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1. Spaceman (I) (2024)
R | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Half a year into his solo mission on the edge of the solar system, an astronaut concerned with the state of his life back on Earth is helped by an ancient creature he discovers in the bowels of his ship.
Director: Johan Renck | Stars: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, Kunal Nayyar
Votes: 34,508
2. The Birdcage (1996)
R | 117 min | Comedy
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 101,237 | Gross: $124.06M
3. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale
Votes: 52,193 | Gross: $22.55M
4. Oscar (1991)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Crime
A gangster attempts to keep the promise he made to his dying father: that he would give up his life of crime and "go straight".
Director: John Landis | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Chazz Palminteri
Votes: 34,389 | Gross: $23.56M
5. Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy
After he finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their special guests, a rising executive questions the merits of his invitation just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak, Zach Galifianakis
Votes: 111,297 | Gross: $73.03M
6. La Cage aux Folles (1978)
R | 97 min | Comedy
The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Rémi Laurent
Votes: 11,964 | Gross: $20.42M
7. Mixed Nuts (1994)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Director: Nora Ephron | Stars: Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, Anthony LaPaglia
Votes: 13,547 | Gross: $6.80M
8. Superlopez (2018)
108 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Juan López, an ordinary and anonymous office worker, decides to expose his superpowers to turn into the first Spanish superhero: Superlópez.
Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera | Stars: Dani Rovira, Alexandra Jiménez, Julián López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 4,221
9. Buddy Buddy (1981)
R | 96 min | Comedy
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in California's Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed next-door neighbor wants to commit suicide over marital problems.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski
Votes: 5,201 | Gross: $7.26M
10. Oscar (1967)
G | 85 min | Comedy
Neurotic businessman must find the right man for his pregnant daughter. In fact, it is little bit complicated.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Mario David, Germaine Delbat
Votes: 7,576
11. The Cabbage Soup (1981)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret, Claude Gensac
Votes: 9,618
12. Cosy Dens (1999)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totally stupid; fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.
Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Michael Beran, Miroslav Donutil, Simona Stasová, Kristýna Nováková
Votes: 6,188
13. Beach House (1977)
106 min | Comedy
Different groups of people share cabin #19 for changing at an Italian beach.
Director: Sergio Citti | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jodie Foster, Mariangela Melato, Michele Placido
Votes: 823
14. Loot (1970)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Crime
Based on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor ... See full summary »
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Milo O'Shea
Votes: 629
15. Serial Teachers (2013)
88 min | Comedy
The worst teachers are recruited to save the worst school in France from shutting down.
Director: Pierre-François Martin-Laval | Stars: Christian Clavier, Isabelle Nanty, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Kev Adams
Votes: 4,066
16. Hibernatus (1969)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A rich businessman faces a quite weird problem - his wife's grandfather has been revived thanks to science. But he is not aware that many decades have passed.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Gensac, Bernard Alane
Votes: 6,665
17. Dracula and Son (1976)
PG | 78 min | Comedy, Horror
In the 1700s, a vampire has a son from a normal woman. The mother dies, and he spends two centuries trying to teach his meek son how to be a proper vampire but no avail. Now they have to flee from Transylvania, and they end up in France.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Catherine Breillat
Votes: 803
18. Beautiful Antonia, First a Nun Then a Demon (1972)
82 min | Comedy
To spite her father, a young woman enters a convent. However, the woman's old boyfriend shows up and tries to win her back.
Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Piero Focaccia, Riccardo Garrone, Dada Gallotti
Votes: 251
19. Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Sloane, a manipulative lodger, joins Kath's household. Kemp recognizes Sloane as a murderer. Sloane kills Kemp. The story takes an unexpected turn regarding Sloane's fate, deviating from conventional justice.
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery, Alan Webb
Votes: 748
20. Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
110 min | Comedy
A Russian spy is supposed by the British Secret Service to steal some faked orders, but he is too stupid to succeed. His girlfriend tries to help him, but it seems he is too foolish to succeed.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Anthony Perkins, Grégoire Aslan, Jean-Marc Tennberg
Votes: 469
21. Lemonade Joe (1964)
84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Straight shooting Lemonade Joe cleans up Stetson City, in this musical parody of early Westerns, after shooting the pants off villain Old Pistol. Joe's endorsement of Kolaloka lemonade as ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Karel Fiala, Rudolf Deyl, Milos Kopecký, Kveta Fialová
Votes: 3,066
22. The Marriage Escape (2020)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
A middle-aged veterinary surgeon, believing that his wife pampers him too much, fakes the onset of dementia to get away from her.
Director: Johan Nijenhuis | Stars: Herman Finkers, Johanna ter Steege, Leonie ter Braak, Ferdi Stofmeel
Votes: 3,350
23. Ko nezino vyrai (2022)
90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A well-known fashion magazine editor, an outspoken male chauvinist, is forced to reconsider his point of view when one morning he wakes up as a woman.
Director: Robertas Kuliunas | Stars: Rimante Valiukaite, Vytautas Rumsas Jaunesnysis, Toma Vaskeviciute, Kiril Glusajev
Votes: 167
24. What a Man Wants (2018)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A philandering cab driver makes a profound impression on his brother-in-law.
Director: Lee Byeong-heon | Stars: Lee Sung-min, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Ji-hyo, Lee El
Votes: 470
25. A Pain in the Ass (1973)
PG | 85 min | Comedy
Milan must kill Louis Randoni before he testifies in a court of law. He is disturbed by his depressed roommate François Pignon who commits suicide by hanging himself from the toilet pipe flooding Milan's room. Here he is stuck in problems.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras
Votes: 3,703
26. Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito (Marcello Mastroianni) sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor ... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo De Filippo | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Raquel Welch, Guido Alberti, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 168
27. The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (2017)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Whoever thinks that the countryside is calm and peaceful is mistaken. In it we find especially agitated animals, a Fox that thinks it's a chicken, a Rabbit that acts like a stork, and a Duck who wants to replace Father Christmas. If you want to take a vacation, keep driving past this place.
Directors: Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner | Stars: Guillaume Darnault, Damien Witecka, Kamel Abdessadok, Antoine Schoumsky
Votes: 3,706 | Gross: $0.04M
28. Bylo nás pet (1994– )
360 min | Comedy
Young Petr and his four friends undergoes several adventures throughout this series--setting a field on fire, sneaking into a theater without paying and many more.
Stars: Adam Novák, Jaroslav Pauer, Oldrich Navrátil, Stepán Benyovszký
Votes: 363
29. Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)
80 min | Comedy, Crime
Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Jean Le Poulain
Votes: 584
30. Román pro zeny (2005)
100 min | Comedy
This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura (Zuzana Kanócz), an editor at a woman's weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana (Simona... See full summary »
Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Zuzana Kanócz, Marek Vasut, Simona Stasová, Stella Zázvorková
Votes: 793
31. Merry-Go-Round (1973)
R | 122 min | Comedy
Adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's famous play "Reigen", previously filmed as "La Ronde" by Max Ophüls in 1950 and Roger Vadim in 1964.
Director: Otto Schenk | Stars: Gertraud Jesserer, Hans Brenner, Sydne Rome, Helmut Berger
Votes: 105
32. Capricious Summer (1968)
Unrated | 74 min | Comedy
The friends enjoy the charms of nature - and of their guests.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Frantisek Rehák, Míla Myslíková
Votes: 1,630
33. Incorrigible (1975)
100 min | Comedy
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Charles Gérard
Votes: 1,826
34. Betlémské svetlo (2022)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Everyday existence of writer Sejnoha is enlivened by persistent characters from his stories to remind him of some major questions. How to fulfill our own expectations of a better existence without destroying everything we have?
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová, Vojtech Kotek, Tereza Ramba
Votes: 146
35. Insect (2018)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Amateur actors rehearsing "Pictures from the Insects' Life". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. "Insects", is intercut with the ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Pavel Nový, Jirí Lábus, Norbert Lichý, Jan Budar
Votes: 524
36. Dear Inspector (1977)
PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Parisian detective Lise meets her childhood sweetheart Antoine by chance. Extremely happy about the reunion, the two arrange to meet. But Lise's duties as an inspector thwart their plans.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps
Votes: 1,143
37. 'Ctyri vrazdy stací, drahousku' (1971)
103 min | Comedy, Crime
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jirina Bohdalová, Iva Janzurová, Marie Rosulková
Votes: 791
38. A Pain in the Ass (2008)
86 min | Comedy
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Richard Berry, Patrick Timsit, Pascal Elbé, Laurent Paolini
Votes: 1,027
39. Brillantissime (2018)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best friend, and a weird psychologist.
Director: Michèle Laroque | Stars: Michèle Laroque, Kad Merad, Françoise Fabian, Gérard Darmon
Votes: 696
40. Bájecná léta pod psa (1997)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy
The story of an ordinary family living in Czechoslovakia from around 1963 until the Velvet Revolution. Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Michal Wiewegh.
Director: Petr Nikolaev | Stars: Ondrej Vetchý, Libuse Safránková, Vladimír Javorský, Jan Zahalka
Votes: 737
41. The Oddsockeaters (2016)
83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Oddsockeaters are small creatures, who live alongside us humans and are responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair - the odd sock. They eat socks, but only one from each pair.
Director: Galina Miklínová | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Jan Maxián, David Novotný, Ondrej Trojan
Votes: 302
42. Pupendo (2003)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
A bittersweet comedy set just prior to 1984, during the era of 'practical socialism'. For political reasons, Bedrich Mára (Bolek Polívka) has had to give up teaching at Prague's Academy of ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Jaroslav Dusek, Jirí Pecha
Votes: 1,509
43. René la canne (1977)
97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rene and Marchand are best friends. What makes their friendship special is that Rene is a professional thief, and Marchand is a policeman, albeit somewhat corrupt.
Director: Francis Girod | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Sylvia Kristel, Michel Piccoli, Stefano Patrizi
Votes: 166
44. Konec starych casu (1989)
97 min | Comedy
Czechia, 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic background, he is a man of fortune and is ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Marián Labuda, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrusínský
Votes: 451
45. Vlastníci (2019)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Mrs. Zahrádková has a plan to convince the other co-owners of the flats to finally save the house in which they live together and which is in emergency condition.
Director: Jirí Havelka | Stars: Tereza Ramba, Vojtech Kotek, Dagmar Havlová, Jirí Lábus
Votes: 1,099
46. The Snowdrop Festivities (1984)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Somr, Petr Cepek
Votes: 1,654
47. V lete ti poviem (2022)
111 min | Comedy
Director: Marta Ferencova | Stars: Tereza Kostková, Marián Miezga, Dana Rogoz, Martin Hofmann
Votes: 97
48. Carambolages (1963)
88 min | Comedy, Crime
The story takes place in a luxury building of about ten floors where the "321" agency has its headquarters. The company watches over the holidays of its customers.
Director: Marcel Bluwal | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Serrault, Sophie Daumier
Votes: 1,019
49. L'école est finie (2018)
87 min | Comedy
Agathe Langlois, Parisian, has everything to be happy and she has just been established as an English teacher. But when she learns that she is transferred hundreds of kilometers from her home, in the countryside, it is the cold shower
Director: Anne Depétrini | Stars: Bérengère Krief, Grégory Fitoussi, Marilou Berry, Anne Depétrini
Votes: 436
50. Ferdy (1984– )
30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
"Fredy" is a black ant who solves his problems in every episode with his intelligence and the help of his friends.
Star: Susan Sheridan
Votes: 218