Comedies

Robin Williams almost single-handedly paved the way for comedians who wanted to take their comedic timing and successfully turn it toward the world of drama. After his cinematic debut in Robert Altman's Popeye, Williams proved to the world time and time...

A group of aspiring-and starving-young actors and actresses decides to pool their resources and share an apartment. Things begin to look up when a big-time Broadway producer moves into their building. Now, all they have to do is keep their nosy landlady...

Suppose God Personally Recruited You to Spread His Word. That's What Happens to Supermarket Manager John Denver in a Graceful Comedy Classic Blessed By the Divine Blend of Three Legendary Icons of Humor: George Burns, Director Carl Reiner and...

Mel Brooks' directorial debut is one of the greatest comedies of all time and stars Zero Mostel as conniving theater producer Max Bialystock and Gene Wilder as skittish accountant Leo Bloom. Together they produce "Springtime for Hitler," a lavish stage...

A down-and-out music promoter (Dirk Benedict) ventures into the world of professional wrestling when he takes on a pair of grapplers ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Sam Fatu) as clients. And when he books a band to play at the matches, he mixes rock and roll...

Wacky comedy, based on the hit song by Johnny Paycheck, stars Robert Hays as Frank Macklin, an executive sent to his small hometown to restructure the financially strapped local brewery. Frank soon finds himself caught in the middle between the...

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays both shy adventure writer Fran?ois Merlin and his suave fictional hero, Bob Saint-Clar, in this fast-paced comedy from director Philippe de Broca. Merlin's life begins mixing with his writing, and soon his exploits as Saint-Clar...

TV's beloved bawdy Brit, Benny Hill, made his screen debut in this slapstick Cold War thriller, a late effort from the famed Ealing Studios. Ice rink sweeper-turned-private detective Hugo (Hill) gets mixed up in a wacky adventure involving a...

Former ad executive Pete (George Peppard) had chucked it all for the loft life of a cynical Bohemian artiste. He'd soon have his outlook brightened, though, courtesy of an inadvertently imported toucan, bearing a strange virus leaving those infected with...

Two veteran LAPD cops-hard-nosed alcoholic Sgt. A.M. Valnikov (Robert Foxworth) and female detective Sgt. Natalie Zimmerman (Paula Prentiss)-become reluctant partners-and willing lovers-in this comedic crime thriller from scripter Joseph Wambaugh ("The...

Awaiting execution in Franco's Spain for his Republican leanings, American aviator Tom Martin (Ray Milland) was sprung courtesy of an audacious gambit by reporter Augusta Nash (Claudette Colbert). The understandably grateful flyer began a romantic...

Riotous, offbeat comedy about a mixed bag of crazies, outcasts, and weirdoes from the small Florida resort town of Ticlaw, who take on the governor when plans for a new highway in their state don't include an exit leading to their safari park. Beau...