Best Comedies by Director
2560
977
1964
Billy Wilder
Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond, Barbara Pepper
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2813
1116
1981
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski, Dana Elcar
Comedy
USA
English
2696
1057
1984
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2813
1116
2022
Carey Williams
RJ Cyler, Donald Elise Watkins, Sebastian Chacon, Sabrina Carpenter, Maddie Nichols
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
2813
1116
1993
Richard Williams
Jennifer Beals, Matthew Broderick, Toni Collette, Kevin Dorsey, Donald Pleasence
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
UK / USA
English
2800
1108
2024
Dougal Wilson
Ben Whishaw, Imelda Staunton, Oliver Maltman, Joel Fry, Robbie Gee, Sanjeev Bhaskar
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Mystery / Animation / Action
UK / France / Japan / USA
English
2696
1057
1984
Hugh Wilson
Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, Donovan Scott
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2807
1113
1994
Hugh Wilson
Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2813
1116
1985
Sandy Wilson
Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee, T.J. Scott
Biography / Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Canada
English
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2813
1116
1925
Sering D. Wilson
Animation / Comedy / Short / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2813
1116
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2823
1122
2009
Gary Winick
Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2823
1122
2004
Gary Winick
Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis, Kathy Baker, Phil Reeves
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Fantasy
USA
English
2807
1113
1988
Henry Winkler
Billy Crystal, Alan King, JoBeth Williams, Janet Carroll, David Ackroyd
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2824
1123
2001
Irwin Winkler
Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, Jena Malone
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2233
778
1967
Michael Winner
Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White, Harry Andrews, Michael Hordern
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2795
1104
1967
Michael Winner
Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, James Donald
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
1964
657
2002
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music / Period Film
UK / France / Netherlands
English
2657
1029
2005
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Dylan Moran
Comedy / Period Film
UK
English
2704
1063
2014
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Rosie Fellner, Claire Keelan, Marta Barrio
Comedy / Drama
UK / Italy
English
2807
1113
1995
Michael Winterbottom
Amanda Plummer, Kathy Jamieson, Saskia Reeves, Des McAleer, Lisa Riley
Thriller / Drama / Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2813
1116
2010
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Margo Stilley, Rebecca Johnson
Comedy
UK
English
2813
1116
2014
Tommy Wirkola
Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr, Jocelyn DeBoer, Ingrid Haas
Action / Comedy / Horror
Norway / Iceland
Norwegian
2716
1070
1958
Franz Peter Wirth
O.W. Fischer, Liselotte Pulver, Ellen Schwiers, Jan Hendriks
Comedy / Romance / War
West Germany
German
2645
1020
2020
Jason Woliner
Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Dani Popescu, Manuel Vieru
Comedy
UK / USA
English
375
93
1935
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Comedy / Family / Romance / Musical
USA
English
1527
471
1937
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2612
1003
1933
Sam Wood
Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Beulah Bondi, Russell Hardie
Comedy
USA
English
2612
1003
1941
Sam Wood
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2813
1116
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2210
765
2010
Edgar Wright
Michael Cera, Alison Pill, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Mark Webber, Johnny Simmons
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Comic
USA
English
2333
837
2004
Edgar Wright
Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran
Comedy / Horror / Romance
UK / France
English
2703
1062
2013
Edgar Wright
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike, Thomas Law
Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi
UK
English
2802
1109
2007
Edgar Wright
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Timothy Dalton
Action / Comedy / Mystery / Detective
UK / France
English
2160
738
2005
Joe Wright
Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Period Film
France / UK
English
2800
1108
2020
Alice Wu
Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz, Collin Chou
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2813
1116
2004
Alice Wu
Michelle Krusiec, Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Jin Wang, Guang Lan Koh
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2794
1103
1996
Nien-Jen Wu
Cheng-sheng Lin, Yung-Teh Hsu, Hsin-Tzong Lee, Bing-Huei Lee
Comedy
Taiwan
Taiwanese
2798
1106
1988
Rudy Wurlitzer, Robert Frank
Kevin J. O'Connor, Harris Yulin, Tom Waits, Bulle Ogier
Drama / Comedy / Music
Switzerland / Canada / France
English
365
89
1953
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
1007
282
1968
William Wyler
Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
Drama / Romance / Musical / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2536
963
1966
William Wyler
Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2612
1003
1935
William Wyler
Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Eric Blore
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2813
1116
1929
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2866
1141
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2798
1106
1996
Edward Yang
Chen Chang, Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Virginie Ledoyen
Drama / Crime / Comedy / Gangster
Taiwan
Mandarin
2696
1057
1945
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2813
1116
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2813
1116
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2813
1116
1929
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
476
114
1979
Peter Yates
Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid
Drama / Comedy / Sports / Family
USA
English
2006
672
1972
Peter Yates
Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Zero Mostel, Moses Gunn
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2696
1057
1958
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Alden 'Stephen' Chase
Horror / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2798
1106
1989
Clarence Fok Yiu-leung
Maggie Cheung, Biao Yuen, Wah Yuen, Sarah Lee, Alvina Kong
Action / Romance / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Fantasy
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2696
1057
1963
Bud Yorkin
Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John, Tony Bill
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2696
1057
1970
Bud Yorkin
Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw
Comedy
USA
English
2807
1113
1967
Bud Yorkin
Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons, Van Johnson
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1968
Bud Yorkin
Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid, Barry Foster
Comedy / Crime / Detective
UK
English
1380
417
1934
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
2813
1116
2005
Ben Younger
Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams, Adriana Biasi
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2554
974
1961
Robert Youngson
Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini
Adventure / Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2554
974
1970
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Jay Jackson
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2554
974
1957
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2554
974
1963
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2554
974
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2612
1003
1965
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2695
1056
1978
Woo-ping Yuen
Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Ching Chiang, Ging Man Fung
Comedy / Action
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2683
1048
2011
Jennifer Yuh
Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman, Jackie Chan
Animation / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2800
1108
2022
Jeremiah Zagar
Adam Sandler, Queen Latifah, Juancho Hernangomez, Ben Foster, Kenny Smith
Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2350
848
1996
Jerry Zaks
Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2545
969
1947
Luigi Zampa
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Drama / War / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2794
1103
1999
Gianni Zanasi
Stefania Rivi, Andrea Corneti, Wilson Saba, Paolo Sassanelli
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
2312
824
1980
Krzysztof Zanussi
Maja Komorowska, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Magda Jaroszowna
Drama / Comedy
Poland
Polish
2612
1003
1977
Krzysztof Zanussi
Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul-Podlasky, Mariusz Dmochowski
Comedy / Drama
Poland
Polish
1792
572
1967
Franco Zeffirelli
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / USA
English
356
87
1988
Robert Zemeckis
Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer
Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
USA
English
456
112
1985
Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson
Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
2454
907
1984
Robert Zemeckis
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman
Action / Adventure / Family / Comedy / Romance
Mexico / USA
English
2612
1003
1990
Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Western / Romance
USA
English
2696
1057
1980
Robert Zemeckis
Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham, Frank McRae, Deborah Harmon
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1989
Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
833
220
1992
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Quesheng Lei
Comedy / Drama
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
2623
1008
1999
Yimou Zhang
Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian, Enman Gao, Zhimei Sun
Drama / Comedy
China
Mandarin
2794
1103
1997
Yimou Zhang
Wen Jiang, Baotian Li, Qu Ying, You Ge, Yimou Zhang
Comedy / Romance
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2290
809
1994
Xiaowen Zhou
Liya Ai, Peiqi Liu, Zhijun Ge, Haiyan Zhang, Zhenguo Yan, Xiao Yang
Drama / Comedy
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2401
877
1975
Howard Zieff
Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner
Western / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2612
1003
1978
Howard Zieff
Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin, Candice Azzara
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2696
1057
1980
Howard Zieff
Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Sam Wanamaker
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2807
1113
1991
Howard Zieff
Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Richard Masur
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English
2794
1103
2022
Rebecca Zlotowski
Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira-Goncalves
Drama / Comedy
France
French
1446
447
1988
David Zucker
Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2128
726
1961
Valerio Zurlini
Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / France
French
2813
1116
2013
Alan Zweig
Aaron Berg, Rodney Dangerfield, Gilbert Gottfried, Howie Mandel, Marc Maron
Documentary / Comedy / Religion
Canada
English
2477
922
1986
Edward Zwick
Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, George DiCenzo
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2772
1092
2010
Edward Zwick
Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2490
933
2002
Joel Zwick
Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine
Comedy / Romance
USA / Canada
English
1045
296
2001
Terry Zwigoff
Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro
Comedy / Drama
USA / UK / Germany
English
2509
943
2003
Terry Zwigoff
Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom, Bernie Mac
Comedy / Crime / Detective
USA / Germany
English
2813
1116
2006
Terry Zwigoff
Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
