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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 670.

The Pharmacist (1933)

Comedy

Mr. Dilweg, a weary but patient pharmacist, struggles to balance his demanding life, enduring a nagging wife, self-absorbed daughters, and an endless stream of difficult customers. To cope with his frustrations, he finds solace in frequent martinis while secretly selling bootleg liquor under the counter to keep his business afloat—despite the watchful eye of the local sheriff.

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Non-Transferable (2017)

romantic comedy

The film centers around a young woman named Amy Tyler, who books a surprise holiday to Europe with her boyfriend Josh Merit. However, the two separate before they are able to go onto the trip; therefore, she advertises her tickets online in search for another man with an identical name to her ex-boyfriend to go on the tour instead. The story, although written in 2012, bore similarities to a 2014 case of a 28-year-old Toronto man named Jordan Axani, who offered up free tickets to on Reddit a girl named Elizabeth Gallagher, when he broke up with his girlfriend of the same name.

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Kremmen: The Movie (1980)

Science fiction

After a whole eon, Kremmen has been awarded The Most Fabulous Man in the World Apart from God Award, and is presented with an enormous, fully automated spaceship shaped like a Brain. While Dr. Gitfinger examines the controls, Carla persuades Kremmen to have casual sex with her in their private quarters.

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Hold That Line (1952)

American football film

Two prosperous alumni of Ivy University make a wager that anyone, from any walk of life, can succeed in college if just given the chance. They select the least likely subjects in New York -- Slip Mahoney and his gang -- to prove the theory by attending the university. The boys' boisterous behavior nearly gets them expelled, but Sach invents a "vitamin" drink that makes him invincible.

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Out of the Inkwell (1938)

animated film, Cartoon, Comedy

A live-action black janitor, played by Oscar Polk, best known for his portrayal as the servant "Pork" in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, studies hypnotism from a book while cleaning Max Fleischer's desk at the Fleischer studio. He manages to conjure Max's pen into drawing Betty Boop. In a sequence of animation mixed with live-action, he uses his new powers to control the white animated Boop.

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Up and at 'Em (1922)

Comedy drama, silent film

Wishing to drive her father's car, Barbara Jackson dresses up in the chauffeur's uniform and sneaks out. For a lark, she picks up a passenger, but it develops that passenger is part of a team of crooks who are planning to rob Bob Everett, a rival of her father, of his precious artworks. Believing her to be an undercover detective, the bandit forces her to take part in the robbery and then abandons her to be caught by Everett.

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Love God (1997)

Comedy drama

The story follows Larue, who suffers from schizophrenia and has a compulsive reading disorder, as he attempts to reintegrate into society after a stint in a mental institution. His attempts at reintegration are complicated when he begins to be haunted by Hindu deities, as well as mutated worms.

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The Sweetest Mango (2001)

romantic comedy

The film's plot about the way "a couple met and fell in love", is reportedly based on real events. Film critic Anne Brodie cited the setting of the film in its native island country as helping it in managing to reflect "local life, climate and colour". She also found the "human scale and intimacy" of the relationship rather unusual for recent romance films.

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The WAC from Walla Walla (1952)

Comedy

Two families in a small town, the Canovas and the Mayfields are perpetually feuding. Each family prides themselves on their military tradition, with the Canovas having a statue of an ancestor who fought in the American Civil War holding a pride of place in the town with the Mayfields trying to replace it with one of their own Mayfield ancestors. A Romeo and Juliet situation develops where Judy Canova is in love with Lieutenant Tom Mayfield of the Army Ordnance Corps, but Tom pays more attention to the glamorous Doris Vail.

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One New York Night (1935)

Comedy

Foxhall Ridgeway, a cattle rancher from Wyoming, checks into a New York City hotel, determined to find a wife. Instead he finds a dead body in the room next to his. Meanwhile Countess Broussiloff has asked her friend Phoebe, a switchboard operator at the hotel, to find her bracelet.

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Poison Pen (2014)

Comedy

P.C. Molloy (Lochlann Ó Mearáin), a Booker Prize–winning author, is coerced into writing for a tabloid gossip magazine. Cultures clash and sparks fly as the cerebral Molloy finds himself immersed in the world of vain celebrities and he begins to fall for his boss (Aoibhinn McGinnity).

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