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Best Comedy Movies of the 1980s
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.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
PGComedy, Drama2h08Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
RComedy, Music1h22Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi1h48After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
Evil Dead II (1987)
RComedy, Horror1h24The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
PG-13Comedy1h43A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that.
Ghostbusters (1984)
PGAction, Comedy, Fantasy1h45Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.
The Breakfast Club (1985)
RComedy, Drama1h37Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
The Goonies (1985)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Family1h54A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.
The King of Comedy (1982)
PGComedy, Crime, Drama1h49Rupert Pupkin is a passionate yet unsuccessful comic who craves nothing more than to be in the spotlight and to achieve this, he stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.
After Hours (1985)
RComedy, Crime, Drama1h37An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho who he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Airplane! (1980)
PGComedy1h28A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
PGAnimation, Adventure, Comedy1h44A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
PG-13Comedy1h37The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
RComedy, Drama1h33A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with a lovable oaf of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
PG-13Comedy, Crime1h25Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
RComedy, Drama, Romance1h35Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
RComedy, Crime1h48In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
RComedy, Horror1h37Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Beetlejuice (1988)
PGComedy, Fantasy1h32The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Midnight Run (1988)
RAction, Comedy, Crime2h06An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the F.B.I., and the Mafia after jumping bail.
The Meaning of Life (1983)
RComedy, Musical1h47The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
Trading Places (1983)
RComedy1h56A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
PGComedy, Crime1h50Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
RAdventure, Comedy1h38The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.
Terms of Endearment (1983)
PGComedy, Drama2h12Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.
Tootsie (1982)
PGComedy, Drama, Romance1h56Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
RAction, Comedy, Crime1h45A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
Big (1988)
PGComedy, Drama, Fantasy1h44After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
PG-13Action, Adventure, Comedy1h39A rough-and-tumble trucker helps rescue his friend's fiancée from an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.
Caddyshack (1980)
RComedy, Sport1h38An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.
Clue (1985)
PGComedy, Crime, Mystery1h34Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
RBiography, Comedy, Drama2h01In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.
Gremlins (1984)
PGComedy, Fantasy, Horror1h46A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Raising Arizona (1987)
PG-13Comedy, Crime1h34When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.