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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. 24,305 films · Page 654.

White Tie and Tails (1946)

Comedy

In New York City, a head butler (Dan Duryea) of a wealthy house of the Latimers stays to look after the mansion while the owners' family leaves for a vacation in Florida. However, he is going to have his own vacation there in the mansion, playing a rich man. He meets a beautiful woman (Ella Raines) and promises her to bail out her sister's large gambling debts owed to a ruthless gangster (William Bendix).

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10 Attitudes (2001)

LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

Gay West Hollywood caterer Josh Stevens (Jason Stuart), who is in his 30s, ends his ten-year relationship with his partner Lyle (Rusty Updegraff) who cheats on him with a 19-year-old Todd (Ben Crowley). Josh's friend Brendon (Christopher Cowan) makes a wager with newly single Josh to either find a suitable partner within ten dates or return to his hometown Cleveland, Ohio. Josh assumes his first suitor Jimmy (Michael Lee Haring) has been using drugs when Jimmy quickly returns from a restroom.

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Soak the Rich (1936)

Comedy

Humphrey Craig is a tycoon who has endowed a university. His idealistic daughter Belinda enrolls there, hoping to get some idea of the "real world". When Professor Popper lectures his students on the merits of a "soak-the-rich" tax bill, Craig (who opposes the bill) gets Popper fired.

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Back in Circulation (1937)

Comedy drama

The top reporter on the Chronicle is a woman, "Timmy" Blake, who is engaged to marry Bill Morgan, her editor. Morgan assigns her to investigate the death of wealthy Spencer Wade, who left a note implicating Eugene Forde, his doctor. Timmy believes that the victim's widow, Arline, is responsible.

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An Hour to Kill (2018)

Comedy horror

Two hired killers, Frankie (Frankie Pozos) and Gio (Aaron Guerrero), under the guidance of their Mob Boss Mr. Kinski (Mel Novak), have an hour to kill before their next hit. To help pass the time, they entertain themselves by telling horror stories to one another.

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Black Waters (1929)

Comedy drama, Drama

A weird night watchman lures a group of people onto a rundown old yacht at a San Francisco pier at midnight. Once the boat sets sail, the passengers are murdered off one by one, until only two of them (Charles and Eunice) remain, along with a kindly old reverend who turns out to actually be the murderer, a crazy ship's captain named Tiger Larabee who disguises himself as a reverend to pull off a succession of murders.

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A Very Serious Person (2006)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, teen film

Jan (Charles Busch), an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A (Polly Bergen), a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil (PJ Verhoest). Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother's death.

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Lady Luck (1936)

Comedy drama, Crime

In New York City, Mamie Murphy is working as a manicurist when she hears on the radio that she has won $2,500 on the racehorse Lady Luck in a sweepstakes draw, with the chance to win a further $150,000. Newspaper reporter Dave Haines is sent to interview Mamie because he already knows her and fancies her. She turns down his invitation to accompany him that evening to the Blue Moon nightclub, but accepts an invitation from "businessman" Jack Conroy.

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Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933)

Comedy

Impoverished Irish landowner Major Adair pushes his eldest daughter Eileen to marry the wealthy Lawrence Blake in order to pay off his debts, despite the fact that she is in love with another man. However Adair's younger daughter Paddy falls for Blake herself, and schemes to order events to everybody's happiness.

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Silk Hope (1999)

Melodrama, romance film

Frannie Vaughn (Fawcett) comes back home after being away a long time, only to find that her mother has died. She also finds out that her sister, Natalie (Crow) and her fiancé, Jake (Bryce), are planning to sell the acres once owned by Frannie and Natalie's family. To buy the land back from her sister, Frannie gets a job and falls in love with a fellow worker, Rubin (Johnson).

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So's Your Aunt Emma (1942)

Comedy

Emma Bates is an old spinster living with her equally unmarried sisters. One day she decides to go to New York City to see a fight where a young man, Mickey O'Banion, is one of the boxers. Emma's sisters are appalled by this decision, unaware that Mickey is the son of a man with whom Emma was once involved years ago.

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The Real World Movie: The Lost Season (2002)

Comedy

The plot revolves around an obsessed fan of the series, who goes crazy after being rejected during numerous Real World auditions, and kidnaps the cast of the latest season. He then imprisons them in a booby-trapped house of his own design, and films them in an attempt to create his own, deadly version of The Real World.IMDB entry for The Real World Movie: The Lost Season.

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Accent on Youth (1935)

Comedy

When Steven Gaye, a successful New York playwright, turns forty he thinks he's too old for romance. But when he falls in love with his secretary Linda, he experiences the strongest emotions of his life. Feeling that he is too old for Linda, he decides to fix her up with Dick Reynolds, the young lead actor in his play.

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Behind the Eight Ball (1942)

Comedy

A summer stock theatre is plagued by a series of backstage murders and sabotage. When the latest group to play there arrives and is informed of the situation, the least talented members of the troupe, The Ritz Brothers, are promoted to headliners under the reasoning that they are the most expendable. Detective Demarest is tasked with investigating the murders, but is frequently hindered by The Ritz Brothers.

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The Bashful Bachelor (1942)

Comedy

Small town store owner Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) in Pine Ridge has a thorn in his side because his partner in the Jot-em-Down general store, Abner Peabody (Norris Goff), has exchanged the store delivery car for a race track horse. And because Lum doesn't have the guts to approach the woman he is in love with, Geraldine (ZaSu Pitts), and propose to her once and for all, he lays a complex scheme to impress her in a fake "rescue" mission. He fails tremendously in this mission, and nearly gets everyone killed in doing so.

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Blondie's Anniversary (1947)

Comedy

Dagwood's boss George Radcliffe wants to make a good impression on the bank president's secretary, so he buys an expensive watch for her. He asks Dagwood to pick it up at the jeweler's shop and deliver it the next morning. Blondie sees the watch, assumes that it's an anniversary gift, and keeps it for herself.

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Peach O'Reno (1931)

musical film, romantic comedy

thumb|Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in a scene from the film. Aggie Bruno has had enough of her husband, Joe, and decides to get a divorce in Reno. She meets with lawyers Wattles and Swift, the latter of the two agreeing to represent Aggie in court.

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Two Brides and a Baby (2011)

Comedy, Drama, romance film

Keche (Keira Hewatch) and Bankole (OC Ukeje) believe that their relationship is divinely ordained. They plan on having an amazing wedding ceremony and believe their marriage will stand the test of time. An unexpected event gets uncovered that tests how much they are really willing to sacrifice for their union to work out.

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