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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 12
3 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
4 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
5 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
6 The General 1927 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 42
7 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
8 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 53
9 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55
10 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
11 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 58
12 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 60
13 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
14 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
15 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 83
16 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
17 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
18 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
19 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 106
20 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
21 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
22 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
23 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 125
24 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 127
25 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
26 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 132
27 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
28 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 137
29 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 145
30 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
31 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
32 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
33 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
34 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 164
35 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 172
36 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 179
37 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 180
38 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
39 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 187
40 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 190
41 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 197
42 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 201
43 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 202
44 Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 206
45 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 217
46 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 226
47 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 227
48 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 228
49 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 229
50 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 230
51 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
52 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 236
53 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 241
54 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 248
55 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
56 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 256
57 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 259
58 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 262
59 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 263
60 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 264
61 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 266
62 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 268
63 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 270
64 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 272
65 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 274
66 Animal House 1978 John Landis 282
67 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 283
68 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 289
69 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 291
70 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 301
71 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 307
72 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 308
73 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 321
74 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 322
75 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 325
76 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 329
77 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 330
78 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 333
79 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 335
80 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 337
81 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 344
82 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 345
83 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 347
84 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 349
85 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 351
86 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 353
87 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 354
88 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 356
89 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 357
90 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 360
91 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 361
92 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 372
93 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 378
94 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 380
95 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 388
96 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 391
97 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 392
98 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 393
99 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 399
100 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 408
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