1986 Comedy Movies

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Big Trouble in Little China(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

3.6/5 (with 1,280 votes)

When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi, to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer Lo Pan—who must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Peter Kwong, ...

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 43min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 2,157 votes)

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

Directed by John Hughes - With Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Edie McClurg, ...

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The Money Pit(1986)

| 1h 31min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 498 votes)

After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.

Directed by Richard Benjamin - With Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton, Joe Mantegna, Tetchie Agbayani, ...

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Vamp(1986)

| 1h 33min | Comedy, Horror

3.0/5 (with 65 votes)

Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.

Directed by Richard Wenk - With Chris Makepeace, Grace Jones, Dedee Pfeiffer, Robert Rusler, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Drago, ...

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Howard the Duck(1986)

| 1h 50min | Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

2.7/5 (with 431 votes)

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

Directed by Willard Huyck - With Tim Robbins, Jeffrey Jones, David Paymer, Paul Guilfoyle, Richard Edson, Paul Comi, ...

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Police Academy 3: Back in Training(1986)

| 1h 24min | Comedy, Crime

2.9/5 (with 525 votes)

When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected...

Directed by Jerry Paris - With Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, Leslie Easterbrook, ...

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Short Circuit(1986)

| 1h 38min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 632 votes)

After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.

Directed by John Badham - With Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G. W. Bailey, Brian McNamara, ...

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Armour of God(1986)

1h 28min | Adventure, Action, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 236 votes)

Jackie Chan stars as Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune in exotic antiquities. After Hawk discovers a mysterious sword in Africa, a band of Satan-worshipping monks kidnap his ex-girlfriend Lorelei, demanding the sword as ransom as well as other pieces of the legendary Armour of God - a magical outfit dating back to the Crusades.

Directed by Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang - With Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan, Lola Forner, Božidar Smiljanić, Ken Boyle, ...

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Ruthless People(1986)

| 1h 33min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 164 votes)

A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation—without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.

Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker - With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris, Bill Pullman, ...

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¡Three Amigos!(1986)

| 1h 42min | Comedy, Adventure, Western

3.2/5 (with 405 votes)

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

Directed by John Landis - With Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Joe Mantegna, Jon Lovitz, Alfonso Arau, ...

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Firewalker(1986)

| 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

2.6/5 (with 72 votes)

A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Will Sampson, Sonny Landham, John Rhys-Davies, Ian Abercrombie, ...

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The Adventures of Milo and Otis(1986)

| 1h 30min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family

3.2/5 (with 86 votes)

When Milo the cat and Otis the dog are separated, they each set off on an adventurous and often perilous quest across mountains, plains, and snow-covered lands to reunite with one another.

Directed by Masanori Hata

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Back to School(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 36min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 183 votes)

Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.

Directed by Alan Metter - With Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Adrienne Barbeau, Robert Downey Jr., Sam Kinison, ...

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The Millionaires' Express(1986)

1h 34min | Action, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.

Directed by Sammo Hung - With Yuen Biao, Rosamund Kwan, Hwang Jang-lee, Bolo Yeung, Cynthia Rothrock, Sammo Hung, ...

Wildcats(1986)

| 1h 46min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 79 votes)

Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.

Directed by Michael Ritchie - With Goldie Hawn, Jan Hooks, Swoosie Kurtz, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Nipsey Russell, ...

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Soul Man(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 44min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 63 votes)

A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.

Directed by Steve Miner - With C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Leslie Nielsen, Max Wright, ...

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Down by Law(1986)

| 1h 46min | Crime, Drama, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 305 votes)

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Directed by Jim Jarmusch - With Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin, Rockets Redglare, ...

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Troll(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 22min | Fantasy, Horror

2.5/5 (with 83 votes)

When a family moves into a San Francisco apartment, an opportunistic troll decides to make his move and take possession of little Wendy (Jenny Beck), thereby paving the way for new troll recruits, the first in his army that will take eventual control of the planet. We soon discover Torok is the ex-husband of Eunice St. Clair, a resident in the building who was married to Torok.

Directed by John Carl Buechler - With Noah Hathaway, Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Jenny Beck, Sonny Bono, June Lockhart, ...

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Last Resort(1986)

| 1h 24min | Comedy

1.6/5 (with 5 votes)

George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.

Directed by Zane Buzby - With Charles Grodin, Jon Lovitz

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Armed and Dangerous(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 28min | Action, Comedy, Crime

2.8/5 (with 70 votes)

After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.

Directed by Mark L. Lester - With John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Kenneth McMillan, Meg Ryan, Brion James, ...

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Gung Ho(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama

3.1/5 (with 82 votes)

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.

Directed by Ron Howard - With Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, Mimi Rogers, John Turturro, Clint Howard, ...

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Heartburn(1986)

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 82 votes)

Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.

Directed by Mike Nichols - With Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing, Richard Masur, ...

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Down and Out in Beverly Hills(1986)

| 1h 43min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 106 votes)

Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

Directed by Paul Mazursky - With Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Little Richard, Tracy Nelson, Barry Primus, ...

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Jumpin' Jack Flash(1986)

| 1h 40min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 146 votes)

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.

Directed by Penny Marshall - With Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Peter Michael Goetz, Carol Kane, ...

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Clockwise(1986)

| 1h 36min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 76 votes)

An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.

Directed by Christopher Morahan - With John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Stephen Moore

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Brighton Beach Memoirs(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.

Directed by Gene Saks - With Jonathan Silverman, Blythe Danner, Lisa Waltz, Judith Ivey, Bob Dishy, James Handy, ...

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Rocky VI(1986)

9min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 23 votes)

Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses.

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki - With Silu Seppälä, Sakari Kuosmanen, Mato Valtonen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Matti Pellonpää, Jaakko Talaskivi, ...

Flodder(1986)

1h 51min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 60 votes)

A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.

Directed by Dick Maas - With Huub Stapel, Nelly Frijda, Tatjana Simić, Lou Landré, Serge-Henri, Horace Cohen, ...

Club Paradise(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

2.6/5 (with 32 votes)

When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they renovate the resort and lure tourists to Club Paradise in an effort to fight off corrupt officials and businessmen who want to claim the resort as their own.

Directed by Harold Ramis - With Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy Lawson, Adolph Caesar, ...

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The Big Easy(1986)

| 1h 42min | Drama, Action, Crime, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 74 votes)

Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.

Directed by Jim McBride - With Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Ned Beatty, Charles Ludlam, Grace Zabriskie, ...

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1986 Comedy Movies

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Big Trouble in Little China(1986)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986)

The Money Pit(1986)

Vamp(1986)

Howard the Duck(1986)

Police Academy 3: Back in Training(1986)

Short Circuit(1986)

Armour of God(1986)

Ruthless People(1986)

¡Three Amigos!(1986)

Firewalker(1986)

The Adventures of Milo and Otis(1986)

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Back to School(1986)

The Millionaires' Express(1986)

Wildcats(1986)

Soul Man(1986)

Down by Law(1986)

Troll(1986)

Last Resort(1986)

Armed and Dangerous(1986)

Gung Ho(1986)

Heartburn(1986)

Down and Out in Beverly Hills(1986)

Jumpin' Jack Flash(1986)

Clockwise(1986)

Brighton Beach Memoirs(1986)

Rocky VI(1986)

Flodder(1986)

Club Paradise(1986)

The Big Easy(1986)

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