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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. 24,298 films · Page 630.

She's Back on Broadway (1953)

musical film, romantic comedy

When Catherine Terris' career in Hollywood begins to falter, she returns to Broadway, where her first great triumphs occurred. She takes the lead in a play directed by Rick Sommers, with whom she had a romantic past. Sommers is still bitter that she left him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier.

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305 (2008)

Comedy

The film is presented as a "found footage" mockumentary, following five of Sparta's most incompetent citizens: Claudius, Darryl, Demetrius the Blind, Shazaam, and Testicleese. While King Leonidas leads the legendary 300 Spartans to the Battle of Thermopylae, these five men are deemed unfit for frontline combat. Instead, they are assigned the seemingly menial task of guarding a remote goat path that leads behind the Spartan lines.

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Three Hearts for Julia (1943)

romantic comedy

American foreign correspondent Jeff Seabrook's prolonged absences are frustrating his former musician wife Julia so much she has resumed her performing career and is planning a divorce. Jeff hasn't told her he is on his way home. Julia hasn't told him she is leaving him and is already being deeply wooed by both by orchestra manager David Torrance and music critic Philip Barrows.

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The Under-Pup (1939)

musical film, romantic comedy

Pip-Emma Binns is a New York tomboy with 11 uncles, who wear uniforms and teach her the professional tricks of their trades. Pip-Emma is invited—as a charity case—to a summer camp for wealthy girls. The snobby "Purple Order of Penguins" resent Pip-Emma's brash behavior, plain-spoken opinions, and streetwise skills learned from her uncles, and she is bullied by the other girls.

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Cape of Good Hope (2004)

Comedy drama

Afrikaner Kate runs a Cape Town animal shelter, is involved with a married man, and is oblivious to the romantic attentions of Morne, a local veterinarian. The shelter's East Indian receptionist Sharifa is desperately struggling to have a child with her husband. Meanwhile, Congolese handyman Jean Claude finds himself torn between his growing love for a black South African single mother and his dreams of emigrating to Canada.

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The Hottentot (1929)

Comedy

Sam Harrington has a lifelong terror of horses—so naturally, he finds himself impersonating a champion steeplechase rider. Sam is in love with Peggy Fairfax, an avid horsewoman who lives on a country estate with her brother and a lively circle of friends who admire daring riders and fine horses. Hoping to matchmake, the mischievous Mrs.

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Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951)

Comedy

Elwood Martin, a brash extrovert with an aversion to work, comes to live with Walt Wallet and his wife Phyllis. Elwood creates havoc around the house, at Corky Wallet's diner and at Skeezix Wallet's repair shop. Corky and his kid sister Judy, hoping to save the family from bankruptcy and insanity, try to persuade Elwood to move away, but Elwood fakes a back injury.

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Man Is a Woman (1998)

Comedy, Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

Simon Eskanazy is a thirty-year-old gay musician. Born into a Jewish family, he took great pains to accept his homosexuality, and to get his family (including his mother and his uncle, Salomon) to do the same. The latter, Uncle Salomon is a wealthy banker who offered him a deal: he'll give him 10 million francs and will bequeath his mansion to Simon only if Simon agrees to marry a woman.

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The Midas Touch (1997)

Comedy, Comedy drama, fantasy film

Drama about a 12-year-old boy who fantasises about having enough money to be able to cure his grandmother's serious heart condition. When he finds himself in a haunted house, the mysterious owner 'grants' him one wish - the Midas touch. The boy soon learns that it is more of a curse than a blessing when everything he touches turns into gold.

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General Education (2012)

Comedy

Levi Collins, (Chris Sheffield), a high school senior, has been forced all his life by his father Rich, (Larry Miller), to play tennis due to a strong devotion to a family tradition. Levi receives a letter saying he has received a full scholarship to go to college at Forest Wood and play tennis, which makes his father very proud. In addition, Levi gets another letter from Arizona State saying he has been accepted, but his father discards it, encouraging him to go to Forest Wood.

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