List of comedy films of the 1980s

A list of comedy films released in the 1980s.

American films

1980s

1980

• Airplane!
• Animalympics
• Any Which Way You Can
• The Blues Brothers
• Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
• Caddyshack
• Can't Stop the Music
• Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
• Fatso
• First Family
• Galaxina
• Gilda Live
• The Gods Must Be Crazy
• Herbie Goes Bananas
• Hero at Large
• The Hollywood Knights
• Hopscotch
• How to Beat the High Co$t of Living
• The Last Married Couple in America
• Little Darlings
• Melvin and Howard
• Midnight Madness
• Nine to Five
• The Nude Bomb
• Oh, God! Book II
• Oh! Heavenly Dog
• Popeye
• Pray TV
• Private Benjamin
• The Private Eyes
• Seems Like Old Times
• Serial
• Smokey and the Bandit II
• Stardust Memories
• Stir Crazy
• The Stunt Man
• Sunday Lovers
• Used Cars
• Up the Academy
• Where the Buffalo Roam
• Wholly Moses!

1981

• All Night Long
• All the Marbles
• Arthur
• Buddy Buddy
• Bustin' Loose
• The Cannonball Run
• Carbon Copy
• Caveman
• Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
• Condorman
• Continental Divide
• The Devil and Max Devlin
• Dirty Tricks
• First Monday in October
• The Four Seasons
• Full Moon High
• Going Ape!
• The Great Muppet Caper
• Hardly Working
• The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
• Heartbeeps
• History of the World, Part I
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman
• The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
• Modern Problems
• Modern Romance
• My Dinner with Andre
• Neighbors
• Nice Dreams
• On the Right Track
• Paternity
• Polyester
• Porky's
• Private Lessons
• Shock Treatment
• S.O.B.
• So Fine
• Stripes
• Take This Job and Shove It
• They All Laughed
• Under the Rainbow
• Zorro, The Gay Blade

1982

• 48 Hours
• A Little Sex
• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
• Airplane II: The Sequel
• Annie
• Author! Author!
• Best Friends
• Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
• Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
• Creepshow
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
• Deathtrap
• Diner
• Eating Raoul
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Grease 2
• Hanky Panky
• Hey Good Lookin'
• Human Highway
• It Came From Hollywood
• Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
• Jimmy the Kid
• Jinxed!
• The Junkman
• Kiss Me Goodbye
• The Last American Virgin
• Lookin' to Get Out
• My Favorite Year
• National Lampoon's Movie Madness
• Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures
• Night Shift
• Pandemonium
• Partners
• The Pirate Movie
• Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
• Six Pack
• Some Kind of Hero
• Soup for One
• Summer Lovers
• Tempest
• They Call Me Bruce?
• Things Are Tough All Over
• Tootsie
• The Toy
• Trail of the Pink Panther
• Victor Victoria
• The World According to Garp
• Wrong Is Right
• Yes, Giorgio
• Young Doctors in Love
• Zapped!

1983

• A Christmas Story
• Baby It's You
• Better Late Than Never
• The Big Chill
• Bill Cosby: Himself
• Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
• Class
• Cracking Up
• Curse of the Pink Panther
• Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
• D.C. Cab
• Deal of the Century
• Doctor Detroit
• Easy Money
• Get Crazy
• Going Berserk
• The King of Comedy
• Local Hero
• Losin' It
• Lovesick
• The Man Who Loved Women
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• The Man With Two Brains
• Max Dugan Returns
• Mr. Mom
• My Tutor
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Porky's II: The Next Day
• Private School
• Reuben, Reuben
• Richard Pryor: Here and Now
• Risky Business
• Romantic Comedy
• Screwballs
• Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
• Spring Break
• Still Smokin
• The Sting II
• Strange Brew
• Stroker Ace
• The Survivors
• To Be or Not to Be
• Trading Places
• Trenchcoat
• Twice Upon a Time
• Two of a Kind
• Valley Girl
• Yellowbeard
• Zelig

1984

• 16 Candles
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• All of Me
• American Dreamer
• Bachelor Party
• Best Defense
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Blame It on Rio
• Broadway Danny Rose
• The Buddy System
• Cannonball Run II
• Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
• City Heat
• Crackers
• Electric Dreams
• Finders Keepers
• The Flamingo Kid
• Ghostbusters
• Grandview, U.S.A.
• Gremlins
• The Hotel New Hampshire
• Hot Dog…The Movie
• The Ice Pirates
• Irreconcilable Differences
• Johnny Dangerously
• Joy of Sex
• Kidco
• The Lonely Guy
• Lovelines
• Mass Appeal
• Meatballs Part II
• Micki + Maude
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• Night Patrol
• No Small Affair
• Nothing Lasts Forever
• Oh, God! You Devil
• Police Academy
• Preppies
• Protocol
• Repo Man
• The Ratings Game
• Revenge of the Nerds
• Rhinestone
• Romancing the Stone
• Slapstick of Another Kind
• Splash
• Surf II
• Teachers
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Top Secret!
• The Toxic Avenger
• Unfaithfully Yours
• Up the Creek
• The Wild Life
• Where the Boys Are '84
• The Woman in Red

1985

• After Hours
• Back to the Future
• Bad Medicine
• Better Off Dead
• The Breakfast Club
• Brewster's Millions
• Clue
• The Coca-Cola Kid
• Cocoon
• Creator
• Desperately Seeking Susan
• European Vacation
• Fandango
• Fletch
• Fraternity Vacation
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• The Goonies
• Head Office
• Heaven Help Us
• The Heavenly Kid
• Into the Night
• The Jewel of the Nile
• Just One of the Guys
• Key Exchange
• The Last Dragon^[1]
• Lost in America
• The Man with One Red Shoe
• Maxie
• Mischief
• Moving Violations
• Movers & Shakers
• Murphy's Romance
• My Science Project
• Once Bitten
• Pee Wee's Big Adventure
• Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
• Porky's Revenge
• Private Resort
• Prizzi's Honor
• The Purple Rose of Cairo
• Real Genius
• Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
• Rustlers' Rhapsody
• Secret Admirer
• Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
• The Slugger's Wife
• Spies Like Us
• Summer Rental
• The Sure Thing
• Teen Wolf
• Tomboy
• Turk 182
• Volunteers
• Weird Science

1986

• About Last Night
• April Fool's Day
• Armed and Dangerous
• Back to School
• The Best of Times
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Big Trouble
• The Boss' Wife
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• The Class of Nuke 'Em High
• Club Paradise
• Crocodile Dundee
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Echo Park
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• A Fine Mess
• The Golden Child
• Gung Ho
• Hamburger: The Motion Picture
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Haunted Honeymoon
• Heartburn
• Howard the Duck
• Jake Speed
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
• Jumpin' Jack Flash
• Last Resort
• Legal Eagles
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Longshot
• Lucas
• Miracles
• Modern Girls
• The Money Pit
• My Chauffeur
• Night of the Creeps
• Nobody's Fool
• Nothing in Common
• Odd Jobs
• Off Beat
• One Crazy Summer
• One More Saturday Night
• Peggy Sue Got Married
• Playing for Keeps
• Police Academy 3: Back in Training
• Running Scared
• Ruthless People
• Shanghai Surprise
• Short Circuit
• Something Wild
• Soul Man
• Stewardess School
• Stoogemania
• Sweet Liberty
• ¡Three Amigos!
• Tough Guys
• True Stories
• Wildcats
• Wise Guys
• Zeisters

1987

• Adventures in Babysitting
• The Allnighter
• Amazon Women on the Moon
• Baby Boom
• Back to the Beach
• Barfly
• * batteries not included
• Beverly Hills Cop II
• Blind Date
• Born in East L.A.
• Broadcast News
• Burglar
• Can't Buy Me Love
• Critical Condition
• Cross My Heart
• Disorderlies
• Dragnet
• Eddie Murphy Raw
• Ernest Goes to Camp
• Fatal Beauty
• From the Hip
• The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
• Going Bananas
• Good Morning, Vietnam
• Harry and the Hendersons
• Hello Again
• Hot Pursuit
• Housekeeping
• Hunk
• Innerspace
• In the Mood
• Ishtar
• Leonard Part 6
• Lethal Weapon^[2]
• Like Father Like Son
• Love at Stake
• Made in Heaven
• Maid to Order
• Making Mr. Right
• Mannequin
• Meatballs III: Summer Job
• Million Dollar Mystery
• Moonstruck
• Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
• Munchies
• My Demon Lover
• Nadine
• Nice Girls Don't Explode
• Outrageous Fortune
• Overboard
• The Pick-up Artist
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles
• Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
• Pretty Smart
• The Princess Bride
• Project X
• Radio Days
• Raising Arizona
• Real Men
• Rent-A-Cop
• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
• Roxanne
• The Secret of My Success
• Spaceballs
• The Squeeze
• Stakeout
• Street Trash
• Summer School
• Surrender
• Teen Wolf Too
• The Trouble with Spies
• They Still Call Me Bruce
• Three for the Road
• Three Men and a Baby
• Three O'Clock High
• Throw Momma from the Train
• Tin Men
• The Underachievers
• Walk Like a Man
• Who's That Girl
• The Witches of Eastwick

1988

• 18 Again!
• A Fish Called Wanda
• And God Created Woman
• Arthur 2: On the Rocks
• Beetlejuice
• Big
• Big Business
• Big Top Pee-wee
• Biloxi Blues
• The Blue Iguana
• Bull Durham
• Caddyshack II
• Casual Sex?
• Cherry 2000
• Cocktail
• Coming to America
• Crash Course
• Crocodile Dundee II
• The Couch Trip
• Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
• Dangerous Curves
• Dead Heat
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Drowning by Numbers
• Earth Girls Are Easy
• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
• Ernest Saves Christmas
• Feds
• For Keeps
• Funny Farm
• The Great Outdoors
• Hairspray
• Heartbreak Hotel
• High Spirits
• Hot to Trot
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
• Johnny Be Good
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space
• License to Drive
• Married to the Mob
• Memories of Me
• Midnight Run
• Moon over Parador
• Moving
• Mr. North
• Mystic Pizza
• My Stepmother Is an Alien
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
• The Night Before
• Not of This Earth
• Pass the Ammo
• Plain Clothes
• Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
• The Prince of Pennsylvania
• Punchline
• Rain Man
• Red Heat
• Satisfaction
• School Daze
• Scrooged
• She's Having a Baby
• Short Circuit 2
• Some Girls
• Stars and Bars
• Sticky Fingers
• Sweet Hearts Dance
• Switching Channels
• Tapeheads
• Things Change
• The Telephone
• Twins
• Vibes
• Vice Versa
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Without a Clue
• Working Girl
• You Can't Hurry Love

1989

• Back to the Future Part II
• Beverly Hills Brats
• The Big Picture
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Bloodhounds of Broadway
• Breaking In
• The Burbs
• Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
• Chances Are
• Checking Out
• Christmas Vacation
• C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.
• Cold Feet
• Cookie
• Cousins
• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Dad
• Disorganized Crime
• Dream a Little Dream
• The Dream Team
• The Experts
• The Fabulous Baker Boys
• Family Business
• Fletch Lives
• Ghostbusters II
• The Gods Must Be Crazy II
• Going Overboard
• Harlem Nights
• Heathers
• Her Alibi
• Homer and Eddie
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• How I Got into College
• Identity Crisis
• The January Man
• K-9
• Lethal Weapon 2
• Let It Ride
• Little Monsters
• Look Who's Talking
• Loverboy
• Major League
• Meet The Feebles
• Miss Firecracker
• New York Stories
• Out Cold
• Parenthood
• Parents
• Penn & Teller Get Killed
• Pink Cadillac
• Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
• Powwow Highway
• Roger & Me (documentary)
• Rude Awakening
• Say Anything...
• Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
• Second Sight
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil
• Shag
• She-Devil
• She's Out of Control
• Shocker
• Skin Deep
• Society
• Slaves of New York
• Speed Zone
• Staying Together
• Steel Magnolias
• Tango and Cash
• Teen Witch
• The Toxic Avenger Part II
• The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
• Three Fugitives
• Transylvania Twist
• Traveling Man
• Troop Beverly Hills
• True Love
• Turner & Hooch
• Twister
• UHF
• Uncle Buck
• Vampire's Kiss
• The War of the Roses
• Weekend at Bernie's
• We're No Angels
• When Harry Met Sally...
• Who's Harry Crumb?
• Wicked Stepmother
• The Wizard
• Worth Winning
• Young Einstein

British films

• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Brazil (1985)
• Bullshot (1983)
• Clockwise (1986)
• Comfort and Joy (1984)
• Consuming Passions (1988)
• Educating Rita (1983)
• Erik the Viking (1989)
• A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
• George and Mildred (1980)
• Gregory's Girl (1980)
• High Hopes (1988)
• Invitation to the Wedding (1983)
• Jane and the Lost City (1988)
• Local Hero (1983)
• Loose Connections (1983)
• The Missionary (1983)
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
• Morons from Outer Space (1985)
• Personal Services (1987)
• A Private Function (1984)
• Privates on Parade (1982)
• Restless Natives (1985)
• Rising Damp (1980)
• Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1986)
• Shirley Valentine (1989)
• The Tall Guy (1989)
• Time Bandits (1981)
• Victor Victoria (1982)
• Water (1985)
• Wish You Were Here (1987)
• Withnail and I (1987)

Comedy-horror

1981

• An American Werewolf in London
• Full Moon High
• The Funhouse
• Motel Hell

1982

• Basket Case
• Big Meat Eater
• Hysterical

1983

• Bloodbath at the House of Death
• Frightmare^[3]

1984

• Bloodsuckers from Outer Space^[4]
• Gremlins
• The Toxic Avenger

1985

• Mr. Vampire
• Once Bitten
• Re-Animator
• The Return of the Living Dead^[5]

1986

• Blood Hook^[6]
• Class of Nuke 'Em High
• Critters
• Evil Laugh^[7]
• From Beyond
• Haunted Honeymoon
• House
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Monster in the Closet^[8]
• Night of the Creeps
• The Seventh Curse^[9]
• TerrorVision^[10]
• Vamp

1987

• Bad Taste
• A Chinese Ghost Story^[11]
• Deathrow Gameshow
• Evil Dead II
• House II: The Second Story
• I Was a Teenage Zombie
• The Monster Squad

1988

• Beetlejuice
• Curse of the Queerwolf
• Dead Heat^[12]
• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
• High Spirits
• Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers^[13]
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space
• The Lair of the White Worm
• My Best Friend Is a Vampire
• Night of the Demons
• Return of the Living Dead Part II
• Waxwork

1989

• Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
• Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
• Cutting Class
• Dr.Caligari
• My Mom's a Werewolf
• Out of the Dark
• Over-sexed Rugsuckers from Mars
• The Toxic Avenger Part II
• The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie

Sci-fi comedy

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)^[14]
• Airplane II: The Sequel
• Back to the Future (1985)
• * batteries not included (1987)
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
• Cherry 2000 (1987)
• The Creature Wasn't Nice, aka Naked Space (1983)
• Critters (1986)
• Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
• Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
• Galaxina (1980)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
• The Ice Pirates (1984)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
• Innerspace (1987)
• Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982)
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
• Making Mr. Right (1987)
• The Man with Two Brains (1983)
• Morons from Outer Space (1985)
• My Science Project (1985)
• Night of the Comet (1984)
• Real Genius (1985)
• Repo Man (1984)
• Seksmisja (Poland, 1984)
• Short Circuit (1986)
• Short Circuit 2 (1988)
• Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Time Bandits (1981)
• Weird Science (1985)

Comedy-drama

• 48 Hrs. (1982)
• About Last Night... (1986)
• Always (1989)
• Author! Author!
• Bagdad Café (1987)
• Born in Flames (1983)
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
• Cannery Row (1982)
• The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) (1986)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Heartburn
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
• The King of Comedy
• Lucas
• Melvin and Howard (1980)
• Ménage (1986)
• Mystic Pizza
• My 20th Century (1989)
• Nothing in Common (1986)
• Oh! Heavenly Dog
• Private Benjamin (1980)
• Prizzi's Honor (1985)
• Punchline (1988)
• Samson & Sally – Song of the Whales (1984)
• Some Kind of Hero
• Steel Magnolias
• Teachers (1984)
• Working Girl (1988)

Parody films

• Agent 000 and the Deadly Curves (1983)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
• Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
• Chucky and Willie Wanker's Chocolate Starfish (1984)
• Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind
• History of the World Part 1
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
• Johnny Dangerously 1984
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
• Night of the Comet (1984)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Top Secret! (1984)
• Traxx (1988)^[15]
• UHF (1989)
• Zapped! (1982)

References

1. The Last Dragon (1985) – Michael Schultz | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
2. Lethal Weapon (1987) – Richard Donner | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
3. Frightmare (1983) – Norman Thaddeus Vane | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
4. Bloodsuckers from Outer Space (1984) – Glen Coburn | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
5. The Return of the Living Dead (1985) – Dan O'Bannon | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
6. Blood Hook (1987) – James Mallon, Jim Mallon | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
7. Evil Laugh (1988) – Dominick Brascia | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
8. Monster in the Closet (1987) – Bob Dahlin | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
9. The Seventh Curse (1986) – Ngai Kai Lam, Lan-Wei Tsang | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
10. TerrorVision (1986) – Ted Nicolaou | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
11. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) – Siu-Tung Ching | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
12. Dead Heat (1988) – Mark Goldblatt | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
13. "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988) - Fred Olen Ray | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
14. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984) – W.D. Richter | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
15. "Traxx (1988) - Jerome Gary | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".