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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. 24,306 films · Page 663.

Flying Wild (1941)

Comedy drama

Pals Skinny, Danny Graham, Peewee, Algy Reynolds, and Scruno all work at the Reynolds Aviation Company, which is run by Algy's father. Muggs, however, is the only one of the kids who refuses to work, although he drives the gang to work in his jalopy. Once at the aviation company, he spends his time flirting with a flight nurse named Helen Munson who is in love with her test pilot boyfriend, Tom Lawson .

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Lucky Miles (2007)

Comedy drama, Drama

In 1990, an Indonesian fishing boat drops a group of male Iraqi and Cambodian refugees on the West Australian coast, telling them there is a bus stop over the hill from which they will be able to go to Perth. They soon realise that there is no bus stop, and that they are in fact a remote desert area far from any road, town or city. Most of the group find their way to a small town pub, and are rounded up by local police.

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Broadway Hostess (1935)

musical film, romantic comedy

Shaw plays a small town girl on her rise to stardom as a night club singer who is nevertheless not as fortunate with love. Pianist Tommy falls for her, even though he suspects she's in love with her manager Lucky. Lucky claims he doesn't want to get married, but is in fact in love with socialite Iris, who brings him into her circle of rich snobs, including her brother, a hot-tempered drunk with a huge gambling problem.

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Jeg reiser alene (2011)

Comedy, Drama

Jarle Klepp is 25-year-old literature student (onomastic, Marcel Proust) at the University of Bergen in Norway. He suddenly discovers he has a 7-year-old daughter, when the mother (with whom he once had a one-night stand) sends her to him to take care for her for a week. He struggles with his new role, loses his girlfriend to his teacher and gets again close to the mother during a costume party for the children.

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The Fleet's In (1928)

Comedy

Trixie “Peachy" Dearie is a “taxi-dancer”, and a 10 cent-per-dance entertainer at a San Francisco amusement park that services sailors. Trixie retains her innocence despite her vocation. She prefers would-be swain “Searchlight” Doyle over his rival Eddie Briggs, who tries to seduce her.

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So This Is Harris (1933)

Comedy

The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which is listened to by Dorothy on the radio whose homebrewing husband Walter hates Harris. The action then moves to the country club where Walter unknowingly encounters Harris while being aggravated by his music. Walter then pretends to be Phil to meet a woman while Harris "entertains" her friend, Dorothy.

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A Girl in a Million (1946)

Comedy

Tony is a researcher who is divorced by a shrewish, nagging wife. He is offered the opportunity to head an important, but remote research station, staffed only by men; he accepts. American Colonel Sultzman arrives with a "certain something" to drop off to Tony's predecessor, who was killed in an accident two weeks before.

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Smugglers' Cove (1948)

Comedy

Young amateur sleuth Terence "Slip" Mahoney works cleaning offices in a New York highrise building when he comes across a letter addressed to Terence Mahoney, Esquire. Believing the letter is meant for him, he opens and reads it. The letter tells of an inheritance waiting for him.

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It's Hard to Be Good (1948)

Comedy

On leaving the army, officer and war hero Captain James Gladstone Wedge is full of idealism about bettering the world. He falls in love with Mary Leighton, who nursed him whilst he was recovering from his wartime injuries. He bungles a proposal to her at a railway station after being demobbed, but his good-nature had already convinced her that she should marry him.

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Bugged! (1997)

Comedy horror

The film tells the story of a group of bumbling exterminators who are called over to the house of an attractive young novelist to rid her house of insects. Unfortunately, due to a horrible chemical mix-up, the poison spray causes the bugs to grow to enormous sizes, and pretty soon everyone is trapped inside the house and have to find a way to stop the dastardly pests before they start multiplying and take over the world. Tagline "They're urban, they're vermin, and THEY exterminate YOU!"

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Fine Manners (1926)

Comedy, silent film

thumb|350x350px|1926 advertisement Burlesque chorus girl Orchid Murphy (Gloria Swanson) attracts the attention of wealthy Brian Alden (Eugene O'Brien), who is posing as a writer while "slumming" in the city. Finding her manner quite refreshing compared to the women he usually meets in his circle, he falls in love with her and confesses his wealth. After she agrees to marriage, he leaves for a six-month tour of South America, and Orchid takes a course in "fine manners" to better prepare herself for Brian's world.

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Local Boy Makes Good (1931)

Comedy

Sheepish bookstore employee John Miller has become infatuated with a college girl, Julia Winters, he has never met. His love letters to her are accidentally mailed, so Julia comes to visit, under the mistaken impression John is a college track star. While co-worker Marjorie helps continue his deception, John tries to join the school's team.

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Bargain Day (1931)

Comedy

Jackie notices that the Gang's baseball equipment is missing and discovers Wheezer and Stymie were peddling it, along with other items, from door to door. Wheezer, Stymie, and Bologna arrive at a rich family's home and try to sell a bunch of junk to a little girl named Shirley. Stymie wanders off playing with a pet monkey and a toy lion, and sets off a burglar alarm.

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