Comedy Movies of 1986
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry was especially written by playwright James ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Legal Eagles
Ivan Reitman directed this film, starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah, that is an ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Sweet Liberty
Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this satirical film about the corruption of the film industry's approach to history. Alda plays Michael ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Beyond Therapy
Based on the play by Christopher Durang, Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy is a comedy set in New York City but filmed in Paris, where Altman was living at the time. ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Armed and Dangerous
In Armed and Dangerous, John Candy plays a cop who has been kicked off the force on a trumped up charge. Eugene Levy ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
The Money Pit
Adapting the themes of the 1948 film Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House, this ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills is an updated remake of the 1932 Jean Renoir film Boudu Saved By Drowning. Philandering businessman Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) rescues scraggly tramp Jerry Baskin (Nick ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Ruthless People
The last film to be co-directed by Jim Abrahams, David ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Back to School
Self-made wealthy guy Rodney Dangerfield decides he needs a better education--and also to spend some time away from his cheating ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Penny Marshall in her feature film directing debut, four screenwriters, and a ebullient Whoopi Goldberg join forces to make Jumpin' Jack Flash, a modern espionage comedy. Goldberg plays Terry Doolittle, a ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Club Paradise
Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Gung Ho
Michael Keaton stars as a wheeler-dealer who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Wise Guys
The "wise guys" referred to in the title, Harry Valentini (Danny DeVito) and Moe Dickstein (Joe Piscopo), turn out to be not so wise after all in ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Cheers: Season 05
Season five of Cheers opened with a resolution to the cliffhanger established at the end of season four, with Cheers' owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) finally proposing to mercurial waitress Diane Chambers (Shelley Long). This ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Down by Law
Jim Jarmusch follows his groundbreaking Stranger Than Paradise with another rambling, ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Haunted Honeymoon
Gene Wilder directed and wrote (along with Terence Marsh) this ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
The Golden Girls: Season 02
Having emerged from its first season as the seventh ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
One Crazy Summer
In this madcap comedy, Demi Moore plays Cassandra and John ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Head Office
With a script that is too anemic for the red-blooded actors featured here, this anorexic comedy moves slowly up and down the corporate ladder with the fortunes and misfortunes of ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
My Chauffeur
In a well-wrought sex comedy with one foot in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Three Amigos!
This slapstick farce features Dusty Bottoms (Chevy Chase), Lucky Day (Steve Martin), and Ned Nederlander (Martin Short), as three silent movie cowboy stars who get the axe from their ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
A Fine Mess
Blake Edwards comes a cropper in this lunk-headed slapstick homage to Laurel and Hardy, Mack Sennett, and Jerry Lewis. Ted Danson and Howie Mandell play Spence Holden and Dennis Powell, a couple of idiots who find themselves involved ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Short Circuit
Struck by lightning, an endearing little robot known only as "Number 5" escapes from ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Soul Man
An ambitious-but -spoiled rich white kid wins a scholarship to Harvard Law School by pretending to be African-American in ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Hollywood Vice Squad
This attempt at parodying a world of hookers, child ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Little Shop of Horrors
It started as a 1960 Roger Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
True Stories
Director David Byrne (of Talking Heads) takes an ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Riders of the Storm
A group of radical Vietnam vets become broadcasting pirates and take on a Presidential candidate in this crazy comedy. The vets and their leader, "Captain," are television raiders flying all over the country in a B-29 they turned into ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
The Whoopee Boys
In this comedy, a relocation to Florida throws lowlife New Yorkers Barney (Paul ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Firewalker
Firewalker stars Chuck Norris as Max Donigan, an ex-Marine, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as his buddy, Leo Porter. Both set out to help Patricia Goodwyn (Melody Anderson) find a lost Aztec city and a temple filled with gold. ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Shanghai Surprise
Madonna and Sean Penn, who were husband and wife at the time, starred in this ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
The Golden Child
Eddie Murphy followed up his Beverly Hills Cop success with this fantasy adventure that plops him right into the land of Ray Harryhausen and Indiana Jones. The plot revolves ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Wildcats
Blonde-haired, blue-eyed women's libber Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn) quits her teaching ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
House
A mild box-office hit for New World Pictures, this lightweight attempt at horror parody from Friday the 13th producer Sean S. Cunningham stars former Greatest American Hero William Katt as a ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Monster in the Closet
A humorous and skilful parody of the cliches and plot contrivances of 50's ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Malcolm
In this hilarious, award-winning comedy, Malcolm (Colin ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Crocodile Dundee
Accustomed to a simple life in the Australian Outback, a legendary crocodile hunter has trouble adjusting to his new surroundings when an American journalist brings him to New York City. This Australian comedy delivers ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
The Last Resort
George Lollar (Charles Grodin) overrides his wife's judgment and takes his family for a vacation on a sunny Caribbean island that just happens to be on ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
The Cosby Show: Season 03
The Cosby Show enters its third season as America's most-watched television series -- and would continue to enjoy this lofty honor for four seasons to come. The basic cast of characters remains the same as in season two, ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
In this third installment of the slapstick comedy series about novice police officers with less than dubious abilities, two police academies have to compete with each other in order to ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Clockwise
John Cleese's knack for mining hilarity from the growing frustration of a dignified gentleman is fully exploited in the British comedy ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Sizzle Beach, U.S.A.
A teenage Kevin Costner appears in this story of three young women and their love life, shot in 1974 but not released until 1986. The three women team up to rent a beach house in Malibu. One of them lands a job in a high school ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
She's Gotta Have It
Spike Lee's breakthrough independent feature, shot in fifteen days on a budget of $175,000, ushered in (along with Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise) the American ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Charles in Charge: Season 03
Having survived its freshman year in off-network syndication (following a desultory network run a few seasons earlier), Charles in Charge returns for a third season of 26 episodes, with Scott Baio returning ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Notte d'Estate Con Profilo Greco, Occhi a Mandorla, e Odore di Basilico
Mariangela Melato plays a female industrialist subjected to a kidnapping. Tired of watching her ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Sledge Hammer!: Season 01
David Rasche stars as the LAPD's toughest, nastiest, and stupidest ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Basic Training
First shot as "Up the Pentagon," this comedy is about a sexy worker who shuns the ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
The Pink Chiquitas
This sci-fi spoof stars Frank Stallone (Sly's brother) as Tony Mareda, Jr., a hot-shot private ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Reform School Girls
A softcore, low-budget film with no pretentions to a viable plot or character development, Reform School Girls just proceeds along the foul-mouthed, suggestive lines of its genre without anything new to add. Charlie ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Trick or Treat
Character actor Charles Martin Smith directed this quirky horror film about ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
ALF: Season 01
The cozy, respectable, and rather dull existence of the Tanner family is inexorably altered when an alien spaceship crashes into the family's garage in the opening episode of ALF's first season. Out pops a short, ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Dona Herlinda and Her Son
In this sly Mexican sex comedy, a manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Dos Machos Que Ladran No Muerden
In this Mexican comedy starring Alfonso Zayas, a troublemaker who ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Johnny Appleseed
This 45-minute retelling of the Johnny Appleseed story ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Mr. Vampire
Ricky Lau directs this fantastically successful horror yarn that successfully fused high-flying slapstick with creepy genre ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Ryder, P.I.
This low-budget detective comedy has its moments of hilarity and will amuse anyone familiar with American television programs and ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Urusei Yatsura Movie 4: Lum the Forever
Lum the Forever is another feature-length chapter of the ongoing Japanese cartoon series Urusei Yatsura. Created for the comic pages by Rumiko ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Il Matrimonio Segreto
Barbara Daniels, Carlos Feller and Claudio Nicolai star in this comic opera of romantic intrigue among the upper ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
La Ruletera
This across-the-border comedy features a heavy-footed Mexican cab driver who's pointed remarks fly just as fast as her cab. ~ All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Mr. Vampire 2
Ricky Lau follows up on his smash horror-comedy yarn with this sequel set in the present day. The film ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Vampires in Havana
Bawdy fun dominates Juan Padron's animated Vampiros en La Habana, a spoof of gangster and vampire movies. The setting is 1933, and a convention of vampire-gangsters is meeting in ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Awesome Lotus
With an off-beat sense of humor that appeals to a certain age group, no matter what their chronological years may be, this action spoof seems poised to become a cult item. Awesome Lotus (Loraine Masterson) is a karate champ with ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
Two football players currently stuck in unhappy marriages concoct a foolproof method of murdering their wives in a pitch black sports comedy ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
'Allo 'Allo: Series 03
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Alex In Love
A thirteen-year-old with raging hormones and a dysfunctional family falls for a distant relative in this coming of age comedy from director Boaz Davidson. When he's not running from his overbearing mother and avoiding his ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
Picardia Mexicana 3
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Super Wan Tu Tri
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America's Funniest Home Videos: Nincompoops and Boneheads
For anyone who has ever busted a gut laughing at the guy who comes out of the ... [ Comedy movie - 1986 ]
