Top Ranked Comedy Films from Other Genres

These are the top-ranked comedies from miscellaneous genres that we haven't covered yet, so not romantic, society, war, or crime comedies. These came from childrens, SciFi, fantasy, horror, westerns, music (not musicals, but think Spinal Tap), shorts, and 'dramedy' or combination drama/comedy films, both a bad word invention and usually a bad film idea. We'll later post a ranking of ALL COMEDIES in one big list.

Top Ranked Comedies from Other Genres

1. Toy Story [Lasseter, John, 1995] #82 -Childrens
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [Hill, George Roy, 1969] #149 -Western
3. Back to the Future [Zemeckis, Robert, 1985] #176 -SciFi [photo rt]
4. Wall-E [Stanton, Andrew, 2008] #182 -SF/Childrens/Animated
5. Kid, The [Chaplin, Charles, 1921] #230 -Family
6. Ratatouille [Bird, Brad & Pinkava, Jan, 2007] #241 -Childrens
7. Zero for Conduct [Vigo, Jean, 1933] #262 -Short
8. Finding Nemo [Stanton, Andrew & Unkrich, Lee, 2003] #298 -Childrens
9. Night at the Opera, A [Wood, Sam, 1935] #342 -Musical
10. Pinocchio [Sharpsteen, Ben & Hamilton Luske, 1940] #343 -Childrens

11. Princess Bride, The [Reiner, Rob, 1987] #381 -Fantasy
12. This is Spinal Tap [Reiner, Rob, 1984] #471 -Music
13. El Verdugo [Berlanga, Luis García, 1963] #497 -Drama
14. Hold Me While I'm Naked [Kuchar, George, 1966] #557 -Short
15. Our Hospitality [Keaton, Buster/John Blystone, 1923] #568 -Family
16. Le Plaisir [Ophüls, Max, 1951] #571 -Drama
17. My Life as a Dog [Hallström, Lasse, 1985] #619 -Family
18. Triplets of Belleville, The [Chomet, Sylvain, 2003] #624 -Animated/Musical
19. I Was Born, But… [Ozu, Yasujiro, 1932] #626 -Drama
20. Stranger Than Paradise [Jarmusch, Jim, 1984] #627 -Drama

21. Almost Famous [Crowe, Cameron, 2000] #676 -Music/Bio
22. American Splendor [Berman, Shari, and Pulcini, Robert, 2003] #681 -Bio
23. Goodbye Solo [Bahrani, Ramin, 2008] #717 -Drama
24. Underground [Kusturica, Emir, 1995] #758 -Drama
25. Tulpan [Dvortsevoy, Sergei, 2008] #759 -Drama
26. Big Fish [Burton, Tim, 2003] #772 -Fantasy
27. Little Miss Sunshine [Dayton, Jonathan & Faris, Valerie, 2006] #784 -Family
28. Toy Story 2 [Lasseter, John & Brannon, Ash, 1999] #789 -Childrens
29. Firemen's Ball, The [Forman, Milos, 1967] #805 -Drama
30. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [Park, Nick & Box, Steve, 2005] #816 -Childrens
31. Phantom of Liberty, The [Buñuel, Luis, 1974] #836 -Drama
32. Arabian Nights [Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1974] #866 -Fantasy
33. Naked [Leigh, Mike, 1993] #872 -Drama
34. I'm Going Home [de Oliveira, Manoel, 2001] #884 -Drama
35. Sun Shines Bright, The [Ford, John, 1953] #926 -Drama
36. You Can Count On Me [Lonergan, Kenneth, 2000] #955 -Drama
37. Three Colours: White [Kieslowski, Krszystof, 1994] #959 -Drama
38. Savages, The [Jenkins, Tamara, 2007] #969 -Drama
39. Out 1: Spectre [Rivette, Jacques, 1974] #976 -Drama
40. La Collectionneuse [Rohmer, Eric, 1967] #985 -Drama
41. Pilgrim, The [Chaplin, Charles, 1923] #1008 -Short
42. Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The [Wilder, Billy, 1970] #1034 -Mystery
43. Léolo [Lauzon, Jean-Claude, 1992] #1054 -Drama
44. Happiness [Medvedkin, Aleksandr, 1934] #1059 -Drama
45. 24 Hour Party People [Winterbottom, Michael, 2002] #1063 -Music
46. Sorpasso, Il [Risi, Dino, 1962] #1078 -Drama
47. Christmas Tale, A [Desplechin, Arnaud, 2008] #1091 -Drama
48. Man Without a Past, The [Kaurismaki, Aki, 2002] #1106 -Drama
49. Pink Flamingos [Waters, John, 1972] #1113 -Horror
50. Caro diario [Moretti, Nanni, 1993] #1136 -Bio

51. Ceremony, The [Oshima, Nagisa, 1971] #1153 -Family
52. Late Autumn [Ozu, Yasujiro, 1960] #1183 -Drama
53. Full Monty [Cattaneo, Peter, 1997] #1202 -Musical
54. Young Frankenstein [Brooks, Mel, 1974] #1258 -Horror
55. Ballad of Cable Hogue, The [Peckinpah, Sam, 1970] #1259 -Western
56. Adaptation [Jonze, Spike, 2002] #1268 -Drama
57. Destry Rides Again [Marshall, George, 1939] #1282 -Western

I can't think of anything to add here, because it's such a mixed group. I will say that I love the kids and SF/fantasy comedies (Toy Story, Wall-E, Back to the Future, Princess Bride, Big Fish), but I usually hate westerns being made into comedies, like Cat Ballou and Butch Cassidy - could any self-respecting western include B.J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"? yikes.. it's a western, not a high school comedy.


OK, Add These:
Time Bandits [Terry Gilliam, 1981] - terrific, crazy fantasy, one of Gilliam's most accessible, as a gang of God's midget helpers steal his map of the time gates in the universe and frolic through time, bringing a wide-eyed kid along for the ride, whose bedroom held one time gate. Features Sean Connery, Shelly Duvall, David Warner as "pure evil", and James Mason as God.

The Loved One [Tony Richardson, 1965] - brilliant, offbeat bw comedy about a fancy L.A. funeral parlor, from the Evelyn Waugh novel; this one is not like anything else. A black comedy, really belongs with society comedies, I believe.