Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Protocol (1984)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus
- Goldie Hawn plays a charmingly naive cocktail waitress who ends up employed at the White House after saving the president's life, in this…
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
- Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards
- Distinguished among 80s comedies by its unique agenda in which two bespectacled, buck–toothed nerds battle it out with the college…
Secret Honor (1984)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Philip Baker Hall
- A fictionalized monologue adapted from the stage by playwrights Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, with the great Philip Baker Hall as former…
Woman In Red, The (1984)
- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Kelly Le Brock, Charles Grodin
- Perhaps the height of Gene Wilder comedic indulgence, playing a middle–aged average man who becomes besotted with the womanly curves of leggy…
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (TV Series) (1983-2004)
- Feat. Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail, Tim Healy…
- Much loved and admired British drama series about a gang of construction labourers who take slightly dodgy, yet lucrative jobs in Europe and…
Bullshot (1983)
- Dir. Dick Clement
Feat. Alan Shearman, Billy Connolly, Michael Aldridge…
- Silly comedy starring Alan Shearman as 'Bullshot Crummond', a dunderheaded WW1 fighter pilot who must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto…
Cheech and Chong - Still Smokin (1983)
- Dir. Thomas Chong
Feat. Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong
- Further herbal adventures from the creators of UP IN SMOKE, this time in the 'promised land' of Holland.
Class (1983)
- Dir. Lewis John Carlino
Feat. Rob Lowe, Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew McCarthy…
- McCarthy plays a preppy student who is goaded by roommate Lowe into losing his virginity. He ends up being seduced by an older woman who turns out to…
Deal of the Century (1983)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Gregory Hines
- Self–destructing satire finds Chevy Chase dealing arms with a South American dictator, to the tune of $300 million. FRENCH CONNECTION hotshot…
Doctor Detroit (1983)
- Dir. Michael Pressman
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon
- Under–the–radar 80's comedy sees Aykroyd play a mild–mannered professor of literature who accidentally gets involved with four high…