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Best Comedy Movies

of the 1980s

The 20 highest-rated comedy movies released between 1980 and 1989, ranked by IMDb score.

1
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Back to the Future(1985)

8.5 IMDb93% RT88 Meta

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage

2
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Time of the Gypsies(1988)

8.1 IMDb100% RT

Perhan is a gypsy teenager with telekinetic powers. A wealthy gypsy, Ahmed, visits the village and promises to get Perhan's sister the medical treatment she needs if they join him to Italy. Perhan soo

3
Eddie Murphy: Delirious poster

Eddie Murphy: Delirious(1983)

8.1 IMDb83% RT

Taped live and in concert at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. in August, 1983, Eddie Murphy: Delirious captures Eddie Murphy's wild and outrageous stand-up comedy act, which he performed in New Y

4
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The Princess Bride(1987)

8 IMDb93% RT78 Meta

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicili

5
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Tampopo(1985)

7.9 IMDb100% RT87 Meta

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment

6
Ferris Bueller's Day Off poster

Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986)

7.8 IMDb83% RT61 Meta

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best fri

7
Kin-dza-dza! poster

Kin-dza-dza!(1986)

7.8 IMDb

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips w

8
The Breakfast Club poster

The Breakfast Club(1985)

7.8 IMDb87% RT66 Meta

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Bri

9
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Brazil(1985)

7.8 IMDb98% RT84 Meta

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wr

10
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The King of Comedy(1982)

7.8 IMDb89% RT73 Meta

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

11
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988)

7.7 IMDb96% RT83 Meta

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acm

12
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Evil Dead II(1987)

7.7 IMDb88% RT72 Meta

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they pl

13
The Goonies poster

The Goonies(1985)

7.7 IMDb77% RT62 Meta

Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition. However, on their quest to find the treasure, they r

14
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My Dinner with Andre(1981)

7.7 IMDb93% RT83 Meta

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

15
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The Marquis of Grillo(1981)

7.7 IMDb

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to

16
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After Hours(1985)

7.6 IMDb90% RT89 Meta

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

17
My Friends Act II poster

My Friends Act II(1982)

7.6 IMDb

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they rec

18
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Police Story(1985)

7.5 IMDb90% RT78 Meta

Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Se

19
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I'm Starting from Three(1981)

7.4 IMDb

Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.

20
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Bianca(1984)

7.3 IMDb

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, a

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