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Best Comedy Movies of the 1970s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
234 comedy films from the 1970s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Chaos Class (1975), at 9.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Kelly's Heroes, 7.6 on IMDb against 50 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Chaos Class '1975 | Comedy / Drama | 9.2 | - | - | 8.0 | Ertem Eğilmez |
| 2 | The Chaos Class Failed the Class '1976 | Comedy | 8.9 | - | - | 7.6 | Ertem Eğilmez |
| 3 | Tosun Pasha '1976 | Comedy | 8.9 | - | - | 8.0 | Kartal Tibet |
| 4 | The Sting '1973 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 8.2 | 93% | 83 | 8.0 | George Roy Hill |
| 5 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail '1975 | Comedy / Fantasy | 8.1 | 92% | 91 | 7.8 | Terry Gilliam |
| 6 | The Chaos Class Is Waking Up '1976 | Comedy | 8.7 | - | - | 7.8 | Ertem Eğilmez |
| 7 | Life of Brian '1979 | Comedy | 8.0 | 96% | 77 | 7.8 | Terry Jones |
| 8 | Young Frankenstein '1974 | Comedy | 8.0 | 95% | 83 | 7.9 | Mel Brooks |
| 9 | Paper Moon '1973 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 91% | 77 | 7.9 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 10 | Annie Hall '1977 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.9 | 97% | 92 | 7.7 | Woody Allen |
| 11 | The King of the Street Cleaners '1977 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 8.5 | - | - | 7.8 | Zeki Ökten |
| 12 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory '1971 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.8 | 84% | 67 | 7.5 | Mel Stuart |
| 13 | Being There '1979 | Comedy / Drama | 7.9 | 95% | 83 | 7.6 | Hal Ashby |
| 14 | Manhattan '1979 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 93% | 83 | 7.7 | Woody Allen |
| 15 | Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession '1973 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 8.2 | - | - | 7.9 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 16 | Gentlemen of Fortune '1971 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 8.3 | - | - | 7.8 | Aleksandr Sery |
| 17 | Harold and Maude '1971 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 86% | 62 | 7.6 | Hal Ashby |
| 18 | Day for Night '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 8.0 | 98% | - | 7.8 | François Truffaut |
| 19 | Blazing Saddles '1974 | Western / Comedy | 7.7 | 89% | 73 | 7.2 | Mel Brooks |
| 20 | Amarcord '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 88% | - | 7.9 | Federico Fellini |
| 21 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie '1972 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.7 | 98% | 93 | 7.4 | Luis Buñuel |
| 22 | Kelly's Heroes '1970 | Comedy / War | 7.6 | 79% | 50 | 7.4 | Brian G. Hutton |
| 23 | The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! '1976 | Comedy / Romance | 8.0 | - | - | 7.3 | Eldar Ryazanov |
| 24 | Love and Death '1975 | Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 100% | 89 | 7.5 | Woody Allen |
| 25 | That Obscure Object of Desire '1977 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 97% | 84 | 7.4 | Luis Buñuel |
| 26 | 12 Chairs '1971 | Comedy / Crime | 8.1 | - | - | 7.6 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 27 | Office Romance '1977 | Comedy / Romance | 8.2 | - | - | 7.8 | Eldar Ryazanov |
| 28 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three '1974 | Crime / Thriller / Action / Comedy | 7.6 | 98% | 68 | 7.5 | Joseph Sargent |
| 29 | Play It Again, Sam '1972 | Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 97% | 77 | 7.5 | Herbert Ross |
| 30 | What's Up, Doc? '1972 | Comedy / Crime / Romance | 7.6 | 88% | 73 | 7.4 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 31 | The Phantom of Liberty '1974 | Comedy | 7.8 | 85% | - | 7.4 | Luis Buñuel |
| 32 | Nashville '1975 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.6 | 89% | 96 | 7.3 | Robert Altman |
| 33 | Breaking Away '1979 | Drama / Comedy | 7.7 | 95% | 91 | 7.2 | Peter Yates |
| 34 | The Muppet Movie '1979 | Comedy | 7.6 | 89% | 74 | 7.2 | James Frawley |
| 35 | The Castle of Cagliostro '1979 | Animation / Comedy / Crime | 7.6 | 95% | 72 | 7.5 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 36 | The Twelve Tasks of Asterix '1976 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | René Goscinny |
| 37 | The Long Goodbye '1973 | Mystery / Crime / Comedy | 7.5 | 93% | 87 | 7.4 | Robert Altman |
| 38 | Little Big Man '1970 | Western / Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 91% | 63 | 7.4 | Arthur Penn |
| 39 | We All Loved Each Other So Much '1974 | Drama / Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 8.3 | Ettore Scola |
| 40 | A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving '1973 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | 67% | - | 7.3 | Bill Melendez |
| 41 | And Now for Something Completely Different '1971 | Comedy | 7.5 | 88% | - | 7.2 | Ian MacNaughton |
| 42 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show '1975 | Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.4 | 82% | 65 | 7.4 | Jim Sharman |
| 43 | My Friends '1975 | Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 8.1 | Mario Monicelli |
| 44 | The Last Detail '1973 | Drama / Comedy | 7.5 | 87% | 86 | 7.0 | Hal Ashby |
| 45 | American Graffiti '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 95% | 97 | 7.1 | George Lucas |
| 46 | Hair '1979 | Musical / Drama / Comedy | 7.5 | 83% | 68 | 7.3 | Miloš Forman |
| 47 | Only Old Men Are Going to Battle '1974 | War / Drama / Comedy / Romance | 8.2 | - | - | 7.9 | Leonid Bykov |
| 48 | Animal House '1978 | Comedy | 7.4 | 89% | 79 | 6.9 | John Landis |
| 49 | They Call Me Trinity '1970 | Action / Comedy / Western | 7.4 | - | - | 7.5 | Enzo Barboni |
| 50 | Fantozzi '1975 | Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.8 | Luciano Salce |
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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