The Nutty Professor (1996)

Top Five (2014)

Summary: A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality television star fiancée talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her television show.

Release Date: December 12, 2014

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Chris Rock

Writer: Chris Rock

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: IAC Films, Jax Media

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,317,471

International: $ 800,000

Mo' Better Blues (1990)

Summary: Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.

Release Date: August 03, 1990

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Spike Lee

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 16,153,593

Beyond the Sea (2004)

Summary: A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin and specifically his relationship with wife Sandra Dee.

Release Date: December 29, 2004

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Kevin Spacey

Writers: Kevin Spacey

, Lewis Colick

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Lions Gate Films, Archer Street Productions, QI Quality International GmbH & Co. KG, Trigger Street Productions, Visionview Production, QI Quality International GmbH & Co. KG, Studio Babelsberg, Endgame Entertainment, Element X, Media 8 Entertainment, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Airmovies, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 23,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,318,709

International: $ 2,128,906

A King in New York (1957)

Summary: A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.

Release Date: September 23, 1957

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Charles Chaplin

Writer: Charles Chaplin

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: G

Production: Attica Film Company

Distributor: Key Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, Image Entertainment, MK2 Diffusion, Warner Home Video, RBC Film Group, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)

Summary: Zach Galifianakis and his oddball crew take a road trip to complete a series of high-profile celebrity interviews.

Release Date: September 20, 2019

Genre: Comedy

Director: Scott Aukerman

Writers: Scott Aukerman

, Zach Galifianakis

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Funny or Die

Country: United States

Language: English

Hoffa (1992)

Summary: The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate and mysteriously disappears in 1975.

Release Date: December 25, 1992

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Danny DeVito

Writer: David Mamet

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Jersey Films

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, TBS Superstation, TNT, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 24,276,506

International: $ 5,025,615

Human Traffic (1999)

Summary: Five youngsters embrace the 90s clubbing scene on a drug-fuelled weekend of partying in Cardiff.

Release Date: May 05, 2000

Genres: Comedy, Music

Director: Justin Kerrigan

Writer: Justin Kerrigan

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fruit Salad Films, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board

Distributor: Renaissance Films, Miramax, Walt Disney Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,200,000

Domestic: $ 104,257

The Great Buck Howard (2008)

Summary: A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline.

Release Date: April 10, 2009

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Sean McGinly

Writer: Sean McGinly

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Bristol Bay Productions, Playtone, Great Buck Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 750,587

International: $ 150,102

The Trip (2010)

Summary: Steve Coogan has been asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, but after his girlfriend backs out on him he must take his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

Release Date: April 24, 2011

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Baby Cow Productions, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Revolution Films

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Franchise: The Trip

Domestic: $ 2,030,962

International: $ 1,914,255

The Front (1976)

Summary: In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Release Date: January 13, 1977

Genre: Drama

Director: Martin Ritt

Writer: Walter Bernstein

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, Devon/Persky-Bright, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Rollins-Joffe Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Twilight Time, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, GoodTimes Home Video, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

The Late Shift (1996)

Summary: A dramatization of the rivalry between David Letterman and Jay Leno to over which of them would succeed Johnny Carson as the host of "The Tonight Show".

Release Date: February 24, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Betty Thomas

Writers: Bill Carter

, George Armitage

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Home Box Office (HBO), Northern Lights Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Divine Madness (1980)

Summary: Movie comedy queen Bette Midler reigns supreme in this rocking, rolling concert movie bash. The Divine Miss M at her trashiest, flashiest, heavenly best!

Release Date: September 26, 1980

Genres: Comedy, Music, Documentary

Director: Michael Ritchie

Writers: Jerry Blatt

, Bette Midler

, Bruce Vilanch

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Ladd Company

Distributor: RCA (II)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,318,098

Gilda Live (1980)

Summary: A filmed version of the Broadway show starring comedienne Gilda Radner, complete with the characters she made famous on the TV show Saturday Night Live (1975).

Release Date: March 28, 1980

Genre: Comedy

Directors: Mike Nichols

, Lorne Michaels

Writers: Anne Beatts

, Lorne Michaels

, Marilyn Suzanne Miller

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Broadway Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,261,507

The Trip to Greece (2020)

Summary: Actors Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan travel from Troy to Ithaca following in the footsteps of the Odysseus.

Release Date: May 20, 2020

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Revolution Films

Distributor: IFC Films

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 8,340

International: $ 251,165

Cantinflas (2014)

Summary: The untold story of Mexico's greatest and most beloved comedy film star of all time, from his humble origins on the small stage to the bright lights of Hollywood.

Release Date: September 18, 2014

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Sebastian del Amo

Writers: Edui Tijerina

, Sebastian del Amo

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Kenio Films

Country: Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,382,924

International: $ 11,615,779