Top Comedy Movies


The Top Comedy Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Comedy List". Lists are calculated daily.

231. Fried Green Tomatoes

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jon Avnet
Actors: Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell
Plot: A woman in a troubled marriage strikes up a relationship with a woman in a nursing home. The stories she hears inspires change in her own life.

232. Safety Last!

Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Actors: Mildred Davis, Harold Lloyd, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke, Bill Strother
Plot: A sales associate puts on a bet about climbing the building on the outside which creates consequences unknown from the beginning. Silent.

233. Withnail & I

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruce Robinson
Actors: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick, Daragh O'Malley

234. Lolita

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters
Plot: A professor moves to a small resort style town to begin writing more poetry when he meets a girl who is merely a teenager. He falls in love with caring for her as he controls as the various neighbors become suspicious.

235. Exit Through the Gift Shop

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Banksy
Actors: Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Thierry Guetta, Rhys Ifans, Space Invader
Plot: The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.

236. Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Henry Jaglom
Actors: Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Frances Fisher, Martin Harvey Friedberg, Robert Hallak

237. Gremlins

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Zach Galligan, Hoyt Axton, Phoebe Cates, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller
Plot: A failed inventor brings how a new fuzzy pet for his son - but don't him
wet, feed him after midnight and especially keep him away from bright
light. When the rules are inevitably broken, something much more sinister
is released.

238. Sitting Ducks

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Henry Jaglom
Actors: Michael Emil, Zack Norman, Patrice Townsend, Irene Forrest, Richard Romanus, Kelly Rogers
Plot: A pair of small-time criminals rip off the mob in order to fund their dreams of becoming a comedic duo. En route to Miami - where they plan to escape to Costa Rica, they pick up a pair females and a chauffeur/singer and that's where the fun really begins.

239. Garden State

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Zach Braff
Actors: Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm, Method Man, Alex Burns
Plot: A messed up young man goes home to bury his mother and work things out with his father. While he is there he discovers life and realizes there is nothing wrong with him.

240. Wayne's World

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Actors: Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Tia Carrere, Rob Lowe, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray
Plot: A guy who lives with his parents promotes his hit basement show to network TV where he tries to get used to "the big bucks" and relationships surrounding it.

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