1959 Comedy Movies

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Good Morning(1959)

3.9/5 (with 102 votes)

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Chishū Ryū, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Sugimura Haruko, Taiji Tonoyama, Kuniko Miyake, ...

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Sube y Baja(1959)

1h 48min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 44 votes)

It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Tere Velázquez, Joaquín García Vargas, Domingo Soler, Carlos Agostí, Alejandro Ciangherotti, ...

Our Man in Havana(1960)

| 1h 51min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 42 votes)

Expatriate Englishman Jim Wormold lives in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter. Owning a poorly-performing business, he accepts an offer from the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start, so he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provide fictional tales for his masters in London, and is soon known as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere. However, it all unravels when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his 'network' and he learns that he's the target of a group out to kill him.

Directed by Carol Reed - With Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Noël Coward, Ralph Richardson, Ernie Kovacs, ...

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The Mouse That Roared(1959)

| 1h 23min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 43 votes)

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell, Leo McKern, Timothy Bateson, Georg Thomalla, ...

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Carry On Nurse(1959)

1h 26min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

Directed by Gerald Thomas - With Shirley Eaton, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Terence Longdon, Bill Owen, ...

Poor Millionaires(1959)

1h 35min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young couples ends sooner than planned. Back at their starting point, the ensuing conflict leads to one of the couples separating. Salvatore, who moves away, is hit in the street by a car and loses his memory: he has lost his memories of his friends and family - until he meets his wife Marisa, in which he falls in love again ...

Directed by Dino Risi - With Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori, Lorella De Luca, Alessandra Panaro, Sylva Koscina, Memmo Carotenuto, ...

The Shaggy Dog(1959)

| 1h 44min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.1/5 (with 31 votes)

Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act of bravery....

Directed by Charles Barton - With Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Tim Considine, Cecil Kellaway, ...

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La cambiale(1959)

1h 31min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.

Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque - With Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Erminio Macario, Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Ugo Tognazzi, ...

Odd Obsession(1959)

1h 47min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Machiko Kyō, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nakamura Ganjirō II, Jun Hamamura, Tanie Kitabayashi, Kyū Sazanka, ...

Fiasco in Milan(1959)

1h 45min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.

Directed by Nanni Loy - With Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone, Nino Manfredi, Carlo Pisacane, ...

The Overtaxed(1959)

1h 25min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 40 votes)

Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.

Directed by Stefano Vanzina - With Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Ciccio Barbi, Miranda Campa, Anna Campori, Cathia Caro, ...

The Widower(1959)

1h 27min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 67 votes)

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

Directed by Dino Risi - With Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon, Leonora Ruffo, Nando Bruno, Nanda Primavera, ...

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I'm All Right Jack(1959)

| 1h 45min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting - With Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Rutherford, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, ...

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The Moralist(1959)

2h | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

Directed by Giorgio Bianchi - With Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Franca Valeri, Gina Mattarolo, Franco Fabrizi, Piera Arico, ...

A Hole in the Head(1959)

| 2h | Comedy, Music

3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, ...

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The Man of the Sputnik(1959)

1h 38min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

UFO falls on a hillbilly's hencoop and he tries to sell it. Soon international missions are sent to the place, for there's a suspicion it might be the famous Russian satellite, the Sputnik.

Directed by Carlos Manga - With Oscarito, Cyll Farney, Zezé Macedo, Norma Bengell, Jô Soares

The Immoral Mr. Teas(1959)

1h 3min | Comedy

2.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Mr. Teas is a door to door salesman for dentists' appliances. Everywhere he goes he encounters beautiful "well-developed" nude women, which of course stir his interest. The only sound in the film is the voice of a narrator and a very monotonic musical theme played on the clarinet or some similar instrument.

Directed by Russ Meyer - With Russ Meyer

Alias Jesse James(1959)

| 1h 32min | Comedy, Western

3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod - With Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Gene Autry, James Garner, ...

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The Battle of the Sexes(1960)

1h 24min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.

Directed by Charles Crichton - With Peter Sellers

Don't Give Up the Ship(1959)

| 1h 29min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Claude Akins, Robert Middleton, Gale Gordon, Mickey Shaughnessy, ...

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Toto in Madrid(1959)

1h 35min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

When the swindler La Spada and his accomplice José come out of jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a really great swindle: nothing less than to discover and sell a third picture of the famous Goya's Maya. They engage the renowed Scorcelletti who can imitate any picture and who lives in Rome. Afterwards, with the help of the beautiful Eva, they convince the celebrated art critic Francisco Montiel of the existance of a third Maya and let him find the picture. When the swindlers are on the point of selling the faked maya to an American millionaire, Scorcelli comes back from Rome to sell one of his six other maya pictures.

Directed by Stefano Vanzina - With Totò, Abbe Lane, Mario Carotenuto, Louis de Funès, Giacomo Furia, Enzo Garinei, ...

Women Are Weak(1959)

1h 15min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.

Directed by Michel Boisrond - With Alain Delon, Mylène Demongeot, Pascale Petit, Jacqueline Sassard, Albert de Médina, André Luguet, ...

Have Rocket, Will Travel(1959)

| 1h 16min | Comedy, Science Fiction

2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula, and an alien computer who has destroyed all human life on the planet and creates three evil duplicates of the Stooges. When the boys return home triumphant, they are given a hero's welcome.

Directed by David Lowell Rich - With Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Anna-Lisa

Carry On Teacher(1959)

1h 26min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 22 votes)

Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power and bombs!

Directed by Gerald Thomas - With Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, ...

The Policeman of the 16th Precinct(1959)

1h 28min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Ilias dresses himself in a police uniform as part of a complex burglary plot. Unfortunately for him, the impostor officer is called to assist in the investigation of a real crime. The other officers involved in this case treat him as a colleague, and he is forced to play along in hopes that his cover is not blown.

Directed by Alekos Sakellarios - With Kostas Chatzichristos, Marika Krevata, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Cybele Theocharis, Giorgos Gavriilidis, Aliki Georgouli, ...

Please Turn Over(1959)

| 1h 27min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.

Directed by Gerald Thomas - With Ted Ray, Leslie Phillips, Julia Lockwood

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film(1959)

11min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.

Directed by Richard Lester, Peter Sellers - With Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Leo McKern, Richard Lester, Graham Stark, David Lodge, ...

The Chaplin Revue(1959)

1h 59min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin

But Not for Me(1959)

| 1h 51min | Comedy, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn, plots to end his new relationship.

Directed by Walter Lang - With Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Lee J. Cobb, Thomas Gomez

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Cerasella(1959)

1h 44min | Romance / Love, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Cerasella escapes just before his marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.

Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo - With Claudia Mori, Terence Hill, Luigi De Filippo, Alessandra Panaro, Carlo Croccolo, Fausto Cigliano, ...

1959 Comedy Movies

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Good Morning(1959)

Sube y Baja(1959)

Our Man in Havana(1960)

The Mouse That Roared(1959)

Carry On Nurse(1959)

Poor Millionaires(1959)

The Shaggy Dog(1959)

La cambiale(1959)

Odd Obsession(1959)

Fiasco in Milan(1959)

The Overtaxed(1959)

The Widower(1959)

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I'm All Right Jack(1959)

The Moralist(1959)

A Hole in the Head(1959)

The Man of the Sputnik(1959)

The Immoral Mr. Teas(1959)

Alias Jesse James(1959)

The Battle of the Sexes(1960)

Don't Give Up the Ship(1959)

Toto in Madrid(1959)

Women Are Weak(1959)

Have Rocket, Will Travel(1959)

Carry On Teacher(1959)

The Policeman of the 16th Precinct(1959)

Please Turn Over(1959)

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film(1959)

The Chaplin Revue(1959)

But Not for Me(1959)

Cerasella(1959)

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