The General (1926), Mon oncle (1958), Blazing Saddles (1974), And Now for Something Completely Different (1971), Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Benny & Joon (1993), Happy Gilmore (1996), Liar Liar (1997) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Physical Comedy movies.
Storyline: A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: miner, based on novel, native american, whiskey, slapstick comedy, indian war, u.s. cavalry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drugs trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.—Salvatore Santangelo <pappagone2@libero.it>
Plot Keywords: tough guy, hong kong, hit in the face, sword fight, tough cop, fistfight, dark comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Comedy about the prospective Washington State Governor Al Donnelly whose only stumbling block on the road to power is his embarrassing younger brother Mike. To keep him out of mischief, Al forces one of his aides, Steve Dodds to keep an eye on him during the election. However, this is easier said than done...
Plot Keywords: clumsiness, nitrous oxide, brother brother relationship, fire, crooked politician, politics, slapstick comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry (who have come to Moccasin Flats to celebrate Texas' statehood) and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.—Robin Richmond
Plot Keywords: texas, slapstick comedy, comanche indian, duel, u.s. cavalry, wild west, indian war ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a star comedian dies, rather than letting anyone know, his comedy writers decide to find and teach an unknown to fill his shoes for a big show the comedian had been schedeled for. But the man they choose - bellboy, Stanley Belt - can't do anything right, and time's running out.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Plot Keywords: manager, goofball, physical comedy, crazy humor, written and directed by cast member, slapstick comedy, redheaded woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contends with the pressures of vicious gangsters and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1930s, any dastardly trick is fair.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, harlem manhattan new york city, african american, nightclub, tough girl, tough guy, place name in title ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: And just like that, Globodyne Corporation--the big media institution where the affluent suburbanite and the company's Vice President, Dick Harper, works--collapses in a grand scandal, Enron-style. To make matters worse, in the worst possible time, Dick's stressed-out travel agent wife, Jane, decides to quit her job--and if this isn't enough--their savings are gone, and nothing can stop Dick and Jane's downward spiral. Now, after a series of failed attempts to keep a job, the desperate and impoverished couple has only one method to stay afloat: to summon up the nerve and steal their way out of misery. However, are Dick and Jane cut out for a life of crime?
Plot Keywords: husband wife relationship, humiliation, father son relationship, comeuppance, car crash, bankruptcy, bank robbery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sherlock Holmes' younger brother is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying success, to imitate Sherlock's deductive and observational tricks.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: slapstick comedy, sniper, revolver, pistol, violence, song, singing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee, who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...
Plot Keywords: police dog, buddy cop, sex in a car, opening action scene, shoulder holster, rooftop chase, tough cop ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An adventurer, Passepartout, ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg, on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world.
Plot Keywords: kendo, london england, big ben london, foreign language adaptation, steampunk, drunkenness, france ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: ADVENTURES OF POWER is an epic comedy about a mine-worker named Power whose love of drums and lack of musical skill has turned him into the ridiculed "air drummer" of his small town. But when Power's union-leader father calls a strike at the mine, Power discovers an underground subculture of air-drummers who just might hold the key to changing the world. Power's journey across America brings him face-to-face with his town's greatest enemy, and allows him to discover the beat within his own heart.—Ari Gold
Plot Keywords: musician, protest, physical comedy, new york city, new mexico, father son relationship, cult film ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the early 1920s Hollywood, Adolph Zitz, who surrounds himself with yes men, wants his movie studio, Rainbow, to be the greatest in town by making a movie called the "World's Greatest Lover" and finding that next star to outshine Rudolph Valentino as the renowned screen lover of his time. Mild mannered and somewhat hapless Rudy Hickman dreams of being such a movie star, he daydreaming about it so much that he is unable to hold onto his bakery jobs. With his supportive but highly hysterical wife Annie Hickman by his side, Rudy, using the stage name Rudy Valentine, pulls up stakes from Milwaukee and heads to Hollywood to try out for that part. He ends up getting a screen test like the thousands of other hopefuls flooding Hollywood for the chance. Annie, who loves the movies herself but who is naive from not having had much exposure to the world, has ulterior motives for going to Hollywood. Both Annie's Hollywood mission and Valentino himself will affect what happens to Rudy in Hollywood.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: barber, shaving, directed by star, mistaken identity, filmmaking, title spoken by character, anger ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Stone Age, strong caveman Tonda is the leader of a hostile tribe and the outcast Atouk feels unrequited desire for Tonda's mate Lana. One day, Atouk is walking with his best friend Lar (Dennis Quaid) and they meet the cavewoman Tala. They save her blind father Gog from a tar pit and Tala fells unrequited affection for Atouk. Soon the smart Atouk becomes the leader of the misfit tribe and dispute the leadership of the whole clan and Lana with Tonda. But in the end, the leader needs a worthwhile mate.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: caveman, spoof, prehistoric times, battle, combat, spear, tomahawk ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Earl and Hank have only one thing in common: they're both L.A.P.D. rejects. One just got kicked out, the other can't even get in. After confronting each other on opposite sides of the law during a traffic stop that escalates out of control, these two luckless individuals end up partnered as lowly security guards. Despite being damned to the lowest rung of the law enforcement ladder, Earl and Hank uncover a sophisticated smuggling operation led by Nash and his band of thugs. When Earl and Hank get their hands on some hot property, they go on the run from, first the bad guys, then the L.A.P.D.--led by Lt. Washington and Detective McDuff. What these two unlikely partners do to law enforcement is a crime, but they just might save the day. That is, if they don't kill each other first.
Plot Keywords: swat team, falling from height, exploding car, double cross, courtroom, conspiracy theory, coca cola ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the town scholarship program no longer has funding, two parents are left without money to send their daughter to university. Left without any other options, they along with a friend, start an illegal casino in his home to make cash before the summer ends.
Plot Keywords: comedy of errors, finger cut off, violence, divorce, casino, scholarship, outtakes during end credits ...
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