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Best Comedy Movies of the 1920s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
170 comedy films from the 1920s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Kid (1921), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Kid '1921 | Comedy / Drama | 8.2 | 100% | - | 8.1 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 2 | The General '1926 | Comedy / War / Romance | 8.1 | 92% | - | 7.9 | Clyde Bruckman |
| 3 | The Gold Rush '1925 | Comedy / Drama | 8.1 | 98% | 90 | 8.0 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 4 | Sherlock Jr. '1924 | Action / Comedy / Mystery | 8.1 | 87% | - | 8.0 | Buster Keaton |
| 5 | The Circus '1928 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 97% | 90 | 7.9 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 6 | Safety Last! '1923 | Comedy / Romance / Thriller | 8.1 | 97% | - | 7.7 | Sam Taylor |
| 7 | One Week '1920 | Comedy | 8.1 | 100% | - | 7.9 | Buster Keaton |
| 8 | The Cameraman '1928 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.8 | Edward Sedgwick |
| 9 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. '1928 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 96% | - | 7.6 | Charles Reisner |
| 10 | Seven Chances '1925 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Buster Keaton |
| 11 | Our Hospitality '1923 | Comedy / Romance / Thriller | 7.7 | 97% | - | 7.5 | Buster Keaton |
| 12 | The Scarecrow '1920 | Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.4 | Edward F. Cline |
| 13 | The Goat '1921 | Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.2 | Buster Keaton |
| 14 | The Skeleton Dance '1929 | Animation / Musical / Comedy / Horror | 7.6 | - | - | 7.4 | Walt Disney |
| 15 | Speedy '1928 | Comedy / Action | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Ted Wilde |
| 16 | The Kid Brother '1927 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 92% | - | 6.9 | Ted Wilde |
| 17 | Show People '1928 | Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 92% | - | 7.1 | King Vidor |
| 18 | The Navigator '1924 | Comedy / Action / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Buster Keaton |
| 19 | Girl Shy '1924 | Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | - | - | 6.9 | Sam Taylor |
| 20 | Neighbors '1920 | Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | - | - | 7.1 | Edward F. Cline |
| 21 | Big Business '1929 | Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 6.7 | James W. Horne |
| 22 | Cops '1922 | Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.2 | Buster Keaton |
| 23 | The Freshman '1925 | Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 95% | - | 7.0 | Sam Taylor |
| 24 | The High Sign '1921 | Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.1 | Edward F. Cline |
| 25 | Steamboat Willie '1928 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Walt Disney |
| 26 | The Patsy '1928 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.5 | 100% | - | 6.8 | King Vidor |
| 27 | For Heaven's Sake '1926 | Comedy / Action | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | Sam Taylor |
| 28 | The Play House '1921 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Edward F. Cline |
| 29 | Never Weaken '1921 | Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Fred C. Newmeyer |
| 30 | Entr'acte '1924 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | René Clair |
| 31 | Liberty '1929 | Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Leo McCarey |
| 32 | Pay Day '1922 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.0 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 33 | Two Tars '1928 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | James Parrott |
| 34 | It '1927 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 88% | - | 6.9 | Clarence G. Badger |
| 35 | The Finishing Touch '1928 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Clyde Bruckman |
| 36 | The Idle Class '1921 | Comedy | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 37 | The House on Trubnaya '1928 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.3 | Boris Barnet |
| 38 | The Pilgrim '1923 | Comedy / Western | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 39 | Lady Windermere's Fan '1925 | Comedy / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 40 | Bed and Sofa '1927 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 6.4 | Abram Room |
| 41 | KoKo's Earth Control '1928 | Comedy / Animation | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Dave Fleischer |
| 42 | Ghosts Before Breakfast '1928 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Hans Richter |
| 43 | Go West '1925 | Comedy / Western | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Buster Keaton |
| 44 | Hot Water '1924 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Fred C. Newmeyer |
| 45 | Tartuffe '1926 | Drama / Comedy | 7.1 | 88% | - | 7.2 | F. W. Murnau |
| 46 | The Crazy Ray '1925 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | René Clair |
| 47 | Chess Fever '1925 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.4 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 48 | Why Worry? '1923 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.5 | Fred C. Newmeyer |
| 49 | The Cat and the Canary '1927 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery | 7.1 | 94% | - | 6.9 | Paul Leni |
| 50 | There It Is '1928 | Horror / Comedy / Animation / Mystery | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Charles R. Bowers |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
Charlie Chaplin Clyde Bruckman Buster Keaton Sam Taylor Edward F. Cline Walt Disney King Vidor James W. Horne Fred C. Newmeyer René Clair Leo McCarey James Parrott
Actors on this list
Charlie Chaplin Buster Keaton Mack Swain Harold Lloyd Mildred Davis Joe Roberts Edward F. Cline Virginia Fox Walt Disney Jobyna Ralston Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy