Highest-Rated Movies about 'Comedian', Sort by Popularity

Faith Based (2020), The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1981), Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (2009), Joker (2019), American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010), The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979), Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), F.T.A. (1972) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Comedian movies.

#1. Faith Based (2020)

Storyline: FAITH BASED focuses on two slacker friends who come to the realization that every low budget Christian movie starring 90's TV actors makes millions of dollars. They soon set out on a mission to make "A Prayer in Space", the story of the first prayer ever to be prayed... in space.

Plot Keywords: slacker, best friend, comedian, screenwriter, hilarious, madcap, witty ...

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#3. Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (2009)

Storyline: Given the flawless results, it's hard to believe that comedians David Pasquesi and T.J. Jagodowski make up their entire act on the spot. This documentary records one of the long-running improv duo's hilarious performances at New York City's Barrow Street Theatre. The film also goes behind the scenes as the pair strategizes for that night's act, discusses the nuances of their creative partnership and reflects on their training at Chicago's The Second City improv troupe.

Plot Keywords: performer, comedian, partner, hilarious, quirky, fascinating, new york city ...

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#4. Joker (2019)

Storyline: Arthur Fleck works as a clown and is an aspiring stand-up comic. He has mental health issues, part of which involves uncontrollable laughter. Times are tough and, due to his issues and occupation, Arthur has an even worse time than most. Over time these issues bear down on him, shaping his actions, making him ultimately take on the persona he is more known as...Joker.—grantss

Plot Keywords: comedian, loner, depressed person, therapist, neighbor, love interest, bleak ...

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#6. The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)

Storyline: This documentary presents highlights from four 1979 benefit performances given in support of Amnesty International. Spearheaded by Monty Python's John Cleese, they feature an array of primarily English talent ranging from comedian Peter Cook and fellow Python Michael Palin, to the Who's Pete Townshend and new-waver Tom Robinson. The film also features cameos by Scottish comedian Billy Connolly and, in a very early appearance, Rowan Atkinson of "Mr. Bean" fame.

Plot Keywords: comedian, actor, guitarist, band member, hilarious, positive, playful ...

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#9. Live Nude Girls, Unite! (2000)

Storyline: "Live Nude Girls Unite!" is a fierce and funny first person documentary about a group of strippers who win the only union of exotic dancers in the United States. Stripper/Comedian Julia Query takes the audience on a turbulent journey beginning with her decision to leave graduate school and start stripping through the victory with the union, stopping along the way to tell her Jewish mother.

Plot Keywords: exotic dancer, comedian, mother, jew, documentarian, spirited, positive ...

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#10. Annie Hall (1977)

Storyline: Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents.

Plot Keywords: comedian, singer, rock star, actor, calm, moving, quirky ...

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#11. Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)

Storyline: This intimate portrait examines one of the world's most beloved and inventive comedians. Told largely through Robin's own voice and using a wealth of never-before-seen archival footage, the film examines his extraordinary life and career and reveals the spark of madness that drove him.

Plot Keywords: actor, comedian, family, interviewee, inspiring, charming, cheeky ...

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#12. Festival (2005)

Storyline: Following a number of performers and judges who converge at the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Several tales are interwoven as the judge of a comedy award drives his personal assistant to distraction (and the bottle), a would-be comedienne tries to get her big break, and an actress mounts her earnest and challenging one-woman play.

Plot Keywords: struggling actor, judge, television star, competitor, assistant, comedian, madcap ...

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#13. Laurel and Hardy's Laughing '20s (1965)

Storyline: This anthology, compiled by Robert Youngson, presents a series of silent short films from the 1920s starring the celebrated comedy duo of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. In these early collaborations, Hardy plays an uncle embarrassed by the kilt of his Scottish nephew (Stan Laurel), and later the duo portrays a pair of inept butlers at a socialite's lavish dinner. The collection also features films by lesser-known silent comedians including Charley Chase and Max Davidson.

Plot Keywords: actor, comedian, madcap, hilarious, california, hollywood, calif., silent movies ...

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#14. A Night at the Opera (1935)

Storyline: The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.

Plot Keywords: singer, comedian, pretty woman, socialite, cheeky, frenetic, madcap ...

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#15. Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)

Storyline: Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed him into a leading figure of the 1960s counterculture. This is his story.

Plot Keywords: robert de niro, comedian, friend, mother, drug addict, tv personality, rousing ...

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