Comedy films

913–960 of 1,543 films, free to watch, from the world's open archives.

Where these films come from, and who sees what

Every film here plays from the archive that keeps it: the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, the NASA Image and Video Library, the Library of Congress and Open Images (the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision). Nothing is copied to this site. Each film's page names its archive, links to its page there, and states its licence or status as the archive does.

Archive films carry no age ratings, so each is placed from the collections it sits in and the subjects the archive gives it, cautiously. Sexual content and nudity are left out altogether.

Little OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
KidsCartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature.
TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
TeensEverything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower.
AdultSexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive Buster Keatons Shorts 2 1926 · Short Buster Keatons Shorts collection (2) Internet Archive Diary of the Homecoming - 还乡日记 1947 · Short · 1 min A 1947 comedy of errors, as young couples come back to the confusing circumstances of a post-War, pre-Communist Shanghai. B&W, Mandarin Chinese. Internet Archive Fattry's Suitless Day Short · 12 min Fatty's Suitless Day (also known as Fatty's Magic Pants) is a 1914 short comedy starring Fatty Arbuckle. Made by the Sennett Keystone company. Internet Archive Rosita / Unknown / XviD / AVI / 640x480 / Russian Print 1923 · Feature · Subtitles Internet Archive Top Cat: The Movie 2012 · Feature Top Cat and the gang face a new police chief, who is not at all happy with the poor Officer Dibble's performance trying to prevent Top Cat's scams. Internet Archive A Cuckoo in the Nest 1933 · Feature Title: A Cuckoo in the Nest Summary: A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both… Internet Archive The Hayseed 1919 · Feature Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300… Internet Archive So This Is New York 1948 · Feature Title: So This Is New York Summary: A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City. Urban culture shock takes the form… Internet Archive One Good Turn 1955 · Feature Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures… Internet Archive The Outcast 1934 · Feature When the box-office manager takes off with all the money belonging to a traveling theatre-troupe, the show's promoters and leading performers, Bill Potter and… Internet Archive Trapped By Television 1936 Colorized 1936 · Feature From IMDB: An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.… Internet Archive Man of the Moment 1955 · Feature Civil Servant Norman becomes the favorite of the rulers of a South Seas island that the British have an interest in. Internet Archive The Love Nest / Blu-ray / x264 / MKV / 1080p / Extras / Buster Keaton Short Films Collection (2011) 1923 · Feature Buster bids goodbye to Virginia and all women, sailing away in his "Cupid." Later, without food or water, he is taken on board "The Love Nest" which has a… Internet Archive Prison Mutiny - Weirdness Bad movie Feature · 1 h 58 min Public Access TV show "Weirdness Really Bad Movie" hosts public domain movies and ads clean comedy sketches enjoyable for the whole family. Today's film is… Internet Archive Band Waggon (1940) Feature · 1 h 15 min Arthur (Arthur Askey) and Stinker (Richard Murdoch) are living on the roof of a broacasting station and get evicted. They rent the haunted Droon Castle in… Internet Archive On The Beat 1962 · Feature Norman wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the… Internet Archive Shocker Internet Drive In - Week 101: "The Halls" Double Feature Feature · Subtitles Hello and welcome back to another sick..err slick double bit of fun from your friends in the projection booth. Tonight, we are happy to present that father… Internet Archive Shake Hands with Murder Feature · 57 min · Subtitles A tough-as-nails bail bondswoman helps an embezzler prove his innocence. Internet Archive A Coming-Out Party 1961 · Feature Title: A Coming-Out Party Summary: A somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits in a German POW camp find their new acerbic fellow prisoner is a key officer who… Internet Archive The Time of Your Life 1948 · Feature · 1 h 40 min Title: The Time of Your Life Summary: A wide variety of persons come into Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.… Internet Archive Somewhere in Civvies 1943 · Feature Title: Somewhere in Civvies Summary: Directed by: Maclean Rogers Actors: Frank Randle, George Doonan, Suzette Tarri Production Company: Butcher's Film Service… Internet Archive The Goat 1921 · Feature A series of misadventures begin when a man is inadvertently mistaken for notorious outlaw Dead Shot Dan. Internet Archive Lend Me Your Husband 1935 · Feature Title: Lend Me Your Husband Summary: Jeff imagines he's in love with his wife's best friend and runs off with her, but is soon disillusioned by her antics,… Internet Archive The Golden Eye (1948) DVD MKV 1948 · Feature DVD remux of the 1948 Monogram Pictures film "The Golden Eye." IMDb TMDB Wikipedia The Golden Eye is a 1948 American film directed by William Beaudine and… Internet Archive Check And Double Check Feature Read about this movie on it's IMDB page http://imdb.com/title/tt0020758/ Internet Archive Treasure Of Fear (1945) Feature · 1 h 4 min Jack Haley is a reporter who finds himself mixed up with criminals in this comedy also known as "Scared Stiff". Internet Archive What Really Happened to Baby Jane? (1963) Drag Parody 1963 · Feature Spearheaded by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) took California’s 1960s underground gay scene by storm with drag spoofs of classic… Internet Archive Blindfold 1965 · Feature "Blindfold" is a 1965 American comedy-thriller film directed by Philip Dunne and starring Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale. In the movie, Rock Hudson plays… Internet Archive Oh, Yeah? 1929 · Feature Title: Oh, Yeah? Summary: A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other… Internet Archive Something to Sing About 1937 · Feature Title: Something to Sing About Summary: A New York bandleader journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio, but he is determined to do… Internet Archive The Black Hand Gang 1930 · Feature Wee Georgie Wood leads his gang of ragamuffins through a series of comic vignettes, including disrupting a well-to-do children's party, fighting a rival gang… Internet Archive Assorted Silent Comedy Shorts 1 Short · 1 h 58 min Assorted Silent Comedy Shorts 1 Internet Archive Season of Passion 1959 · Feature Title: Season of Passion Summary: Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses. Directed by:… Internet Archive Take A Chance 1937 · Feature Archie Burton is a horse trainer who has entered one of his horses, Take A Chance, into the Gold Cup. But his wife is irritated by his mood towards her so she… Internet Archive Drums Of Jeopardy Feature "The Drums of Jeopardy" is a nifty little melodrama from 1931 starring Warner Oland of Charlie Chan fame. He plays "Dr. Boris Karlov" (no relation to the… Internet Archive The Amazing Adventure 1936 Colorized 1936 · Feature Also known as The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss. From IMDB: A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year… Internet Archive You Drive Me Crazy 1945 · Feature Title: You Drive Me Crazy Summary: Edgar lets his brother-in-law borrow his car (mistake no.1), and soon gets a call from Brother that the car won't start.… Internet Archive The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes • And TV Remake 1969 · Feature The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes • and it's TV remake from 15 years later. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Wore… Internet Archive Trail Riders Feature · 52 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB In the 18th entry of Monogram's 24 "Range Buster" films, the bank of Gila Springs is robbed by Ace Alton and his gang, and Sheriff Frank… Internet Archive Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1917 · Feature Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Summary: With her family in financial difficulties, Rebecca is sent to live with her two strict, unfeeling aunts, who do not… Internet Archive Miss Robin Hood 1952 · Feature Title: Miss Robin Hood Summary: Henry Wrigley is happy writing stories for a children's' comic. Then he meets Miss Honey, who encourages him to go into minor… Internet Archive Dreaming Out Loud 1940 · Feature · 1 h 5 min Title: Dreaming Out Loud Summary: Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals. Directed… Internet Archive Devil By The Tail, The, Le Diable Par La Queue 1969 1969 · Feature Another comedy with a very gentle sense of humor. Three generations of women inn keepers are facing a hard time due to lack of customers. The youngest… Internet Archive Good-bye Love 1933 · Feature Title: Good-bye Love Summary: A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only… Internet Archive Dunces and Dangers 1918 · Short · 10 min A skyscraper thrill comedy made a year before Harold Lloyd's "Look Out Below" Internet Archive Rough Riding Ranger 1935 · Feature · 56 min Title: Rough Riding Ranger Summary: Hanson is using Bobby's carrier pigeons to receive messages. His man Slim shoots them down before they reach Bobby. When… Internet Archive Play Up The Band! 1935 · Feature The brass band of a North of England town travel south to London to compete in a national contest. Internet Archive Speedy 1928 · Feature