Top 10 Comedy Movies You’ve Never Seen

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Take it from me, trying to expand your cinematic horizons is usually a bad move. It can lead to tedious conversations with boring people who use the word ‘seminal’ a lot, as well as viewing films – not movies – that feature such annoyances as subtitles, Swedes and a heavily accented Meryl Streep.

But going beyond the usual suspects of mainstream mall flicks for laughs, is a different story. There is, after all, only so much mileage you can from another former SNL star vehicle about a lovable dork saving the soccer team/office/world and winding up with a way-out-of-his-league girlfriend.

The following subtitle-free movies should be kept in mind when you’re hungry for laughs but have lost your appetite for another helping of Adam Sandler.

10. A Face in the Crowd



Andy Griffith stars as a thuggish-but-lovable lush who takes a dizzying ride from beloved good old boy to corrupt power broker. It’s hard to imagine anyone besides Griffith bringing to vivid life this dim-witted confederate charmer. But then anyone who’s survived the last eight years may recall a certain confederate charmer’s performance that (accidentally) rivals Griffith’s in comedic intensity.

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9. Confederate States of America





This Mockumentary images that the south had won the civil war and persuaded its northern neighbors to give the institution another go. Slavery in the 21st century! What an endless font of laughter that would be!

Yeah, I admit that CSA’s premise didn’t sound like a recipe for an evening of laughter, but somehow it won me over with its deadpan style and democratically applied mockery.

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8. Flirting with disaster






Remember the Ben Stiller movie about a neurotic newly hitched man and his quest for parental approval? Sure, Meet the Parents packed a few chuckles, but 1996′s Flirting with Disaster followed a similar blueprint to mint more and deeper laughs, without forcing you to endure an uncomfortably miscast Robert DeNiro.

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7. Love Serenade




Comedies doesn’t get quirkier or more deadpan than this quiet Australian charmer from director Shirley Barrett. The laughs sneak up on you in this subtle story of two sisters who make the mistake of falling for a local disc jockey blessed with the charisma of a cactus.

Unfun fact: the bizarre final scene filmed atop a silo resulted in the death of stuntman.

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6. Boeing Boeing



This surprisingly clever and fast-paced romp through a tangled web of international romances will satisfy the most voracious appetite for screwball silliness without subjecting us to cornball romance. Tony Curtis plays the role he was born to play – the smooth-talking lothario – while an uncharacteristically subdued Jerry Lewis proves he can garner laughs without falling over the furniture.