Comedy Movies of 1985
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Woody Allen blurs the the boundaries between the real and unreal in this unique comic fantasy. The scene is a small town in the mid-1930s. Trapped in a dead-end job and an abusive marriage, Cecelia (Mia Farrow) regularly seeks refuge in the local ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Man with One Red Shoe
In this rather routine adaptation of the French hit, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Richard (Tom Hanks) is a bicycling ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Big Trouble
It took nearly two years after its completion for Big Trouble to reach the big screen. ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Into the Night
Filled with enough cameos to keep film buffs ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Clue
In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Maxie
In this comedy, an ordinary woman finds herself sharing both her home and her body with a ghost who has a ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Heaven Help Us
Charles Purpura scribed this semi-autobiographical tale about his experiences in a Brooklyn Catholic school of 1965. The film focuses on ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Brewster's Millions
The seventh cinema adaptation of the venerable stage farce Brewster's Millions stars Richard Pryor as Montgomery Brewster, a ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Water
Meant to be a parody of the recent invasions of Grenada and the Falkland Islands, this comedy about the laid-back governor ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
After Hours
Martin Scorsese's After Hours is a dark, tragi-comic tale of a fish out of water, centering on an uptight, white-bread computer consultant from uptown Manhattan who finds himself in the nightmarish ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Rustlers' Rhapsody
An amusing spoof of the good 'ole westerns back in the halcyon days ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Volunteers
Tom Hanks and John Candy were reunited for the first time since Splash in this period comedy about Peace Corps worker during the optimistic period of the Kennedy presidency. Lawrence ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Slugger's Wife
This routine film should have been called the "rock singer's husband" because it is about the life of a baseball player affected by his love for a singer. Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe) ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
My Science Project
In this sci-fi comedy, a high school hood, Michael Harlan, procrastinates on his science project until the day before it is due. Hastily seeking ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Transylvania 6-5000
In a plot that combines Mary Shelley's mad Dr. Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Count Dracula, two yellow journalism reporters, Jack and Gil (Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley, Jr.) head off to a castle in ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Golden Girls: Season 01
Legend has it that The Golden Girls, created by Susan Harris ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Murphy's Romance
Newly divorced Emma Moriarty (Sally Field) moves herself and her young son to a small Arizona town, hoping to establish a horse farm. Town pharmacist Murphy Jones (James Garner), the town's most eligible ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Sure Thing
Director Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing is essentially It Happened One Night for the 1980s, but its lack of ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Gotcha!
"Gotcha!" is a puerile but popular campus game at UCLA in which students stalk one another armed with paint-spewing pellet guns. Veterinary student Anthony Edwards may not ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Cheers: Season 04
As in earlier years, the action in the first episode of Cheers' fourth season was driven by the plot lines left dangling during the previous one. Having ended their romance in Europe, Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and Dr. Frasier Crane ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Bride
In this update of James Whale's classic The Bride of Frankenstein, pop star Sting furthers his ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
O.C. and Stiggs
In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the National Lampoon. Oliver ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Family Ties: Season 04
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Private Resort
A wacky teenage sex comedy of the sort that proliferated in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Spies Like Us
Director John Landis helmed this Cold War farce starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as Austin Millbarge and ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars
This third installment in the popular "Lucky Stars" series -- directed by Sammo Hung -- finds Muscles (Jackie Chan), Kidstuff (Hung), Fung ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Lost in America
Bored with their cushy suburban existence, yuppie David (Albert Brooks) talks his wife Linda (Julie ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Big Deal On Madonna Street...20 Years Later
The vast differences 27 years makes between Italian comedy, the city of Rome, the stars in ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Secret Admirer
Produced at the height of the teen sex comedy cinema craze in the mid-1980s, Secret Admirer (1985) was the ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Stuff
When a group of miners discovers a mysterious but delicious white ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Once Bitten
Best remembered for containing the film debut of phenomenally popular comedian of the early '90s, Jim Carrey, Once Bitten is a horror comedy that chronicles the attempts ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Real Genius
Martha Coolidge directed this comedy taking place at Cal Tech, concerning incoming freshman Mitch (Gabe Jarret), a high school student whose Science Fair project made important inroads into laser beam ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Summer Rental
This routine comedy is about a series of misadventures during a family vacation at the beach and stars ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Desperately Seeking Susan
A petite New Jersey housewife finds self-fulfillment through amnesia in this new wave comedy of ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Fletch
Chevy Chase added a classic comic hero to the film landscape with Fletch, one of his few ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
National Lampoon's European Vacation
Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold and his wife, Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) -- and their ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Odd Jobs
When a quintet of college classmates take summer jobs, their adventures lead to comic consequences. ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Protector
Although this American action film, which has little of Jackie Chan's comedic martial arts, was less successful in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Coca-Cola Kid
The ugly American bullying his way through a foreign country was a subject for comedy in several films of the 1980s, most ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Better Off Dead
Most animation aficionados of the 1990s know "Savage Steve Holland" as the cocreator (with Bill Kopp) of the all-stops-out TV cartoon series Eek! The Cat. But Holland had been exercising his own peculiar brand of deviltry on live characters long ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
In this weak, undistinguished sequel to the successful Police ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Heavenly Kid
Ever since the "Topper" movies made ghosts likeable and helpful, films like ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Mischief
This entertaining teen comedy is set in the effervescent 1950s and involves the friendship of the introverted, clumsy Jonathan (Doug McKeon) and the nonconformist, extroverted Gene (Chris ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Weird Science
John Hughes' third directorial effort, Weird Science, follows in ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Cosby Show: Season 02
Season two of The Cosby Show begins with all six members of the Huxtable family of Brooklyn present and accounted for: obstetrician Cliff Huxtable ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Moving Violations
In this flat attempt at comedy by the director of ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Fraternity Vacation
Delivering no more and no less than what its title suggests, this teen movie is about three frat brothers chasing down sex and women in Palm Springs for a long weekend escape from blizzard conditions at Iowa State. Wendall (Stephen ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Three Men and a Cradle
A trio of inept bachelors receives an unexpected ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
When Nature Calls
In the wacky satire When Nature Calls, an urban family moves to the country in order to get back to nature. Set as a film within a film, the movie mocks a number of film and television cliches with an ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Growing Pains: Season 01
As season one of Growing Pains gets under way, Long Island housewife Maggie Seaver (Joanna Kerns) lands a job as a reporter for a local newspaper. Since it has always been the Seavers' philosophy ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Restless Natives
In this Scottish comedy, two young fellows disguise themselves as a clown and a wolf-man and begin robbing tourist buses. Somehow the two end up considered national heroes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Just One of the Guys
In this uneven teen comedy, an aspiring female high-school journalist assumes a fake male identity after her essay on just that subject -- a woman posing as a male jock -- is rejected in a contest. Miffed by what she assumes is a bias ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Not Quite Paradise
The kibbutz setting to this standard love story between ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Co-written by Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure marks the debut of director Tim Burton, who stamps the entire film with his quirky trademark style. The premise: Pee Wee ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Tomboy
In this light-weight adolescent adventure, busty Tommy Boyd (Betsy Russell), a tough-gal mechanic who runs a garage in East L.A., would rather spend time ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Punky Brewster: Season 02
Spunky nine-year-old Penelope "Punky" Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye) and her foster father, middle-aged bachelor photographer Henry ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Sé infiel y no mires con quién
In this conventional comedy of manners, two men in the publishing business run into trouble both in the boardroom and in the bedroom. Their venture is starting to run out of black ink, and ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Charles in Charge: Season 02
Two and half years after it was cancelled at the end of its first season on ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Last Dragon
The TV prints of this entertaining melange whittled down ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Morons from Outer Space
In this partially successful Brit sci-fi comedy, four invading aliens cannot really think their way out of a paper bag, much less conquer Earth with their superior knowledge (apparently also non-existent). ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
School Spirit
In this teen-sex laugher, a high-school Romeo is killed in a car accident but is able to return to life for a ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
American Drive-In
Wildly disparate characters are not much balance for the lack of action and interaction in this film by director and co-writer Krishna Shah. A series of people go to a drive-in movie theater one night where not a lot happens until the final, ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Casey at the Bat
This comedy from Shelley Duvall's made-for-cable Tall Tales and Legends is fashioned after the famous baseball poem which features Elliot Gould and Hamilton Camp with narration by Howard Cosell. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Cave Girl
With no more driving force than a 5-mile-an-hour wind, this unlikely sci-fi story is about what happens when sex in the 20th century meets sex in the B.C. era (Before Censors?). An anthropology student named Rex (Daniel ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Dark Shadows: Behind the Scenes
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Izzy and Moe
Honeymooners stars Jackie Gleason and Art Carney re-team for this tea-teetotaling comedy about a pair of down-on-their-luck vaudeville actors who go to work as prohibition agents. The time is the Roaring Twenties, and ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Loose Screws
Filmed in just four weeks one fine autumn in 1984, this amateur teen sex romp, with not a lot of sex but a lot of trying, was released a few years later as Screwballs II. A melange of young men and women with only physical ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Ni Chana Ni Juana
This undistinguished comedy is about twin sisters separated at birth, one grows up in poverty in a rural village, and the other ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
The Toxic Avenger
In a crazy spoof of heroic monster movies that spawned two sequels, The Toxic Avenger is about the transformation of a mild-mannered, scrawny janitor into a thundering, muscular hero out for justice, morality, and ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Albert Herring
This video presents the comic opera Albert Herring, staged at Glyndebourne in 1985. Peter Hall directs the cast in the coming of age story of a repressed young man whose life ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
El Diablo, El Santo y El Tonto
Vincente Fernandez plays three brothers sired by the same father with three different mothers in ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
La Raza Nunca Pierde
Jorge Torres (Miguel Angel Rodriguez) is a former boxing champ who takes a job ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
A King And His Movie
In 1985 the exquisitely-wrought Argentine comedy-drama ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
Spiritual Love
Directed by Taylor Tai-Loi, this supernatural love story stars Chow Yun-fat as ... [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
La Gran Scena Opera Company of New York
Gran Scena Opera Company presents some of its infamous operatic satire. ~ All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1985 ]
'Allo 'Allo: Series 02
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Are You Being Served?: Season 10
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El Ratero de la Vecindad 2
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