Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Ruthless People (1986)
- Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Bette Midler, Danny De Vito
- A genuine classic from the Zucker brothers and Touchstone pictures. The ingenious plot is laced with great gags, giving Bette Midler and Danny DeVito…
Something Wild (1986)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta
- The then–hip Melanie Griffith takes conservative Jeff Daniels on a crash course in carefree living and kinky sex. But the fun turns to terror…
Space Camp (1986)
- Dir. Harry Winer
Feat. Kate Capshaw, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott…
- Good natured 80's adolescent romp in which a group of young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is…
Three Amigos (1986)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short
- Cheesy comedy with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase lured to Mexico as gunslingers.
Wildcats (1986)
- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Swoosie Kurtz
- Feel–good football flick with Goldie Hawn as the ambitious coach who takes on an unlikely team of misfits from an inner–Chicago school.
After Hours (1985)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom…
- Scorsese picked up Best Director award at Cannes for this brilliant, Kafka–esque black comedy about an ordinary guy's traumatic and bizarre…
Always (Always...But Not Forever) (1985)
- Dir. Henry Jaglom
Feat. Henry Jaglom, Patrice Townsend, Joanna Frank…
- One–man–movie–machine Henry Jaglom transforms his own divorce into one of his typically witty naturalistic comedies. The couple…
Better Off Dead (1985)
- Dir. Savage Steve Holland
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Wyss, Donald Ogden Stewart…
- Skewed version of the 80s teenage comedy which follows the plight of likeable John Cusack after he is dumped by his girlfriend. After many original…
Big Trouble (1985)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Charles Durning…
- Cassavette's final film is far from a fitting finale to the iconoclast's career, but its not without its charms. Arkin plays a besieged insurance…
Catholic Boys (Heaven Help Us) (1985)
- Dir. Michael Dinner
Feat. Mary Stuart Masterson, John Heard, Donald Sutherland…
- Slight, but engaging comedy set around a group of Roman Catholic schoolboys and their misadventures with the opposite sex.