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A list of comedy films released in the 1980s. | Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | | 1980 | | 'Caddyshack' | Harold Ramis | Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Bill Murray, Sarah Holcomb, Scott Colomby, Cindy Morgan, Dan Resin, Henry Wilcoxon, Elaine Aiken, Albert Salmi, Ann Ryerson, Brian Doyle-Murray, Hamilton Mitchell |  | | | | 'Airplane!' | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Robert Stack, Leslie Neilson, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Lloyd Bridges |  | A spoof of Disaster films }} 1981 | | 'History of the World, Part I' | Mel Brooks | Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, Ron Carey, Gregory Hines, Pamela Stephenson, Spike Milligan, Shecky Greene, Sid Caesar, Mary-Margaret Humes, Orson Welles, Hugh Hefner, Berry Levinson, John Hurt, Andrew Sachs |  | | | 1982 | | 'Airplane II: The Sequel' | Ken Finkleman | Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett |  | | | 1983 | | ' | | | | | | 1984 | | 'Ghostbusters' | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson, David Margulies, Steven Tash, Jennifer Runyon, Slavitza Jovan, Michael Ensign, Alice Drummond, Jordan Charney |  | | | 'Gremlins' | Joe Dante | Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton |  | | | 'Repo Man' | Alex Cox | Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton |  | | | 'Splash' | Ron Howard | |  | | | 'This is Spinal Tap' | Rob Reiner | |  | | | 1985 | | 'Back to the Future' | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, James Tolkan, J. J. Cohen, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, Harry Waters Jr. |  | | | | 'The Goonies' | Richard Donner | Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Jonathan Ke Quan, John Mutuszak, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano, Anne Ramsey, Lupe Ontiveros, Mary Ellen Trainor, Keith Walker, Curtis Hanson |  | | | | 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' | Tim Burton | Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen, Irving Hellman, Monte Landis, Damon Martin, David Glasser, Gregory Brown, Mark Everett, Daryl Roach, Bill Cable, Peter Looney, Starletta DuPois |  | | | | 1986 | | ' | | | | | | 1987 | | 'Spaceballs' | Mel Brooks | Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, John Candy, George Wyner, Joan Rivers, Dick Van Patten, Michael Winslow, Lorene Yarnell, John Hurt, Sal Viscuso, Ronny Graham, Jim J. Bullock, Leslie Bevis |  | | | | 1988 | | 'Beetlejuice' | Tim Burton | Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger, Michael Keaton, Rachel Mittelman, Catherine O'Hara, J. Jay Saunders, Mark Ettlinger, Jeffrey Jones, Winona Ryder, Glenn Shadix, Patrice Martinez, Cindy Daly |  | | | | 1989 | | 'Back to the Future Part II' | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan, Jeffrey Weissman, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, J.J. Cohen, Charles Fleischer, E. Casanova Evans, Jay Koch, Charles Gherardi, Ricky Dean Logan |  | | | 'Ghostbusters II' | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol, Harris Yulin, David Margulies, Kurt Fuller, Janet Margolin, Wilhelm von Homburg, William T. Deutschendorf, Henry J. Deutschensorf |  | | [edit] American films [edit] British films [edit] Comedy-horror 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 [edit] Sci-fi comedy [edit] Comedy-drama [edit] Parody films |