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Best Comedy Movies

of the 1970s

The 20 highest-rated comedy movies released between 1970 and 1979, ranked by IMDb score.

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Gentlemen of Fortune poster

Gentlemen of Fortune(1971)

8.3 IMDb

Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to

2
Office Romance poster

Office Romance(1977)

8.2 IMDb

Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly u

3
Monty Python and the Holy Grail poster

Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975)

8.2 IMDb92% RT91 Meta

King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galah

4
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession poster

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession(1973)

8.2 IMDb

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

5
The Sting poster

The Sting(1973)

8.2 IMDb93% RT83 Meta

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

6
Paper Moon poster

Paper Moon(1973)

8.1 IMDb91% RT77 Meta

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

7
Life of Brian poster

Life of Brian(1979)

8 IMDb96% RT77 Meta

Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother,

8
We All Loved Each Other So Much poster

We All Loved Each Other So Much(1974)

8 IMDb

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

9
Day for Night poster

Day for Night(1973)

8 IMDb98% RT

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

10
Being There poster

Being There(1979)

7.9 IMDb95% RT83 Meta

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what h

11
Annie Hall poster

Annie Hall(1977)

7.9 IMDb97% RT92 Meta

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

12
My Friends poster

My Friends(1975)

7.9 IMDb

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

13
Manhattan poster

Manhattan(1979)

7.8 IMDb93% RT83 Meta

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

14
An Average Little Man poster

An Average Little Man(1977)

7.8 IMDb

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.

15
Amarcord poster

Amarcord(1973)

7.8 IMDb88% RT

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and d

16
The Adventures of Pinocchio poster

The Adventures of Pinocchio(1972)

7.8 IMDb

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to kee

17
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Harold and Maude(1971)

7.8 IMDb86% RT62 Meta

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.

18
Ugly, Dirty and Bad poster

Ugly, Dirty and Bad(1976)

7.7 IMDb

Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of mon

19
Love and Death poster

Love and Death(1975)

7.6 IMDb100% RT89 Meta

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

20
They Call Me Trinity poster

They Call Me Trinity(1970)

7.4 IMDb

The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino man

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