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1. Just One of the Guys (1985)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Terry feels discriminated against when the summer jobs at the Sun Tribune go to two guys. She decides to do something about it. She dresses like a guy and gets a haircut. Will students at the other high school notice? Girls notice "him".
Director: Lisa Gottlieb | Stars: Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jayne, Toni Hudson
Votes: 17,910 | Gross: $11.50M
2. The Blues Brothers (1980)
R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy
Votes: 214,801 | Gross: $57.23M
3. Fierce Creatures (1997)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy
Zookeepers struggle to deal with the policies of changing directors.
Directors: Robert Young, Fred Schepisi | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Votes: 25,654 | Gross: $9.38M
4. Date Night (2010)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson
Votes: 172,307 | Gross: $98.71M
5. Blue Streak (1999)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A former convict poses as a cop to retrieve a diamond he stole years ago.
Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle
Votes: 88,886 | Gross: $68.52M
6. Down with Love (2003)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
Director: Peyton Reed | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Renée Zellweger, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Paulson
Votes: 44,409 | Gross: $20.30M
7. The Slammin' Salmon (2009)
R | 99 min | Comedy
The owner of a Miami restaurant indebted to the mob institutes a contest to see what waiter can earn the most money in one night.
Director: Kevin Heffernan | Stars: Michael Clarke Duncan, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Jeff Chase
Votes: 15,538 | Gross: $0.04M
8. The Dream Team (1989)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst
Votes: 16,398 | Gross: $28.89M
9. Duck Soup (1933)
Not Rated | 69 min | Comedy, Musical
Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 62,781
10. Sleeper (1973)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory
Votes: 44,858 | Gross: $2.91M
11. Twelfth Night (1996)
PG | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Imogen Stubbs, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 6,415 | Gross: $0.59M
12. For Richer or Poorer (1997)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Romance
An unhappily married Manhattan socialite couple flee from the I.R.S. and end up in Amish country where they pretend to be visiting relatives.
Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Tim Allen, Kirstie Alley, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Lerner
Votes: 12,104 | Gross: $31.61M
13. The Baxter (2005)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
In the style of a Howard Hawks comedy, Baxter follows the twists and turns of a young man's life during the two weeks before his wedding.
Director: Michael Showalter | Stars: Michael Showalter, Elizabeth Banks, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Williams
Votes: 4,940 | Gross: $0.18M
14. Moon Over Parador (1988)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
A U.S. actor gets a gig in South American Parador. When the dictator dies, he's forced to play him for real and gets his mistress. Can they change Parador?
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters
Votes: 6,751 | Gross: $11.44M
15. A Day at the Races (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones
Votes: 14,591
16. Mystery Team (2009)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
Director: Dan Eckman | Stars: Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson, Dominic Dierkes, Aubrey Plaza
Votes: 9,756 | Gross: $0.08M
17. Carry on Cleo (1964)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Two Britons, Hengist and Horsa, are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Caesar.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 5,010
18. Monkey Business (1931)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx
Votes: 14,292
19. My Little Chickadee (1940)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Western
After a scandal runs a gold-digger out of town, she meets a con artist and becomes embroiled in a string of petty deceits.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran
Votes: 3,065
20. Topper Returns (1941)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
A fun-loving young woman is murdered after trading bedrooms with her wealthy friend. Her ghost seeks aid from Topper to find the murderer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke
Votes: 3,427
21. Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
M | 90 min | Comedy, History
Two mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.
Director: Bud Yorkin | Stars: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran
Votes: 3,124
22. Another Fine Mess (1930)
Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard, Bobby Burns
Votes: 2,617
23. Michael Madana Kama Rajan (1990)
Not Rated | 162 min | Comedy
A comedy of errors with identical quadruplets, separated at birth, coming together as adults.
Director: Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | Stars: Kamal Haasan, Urvashi, Komal Mahuvakar, Khushbu Sundar
Votes: 5,072
24. Train of Life (1998)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Clément Harari, Michel Muller
Votes: 9,595 | Gross: $0.15M
25. The Knockout (1914)
TV-G | 27 min | Short, Comedy
To show his girl how brave he is Fatty challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Chaplin, Dan Albert
Votes: 1,487
26. Boys' Night Out (1962)
Unrated | 115 min | Comedy
Four men bored with their Thursday nights out from their wives (and mom) rent a love nest in New York City, equipped with a blonde. What they don't know is that she's writing a postgraduate thesis on sexual fantasies of urban men.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff
Votes: 2,436
27. The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer
Votes: 1,302
28. Comrade X (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart
Votes: 1,836
29. Playmates (1941)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music
For the sake of a lucrative radio contract, John Barrymore agrees to turn bandleader Kay Kyser into a Shakespearian actor.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, John Barrymore, Lupe Velez, Ginny Simms
Votes: 357
30. The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick
Votes: 1,047
31. Strange Affair (1944)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A comic strip artist and his wife investigate a murder at a banquet honoring war refugees.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Marguerite Chapman, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 310
32. You Are a Widow, Sir! (1971)
97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Olga Schoberová, Eduard Cupák, Jirí Sovák
Votes: 857
33. It's a Mad, Mad Vengos (1967)
85 min | Comedy
Thanasis although he is a simple waiter makes all the easements to operate a tavern. As he prepares for his marriage with the sister of the tavern owners, suffers amnesia and begins wander in Athens.
Director: Thanasis Vengos | Stars: Thanasis Vengos, Eleni Anousaki, Giannis Argyris, Giorgos Xydis
Votes: 398
34. Three Girls About Town (1941)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
To save the reputation of the hotel where they are employed, sisters try to cover up a murder.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Joan Blondell, John Howard, Binnie Barnes, Janet Blair
Votes: 354
35. Poker Faces (1926)
80 min | Comedy
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Laura La Plante, George Siegmann, Tom Ricketts
Votes: 36
36. Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Four struggling musicians lose their vocalist at the insistence of her gangster boyfriend. They find a replacement in an innocent young woman being courted by a cabbie pretending to be a king.
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Ray Bolger, Anne Shirley, June Havoc, Desi Arnaz
Votes: 225
37. Charley's Aunt (1930)
Unrated | 88 min | Comedy
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits ... See full summary »
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Charles Ruggles, June Collyer, Doris Lloyd, Halliwell Hobbes
Votes: 145
38. Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)
TV-G | 62 min | Comedy
After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck-- but in doing so, causes himself the worst luck imaginable.
Director: Max Linder | Stars: Max Linder, Alta Allen, Betty K. Peterson, Ralph McCullough
Votes: 1,375
39. Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
TV-G | 75 min | Comedy
Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Votes: 182
40. Double Exposure (1935)
Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short
An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beautiful actress whose wealthy husband absolutely does not want her photographed.
Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Bob Hope, Jules Epailly, John Berkes, Loretta Sayers
Votes: 252
41. Clear All Wires! (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he ... See full summary »
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel, James Gleason
Votes: 184
42. Give Out, Sisters (1942)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music
Peggy (Peggy Ryan)), a messenger, delivers a telegram to The Flamingo Club where the Andrews Sisters (The Andrews Sisters) and Bob Edwards' Orchestra are appearing. Peggy learns that the ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Laverne Andrews, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Grace McDonald
Votes: 64
43. Akeli Mat Jaiyo (1963)
Comedy, Romance
Director: Nandlal Jaswantlal | Stars: Meena Kumari, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Agha, Noor Mohammad Charlie
Votes: 31
44. Chhadmabeshi (1971)
122 min | Comedy
A professor plays a practical joke upon his brother-in-law by posing as his family driver.
Director: Agradoot | Stars: Uttam Kumar, Madhavi Mukherjee, Ajoy Banerjee, Jyotsna Biswas
Votes: 253
45. Mexican Spitfire (1939)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Donald Woods, Linda Hayes
Votes: 406
46. Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Musical
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Lee
Votes: 303
47. What Happened to Jones? (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Melbourne MacDowell, Frances Raymond
Votes: 145
48. Those Three French Girls (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
Three attractive young women cause misadventures for visiting Americans.
Directors: Harry Beaumont, Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Fifi D'Orsay, Reginald Denny, Cliff Edwards, Yola d'Avril
Votes: 117
49. Make Mine a Double (1959)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Thriller, War
A WWII British secret agent has a desperate mission in occupied France. An airman who is his double is enlisted in the scheme with the intention of confusing the enemy, but everyone gets confused.
Director: Darcy Conyers | Stars: Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell, Leslie Phillips
Votes: 176
50. Another Face (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
On the run from the New York police on a murder charge, gangster Broken Nose Dawson undergoes plastic surgery to change his appearance, then goes to Hollywood. Posing as millionaire playboy... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Wallace Ford, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 270