Cinema Hound logoCinema Hound logoCinema HoundSniffing out great movies.
← Find more movies

Comedy movies

Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,306 films · Page 661.

All the King's Horses (1935)

Comedy, Drama, musical film

King Rudolf XIV of Langenstein battles with his wife Elaine, Queen of Langenstein over his beard; she hates it, he feels pressured to keep it by his cohorts who desire it, feeling it makes the young King appear more mature. She leaves him. Renown singer Carlo Rocco, a former resident of Langenstein and his manager Con return to his home country.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

The Lady Is Willing (1934)

Comedy

Private detective Albert Latour is employed by three men who aim to take revenge on the man responsible for a failed investment. Realising that the man's wife is wealthy, Latour kidnaps her in order to hold a ransom. The matter gets complicated when he finds himself falling in love with her.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Shiver My Timbers (1931)

Comedy

A loud sea captain (Billy Gilbert) tells violent stories about adventures out on the sea as pirates. The gang is playing hookey from school in order to hear his stories. Miss Crabtree (June Marlowe) finds where they are and decides to team up with the sea captain to teach the kids a lesson and scare them from ever wanting to be pirates.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Harvard, Here I Come! (1941)

Comedy

The Harvard Lampoon, an undergraduate humor publication at Harvard College, honors the night club owner with a very "special award". Maxie's friends, Francie Callahan, the cashier and general manager of the club, and Hypo McGonigle, sportswriter, suspect Slapsie is about to be made a fool by the publication. The chief editor of the Harvard Lampoon, Harrison Carey, soon enough presents an award for "Supreme Pediculousness", and the friends worst fears are realized.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Rackety Rax (1932)

Action, Comedy

Always looking for an angle, "Knucks" McGloin purchases the mortgage on Canarsie College and then turns its football team's fortunes around by hiring thugs and hooligans as players and nightclub dancers as cheerleaders. For the biggest game of the season, almost everything goes wrong. Canarsie's quarterback double-crosses his teammates and coach Brick Gilligan (a former Sing Sing inmate) by revealing the team's plays to the opponents.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Made in China (2009)

Comedy

The film focuses on a novelty inventor named "Johnson", a 20-something from Texas who has designed what he believes will be the next great novelty item - " a humorous domestic hygiene product". He makes contact with a Chinese manufacturer in Shanghai via Craigslist and decides to fly to China with his life savings to create his dream product. Upon arrival, his contact - the elusive James Choi, fails to show up or answer his phone.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

The Nut (1921)

romantic comedy, silent film

Charlie (Fairbanks) loves a woman, Estrell (De La Motte), who has a theory that if rich people would take a number of poor children into their homes each day, the environment would cause the children to grow up properly and become good citizens. Charlie organizes a party to convince rich people to participate to this cause, but the event ends up catastrophically. Charlie, who spends the night at the police station, meets a crook who pretend to be a member of the very influential Vanderbrook family.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)

Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy, war film

Don Phelan, the ace newsreel reporter, falls in love with Wilma Howell, the daughter of the owner of another newsreel company that is a bitter rival of the one Don works for. The rivalry, with cameramen jostling each other out of the way, acts of sabotage, and reporters fighting to get the 'scoop', does not bode well for the romance.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Don't Take It to Heart (1944)

Comedy

When the ancient castle of the earls of Chaunduyt (pronounced "Condit") is damaged by German bombing during the Second World War, an ancient ghost is released from a chest hidden in an old wall. He is sighted by the butler Alfred Bucket and the maid when they come to inspect the damage, and he becomes front page news. Lawyer Peter Hayward joins a tour of the somewhat decrepit castle (conducted by the poverty-stricken, but unconcerned Lord Chaunduyt, incognito), and admires portraits of a young woman, who turns out to be Lady Mary, the present lord's daughter.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Keep Fit (1937)

boxing film, Comedy

George Formby again plays his working class underdog, gormless, gullible, indefatigable and triumphant hero. A weakling, Formby's character overcomes obstacles to beat a corrupt rival in the boxing ring. He plays a scrawny barber's assistant who, in response to the keep fit fad sweeping through Britain at the time, dreams of a better physique, and sings of it in the catchy "Biceps, Muscle and Brawn".

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Not Wanted on Voyage (1957)

Comedy

Two cabin stewards working on a luxury vessel on a Mediterranean cruise to Tangier attempt to earn extra money from the passengers using every possible means. However, when one of the wealthy dowagers has her valuable diamond necklace stolen, they do everything they can to ensure it is restored to her.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence