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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 6
2 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
3 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
4 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
5 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
6 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45
7 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
8 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
9 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 64
10 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 68
11 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
12 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 70
13 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
14 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 78
15 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
16 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 97
17 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
18 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
19 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 125
20 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 127
21 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
22 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 130
23 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
24 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
25 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
26 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
27 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 138
28 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 147
29 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 157
30 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 167
31 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 170
32 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 172
33 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
34 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 175
35 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 182
36 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 183
37 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 184
38 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 192
39 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
40 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 198
41 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 203
42 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 224
43 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 229
44 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 244
45 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 248
46 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 252
47 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 253
48 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 256
49 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 260
50 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 261
51 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 267
52 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 268
53 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 270
54 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 281
55 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 284
56 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 286
57 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 293
58 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 295
59 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 298
60 Animal House 1978 John Landis 299
61 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 300
62 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 301
63 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 304
64 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 305
65 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 311
66 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 312
67 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 319
68 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 322
69 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 330
70 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 333
71 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 334
72 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 344
73 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 346
74 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 354
75 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 358
76 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 359
77 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 365
78 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 366
79 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 367
80 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 369
81 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 372
82 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton 374
83 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 376
84 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 378
85 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 381
86 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 389
87 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 392
88 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 393
89 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 394
90 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 401
91 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 409
92 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 413
93 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 414
94 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 420
95 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 424
96 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 428
97 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 429
98 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 433
99 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 435
100 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 437
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