List of comedy films of the 1980s

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A list of comedy films released in the 1980s.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Sub-Genre/Notes
1980
'Airplane!'	Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker	Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lorna Patterson, Lloyd Bridges, Ethel Merman		A spoof of Disaster films
'Caddyshack'	Harold Ramis	Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Bill Murray, Sarah Holcomb, Scott Colomby, Cindy Morgan, Dan Resin, Henry Wilcoxon, Elaine Aiken, Albert Salmi, Ann Ryerson, Brian Doyle-Murray, Hamilton Mitchell
'Melvin and Howard'	Jonathan Demme	Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Pamela Reed, Jason Robards		Comedy-drama
'History of the World, Part I'	Mel Brooks	Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, Ron Carey, Gregory Hines, Pamela Stephenson, Spike Milligan, Shecky Greene, Sid Caesar, Mary-Margaret Humes, Orson Welles, Hugh Hefner, Barry Levinson, John Hurt, Andrew Sachs
1981
'Stripes'	Ivan Reitman	Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, John Candy, John Laroquette, Judge Reinhold
1982
'Airplane II: The Sequel'	Ken Finkleman	Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett
1983
'Strange Brew'	Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas	Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin
1984
'Ghostbusters'	Ivan Reitman	Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson, David Margulies, Steven Tash, Jennifer Runyon, Slavitza Jovan, Michael Ensign, Alice Drummond, Jordan Charney
'Gremlins'	Joe Dante	Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton
'Repo Man'	Alex Cox	Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton
'Splash'	Ron Howard	Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy
'This is Spinal Tap'	Rob Reiner	Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner
'Top Secret!'	Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker	Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough
1985
'Back to the Future'	Robert Zemeckis	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, James Tolkan, J. J. Cohen, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, Harry Waters, Jr.
'The Goonies'	Richard Donner	Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Jonathan Ke Quan, John Mutuszak, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano, Anne Ramsey, Lupe Ontiveros, Mary Ellen Trainor, Keith Walker, Curtis Hanson
'Summer Rental'	Carl Reiner	John Candy, Karen Austin, Rip Torn, Richard Crenna
'Pee-wee's Big Adventure'	Tim Burton	Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen, Irving Hellman, Monte Landis, Damon Martin, David Glasser, Gregory Brown, Mark Everett, Daryl Roach, Bill Cable, Peter Looney, Starletta DuPois
1986
'Down and Out in Beverly Hills'	Paul Mazursky	Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss
'Ruthless People'	Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker	Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater
1987
'Spaceballs'	Mel Brooks	Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, John Candy, George Wyner, Joan Rivers, Dick Van Patten, Michael Winslow, Lorene Yarnell, John Hurt, Sal Viscuso, Ronny Graham, Jim J. Bullock, Leslie Bevis
1988
'Beetlejuice'	Tim Burton	Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger, Michael Keaton, Rachel Mittelman, Catherine O'Hara, J. Jay Saunders, Mark Ettlinger, Jeffrey Jones, Winona Ryder, Glenn Shadix, Patrice Martinez, Cindy Daly
1989
'Back to the Future Part II'	Robert Zemeckis	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan, Jeffrey Weissman, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, J.J. Cohen, Charles Fleischer, E. Casanova Evans, Jay Koch, Charles Gherardi, Ricky Dean Logan
'Ghostbusters II'	Ivan Reitman	Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol, Harris Yulin, David Margulies, Kurt Fuller, Janet Margolin, Wilhelm von Homburg, William T. Deutschendorf, Henry J. Deutschensorf

Contents 1 American films 2 1980s 2.1 1980 2.2 1981 2.3 1982 2.4 1983 2.5 1984 2.6 1985 2.7 1986 2.8 1987 2.9 1988 2.10 1989 2.11 British films 3 Comedy-horror 4 Sci-fi comedy 5 Comedy-drama 6 Parody films

American films

1980s

1980

Airplane! Any Which Way You Can The Blues Brothers Caddyshack Can't Stop the Music Cheech and Chong's Next Movie Galaxina 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 Private Benjamin The Private Eyes Seems Like Old Times Serial Smokey and the Bandit II Stardust Memories Stir Crazy The Stunt Man Up the Academy

1981

All Night Long Arthur Cannonball Run Carbon Copy Caveman Hardly Working The Incredible Shrinking Woman Modern Problems

Polyester Private Lessons Shock Treatment Stripes Take This Job and Shove It Under the Rainbow History of the World, Part I

1982

48 Hours Airplane II: The Sequel Creepshow Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Diner E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Eating Raoul Fast Times at Ridgemont High It Came From Hollywood Jinxed! My Favorite Year

Night Shift Pandemonium Porky's They Call Me Bruce? Tootsie The Toy Trail of the Pink Panther Victor Victoria The World According to Garp Zapped!

1983

A Christmas Story Curse of the Pink Panther D.C. Cab Deal of the Century Doctor Detroit Losin' It The Man Who Loved Women The Man With Two Brains

Mr. Mom National Lampoon's Vacation Reuben, Reuben Risky Business Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 Strange Brew To Be or Not to Be Trading Places Valley Girl

1984

All of Me Bachelor Party Beverly Hills Cop Cannonball Run II City Heat Ghostbusters Gremlins The Ice Pirates Irreconcilable Differences Kidco The Lonely Guy Micki + Maude Nothing Lasts Forever

Police Academy Protocol Repo Man Revenge of the Nerds Rhinestone Slapstick of Another Kind Splash Surf II Teachers Top Secret! This Is Spinal Tap Up the Creek

1985

Back to the Future Better Off Dead Brewster's Millions Clue Cocoon Fletch Fraternity Vacation Girls Just Want to Have Fun The Goonies Head Office The Heavenly Kid Into the Night Just One of the Guys Lost in America Moving Violations

Murphy's Romance My Science Project National Lampoon's European Vacation Once Bitten Pee Wee's Big Adventure Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment Porky's Revenge Prizzi's Honor Real Genius Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Secret Admirer Spies Like Us Summer Rental Teen Wolf Weird Science

1986

Armed and Dangerous Back to School The Best of Times Big Trouble in Little China The Class of Nuke 'Em High Club Paradise Down and Out in Beverly Hills Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Golden Child Gung Ho Hannah and Her Sisters Haunted Honeymoon Lucas Modern Girls The Money Pit

Night of the Creeps Nothing in Common Odd Jobs One Crazy Summer One More Saturday Night Peggy Sue Got Married Police Academy 3: Back in Training Ruthless People Soul Man Stewardess School Tough Guys ¡Three Amigos! True Stories Wildcats Zeisters

1987

Adventures in Babysitting The Allnighter Amazon Women on the Moon Baby Boom Back to the Beach Beverly Hills Cop II Born in East L.A. Broadcast News Cherry 2000 Eddie Murphy Raw Ernest Goes to Camp Good Morning, Vietnam Hunk Ishtar Leonard Part 6 Making Mr. Right Moonstruck Morgan Stewart's Coming Home Munchies

Overboard Planes, Trains & Automobiles Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol Radio Days Raising Arizona Rent-A-Cop Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise Roxanne The Secret of My Success Spaceballs Street Trash Summer School Surrender Teen Wolf Too They Still Call Me Bruce Three Men and a Baby Three O'Clock High The Witches of Eastwick

1988

Arthur 2: On the Rocks Beetlejuice Big Big Top Pee-wee Bull Durham Caddyshack II Coming to America Dangerous Curves Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Drowning by Numbers Earth Girls Are Easy Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Ernest Saves Christmas Feds The Great Outdoors Hairspray Heathers Honey, I Shrunk the Kids I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

Johnny Be Good Killer Klowns from Outer Space License to Drive Married to the Mob Midnight Run Moving My Stepmother Is an Alien The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach Punchline Scrooged She's Having a Baby Switching Channels Tapeheads Twins Vibes Who Framed Roger Rabbit Working Girl

1989

Back to the Future Part II Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure The Burbs Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death Cookie Dad Dream a Little Dream The Dream Team Family Business Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders Ghostbusters II Going Overboard Harlem Nights Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Identity Crisis K-9 Let It Ride

Look Who's Talking Major League Meet The Feebles National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Parenthood Police Academy 6: City Under Siege Roger & Me (documentary) See No Evil, Hear No Evil She's Out of Control True Love Turner & Hooch UHF Uncle Buck The War of the Roses Vampire's Kiss Weekend at Bernie's When Harry Met Sally... Who's Harry Crumb?

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)
• 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

1984

• Gremlins
• The Toxic Avenger

1985

• Fright Night
• Mr. Vampire
• Once Bitten
• Re-Animator
• Return of the Living Dead

1986

• Class of Nuke 'Em High
• Critters
• From Beyond
• Haunted Honeymoon
• House
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Night of the Creeps
• Vamp

1987

• Bad Taste
• Evil Dead II
• House II: The Second Story
• I Was a Teenage Zombie
• Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
• The Monster Squad
• Deathrow Gameshow

1988

• Beetlejuice
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space
• The Lair of the White Worm
• Return of the Living Dead Part II
• Waxwork
• High Spirits
• Curse of the Queerwolf
• My Best Friend Is a Vampire
• Night of the Demons

1989

• Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
• Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
• Cutting Class
• Dr.Caligari
• My Mom's a Werewolf
• Over-sexed Rugsuckers from Mars
• The Toxic Avenger, Part 2
• The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
• Out of the Dark (1989 film)

Sci-fi comedy

• Airplane II: The Sequel
• Back to the Future (1985)
• 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)
• Repo Man (1984)
• Real Genius (1985)
• Seksmisja (Polish, 1984)
• Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Time Bandits (1981)
• Weird Science (1985)

Comedy-drama

• Melvin and Howard (1980)
• Private Benjamin (1980)
• Cannery Row (1982)
• 48 Hrs. (1982)
• Born in Flames (1983)
• Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
• Samson & Sally - Song of the Whales (1984)
• Teachers (1984)
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
• Prizzi's Honor (1985)
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain (1986)
• About Last Night... (1986)
• Ménage (1986)
• Nothing in Common (1986)
• Bagdad Café (1987)
• Punchline (1988)
• Working Girl (1988)
• Always (1989)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
• My 20th Century (1989)

Parody films

• Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit (1983)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
• Chucky and Willie Wanker's Chocolate Starfish (1984)
• Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
• Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind
• 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)
• UHF (1989)
• Zapped! (1982)
• History of the World Part 1

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