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A list of 100 comedy movies ranked by user ratings and popularity, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Dumb and Dumber. Find out which classics made the cut and which ones are missing from this IMDb user-created list.
A list of the best comedies ever made, from slapstick to parody, from rom-com to screwball, from silent to modern. Find out which movies broke the Laugh-O-Meter and shaped the genre, and how they scored on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer.
Dec 18, 2023 · 24. Step Brothers (2008) The bro-comedy dominated the 2000s. While Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler flicks grounded this subgenre in the mid-2000s, buddy comedies are nothing new and have been popular ...
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A list of 50 comedy movies ranked by IMDb users, from The Hangover to This Is the End. See the ratings, genres, summaries, and cast of each movie, and watch them on Prime Video or rent/buy them online.
- 40 'Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'
- 39 'In Bruges'
- 38 'The jerk'
- 37 'A Night at The Opera'
- 36 'Heathers'
- 35 'Shaun of The Dead'
- 34 'Office Space'
- 33 'The Producers'
- 32 'Hot Fuzz'
- 31 'Life of Brian'
Director: Jay Roach
Offering emphatic proof that spoof movies didn’t completely die in the 80s, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery was the perfect parody of what was, at the time, a dwindling Bond franchise. It follows the titular spy, an agent from the 1960s awoken from cryogenic sleep to face off against his arch nemesis, Dr. Evil (also played by Mike Myers), when he returns to Earth and holds the planet to ransom. The spy spoof is relentless in its pursuit of gags, taking direct aim at 007’s more ana...
Directed by Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh has risen to great heights with his ability to mesh black comedy with dramatic punch, notably doing so with the Oscar-nominated The Banshees of Inisherin, which also made exceptional use of stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. However, the writer-director's funniest movie is still his debut feature, In Bruges, with the anxiety-inducing crime-dramedyfollowing two Irish hitmen as they are sent to the picturesque Belgian city of Bruges after a job goes horribly wrong. Embedde...
Directed by Carl Reiner
The movie which saw Steve Martin truly make the leap from a stand-up comic to a leading man in Hollywood comedies, The Jerk was the actor's first starring role in film. Serving primarily as a vehicle for Martin's effervescent and highly energetic brand of goofy comedy to take center stage, The Jerk follows Navin Johnson (Martin), the adopted son of a black family whose sheltered naivety explodes into a journey of self-discovery which takes him to St. Louis. Embarking on one chaotic misadventu...
Directed by Sam Wood
A successful vaudeville and Broadway comedy troupe through the early part of the 20th century before they made the transition to film with the advent of the talkies, the Marx Brothers were arguably Hollywood's greatest comedic talents through the 30s and 40s. The first film of the group's post-Zeppo era, A Night at the Opera sees the three brothers infiltrating the highbrow opera scene to help a young aspiring singer, Rosa (Kitty Carlisle), achieve her dreams while thwarting her enemies. Feat...
Directed by Michael Lehmann
A critical counter-punch to the sunny optimism of many '80s teen comedies, Heathers offers a masterclass in cynical and subversive dark comedy. Tired of the elitist and cruel clique led by three girls, all of whom are named Heather, Veronica Sawyner (Winona Ryder) teams up with her rebellious new boyfriend, J.D. (Christian Slater), to devise a twisted plot that will rid the school of the rigid and oppressive social order. However, things spiral out of control when J.D.'s plan escalates to ful...
Director: Edgar Wright
The first film in Edgar Wright’s famous ‘Cornetto Trilogy’, Shaun of the Dead is a true modern classic of comedy cinema, as well as a brilliant nod to the history of zombie horror cinema. It follows an aimless sales assistant, Shaun (Simon Pegg), whose uneventful life is imbued with new meaning when the dead rise. Desperate to save his mother and his failing relationship, Shaun sets out with his lazy flatmate to face the zombie apocalypse. With Wright utilizing his trademark style, Pegg and N...
Directed by Mike Judge
Office Spaceis Mike Judge's send-up of corporate culture and the drudgery of the modern workplace. Starring Ron Livingstone, it follows software engineer Peter Gibbons who despises his mundane job at a soulless, life-sapping tech company. Further frustrated by his micromanaging boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole), and the mind-numbing routine of cubicle life, Peter finds clarity when a hypnosis session goes askew, inspiring him and his co-workers to take revenge on their boss. Judge's story taps...
Directed by Mel Brooks
A Mel Brooks masterpiece that danced on society's sensitivities, The Producers followed washed-up Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and his timid accountant Leo Bloom (played by Gene Wilder) as they hatch a devious scheme to get rich quick. Realizing that if they can get people to invest in a play which flops that they'll be able to keep the leftover money, Max and Leo gather financiers for their surefire musical flop, "Springtime for Hitler." The Producers received only mixed re...
Directed by Edgar Wright
The first and best entry of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost's acclaimed 'Cornetto' Trilogy, Hot Fuzz saw the idiosyncratic filmmaker firing on all cylinders. When elite London police officer Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is transferred due to making everyone else in his station look bad, he lands in the sleepy country town of Sandford. When a series of violent murders hit the town, Angel and his partner Danny Butterman (Frost) begin investigating the malicious mystery. Wright and Pegg's scri...
Directed by Terry Jones
Throughout cinematic history, there is no comedic troupe that has become as notorious, nor as polarizing, as Monty Python. More so than any other film that they made, Life of Brian exhibits the comedy group's appetite to dismantle sacrosanct ideas and serious topics in attention-grabbing ways. It revolves around Brian of Nazareth (Graham Chapman), a man born on the same night as Jesus and who is often mistaken to be the Messiah, even as he inadvertently becomes the face of a revolutionary gro...
A list of the funniest films ever, chosen by Time Out writers and top comedians. From Spinal Tap to Airplane!, Monty Python to Annie Hall, find out which movies made the cut and why.
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10. Some Like It Hot (1959) Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance. After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft.
