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  • Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, and Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein (1974)

    1. Young Frankenstein

    19741h 46mPG83Metascore
    8.0 (176K)
    An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
    DirectorMel BrooksStarsGene WilderMadeline KahnMarty Feldman
  • Murder by Death (1976)

    2. Murder by Death

    19761h 35mPG59Metascore
    7.2 (44K)
    Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
    DirectorRobert MooreStarsPeter FalkAlec GuinnessPeter Sellers
  • The Party (1968)

    3. The Party

    19681h 39mApproved64Metascore
    7.4 (46K)
    A clerical mistake results in a bumbling Indian film star being invited to an exclusive Hollywood party instead of being fired.
    DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsPeter SellersClaudine LongetNatalia Borisova
  • Charles Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in The Great Dictator (1940)

    4. The Great Dictator

    19402h 5mG
    8.4 (251K)
    Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack Oakie
  • Charles Chaplin in Modern Times (1936)

    5. Modern Times

    19361h 27mG96Metascore
    8.5 (275K)
    The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardHenry Bergman
  • Charles Chaplin in The Gold Rush (1925)

    6. The Gold Rush

    19251h 35mApproved90Metascore
    8.1 (125K)
    A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainTom Murray
  • Charles Chaplin in The Circus (1928)

    7. The Circus

    19281h 12mG90Metascore
    8.1 (38K)
    The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMerna KennedyAl Ernest Garcia
  • Charles Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid (1921)

    8. The Kid

    19211h 8mPassed
    8.2 (142K)
    The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceJackie Coogan
  • Charles Chaplin in City Lights (1931)

    9. City Lights

    19311h 27mG99Metascore
    8.5 (209K)
    With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence Lee
  • Brazil (1985)

    10. Brazil

    19852h 12mR84Metascore
    7.8 (218K)
    A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
    DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJonathan PryceKim GreistRobert De Niro
  • John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers (1980)

    11. The Blues Brothers

    19802h 13mR60Metascore
    7.9 (223K)
    Jake Blues rejoins his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
    DirectorJohn LandisStarsJohn BelushiDan AykroydCab Calloway
  • Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Cyril Cusack, Judy Engles, Ellen Geer, Vivian Pickles, Shari Summers, and Charles Tyner in Harold and Maude (1971)

    12. Harold and Maude

    19711h 31mPG62Metascore
    7.9 (84K)
    Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
    DirectorHal AshbyStarsRuth GordonBud CortVivian Pickles
  • Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi in Nothing Left to Do but Cry (1984)

    13. Nothing Left to Do but Cry

    19841h 53m
    7.6 (7.6K)
    In the 80s, two friends misteriously wake up in the XV century and clumsly try to intermingle with the society of the time.
    DirectorsRoberto BenigniMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiRoberto BenigniIris Peynado
  • John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Monty Python in Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983)

    14. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life

    19831h 47mR72Metascore
    7.5 (128K)
    The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
    DirectorTerry JonesStarsJohn CleeseTerry GilliamEric Idle
  • Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead (2004)

    15. Shaun of the Dead

    20041h 39mR76Metascore
    7.9 (623K)
    The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
    DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate Ashfield
  • Zero Mostel in The Producers (1967)

    16. The Producers

    19671h 28mPG96Metascore
    7.5 (63K)
    A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
    DirectorMel BrooksStarsZero MostelGene WilderDick Shawn
  • Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski (1998)

    17. The Big Lebowski

    19981h 57mR71Metascore
    8.1 (895K)
    Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
    DirectorsJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJeff BridgesJohn GoodmanJulianne Moore
  • Delicatessen (1991)

    18. Delicatessen

    19911h 39mR66Metascore
    7.5 (93K)
    Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.
    DirectorsMarc CaroJean-Pierre JeunetStarsMarie-Laure DougnacDominique PinonPascal Benezech
  • Zelig (1983)

    19. Zelig

    19831h 19mPG
    7.6 (45K)
    "Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
    DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenMia FarrowPatrick Horgan
  • Woody Allen, Burt Reynolds, and Gene Wilder in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

    20. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

    19721h 28mR66Metascore
    6.7 (43K)
    Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.
    DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenGene WilderLouise Lasser
  • Airplane! (1980)

    21. Airplane!

    19801h 28mPG78Metascore
    7.7 (276K)
    After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
    DirectorsJim AbrahamsDavid ZuckerJerry ZuckerStarsRobert HaysJulie HagertyLeslie Nielsen
  • Irina Sanpiter and Carlo Verdone in Bianco, rosso e Verdone (1981)

    22. Bianco, rosso e Verdone

    19811h 50m
    7.4 (4.5K)
    On Election Day, three Italians travel to their hometowns to vote.
    DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneElena FabriziIrina Sanpiter
  • The Little Devil (1988)

    23. The Little Devil

    19881h 41m
    6.9 (4.3K)
    During an exorcism, father Maurice meets a little devil named Giuditta, who refuses to return to hell and decides to discover the world.
    DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniWalter MatthauStefania Sandrelli
  • Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Danny Green, Katie Johnson, Cecil Parker, and Jack Warner in The Ladykillers (1955)

    24. The Ladykillers

    19551h 31mNot Rated91Metascore
    7.6 (33K)
    Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
    DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsAlec GuinnessPeter SellersCecil Parker
  • Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

    25. Arsenic and Old Lace

    19441h 58mApproved
    7.9 (77K)
    Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murderers.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsCary GrantPriscilla LaneRaymond Massey

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