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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 632.

All-American Co-Ed (1941)

Comedy, musical film

Quinceton College Zeta fraternity stages a revue with members in drag. The resulting publicity catches the attention of newspaperman Hap Holden (Harry Langdon) and Virginia Collinge (Frances Langford). They convince Virginia's aunt Matilda Collinge (Esther Dale), president of failing Mar Brynn (a woman's horticultural college), to refute the school's staid image by sponsoring a contest awarding a dozen free scholarships aimed at "unusual girls", winners of pageants for fruits, vegetables and flowers, as women most likely to succeed and to be showcased in a musical presentation during the Fall Festival.

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Bungalow (2002)

Drama

Paul is a German soldier who goes AWOL when the truck he is riding in stops at a fast food restaurant. He then returns home to where his older brother Max lives. Paul is immediately attracted to Max's girlfriend, Lene, and tries to entice her into a sexual relationship, but she refuses.

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Keep It in the Family (1973)

romantic comedy

A young couple, Karen Sayers and Alex McDonald (Adrienne La Russa and Alan McRae), are fed up with the disorganized grime of student ghetto living and decide they are ready for their own apartment. When denied financial assistance by their parents, they devise an ingenious plan for revenge: Karen will seduce Alex's father Roy McDonald (John Gavin) and Alex will do the same with Karen's mother Celia Sayers (Patricia Gage). Karen lands a job as Roy's private secretary; she is an instant hit with her boss and soon enough, the two land in a downtown hotel room.

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Route 30 (2007)

Comedy

Three interconnecting stories about some rural folks in South Central Pennsylvania. The first film in the Route 30 Trilogy. 'Deer Hunters' Wives' tells of the frustrations of Civil War tour guide Mandy (Nathalie Boltt), who obsesses on Jennie Wade, the only civilian killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Kentucky Moonshine (1938)

Comedy

Radio star Jerry Wade's program ratings are falling and he suggests to his sponsors a show that is different and he goes to Kentucky to find an idea. Caroline, a Kentucky girl in New York trying to crash into radio, learns of Wade's quest and takes her three friends, Harry, Jimmy and Al Ritz, also aspiring to show-business fame, to Kentucky with her, where Wade discovers them in beards, guns, feuds, moonshine and every cliché that fits the hillbillies lifestyle. He stages a broadcast from the hills, which is not heard because of technical difficulties.

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Heber Holiday (2007)

romantic comedy

Sierra Young is a rising actress in Hollywood, making $10 million per picture. She's also a spoiled celebrity, who is partying all night, complaining on movie sets and unable to perform well. After a tantrum, in which she gets two black eyes, the director has her sent to a rehab clinic in a remote Utah town.

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Rodencia y el diente de la princesa (2012)

Comedy

An old legend tells that in a vast and wild forest, there is the fantastic kingdom of Rodencia, a place inhabited by wonderful creatures and powerful wizards. Rodencia and the Princess's Tooth follows the adventures of little Edam, a clumsy apprentice magician, together with the beautiful and confident little mouse Brie, accompanied by the greatest warriors of the kingdom, they begin an incredible journey, in which they will face the most amazing dangers to get the magic tooth of a princess, which will give them the power to defeat the dark forces led by the evil magician Rotex and his army of rats, who threaten to invade Rodencia.

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Those Endearing Young Charms (1945)

Comedy drama, romance film

In 1945, after Helen Brandt (Laraine Day) and her mother (Ann Harding) move from Ellsworth Falls to New York City, Helen finds a job as a perfume clerk at a department store while Mrs. Brandt works for the war relief effort. Jerry (Bill Williams), a boy just home from serving in France, likes Helen, but she only thinks of him as a "pal".

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Bedtime with Rosie (1975)

Comedy drama

Rosie, a pregnant and highly imaginative single woman on her way from Liverpool to Holland, stays overnight with her Aunt Annie at her dingy London home. While there she is forced to share a bed with her aunt's lodger Harry, a reclusive and disillusioned bachelor, who initially disapproves of her lifestyle. Eventually Rosie and Harry strike up a relationship after she admits to being molested as a child and that her pregnancy is the result of rape by her boyfriend.

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Johnny Frenchman (1945)

Drama

The film is set at the onset and first months of the Second World War, between March 1939 and June 1940, in a small fishing port in Cornwall, whose inhabitants have an historic, but largely benign, rivalry with their counterparts from a port over the Channel in Brittany in northern France, whose fishing boats fish the same grounds - in this case looking for crabs. Legally the French may not fish within a three-mile limit of the British coast, and vice versa, and breaches of this rule are the cause of frequent spats between the two countries. In this instance, hot-headed Cornish harbour-master Nat Pomeroy confronts Lanec Florrie, an…

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Zombie Women of Satan (2009)

Comedy horror, zombie comedy

Johnny Hellfire, Pervo the Clown, Zeus, and Damage the strongman are a circus freak troupe on a promotional tour along with a goth group fronted by Skye Brannigan, whose sister Rachel has gone missing. Along the way, they appear on a show hosted by Tycho Zander, who also leads a sex cult consisting of kidnapped scantily clad girls who are kept hypnotized and drugged. As a result the girls are also very willing subjects in experiments conducted by Tycho's father Henry, an evil scientist who loves keeping the lingerie clad girls strapped down to an operating table in his lab.

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Bride for Sale (1949)

romantic comedy

Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents. Martin finds out and tries to dissuade her from this approach, later enlisting the help of his friend Steve Adams, who tries to woo Shelley.

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A Lad an' a Lamp (1932)

Comedy

Fascinated by the story of Aladdin and his magic lamp, the gang gather together with several gasoline and kerosene lamps and lanterns and a few electric lamps hoping that by rubbing them vigorously, a genie will appear. Thanks to a series of coincidences—not least of which involves a friendly stage magician—the kids become convinced that they have succeeded in invoking Aladdin. But their excitement turns to dismay when Stymie believes Spanky has transformed his kid brother Cotton into a monkey (chimpanzee).

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Midnight Delight (2016)

Comedy, Comedy drama

Vignettes composition as follows: High how are you Features Michael Laguerre, John Crann (topics include hats, moisturizer). Awakening Features Dipti Mehta, Rachel Myers (topics include maths, infinity). Epiphanation Features Shaheed Woods, Michele Ann Suttile (topics include Why do we talk, What do models eat, If water makes us fat, dolphins).

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The Lady Wants Mink (1953)

Comedy

Jim Connors buys his wife a new coat, but neighbor Harvey Jones tops him by buying his own wife Gladys a mink. Nora Connors does not mind, but Jim, a debt collector for a department store, becomes self-conscious about his income. An off-hand remark by Gladys gives an idea to Nora to buy a couple of actual minks and bring them home.

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Forgotten Babies (1933)

Comedy

The children are taking care of their baby brothers and sisters on a Saturday, but would much rather go swimming. They blackmail Spanky into doing the job for them, by threatening to reveal that he broke a neighbor's window. Spanky is left at home alone to mind all the babies.

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Play Girl (1941)

romantic comedy

Grace Herbert is a woman in her 40s who has made her living from seducing wealthy men and suing them for breach of promise. At the end of her finances, she and her maid, Josie head to Miami where Grace hopes to find another rich man. When that plan falls through, she stumbles upon Ellen Daley, a young woman who is looking for a job as a secretary.

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Just One Summer (2012)

romance film

A rich, rebellious boy spends the summer with his father who he has considered long dead and his mistress while waiting for the annulment of his father and his mother's marriage. During his stay with his father during the summer, he meets a poor girl who is his childhood friend and is a scholar of whom her family is depending on; however, she is holding in a secret with regards to the true state of her scholarship. The two meet and comfort each other amidst their problems and they fall for each other as time goes on and as they get to know each other.

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Those Were the Days (1934)

Comedy

Strait-laced magistrate Brutus Poskett is concerned that his wife may be older than he believes her to be, especially since his young stepson seems very precocious for an apparently fifteen-year-old boy. Mrs. Poskett tries to stop an impending visit from her first husband's friend, who knows her true age, by confronting him at a local music hall.

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Charge of the Model T's (1979)

Comedy, war film

During World War I, the Germans try to disrupt American war efforts by encouraging Mexican guerrillas to destabilize the Texas border with Mexico. Masterminding the German plot is spy Friedrich Schmidt. As the border become disrupted, Friedrich drives into the United States at the wheel of the high-speed secret weapon: the "RX4", a Ford Model T equipped with armor and weaponry and tricked out with a powerful motor.

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