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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. 24,307 films · Page 674.

Pleasure Cruise (1933)

Comedy

Andrew Poole has lost his wealth in the Depression. Seeing his personal estate going under the auction hammer and with no immediate prospects, he plans to release his fiancée, Shirley, from their engagement. Instead, she insists that they marry immediately and subsist on her salary while he finishes a novel, and Andrew accepts.

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The Millions (2019)

Comedy, thriller film

The story revolves around the lives of five guys who come together to carry out a massive money heist in Nigeria. Bem Kator a charismatic con man plays the lead character to successfully launch the heist as planned. But things don't go in the way he would have expected with an interesting climax forming up the crux.

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It's in the Bag (1944)

Comedy

Gert and Daisy are hard up, and to raise some cash sell a dress bequeathed to them by their grandmother. Too late, they realise the dress has £2000 hidden in it, and set about retrieving it from the buyer, a theatrical costumier. Their landlady's son, Joe, gets to hear about it and joins the chase to try and get his hands on the money.

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Lady Behave! (1937)

romantic comedy

Prior to leaving for Haiti, two sisters and their godfather/legal advisor are having a holiday in New Orleans. The fun loving Clarice goes out for a night on the town for Mardi Gras, as sensible conservative Paula and godfather Burton Williams remain home and prepare for their journey. Clarice comes back drunk in the morning.

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The Girl from Calgary (1932)

musical film, romantic comedy

A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star.

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William Comes to Town (1948)

Comedy

William Brown and his gang the Outlaws visit the Prime Minister in Downing Street to demand shorter school hours and better pay for kids. The newspaper publicity caused by their visit lands William and his friends in trouble with their parents. William almost ruins his chances of going to the circus (his parents made him promise to stay out of trouble), but somehow he finally finds his way there.

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Squeeze a Flower (1970)

Comedy

Brother George is the only monk at the Italian Monastery who knows the secret recipe of the popular liqueur that is the sole source of income for the monastery. When he feels their sole distributor, a local wine merchant, is not giving the monastery a fair price, he leaves and moves to Australia. There he works at a vineyard picking grapes and starts making the liqueur in his spare time.

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Bloody Knuckles (2014)

Comedy, Horror

Travis is an underground comics artist one of whose works depicts Chinatown boss Leonard Fong as a gangster responsible for a teenager's death by rat poison. Fong cuts off Travis's drawing hand, which rises from the sewer to take revenge and also beats up its former owner. A subplot involves Homo Dynamous, a gay man wearing leather bondage gear who comes to life from Travis' comic to assist him and his hand.

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Kid Nightingale (1939)

musical film, musical comedy

Singing waiter Steve Nelson flattens a customer who heckles him. Skip Davis, a trainer of prizefighters, witnesses this and proposes a new career to Steve, who agrees on the condition voice coach Rudolfo Terrassi is hired to help train him as a singer as well. Women flock to ringside to watch the handsome Steve, dubbed "Kid Nightingale" for his singing talents.

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Adam and Eve (1953)

Comedy, family film

On the way home from a conference in Paris, Mr. Johansen accidentally finds himself in possession of an insignificant little French book. He has no idea where the book came from or what it concerns, but he decides he should secretly smuggle it through customs.

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Son of the Navy (1940)

Comedy drama

Racing to his battleship the USS Florida, Chief Gunners Mate Mike Malone attempts to hitchhike to Naval Base San Diego and runs into Tommy and his Cairn Terrier Terry who are runaways from an orphanage. The scheming Tommy gets the two a lift to the base. At the base and frightened of being discovered he's a runaway, Tommy meets Steve Moore, the daughter of a Chief Petty Officer and gives her the impression that Mike is his father, especially after Steve saw Tommy see Mike off.

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