MOVIES
Critical Response - AFI
100 Years... 100 Laughs
This list features movies that have been rated as most inspiring by the American Film Institute.
RANK | FILMS | DIRECTOR | YEAR |
1 | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 |
2 | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | 1982 |
3 | Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 |
4 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 1977 |
5 | Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 1933 |
6 | Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks | 1974 |
7 | MAS*H | Robert Altman | 1970 |
8 | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 1934 |
9 | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | 1967 |
10 | Airplane! | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | 1980 |
11 | The Producers | Mel Brooks | 1967 |
12 | A Night at the Opera | Sam Wood | 1935 |
13 | Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks | 1974 |
14 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 1938 |
15 | The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 |
16 | Singin' in the Rain | Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen | 1952 |
17 | The Odd Couple | Gene Saks | 1968 |
18 | The General | Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | 1927 |
19 | His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 |
20 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 |
21 | A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | 1988 |
22 | Adam's Rib | George Cukor | 1949 |
23 | When Harry Met Sally... | Rob Reiner | 1989 |
24 | Born Yesterday | George Cukor | 1950 |
25 | The Gold Rush | Charlie Chaplin | 1925 |
26 | Being There | Hal Ashby | 1979 |
27 | There's Something About Mary | Peter Farrelly, Robert Farrelly | 1998 |
28 | Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | 1984 |
29 | This Is Spinal Tap | Rob Reiner | 1984 |
30 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Frank Capra | 1944 |
31 | Raising Arizona | Joel Coen | 1987 |
32 | The Thin Man | W. S. Van Dyke | 1934 |
33 | Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | 1936 |
34 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | 1993 |
35 | Harvey | Henry Koster | 1950 |
36 | Animal House | John Landis | 1978 |
37 | The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | 1940 |
38 | City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | 1931 |
39 | Sullivan's Travels | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
40 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer | 1963 |
41 | Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | 1987 |
42 | Big | Penny Marshall | 1988 |
43 | American Graffiti | George Lucas | 1973 |
44 | My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava | 1936 |
45 | Harold and Maude | Hal Ashby | 1971 |
46 | Manhattan | Woody Allen | 1979 |
47 | Shampoo | Hal Ashby | 1975 |
48 | A Shot in the Dark | Blake Edwards | 1964 |
49 | To Be or Not to Be | Ernst Lubitsch | 1942 |
50 | Cat Ballou | Elliot Silverstein | 1965 |
51 | The Seven Year Itch | Billy Wilder | 1955 |
52 | Ninotchka | Ernst Lubitsch | 1939 |
53 | Arthur | Steve Gordon | 1981 |
54 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Preston Sturges | 1944 |
55 | The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
56 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | Charles Barton | 1948 |
57 | Diner | Barry Levinson | 1982 |
58 | It's a Gift | Norman Z. McLeod | 1934 |
59 | A Day at the Races | Sam Wood | 1937 |
60 | Topper | Norman Z. McLeod | 1937 |
61 | What's Up, Doc? | Peter Bogdanovich | 1972 |
62 | Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | 1924 |
63 | Beverly Hills Cop | Martin Brest | 1984 |
64 | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | 1987 |
65 | Horse Feathers | Norman Z. McLeod | 1932 |
66 | Take the Money and Run | Woody Allen | 1969 |
67 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Chris Columbus | 1993 |
68 | The Awful Truth | Leo McCarey | 1937 |
69 | Bananas | Woody Allen | 1971 |
70 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Frank Capra | 1936 |
71 | Caddyshack | Harold Ramis | 1980 |
72 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | H. C. Potter | 1948 |
73 | Monkey Business | Norman Z. McLeod | 1931 |
74 | 9 to 5 | Colin Higgins | 1980 |
75 | She Done Him Wrong | Lowell Sherman | 1933 |
76 | Victor/Victoria | Blake Edwards | 1982 |
77 | The Palm Beach Story | Preston Sturges | 1942 |
78 | Road to Morocco | David Butler | 1942 |
79 | The Freshman | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | 1925 |
80 | Sleeper | Woody Allen | 1973 |
81 | The Navigator | Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp | 1924 |
82 | Private Benjamin | Howard Zieff | 1980 |
83 | Father of the Bride | Vincente Minnelli | 1950 |
84 | Lost in America | Albert Brooks | 1985 |
85 | Dinner at Eight | George Cukor | 1933 |
86 | City Slickers | Ron Underwood | 1991 |
87 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | 1982 |
88 | Beetlejuice | Tim Burton | 1988 |
89 | The Jerk | Carl Reiner | 1979 |
90 | Woman of the Year | George Stevens | 1942 |
91 | The Heartbreak Kid | Elaine May | 1972 |
92 | Ball of Fire | Howard Hawks | 1941 |
93 | Fargo | Joel Coen | 1996 |
94 | Auntie Mame | Morton DaCosta | 1958 |
95 | Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller | 1976 |
96 | Sons of the Desert | William A. Seiter | 1933 |
97 | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | 1988 |
98 | The Court Jester | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | 1956 |
99 | The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | 1963 |
100 | Good Morning, Vietnam | Barry Levinson | 1987 |
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