The Definitive Top 100 Comedies From the ’90s – Part Three

49 – Go (1999)

A weekend wasted is never a wasted weekend.

Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Directed by: Doug Liman

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7.20 /10

Grocery store clerk Simon occasionally sells drugs from his cash register at work, so when soap opera actors Adam and Zack come looking for Ecstasy on a quiet Christmas Eve, they are surprised to find Ronna covering his shift. Desperate for money, Ronna decides to become an impromptu drug dealer, unaware that Adam and Zack are secretly working for obsessed narcotics officer Burke.
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48 – Chasing Amy (1997)

It’s not who you love. It’s how.

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Directed by: Kevin Smith

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7.21 /10

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she’s a lesbian.
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47 – The Full Monty (1997)

The year’s most revealing comedy.

Comedy

Directed by: Peter Cattaneo

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7.22 /10

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
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46 – The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

They took him for a fall guy… but he threw them for a hoop.

Comedy | Drama

Directed by: Joel Coen

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7.23 /10

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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45 – Notting Hill (1999)
Can the most famous film star in the world fall for the man on the street?
Romance | Comedy | Drama

Directed by: Roger Michell

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7.24 /10

William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a full-blown affair. As the average bloke and glamorous movie star draw closer and closer together, they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles in the name of love.
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44 – Wild at Heart (1990)
A wild crazy love story.

Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Directed by: David Lynch

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7.24 /10

After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula’s mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who’s also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.
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43 – Defending Your Life (1991)
A wild crazy love story.

Comedy | Fantasy | Romance

Directed by: Albert Brooks

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7.25 /10

Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
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42 – Swingers (1996)
Get a nightlife.

Comedy

Directed by: Doug Liman

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7.26 /10

After 6 years together, Mike’s girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star. Six months on, he’s still not doing very well— so a few of his friends try to reconnect him to the social scene and hopefully help him forget his failed relationship.
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41 – Friday (1995)
A lot can go down between thursday and saturday…

Comedy

Directed by: F. Gary Gray

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7.27 /10

Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
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40 – True Lies (1994)
When he said I do, he never said what he did.

Action | Comedy | Thriller

Directed by: James Cameron

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7.30 /10

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
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39 – 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
Comedy | Romance | Drama

Directed by: Gil Junger

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7.31 /10

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.
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38 – Dumb and Dumber (1994)
What the one doesn’t have, the other is missing.

Comedy

Directed by: Peter Farrelly

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7.32 /10

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some “adventures” they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary’s heart.
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37 – Men in Black (1997)
Protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe.
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Science Fiction

Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld

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7.33 /10

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
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36 – Dogma (1999)
It can be Hell getting into Heaven
Fantasy | Comedy | Adventure

Directed by: Kevin Smith

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7.34 /10

The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century. Angels, demons, apostles and prophets (of a sort) walk among the cynics and innocents of America and duke it out for the fate of humankind.
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35 – Election (1999)
Reading. Writing. Revenge.

Comedy

Directed by: Alexander Payne

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7.35 /10

Jim McAllister, a well-liked high school government teacher, can’t help but notice that successful student Tracy Flick uses less than ethical tactics to get what she wants. When Tracy runs for school president, Jim feels that she will be a poor influence on the student body and convinces Paul, a dim-witted but popular student athlete, to run against Tracy. When she becomes aware of Jim’s secret involvement in the race, a bitter feud is sparked.
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34 – Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Keaton & Allen reunited for fun flick!
Comedy | Mystery

Directed by: Woody Allen

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7.36 /10

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife suddenly drops dead.
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33 – Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Even a hit man deserves a second shot.
Action | Comedy | Thriller | Romance

Directed by: George Armitage

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7.37 /10

Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
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32 – A League of Their Own (1992)
Even a hit man deserves a second shot.

Comedy | Drama

Directed by: Penny Marshall

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7.38 /10

As America’s stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
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31 – Back to the Future Part III (1990)
They’ve saved the best trip for last… But this time they may have gone too far.
Adventure | Comedy | Science Fiction

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

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7.40 /10

The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
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30 – Galaxy Quest (1999)
A comedy of Galactic Proportions.
Adventure | Comedy | Science Fiction

Directed by: Dean Parisot

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7.41 /10

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA protector – “Commander Peter Quincy Taggart” (Tim Allen), “Lt. Tawny Madison (Sigourney Weaver) and “Dr.Lazarus” (Alan Rickman) – set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space…and then their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for “historical documents” and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.
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29 – Man on the Moon (1999)
Hello, my name is Andy and this is my movie.
Comedy | Drama | History

Directed by: Miloš Forman

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7.42 /10

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
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28 – Life Is Sweet (1990)
Life Is Sweet

Comedy | Drama

Directed by: Mike Leigh

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7.43 /10

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend’s new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy. How they interact and play out family conflict and love is the film’s subject.
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27 – Waiting For Guffman (1996)
There’s a good reason some talent remains undiscovered.

Comedy | Music

Directed by: Christopher Guest

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7.44 /10

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
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26 – Pleasantville (1998)
Nothing is as simple as black and white.

Comedy | Fantasy | Drama

Directed by: Gary Ross

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7.45 /10

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called “Pleasantville,” and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer’s modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville’s peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
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25 – The Fisher King (1991)
A Modern Day Tale About The Search For Love, Sanity, Ethel Merman And The Holy Grail.
Comedy | Drama

Directed by: Terry Gilliam

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7.51 /10

Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
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