1984 Comedy Movies

136 movies found (page 1/5):

Ghostbusters(1984)

3.8/5 (with 4,511 votes)

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.

Directed by Ivan Reitman - With Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, ...

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Police Academy(1984)

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Crime

3.3/5 (with 1,178 votes)

New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

Directed by Hugh Wilson - With Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, David Graf, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, ...

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Top Secret!(1984)

| 1h 30min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 492 votes)

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

Directed by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker - With Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Jeremy Kemp, ...

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Bachelor Party(1984)

| 1h 45min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 324 votes)

On the eve of his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, unassuming nice guy Rick is dragged out for a night of debauchery by his friends.

Directed by Neal Israel - With Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen, William Tepper, Michael Dudikoff, Wendie Jo Sperber, ...

Revenge of the Nerds(1984)

| 1h 30min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 309 votes)

At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own fraternity to protect their outcast brothers, the campus nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.

Directed by Jeff Kanew - With Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Timothy Busfield, Curtis Armstrong, Michelle Meyrink, Brian Tochi, ...

Sexmission(1984)

1h 57min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 117 votes)

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

Directed by Juliusz Machulski - With Jerzy Stuhr, Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Bozena Stryjkówna, Boguslawa Pawelec, Hanna Stankówna, ...

This Is Spinal Tap(1984)

| 1h 22min | Music, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 596 votes)

"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.

Directed by Rob Reiner - With Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Fran Drescher, Bruno Kirby, ...

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Protocol(1984)

| 1h 36min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 35 votes)

A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.

Directed by Herbert Ross - With Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Gail Strickland, Cliff DeYoung, Andre Gregory, ...

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Johnny Dangerously(1984)

PG-13

| 1h 30min | Comedy, Crime

3.1/5 (with 79 votes)

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Directed by Amy Heckerling - With Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Griffin Dunne, ...

Hardbodies(1984)

| 1h 28min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 24 votes)

Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.

Directed by Mark Griffiths - With Grant Cramer, Courtney Gains

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The Lost Empire(1984)

1h 23min | Adventure, Action, Fantasy

2.4/5 (with 24 votes)

A police officer and her two companions battle an evil genius with diabolical plans to destroy the world. Whoever can find the three sacred jewels can anticipate total power.

Directed by Jim Wynorski - With Raven De La Croix, Angus Scrimm, Kenneth Tobey, Bill Thornbury

The Vultures(1984)

1h 35min | War, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 56 votes)

April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive, and so does a German lieutenant, whom the French arrest. Augagneur wants to steal the gold; warrant officer Mahuzard wants to do his duty. A series of alliances form and break apart, the group dwindles in number, and the gold heads south toward Betahoua. But in whose possession?

Directed by Henri Verneuil - With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin, Marie Laforêt, Caroline Silhol, François Perrot, ...

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Up the Creek(1984)

| 1h 36min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 42 votes)

Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.

Directed by Robert Butler - With Tim Matheson, Stephen Furst, Dan Monahan, Sandy Helberg, Jeff East, James Sikking, ...

Happy Easter(1984)

1h 34min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 57 votes)

Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).

Directed by Georges Lautner - With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sophie Marceau, Marie Laforêt, Michel Beaune, Gérard Hernandez, Henri Cogan, ...

Stranger Than Paradise(1984)

| 1h 29min | Comedy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 270 votes)

A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

Directed by Jim Jarmusch - With John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Rammellzee, Tom DiCillo, Rockets Redglare, ...

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Broadway Danny Rose(1984)

1h 24min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 191 votes)

A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is on the rebound.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Woody Allen, Jack Rollins, Milton Berle, Sandy Baron, ...

The Adventures of André and Wally B.(1984)

| 2min | Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy

2.7/5 (with 124 votes)

There's nothing like a restful nap in a pleasant wooded valley. But when André awakens and is greeted by a pesky yellow-and-black striped insect with a nasty stinger, he ends up taking a quick (and painful) hike.

Directed by Alvy Ray Smith

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Bianca(1984)

| 1h 36min | Drama, Comedy, Mystery

3.8/5 (with 194 votes)

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.

Directed by Nanni Moretti - With Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Remo Remotti, Vincenzo Salemme, Claudio Bigagli, Dario Cantarelli, ...

The Ice Pirates(1984)

| 1h 31min | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Comedy

2.9/5 (with 73 votes)

In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy is ruled by an evil emperor presiding over a trade oligarchy that controls all mining and sale of ice from asteroids and comets.

Directed by Stewart Raffill - With Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts, Anjelica Huston, Ron Perlman, Bruce Vilanch, ...

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Night Patrol(1984)

| 1h 27min | Comedy

2.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Melvin White, a neurotic, accident-prone cop who gets demoted to the night shift, secretly moonlights as the Unknown Comic, an anonymous stand-up comedian who performs with a paper bag over his head. When someone using the same guise commits a string of bar robberies in town, some begin to suspect that White is the culprit.

Directed by Jackie Kong - With Linda Blair

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My New Partner(1984)

1h 47min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 98 votes)

A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.

Directed by Claude Zidi - With Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Régine Zylberberg, Julien Guiomar, Abbes Zahmani, Albert Simono, ...

Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer(1984)

1h 35min | Animation, Comedy, Romance / Love, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 43 votes)

As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.

Directed by Mamoru Oshii

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Il ragazzo di campagna(1984)

1h 32min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 179 votes)

A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.

Directed by Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia - With Renato Pozzetto, Donna Osterbuhr, Clara Colosimo, Massimo Boldi, Elio Veller, Enzo Garinei, ...

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers(1984)

| 1h 22min | Comedy

2.6/5 (with 31 votes)

Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.

Directed by Tommy Chong - With Cheech & Chong

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The Brother from Another Planet(1984)

1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.

Directed by John Sayles - With Joe Morton, Steve James, Bill Cobbs, David Strathairn, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Caroline Aaron, ...

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Hot Moves(1984)

| 1h 25min | Comedy

2.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Four friends, annoyed at how almost everyone else they know is having sex but them, agree to do what they can to help each other lose their virginity before the end of the summer. Most of their opportunities are foiled by their inexperience and bad planning. Michael, the most sensible boy of the foursome, really just wants to stay with his long-time girlfriend and take their relationship to an intimate level, but after putting him off for six months he grows impatient and splits up with her to seek his fortune elsewhere.

Directed by Jim Sotos - With Michael Zorek

Crackers(1984)

1h 38min | Action, Comedy, Crime

2.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Trinidad Silva, Christine Baranski, ...

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A Private Function(1984)

| 1h 34min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.

Directed by Malcolm Mowbray - With Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson, Denholm Elliott, Jim Carter, ...

The Ratings Game(1984)

| 1h 42min | Comedy, Romance / Love, TV Movie

2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.

Directed by Danny DeVito - With Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Gerrit Graham, Basil Hoffman, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, ...

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Marche à l'ombre(1984)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 85 votes)

Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.

Directed by Michel Blanc - With Bernard Farcy, Didier Pain, Dominique Besnehard, François Berléand, Guy Laporte, Jean-François Dérec, ...

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1984 Comedy Movies

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Ghostbusters(1984)

Police Academy(1984)

Top Secret!(1984)

Bachelor Party(1984)

Revenge of the Nerds(1984)

Sexmission(1984)

This Is Spinal Tap(1984)

Protocol(1984)

Johnny Dangerously(1984)

Hardbodies(1984)

The Lost Empire(1984)

The Vultures(1984)

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Up the Creek(1984)

Happy Easter(1984)

Stranger Than Paradise(1984)

Broadway Danny Rose(1984)

The Adventures of André and Wally B.(1984)

Bianca(1984)

The Ice Pirates(1984)

Night Patrol(1984)

My New Partner(1984)

Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer(1984)

Il ragazzo di campagna(1984)

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers(1984)

The Brother from Another Planet(1984)

Hot Moves(1984)

Crackers(1984)

A Private Function(1984)

The Ratings Game(1984)

Marche à l'ombre(1984)

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