Comedy films

145–192 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 Back Room Boy 1942 · Feature · 1 h 18 min · Subtitles Arthur Pilbeam wants to find a job away from women after being jilted by his fiancé. He finds a job at a remote lighthouse that's being used as meteorological… Internet Archive Jack and the Beanstalk 1952 · Feature · 1 h 21 min · Subtitles Abbott and Costello's version of Jack and Beanstalk Internet Archive Two Weeks to Live 1943 · Feature · 1 h 13 min · Subtitles Internet Archive The Flying Deuces 1939 · Feature · 43 min Title: The Flying Deuces Summary: Ollie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her… Internet Archive Sanjuro 1962 · Feature Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece to… Internet Archive The Nut 1921 · Feature · 1 h 14 min From IMDb : Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighborhoods. Stars:… Internet Archive Fit for a King 1937 · Feature · 1 h 4 min · Subtitles Joe E. Brown play Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones a budding newspaper man who gets into trouble with assassins and royalty. Internet Archive Lady Windermere's Fan 1925 · Feature · 1 h 26 min Mrs Erlynne (Irene Rich), the mother of Lady Windermere (May McAvoy) - her daughter does not know about her - wants to be introduced in society, so that she… Internet Archive Mooch Goes to Hollywood 1971 · Feature · 51 min Mooch, a stray dog, rides the train to Hollywood to become a star. It would be best if she could find an owner/manager so she tries to ingratiate herself with… Internet Archive Q Planes 1939 · Feature · 1 h 18 min A secret British aviation project is being disrupted by a foreign power, until an effete but supremely confident military-intelligence agent, Charles Hammond… Internet Archive So This is Washingtom 1943 · Feature · 1 h 3 min After Abner accidentally discovers a synthetic rubber he and Lum travel to Washington with the hopes that this new discovery will help the war effort. Internet Archive The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 · Feature · 1 h 13 min · Subtitles Seymour Krelboin is a hapless sap working in a skid row flower shop. He loves coworker Audrey Fulquard, but is close to losing his job. Luckily, he discovers… Internet Archive Back-Room Boy 1942 · Feature · 1 h 19 min After being jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam (Arthur Askey) wants a job where he will encounter no women. He is sent to a lighthouse on a remote Scottish… Internet Archive Alice's Wonderland Short · 8 min Alice's Wonderland (1923), from the series Laugh-O-Grams. View movies and cartoons on youtube @ PDFREETV View trailers on youtube @ The Trailer Archive Internet Archive Meet John Doe 1941 · Feature · 2 h 2 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Glorifying the American Girl 1929 · Feature · 1 h 34 min From the Wikipedia entry for "Glorifying the American Girl": "Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that… Internet Archive Big News 1929 · Feature · 1 h 6 min A early talkie from Pathé, this crime drama starred relative newcomers Robert Armstrong and a very young Carole Lombard, the title credits still spelling her… Internet Archive The General 1927 · Feature · 1 h 45 min Taken from IMDB : When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines. Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "The Adventurer" 1917 · Short Charlie Chaplin's 62nd Film Released Oct. 22 1917 The Adventurer is a short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It is the last out of the… Internet Archive Street Angel (馬路天使) 1937 · Feature · 1 h 30 min · Subtitles Shanghai, 1935. The beautiful young girl Xiao Hong is a singer at a teahouse. She falls in love with her neighbor, a handsome young musician called Xiao Chen.… Internet Archive The Nasty Rabbit 1964 1964 · Feature · 1 h 29 min · Subtitles Russian spies secretly infect rabbits with a deadly bacteria, then let them loose in the U.S. Stars: Michael Terr, Arch Hall Jr. and Liz Renay Internet Archive When's Your Birthday? 1937 · Feature · 1 h 16 min Dustin Willoughby (Joe E. Brown) a prizefighter and a strong believer in horoscopes/astrology wins only when his astrological signs are just right, a talent… Internet Archive Juke Joint 1946 · Feature · 59 min Hitch-hiking conmen Bad News Johnson (Spencer Williams) and July Jones arrive in a Midwestern small town with a capital of 25 cents. Taking a room with Mama… Internet Archive Colonel Effingham's Raid 1946 · Feature · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers… Internet Archive The Perils of Pauline 1947 · Feature · 1 h 36 min Funloving Pearl White (Betty Hutton), working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic… Internet Archive The Private Life of Don Juan 1934 · Feature · 1 h 27 min In his last film role, Douglas Fairbanks as an ageing legendary lady-killer Don Juan. It is set in Seville, Spain in centuries past, where once a young Don… Internet Archive Tarzan and the Green Goddess 1938 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond's Bride 1939 · Feature · Subtitles From IMDb : Henri Armides and his assistant, Garvey, blow up and rob a London bank in broad daylight and get away with 10,000 pounds. They hide the money in a… Internet Archive The Animal Kingdom 1932 · Feature · 1 h 24 min This was the first film shown at the RKO Roxy Theater. An awkward love triangle is created when a publisher (Howard) encounters a moral speed bump and engages… Internet Archive One Week 1920 · Short · 19 min Taken from IMDB : Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week Internet Archive Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 · Feature The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body. Internet Archive Reaching for the Moon 1930 · Feature · 1 h 6 min Bing Crosby in his first solo film performance. -One of several shortened versions of the film. Internet Archive There Goes the Bride 1932 · Feature · 1 h 17 min A businessman's daughter (Jessie Matthews) runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the… Internet Archive Hold that Woman 1940 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles A skip-tracer doesn't realize that the radio he is trying to repossess contains stolen diamonds. Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "The Cure" Short Charlie Chaplin's 60th Film Released April 16 1917 The Cure is a short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin plays a drunk who checks… Internet Archive Cops 1922 · Short · 18 min A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "Police" 1916 · Short Charlie Chaplin's 49th Film Released May 27 1916 Police was Charlie Chaplin's 14th released film from Essanay. It was made at the Majestic Studio in Los… Internet Archive The Legend of Action Man 2010 · Feature · 1 h 40 min · Subtitles Made on an ultra-low budget of $200, Dingoman Productions proudly presents their first feature film, The Legend of Action Man, a comedy about a mediocre,… Internet Archive Swing Hostess 1944 · Feature · 1 h 14 min Rags-to-riches-to-rags story features Benny Goodman vocalist Martha Tilton as an unemployed big band singer who takes a job as an operator at a jukebox… Internet Archive Judge Priest 1934 · Feature · 1 h 20 min Judge Priest depicting life in Kentucky after the Civil War and Reconstruction Period. It still shows the stereotypes and prejudices which existed at that… Internet Archive King Kelly of the U.S.A. 1934 · Feature · 1 h 6 min A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of… Internet Archive Mr. Boggs Steps Out 1938 · Feature · 1 h 7 min · Subtitles Oliver Boggs is typical office worker with gift for statistics. After winning a contest he take his money and buys a barrel factory, and falls in loves. Internet Archive The Town Went Wild 1944 · Feature · 1 h 14 min Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother. Internet Archive Meet The Mayor 1932 · Feature · 1 h 2 min AKA A Fool's Advice An elevator operator (Frank Fay) invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician (George Diamond) in the city's… Internet Archive 07 Spooks Run Wild 2015 · Feature · Subtitles Spooks Run Wild is an American comedy horror film and the seventh film in the East Side Kids series, starring Bela Lugosi , Leo Gorcey , Huntz Hall , and… Internet Archive Filmography: Woody Allen 1935 · Feature Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans eight decades (the 1950s to… Internet Archive Daisies 1966 · Feature Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be… Internet Archive His Girl Friday iPod 1940 · Feature Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and…