My top humorous comedies
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- DirectorHal AshbyStarsPeter SellersShirley MacLaineMelvyn DouglasAfter the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.There is not much to say, unless that Sellers won an Oscar in a comedy...
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsPeter SellersJean SebergWilliam HartnellAn impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.Α maddening concept: An army of 20 soldiers armed wit bows and arrows win the war they declared against the USA
- DirectorRod AmateauStarsPeter SellersJo Ann PflugRick LenzA corrupt hospital administrator decides to get as much money as possible from the patients by any means necessary--by lying, cheating, or stealing.It could be the story of every human being that interracts with a health organization that is not public. A torrid story of a man that went to a hospital and couldn't leave until the clinic took all his money with unnecessary exams
- DirectorJudd ApatowStarsSeth RogenKatherine HeiglPaul RuddFor fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant with his child.It could be a love story but... It is way better than this
- DirectorSeth GordonStarsJason BatemanCharlie DayJason SudeikisThree friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.Everyone has or had a boss that was cocky, unfair or abusive. That is by all means their social place behaviour. This is a farfetched version of the employee's routine in such a working environment that leads to hillarious situations.
- DirectorHugh WilsonStarsSteve GuttenbergG.W. BaileyKim CattrallThe mayor declares that anyone can enroll in the police academy irrespective of their physical condition or education level, and many misfits descend on the academy, including a young troublemaker who's forced to apply or go to jail.This is the beginning of a successful series of comedy that satirizes the police through the tragicomic situations of a police academy in a cult, 80's way
- DirectorNeal IsraelStarsJohn MurrayJennifer TillyJames KeachThe goofy students of a remedial drivers education class find themselves butting heads with their abusive police instructors.The 80's made the "cult" their trademark, and this movie is no exception. A group of people are being fined to retake a driving lesson sessions from the most strict instructor...
- DirectorJerry ParisJames SignorelliStarsSteve GuttenbergBubba SmithDavid GrafWhen a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them.The second of a total of seven movieswith the name Police Academy, finds the fully trained calamities from the first movie out on the streets...
- DirectorJim AbrahamsDavid ZuckerJerry ZuckerStarsVal KilmerOmar SharifJeremy KempAn American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.If not the first, one of the first movies with the "parody" mark on them. Its target is the spy-James Bond movies.
- DirectorRobert LuketicStarsKatherine HeiglGerard ButlerBree TurnerAn uptight television producer takes control of a morning show segment on modern relationships hosted by a misogynistic man.A control-freak woman takes cruel sessions of life from a man that leaves everything roll at the universe's will.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsDonald SutherlandElliott GouldTom SkerrittThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.The rear front of the warzone is saving lives... On their free time!
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.A recital of acting for Charlie Choplin, in the role of Hitler!
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardHenry BergmanThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.A factory worker suffers a nervous breakdown, gets fired and wanders from place to place and from work to work
- DirectorDavid DobkinStarsVince VaughnPaul GiamattiElizabeth BanksFred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole to help Santa and the elves prepare for Christmas in exchange for cash.A mythbuster for Santa Claus. Apparently, Claus is a DICK!! The news came from his brother Fred...
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.A biographic film about Brian, the man who was born the same night with little Jesus, and the people mistook him for the Messiah!
- DirectorPeter FarrellyBobby FarrellyStarsJim CarreyJeff DanielsLauren HollyAfter a woman leaves a briefcase at the airport terminal, a dumb limo driver and his dumber friend set out on a hilarious cross-country road trip to Aspen to return it.Just watch... And feel free to take these two as a very good example to AVOID!!! One of the best movies for sure.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.If you have watced too many zombie films to think they can't give you something new, try this one. I bet you couldn't imagine that zombies could be so funny!
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsGeorge ClooneyJohn TurturroTim Blake NelsonIn the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.They escape from prison. Then their quest begins. A western performance of Homer's "Oddyssey" that has some hillarious moments
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio GassmanCatherine SpaakFolco LulliA group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.A wannabe knight begins his quest of finding a royalty to serve and protect...
- DirectorHarold RamisStarsBill MurrayAndie MacDowellChris ElliottA narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.Carpe Diem... Live the day. If you don't, you are doomed to relieve the misery of the worst day of your life, only to realise that you define the day and not the opposite.
- DirectorJay RoachStarsBen StillerRobert De NiroTeri PoloMale nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.This is the climax of Murphy's law: Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong...In a movie that everyone gives a recital of acting, especially my personal favourite, Robert de Niro, who satirises former parts of his from other movies.
- DirectorJay RoachStarsBen StillerRobert De NiroBlythe DannerAll hell breaks loose when the Byrnes family meets the Focker family for the first time.The sequel of "Meet the parents", that is just equally good as the first one. This time the parents of the bride are meeting the parents of the groom, and secrets of the past are revealed...
- DirectorHarold RamisStarsRobert De NiroBilly CrystalLisa KudrowA comedy about a psychiatrist whose number-one patient is an insecure mob boss.What would you do if you were a psychiatrist and your next client was a mobster boss with concience crisis?
- DirectorTom KuntzMike MaguireStarsLen CariouSarah McElligottAmir TalaiSatirical interpretations of world events and curious human behavior.BREAK NEWS: The news as you 've never seen them before...
- DirectorMax NicholsStarsMiles TellerLio TiptonJessica SzohrA snowstorm forces two people who made an online connection to unwillingly extend their one-night stand as the blizzard goes through the night.Because one is never enough...