Comedy films

385–432 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 The Farmer's Daughter 1947 · Feature · 1 h 36 min Title: The Farmer's Daughter Summary: After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards… Internet Archive Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) : Vincent Price movie 1965 · Feature Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) Film comedy starring Vincent Price . A James Bond spoof. The title spoofs the Bond films Dr No and Goldfinger , as… Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin Short Charlie Chaplin movie Internet Archive Private Buckaroo 1942 · Feature · 1 h 7 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Dreaming Out Loud 1940 · Feature · 1 h 21 min · Subtitles The first film adaptation of the "Lum and Abner" Radio Program. Internet Archive A Flawed Family Flick - The Boat 2006 · Short · Subtitles This is the second "Flawed Family Video" we have added to the collection. We hope that it will give a new life to a great old movie. Buster has a new boat,… Internet Archive A Matter of Life and Death 1946 · Feature Title: A Matter of Life and Death Summary: A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court. Directed by: Michael… Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "His Trysting Place" 1914 · Short Charlie Chaplins 32nd Film Released Nov. 09 1914 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004108/ Charlie Chaplin In The Internet Archive… Internet Archive Make a Million 1935 · Feature · 1 h 6 min A college economics professor's (Charles Starrett) "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds… Internet Archive Freckles Comes Home 1942 · Feature · 59 min College student "Freckles" Winslow (Johnny Downs) come home to Indiana to help a friend, Danny Doyle (Marvin Stephens), who runs his uncle's hotel and took a… Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "Charlott Mabel Aux Courses" aka Gentlemen of Nerve 1914 · Short Charlie Chaplin's 30th Film Released Oct. 30 1914 as Gentlemen of Nerve http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004007/ Charlie Chaplin In The Internet Archive… Internet Archive Goodbye Love 1933 · Feature · 1 h 5 min When the wealthy Wall Street businessman Chester Hamilton (Sidney Blackmer) is arrested for missing the payment of due alimonies to his ex-wife, he finds his… Internet Archive Harmony Trail 1944 · Feature Title: Harmony Trail Summary: Sent to investigate a payroll robbery, Marshall Rocky meets his old friends Ken, Eddie, and Max. He has the serial numbers and… Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "The Rival Mashers" aka Those Love Pangs 1914 · Short Charlie Chaplin's 28th Film Released Oct. 10 1914 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004693/ Charlie Chaplin In The Internet Archive… Internet Archive Hillbilly Blitzkrieg 1942 · Feature · 1 h 3 min Nazi spies mistake Pvt. Snuffy Smith's (Bud Duncan) moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula." Internet Archive Half a Sinner 1940 · Feature · 59 min A prim school teacher (Heather Angel) has a secret desire to kick up her heels and leave her small town behind her. She does the next best thing - buys some… Internet Archive Uncle Joe 1941 · Feature · 50 min · Subtitles A film that's cheap, silly, and short. And it has Zasu Pitts. Internet Archive The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 · Feature Doctors are being murdered in bizarre manners - bats, bees, a killer frog mask, etc. - which represent the nine Biblical plagues of Egypt. The crimes are… Internet Archive Are Crooks Dishonest? 1918 · Short · 13 min From IMDb : Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father. Stars: Harold Lloyd, Harry Pollard, and Bebe… Internet Archive The End Of Summer 1961 · Feature The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu's most deftly modulated blendings of… Internet Archive Breakfast in Hollywood 1946 · Feature · 1 h 27 min · Subtitles Visit the IMDB for more information. Internet Archive A Flawed Family Flick - The Big Storm 2006 · Short · 15 min · Subtitles This is the fifth "Flawed Family Video" we have added to the collection. We hope that it will give a new life to a great old movie. Buster is caught in "The… Internet Archive Just Neighbors 1919 · Short · 13 min From IMDb : Suburban neighbors (Lloyd and Pollard) join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the… Internet Archive Pardon My Gun 1930 · Feature · 1 h 2 min Ranch hand Ted Duncan (Tom Keene) is in love with the ranch owners daughter, Mary Martin (Sally Starr). Cooper (Harry Woods), neighboring rancher has his eye… Internet Archive The Butcher Boy 1917 · Short · 30 min The Butcher Boy Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton (1º movie!!!) IMDB: This Fatty Arbuckle short feature is a historical treasure in that it was the first film… Internet Archive Number, Please? 1920 · Short · 25 min From IMDb : While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets… Internet Archive Ucan Daireler Istanbulda (Flying Saucers Over Istanbul) (English Subtitles) 1955 · Feature · 1 h 6 min · Subtitles Ucan Daireler Istanbulda (Flying Saucers Over Istanbul) is a Turkish sci-fi comedy from 1955. It's recommended for fans of old Turkish movies and psychotronic… Internet Archive Final Justice(1984) HD 1984 · Feature NOW IN WIDESCREEN AND HD Homicidal sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo is tasked with escorting a mobster to Malta. When the prisoner escapes, Geronimo goes to… Internet Archive Topper Returns Carole Landis Joan Blondell 1941 · Feature · Subtitles The 1941 Hal Roach comedy Topper Returns starring Carole Landis, Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Patsy Kelly, and Dennis O'Keefe ~ Learn more about… Internet Archive The Fat Spy 1966 · Feature · Subtitles Internet Archive The Invisible Woman ( 1940) 1940 · Feature Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an… Internet Archive Hey! Hey! USA 1938 · Feature · 1 h 28 min Will Hay plays Dr. Benjamin Twist, a man whose ambitions outstrip his abilities. Twist is a porter on an ocean liner bound for America who, through convoluted… Internet Archive kill 1968 · Feature In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto, a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in… Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "Dough And Dynamite" 1914 · Short Charlie Chaplin's 29th Released Oct. 26 1914 The story involves Chaplin and Chester Conklin working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike.… Internet Archive Some Prefer Cake (1997) - Desi del Valle Film 1997 · Feature Heidi Arnesen is a Norwegian filmmaker that directed the 1991 short Dual of the Senses , the first queer Norwegian short. She would later do 7 more shorts… Internet Archive The Three Stooges in Three Little Beers Short · 16 min Short 11 In theatres 11/28/1935 The stooges are hired to deliver beer, but when they go to deliver beer to a golf course, they get distracted and play a round… Internet Archive W.C. Fields - The Dentist Short · 21 min · Subtitles One of a number of shorts that W.C. Fields made before he went into feature films. The scene where he extracts the woman's tooth may be one of the funniest he… Internet Archive The Roaring Road 1919 · Feature · 57 min A young man (Wallace Reid) pursues a young lady (Ann Little) with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing. Internet Archive Last Holiday 1950 · Feature Told by his doctor he has no more than a few months to live, drab British workingman George Bird (Alec Guinness) decides to spend his savings on lodging at a… Internet Archive Carry On Behind 1975 · Feature A Russian beauty helps a British professor on a Roman dig during the holiday season. Internet Archive St Louis Woman 1934 1934 · Feature · Subtitles imdb: Johnny Mack Brown stars as a college football star who's expelled after a night club brawl. The fight is over St. Louis Lou (Jeanette Loff) aka "The… Internet Archive Whisky Galore 1949 · Feature Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for… Internet Archive Scared Stiff (Treasure of Fear) 1945 · Feature · 1 h 4 min · Subtitles Jack Haley (the Tin Man of Oz) in a low-budget comedy. He's a chess-columnist who gets mixed up with hoodlums. Internet Archive L'école des facteurs 1947 · Feature L'école des facteurs (School for Postmen) is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as… Internet Archive The Royal Bed 1931 · Feature · 1 h 12 min Title: The Royal Bed Summary: The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her… Internet Archive Alibi Bye Bye 1935 · Short · 22 min The story is about a husband (Bud Jamison) who tells his wife he's going hunting but actually sneaks off to fool around in Atlantic City. While the wife… Internet Archive Bad Taste 1987 · Feature The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain. Internet Archive Road To Bali 1952 · Feature · Subtitles Comedy, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour IMDB movie information