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Best Comedy Movies of the 20th Century
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13Comedy, Drama, Romance1h56When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Back to the Future (1985)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi1h56Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
City Lights (1931)
GComedy, Drama, Romance1h27With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
Modern Times (1936)
GComedy, Drama, Family1h27The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
PGComedy1h35An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
The Great Dictator (1940)
GComedy, Drama, War2h05Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
GComedy, Musical, Romance1h43A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
The Apartment (1960)
ApprovedComedy, Drama, Romance2h05A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
The Kid (1921)
PassedComedy, Drama, Family1h08The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.
The Sting (1973)
PGComedy, Crime, Drama2h09Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Toy Story (1995)
GAnimation, Adventure, Comedy1h21A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
RAction, Comedy, Crime1h47Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Fantasy1h31King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
PassedComedy, Music, Romance2h01After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
The Gold Rush (1925)
TV-GAdventure, Comedy, Drama1h35A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
Chungking Express (1994)
PG-13Comedy, Crime, Drama1h42Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
PGComedy, Drama2h08Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.
It Happened One Night (1934)
ApprovedComedy, Romance1h45A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
RComedy1h34Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
PassedComedy, Drama2h09A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.
Paper Moon (1973)
PGComedy, Crime, Drama1h42During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
The Big Lebowski (1998)
RComedy, Crime, Sport1h57Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
The General (1926)
PassedAction, Adventure, Comedy1h07When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.
The Truman Show (1998)
PGComedy, Drama1h43An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
Aladdin (1992)
GAnimation, Adventure, Comedy1h30A kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
Annie Hall (1977)
PGComedy, Romance1h33Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
Being There (1979)
PGComedy, Drama2h10A simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.
Do the Right Thing (1989)
RComedy, Drama2h00On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Groundhog Day (1993)
PGComedy, Fantasy, Romance1h41A weatherman finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again.
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Not RatedComedy, Drama2h54A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Roman Holiday (1953)
Not RatedComedy, Romance1h58A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
The Graduate (1967)
PGComedy, Drama, Romance1h46A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Young Frankenstein (1974)
PGComedy1h46An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
A Christmas Story (1983)
PGComedy, Family1h33In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
Charade (1963)
PassedComedy, Mystery, Romance1h53Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
PG-13Comedy, Drama1h44An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
PG-13Comedy, Drama1h47Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Harold and Maude (1971)
PGComedy, Drama, Romance1h31Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Manhattan (1979)
RComedy, Drama, Romance1h36The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
The Blues Brothers (1980)
RAction, Adventure, Comedy2h13Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.