Hidden Gems
Underrated Comedy Movies
Comedy films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated Comedy Films
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City Lights
Charles Chaplin·1931·ComedyTML 95★ 8.5$19K box officeCharles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill +2
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Modern Times
Charles Chaplin·1936·ComedyTML 93★ 8.5$163K box officeCharles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard +2
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick·1964·ComedyTML 93★ 8.4$276K box officePeter Sellers, George C. Scott +2
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The Shop Around the Corner
Ernst Lubitsch·1940·ComedyTML 91★ 8.1$203K box officeMargaret Sullavan, James Stewart +2
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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Srdjan Dragojevic·1996·ComedyTML 90★ 8.6$0K box officeDragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo +2
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The Philadelphia Story
George Cukor·1940·ComedyTML 90★ 7.9$405K box officeCary Grant, Katharine Hepburn +2
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Terry Gilliam·1975·AdventureTML 90★ 8.2$1.2M box officeTerry Jones, Graham Chapman +2
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Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Luis Buñuel·1972·ComedyTML 89★ 7.9$199K box officeFernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig +2
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Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach·2019·ComedyTML 89★ 7.9$2.0M box officeAdam Driver, Scarlett Johansson +2
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Luis Buñuel·1972·ComedyTML 88★ 7.8$82K box officeFernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig +2
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The Great Dictator
Charles Chaplin·1940·ComedyTML 88★ 8.4$288K box officeCharles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard +2
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To Be or Not to Be
Ernst Lubitsch·1942·ComedyTML 88★ 8.2$3.3M box officeCarole Lombard, Jack Benny +2
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The Ladykillers
Alexander Mackendrick·1955·ComedyTML 87★ 7.7$23K box officeAlec Guinness, Peter Sellers +2
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Band of Outsiders
Jean-Luc Godard·1964·ComedyTML 87★ 7.6$67K box officeAnna Karina, Claude Brasseur +2
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Meet Me in St. Louis
Vincente Minnelli·1944·ComedyTML 87★ 7.5$415K box officeJudy Garland, Margaret O'Brien +2
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My Neighbor Totoro
Hayao Miyazaki·1988·AnimationTML 87★ 8.1$2.3M box officeHitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka +2
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Miracle on 34th Street
George Seaton·1947·ComedyTML 87★ 7.9$2.6M box officeEdmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara +2
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It Happened One Night
Frank Capra·1934·ComedyTML 87★ 8.1$4.4M box officeClark Gable, Claudette Colbert +2
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Khosla Ka Ghosla!
Dibakar Banerjee, Pravin E. Birje·2006·ComedyTML 86★ 8.2$26K box officePravin E. Birje, Anupam Kher +2
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Cristi Puiu·2005·ComedyTML 86★ 7.8$80K box officeDoru Ana, Monica Barladeanu +2
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Dom za vesanje
Emir Kusturica·1988·ComedyTML 86★ 8.2$280K box officeDavor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic +2
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Chhichhore
Nitesh Tiwari·2019·ComedyTML 86★ 8.2$899K box officeSushant Singh Rajput, Shraddha Kapoor +2
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