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Best Comedy Movies of the 1950s
#1 Some Like It Hot (1959) · ★ 8.1 · 4,005 votes · 2h 3m · comedy, romance, crimeIn Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.…
#2 Singin' in the Rain (1952) · ★ 8.1 · 3,604 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, romanceIn 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.…
#3 Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) · ★ 8.1 · 807 votes · 1h 46m · comedy, crimeBest friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of s…
#4 Nights of Cabiria (1957) · ★ 8.0 · 877 votes · 1h 50m · comedy, dramaRome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even whe…
#5 Roman Holiday (1953) · ★ 7.9 · 2,338 votes · 1h 59m · comedy, romance, dramaOverwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls as…
#6 Limelight (1952) · ★ 7.9 · 619 votes · 2h 17m · comedy, romance, dramaA fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.…
#7 I Vitelloni (1953) · ★ 7.7 · 759 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, dramaFive young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeles…
#8 Harvey (1950) · ★ 7.7 · 704 votes · 1h 44m · comedy, fantasyThe story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) A…
#9 Stalag 17 (1953) · ★ 7.7 · 690 votes · 2h 0m · comedy, drama, warAfter two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an infor…
#10 Sabrina (1954) · ★ 7.5 · 1,400 votes · 1h 54m · comedy, romance, dramaAfter two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich emplo…
#11 Mon Oncle (1958) · ★ 7.4 · 636 votes · 1h 58m · comedyGenial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an u…
#12 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) · ★ 7.3 · 1,107 votes · 1h 31m · comedy, romanceLorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after…
#13 The Quiet Man (1952) · ★ 7.3 · 628 votes · 2h 9m · comedy, romance, dramaAn American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.…
#14 The Ladykillers (1955) · ★ 7.3 · 577 votes · 1h 31m · comedy, crimeFive oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.…
#15 Sissi (1955) · ★ 7.3 · 536 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, romance, dramaThe young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpe…
#16 White Christmas (1954) · ★ 7.2 · 596 votes · 2h 0m · comedy, romance, musicTwo talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful…
#17 Lady and the Tramp (1955) · ★ 7.1 · 5,738 votes · 1h 16m · comedy, adventure, romanceLady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady's home make her decide t…
#18 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) · ★ 7.1 · 583 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, drama, westernIn 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.…
#19 The Seven Year Itch (1955) · ★ 7.0 · 1,023 votes · 1h 45m · comedy, romanceWhen his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.…
#20 The Trouble with Harry (1955) · ★ 7.0 · 932 votes · 1h 39m · comedy, mysteryIn a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.…
#21 Funny Face (1957) · ★ 7.0 · 748 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, romance, musicA shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.…
#22 An American in Paris (1951) · ★ 7.0 · 668 votes · 1h 53m · comedy, romance, musicJerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of…
#23 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) · ★ 7.0 · 559 votes · 1h 27m · comedyMonsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapsti…
#24 How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) · ★ 6.8 · 577 votes · 1h 36m · comedy, romanceThree women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.…
#25 Around the World in 80 Days (1956) · ★ 6.7 · 604 votes · 3h 2m · comedy, fantasy, adventureBased on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days…