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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. 24,299 films · Page 635.

Speak of the Devil (1990)

Comedy horror, Horror, Occult Horror

Reverend Jonah Johnson is a phony Louisiana Evangelist preacher, whose wife, Isabelle, uses his sermons to fleece their parishioners of their money. During his first satellite feed on TV, he pretends to "heal" a man in wheelchair as a man from the IRS watches, but he is soon interrupted by the police with a warrant for his arrest and a redneck father declaring he is the father of his daughter's unborn baby. Johnson flees the scene, also chased by the actor who played the phony paraplegic, and is soon caught by a local police officer, who lets him go.

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Sailor's Lady (1940)

Comedy

The city's beauty parlors are flooded with hopeful women as the Navy fleet and its sailors are coming to visit. Sally Gilroy is one of these expectant girls. Sally is quite nervous about the visit since her fiancé Danny is among the arriving sailors, and she is supposed to marry him in the next few days.

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The First Seven Years (1930)

Comedy

thumb|thumbtime=10|The First Seven Years (1930) Jackie and Speck are both in love with Mary Ann, but she is not interested in any boys. However, after battering Jackie, she suggests that Jackie and Speck fight in a duel for her affection. Jackie and Speck fight with real swords that have been used to damage a tire and shred clothing.

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Dorian Blues (2004)

Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, LGBTQ-related film, teen film, Teen Comedy Film

Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused, and finally comes out to his brother, Nicky. Nicky is a scholarship-winning quarterback and favorite son to their heteronormative and argumentative father.

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Hantu Gangster (2012)

Comedy horror

In a small town in Klang, a rogue named Te Sai (played by Namewee) steals a ring during a gangster's memorial ceremony, unaware that it is haunted. The ring contains the spirits of three former gang leaders, who begin to haunt Te Sai as he carries it. He soon discovers that the trio was killed by a traitor whose personal agenda threatens the very foundation of unity among the three gangs.

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Ice-Capades (1940)

Comedy, musical film, romance film

Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star.

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The Man from Toronto (1933)

romantic comedy

Lawyer Bunston informs Englishwoman Leslie Farrar, his niece by marriage, that she will inherit a quarter of a million if she marries Canadian Fergus Wimbush. The trouble is, they have never met. Leslie is furious, certain that the deceased made the will to get back at her for not marrying him by pressuring her to wed his nephew.

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A Tough Winter (1930)

Comedy

thumb|thumbtime=15|A Tough Winter (1930) The gang goes to Wheezer and Mary Ann's house for a taffy pull, but they botch the recipe and make a huge mess. They attempt to clean it and ask Stepin Fetchit to help, but he crosses wires, plumbing and gas lines. As a result, light bulbs pop, water sprays from gas heaters, a phone acts as a vacuum cleaner and music plays from the icebox.

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Under Your Spell (1936)

musical film, romantic comedy

New York City opera star Anthony Allen lives a privileged but controlled life, recording hit songs and drawing large crowds to performances while existing in constant strain with his agent Petroff, who imposes on him a stressful performance schedule and a near-constant chain of vacuous promotional stunts. Chicago socialite Cynthia Drexel sees Allen perform in a production of Gounod's Faust and makes a bet with her longtime suitor, the Count Raul du Rienne: either she can make the notoriously unavailable Allen sing at a private party, or else she will marry him. After the show, Drexel makes a deal with Petroff, offering him $15,000…

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Feed 'em and Weep (1938)

Comedy

It is Mr. Hood's birthday, and he has been eagerly anticipating a quiet dinner at home with his family, his lunch consisted only of "a lettuce sandwich on gluten bread." Darla then mentions that she has invited her friends to the celebration: Alfalfa, Porky, and Philip. The well-meaning trio drive Mr.

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Supernatural Activity (2012)

Comedy horror, Exorcism Film, Fake Documentary, found footage film, Parody, Silly Movie, Supernatural

A group of paranormal investigators go to Texas to expose a cryptid called the Smallsquatch as a fake. However, they find evidence that suggests it may be more real than they initially thought. Along the way, the encounter a possessed girl by the name of Emily Sunflower.

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Sunstruck (1972)

Comedy

Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, is very proud of the choir that he's formed with his pupils. But when the girl of his dreams — a new gym teacher — marries a fellow teacher, he decides to leave and migrate to Australia for a better life 'in the sun'. From Sydney, he is assigned to a small school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs, living in a small room over the local hotel run by Sal and Mick.

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The Very Idea (1929)

Comedy

Alan Camp has written a book on eugenics, and is looking to prove his theories. His sister, Edith Goodhue, and her husband, Gilbert have been frustrated for years with their inability to have children. Alan convinces them to let him create a child through eugenics for them to adopt.

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Warn That Man (1943)

Comedy, thriller film

At a country house during the Second World War, a German actor, who looks uncannily like a British peer, takes his place as part of a German attempt to kidnap the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, when he visits the estate. Unfortunately for their plans, the niece of the peer arrives unannounced, along with her RAF pilot fiancé, and two of his new friends, who had rescued him at sea when he was shot down.

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