money so he can use it as a tax deduction. Karl Heinz (Nicholas Hope) is chosen as the model for the sculpture and plans to use his $10,000 fee to put a down payment on a cottage.

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If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981)

Comedy

A Boy Scout troop led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them.

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Going Steady (1958)

Comedy

Julie Ann Turner, 17, wants to travel by car with friends Olive and Woody from her Pasadena, California home to Reno, Nevada, where her boyfriend Calvin Potter will be participating in a basketball game. Her mom Grace talks her opposed dad Gordon into letting her go. Calvin makes a game-winning shot.

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The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)

Comedy

A devastated tramp visits a crowd-filled bar and recounts the story of how he fell in love with a woman and then had her taken by a friend of his. Drunk, he keeps trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk, and gets into fights with other men in the process. He eventually passes out “dead drunk” (thus deviating from the poem, where the protagonist actually falls “dead”) at the end of the film.

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The Art of Woo (2001)

romantic comedy

Alessa Woo (Sook-Yin Lee), an art gallery employee in Toronto, has built an image as a rich heiress, but is in dire financial straits. She attempts to court rich men to feed her lifestyle, but is prone to changing partners. One day, talented aboriginal artist Ben Crowchild (Adam Beach) moves into the apartment next door, leading to the two sharing a bathroom.

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Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)

Comedy

On behalf of Senator Baldwin, the owner of the world's largest Chinese jade collection, detective Steve McBride investigate a death threat involving the priceless jade tablets that were brought to the United States by three adventurers, who are now on the hit list of an oriental gang. A note written in Chinese warns the impending doom at midnight unless a ransom is paid for the valuable jades, which have been stolen. Steve is put on the case to protect the people who were involved in smuggling the jades into the country.

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Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937)

Comedy drama

Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) has returned home from a long voyage at sea only to find that his family and business are not as he left them. His daughter Frankie (Mary Brian) is engaged to a dimwit that he isn't fond of. His future mother-in-law already owns 51% of his business and has plans to replace his prized ship.

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Cellmates (2011)

Comedy

Leroy Lowe is a racist who throughout his life has hated everything that was not as white as the color of his skin. Unexpectedly immersed in Mexican culture Leroy is forced to decide whether to return to his old life back in the United States or start a new life under the sun-drenched skies of Mexico.

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The Big Shot (1937)

Comedy

Bertram Simms, a veterinarian in a small town, is quite content with his place in life. When he inherits a large estate and fortune from an unknown relative, he wishes to continue living in the small town. His wife, Elizabeth, has other plans; she wants their daughter, Peggy, to enter high society in the city where Bertram's uncle used to live.

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Getting Married (1978)

romantic comedy

Michael Carboni, an associate director at a TV studio, falls in love with Kristine Lawrence, the station's newscaster. However, Kristy is due to be married in a week, and Michael has yet to reveal his feelings to her. Michael must find a way to get Kristine's affection and have her call off the wedding.

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Revenge of the Stolen Stars (1985)

Comedy

A young man named Gene McBride inherits a large plantation and a mine of rubies on an island south of the China Sea. Gene moves there with his beloved partner Kelly to search the Six Stars, a famous collection of rubies. However, soon enough the couple find out that they will have to live with the ghost of Donald McBride, the original plantation owner and Gene's uncle, as well as confronting a curse.

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