Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Easy Money (1983)
- Dir. James Signorelli
Feat. Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald…
- Brash comedy with Dangerfield ideally cast as a middle–aged slob who must change his ways in order to receive a ten million dollar inheritance.
Educating Rita (1983)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Julie Walters, Michael Caine
- Satisfying modern take on Pygmalion, with uncultured fair lady Julie Walters and sceptical tutor Michael Caine.
Finally Sunday (Vivement Dimanche!) (1983)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant
- A businessman in trouble with the police over the murder of his wife's lover finds solace in his secretary who decides to investigate the case…
Lovesick (1983)
- Dir. Marshall Brickman
Feat. Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness…
- A psychiatrist who falls in love with a patient is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it.
Man With Two Brains, The (1983)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner
- Steve Martin plays a surgeon who frustrated with his wicked, overbearing wife (Kathleen Turner), falls in love with a…
Meaning of Life, The (Monty Python's Meaning of Life) (1983)
- Dir. Terry Jones
Feat. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle…
- Hilarious, oft–times bilious Monty Python hit that examines The Big Issue in a series of loosely–connected sketches.
Mr. Mom (1983)
- Dir. Stan Dragoti
Feat. Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Christopher Lloyd…
- Easy–going, if predictable role reversal comedy with a screenplay written by 80's teen icon John Hughes.
Keaton plays a dad who, after…
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, John Candy
- Inaugurating a series that would yield two more vacations/sequels, this moderately amusing gagfest follows the travails of Chevy Chase and family as…
Risky Business (1983)
- Dir. Paul Brickman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay
- A kind of '80s update of THE GRADUATE, this imaginative comedy propelled a 17–year old Tom Cruise into the limelight. Uncommonly stylish and…
Trading Places (1983)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Don Ameche…
- A sturdy comic conceit – for a bet, two interfering millionaires swap the lives of a rich man (Dan Aykroyd) and a poor man (Eddie Murphy) – makes…