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Top Comedies (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
2 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 11
3 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
4 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
5 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 44
6 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 54
7 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 57
8 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 58
9 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 60
10 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 65
11 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 68
12 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 78
13 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 85
14 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 90
15 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 93
16 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 99
17 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 103
18 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 120
19 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 122
20 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 130
21 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 135
22 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 140
23 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 141
24 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 143
25 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 149
26 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 153
27 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 159
28 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 166
29 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 175
30 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 177
31 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 178
32 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 182
33 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 191
34 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 192
35 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 193
36 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 205
37 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 207
38 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 208
39 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 209
40 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 210
41 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 215
42 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 225
43 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 246
44 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 250
45 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 255
46 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 257
47 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 258
48 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 261
49 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 270
50 Animal House 1978 John Landis 277
51 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 278
52 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 279
53 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 281
54 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 286
55 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 288
56 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 290
57 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 298
58 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 299
59 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 303
60 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 304
61 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 310
62 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 311
63 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 323
64 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 326
65 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 327
66 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 333
67 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 336
68 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 339
69 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 344
70 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 347
71 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 348
72 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 349
73 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 350
74 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 351
75 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 362
76 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 376
77 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 385
78 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 387
79 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 388
80 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 391
81 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 398
82 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 401
83 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 405
84 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 408
85 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 411
86 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 412
87 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton 413
88 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 416
89 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 417
90 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 418
91 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 423
92 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 425
93 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 430
94 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 434
95 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 437
96 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 438
97 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 443
98 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 447
99 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 450
100 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 462
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