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
- 1
City Lights
Charles Chaplin·1931·ComedyTML 95★ 8.5$19K box officeStarring
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers
- 2
Modern Times
Charles Chaplin·1936·ComedyTML 93★ 8.5$163K box officeStarring
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
- 3
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick·1964·ComedyTML 93★ 8.4$276K box officeStarring
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
- 4
The Shop Around the Corner
Ernst Lubitsch·1940·ComedyTML 91★ 8.1$203K box officeStarring
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut
- 5
The Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir·1939·ComedyTML 91★ 7.9$274K box officeStarring
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély
- 6
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Srdjan Dragojevic·1996·ComedyTML 90★ 8.6$0K box officeStarring
Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic, Zoran Cvijanovic
- 7
The Philadelphia Story
George Cukor·1940·ComedyTML 90★ 7.9$405K box officeStarring
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey
- 8
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Terry Gilliam·1975·AdventureTML 90★ 8.2$1.2M box officeStarring
Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
- 9
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Luis Buñuel·1972·ComedyTML 89★ 7.9$199K box officeStarring
Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier
- 10
Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach·2019·ComedyTML 89★ 7.9$2.0M box officeStarring
Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Greer, Azhy Robertson
- 11
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Luis Buñuel·1972·ComedyTML 88★ 7.8$82K box officeStarring
Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier
- 12
This Is Spinal Tap
Rob Reiner·1984·ComedyTML 88★ 7.9$189K box officeStarring
Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Kimberly Stringer
- 13
The Great Dictator
Charles Chaplin·1940·ComedyTML 88★ 8.4$288K box officeStarring
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
- 14
To Be or Not to Be
Ernst Lubitsch·1942·ComedyTML 88★ 8.2$3.3M box officeStarring
Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart
- 15
The Ladykillers
Alexander Mackendrick·1955·ComedyTML 87★ 7.7$23K box officeStarring
Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
- 16
Band of Outsiders
Jean-Luc Godard·1964·ComedyTML 87★ 7.6$67K box officeStarring
Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard, Louisa Colpeyn
- 17
Premam
Alphonse Puthren·2015·ComedyTML 87★ 8.3$178K box officeStarring
Nivin Pauly, Sai Pallavi, Madonna Sebastian, S.V. Krishna Shankar
- 18
The Producers
Mel Brooks·1967·ComedyTML 87★ 7.5$329K box officeStarring
Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars
- 19
Meet Me in St. Louis
Vincente Minnelli·1944·ComedyTML 87★ 7.5$415K box officeStarring
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer
- 20
My Neighbor Totoro
Hayao Miyazaki·1988·AnimationTML 87★ 8.1$2.3M box officeStarring
Hitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi
- 21
Miracle on 34th Street
George Seaton·1947·ComedyTML 87★ 7.9$2.6M box officeStarring
Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart
- 22
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra·1934·ComedyTML 87★ 8.1$4.4M box officeStarring
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
- 23
Khosla Ka Ghosla!
Dibakar Banerjee, Pravin E. Birje·2006·ComedyTML 86★ 8.2$26K box officeStarring
Pravin E. Birje, Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Parvin Dabas
- 24
Sanjuro
Akira Kurosawa·1962·ActionTML 86★ 8.1$47K box officeStarring
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûnosuke Itô
- 25
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Cristi Puiu·2005·ComedyTML 86★ 7.8$80K box officeStarring
Doru Ana, Monica Barladeanu, Alina Berzunteanu, Dorian Boguta
- 26
I Vitelloni
Federico Fellini·1953·ComedyTML 86★ 7.8$116K box officeStarring
Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste
- 27
Tampopo
Jûzô Itami·1985·ComedyTML 86★ 7.9$224K box officeStarring
Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kôji Yakusho
- 28
Dom za vesanje
Emir Kusturica·1988·ComedyTML 86★ 8.2$280K box officeStarring
Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic
- 29
Chhichhore
Nitesh Tiwari·2019·ComedyTML 86★ 8.2$899K box officeStarring
Sushant Singh Rajput, Shraddha Kapoor, Varun Sharma, Prateik
- 30
Soul
Pete Docter·2020·AnimationTML 86★ 8.1$946K box officeStarring
Kemp Powers, Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton