Best Classic Comedies on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Classic Comedies on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 44 titles in category code 31694. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Forrest Gump (1994)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1994, 2h 22m. Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.
2. Back to the Future (1985)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1985, 1h 56m. Eccentric inventor Doc Brown turns a DeLorean into a time machine that inadvertently sends his young friend, Marty McFly, 30 years into the past.
3. The Great Dictator (1940)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1940, 2h 05m. When Tomania's anti-Semitic ruler cracks down on the Jews, a case of mistaken identity gives an amnesiac barber the chance to plea for democracy.
4. Modern Times (1936)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1936, 1h 26m. Conceived and produced as talking pictures were taking Hollywood by storm, Charlie Chaplin's satire of the machine age was also his last 'silent.'
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1975, 1h 32m. The Monty Python comedy clan skewers King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they quest far and wide for the Holy Grail.
6. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1979, 1h 33m. Born in a stable in Judea, Brian grows up to join a group of anti-Roman zealots, but his fate keeps getting confused with that of a certain carpenter.
7. The Graduate (1967)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1967, 1h 45m. Dustin Hoffman turns in a landmark performance as a naïve college graduate who is seduced by a middle-aged neighbor in this Oscar-winning classic.
8. Groundhog Day (1993)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1993, 1h 41m. Sent to cover the annual ritual of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, a self-centered TV weatherman mysteriously begins living the same day again and again.
9. The Breakfast Club (1985)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 1985, 1h 37m. The athlete, the brain, the criminal, the princess and the basket case break through the social barriers of high school during Saturday detention.
10. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 1971, 1h 39m. Zany Willy Wonka causes a stir when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside his candy bars will admit holders into his secret confectionary.