Classic Comedies on Netflix

Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:22:28
Netflix ID: 60000724 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Eccentric inventor Doc Brown turns a DeLorean into a time machine that inadvertently sends his young friend, Marty McFly, 30 years into the past.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:56:11
Netflix ID: 60010110 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1940
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:05:13
Netflix ID: 60028133 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Conceived and produced as talking pictures were taking Hollywood by storm, Charlie Chaplin's satire of the machine age was also his last 'silent.'

Year: 1936
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:26:52
Netflix ID: 60028129 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1975
IMDb: 8.2
Runtime: 01:32:09
Netflix ID: 771476 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:33:40
Netflix ID: 699257 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1967
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:45:57
Netflix ID: 555221 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sent to cover the annual ritual of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, a self-centered TV weatherman mysteriously begins living the same day again and again.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:41:04
Netflix ID: 563104 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The athlete, the brain, the criminal, the princess and the basket case break through the social barriers of high school during Saturday detention.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:37:03
Netflix ID: 330210 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Zany Willy Wonka causes a stir when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside his candy bars will admit holders into his secret confectionary.

Year: 1971
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:39:41
Netflix ID: 60020949 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Marty and Doc are at it again in this sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:48:01
Netflix ID: 60010111 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ferris convinces his entire school he's at death's door, then hits the streets of Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend for a day of fun.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:42:57
Netflix ID: 498716 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Parapsychologists create a business exterminating ghouls and hobgoblins -- and end up facing one killer demon in a cellist's apartment.

Year: 1984
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:45:08
Netflix ID: 541018 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this classic parody of disaster movies, a traumatized former combat pilot is forced to land a passenger plane when food poisoning strikes the crew.

Year: 1980
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:27:49
Netflix ID: 60002777 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A railroad apprentice working at a train station in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia carves out some excitement by exploring his sexuality.

Year: 1966
IMDb: 7.7
Runtime: 01:29:05
Netflix ID: 60010240 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two war buddies fall for two sisters and follow the girls to a resort owned by their former commanding officer, who is in danger of losing the place.

Year: 1954
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 02:00:01
Netflix ID: 60003082 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young couple who drowned return to their house as poltergeists but must enlist the help of a goofy ghost to put a scare in the rude new owners.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:32:02
Netflix ID: 293204 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life -- and the lives of those around her -- spiraling out of control in this madcap farce.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:28:50
Netflix ID: 70020464 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a group of small-town firemen find out that their chief is retiring, they organize a party to end all parties. But as soon as the celebration commences, the attendees experience one disaster after another.

Year: 1967
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:10:11
Netflix ID: 60011128 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A small-town music teacher is visited by an old friend who is a professional musician, setting in motion events that are both reflective and amusing.

Year: 1965
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:13:45
Netflix ID: 81289310 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The final installment of the trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking up Doc in the Wild West of 1885.

Year: 1990
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:58:17
Netflix ID: 60024059 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Comedienne Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand, in an Oscar-winning role), an unconventional beauty from the Jewish slums of New York, dreams of stardom.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:35:14
Netflix ID: 60010377 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

On the night before two of them leave for college, four high school pals cruise around town finding love and mischief in this coming-of-age classic.

Year: 1973
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 01:52:26
Netflix ID: 70019013 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A pair of deliriously dim-witted pals go on a madcap cross-country road trip to return a briefcase full of cash to its rightful owner.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:46:30
Netflix ID: 464246 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Detroit cop Axel Foley heads to snooty Beverly Hills to investigate a murder. Soon, this fish out of water realizes the case is far more complicated.

Year: 1984
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:45:04
Netflix ID: 60010139 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this bittersweet drama, five tight-knit women congregate at a beauty parlor in a small Louisiana town to laugh, cry and discuss their lives.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:58:12
Netflix ID: 60001533 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John star in this hit musical comedy about a greaser and the good girl he falls for -- much to his friends' chagrin.

Year: 1978
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:50:35
Netflix ID: 60000577 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Special agent Harry Tasker is a top spy in the ultra-secret Omega Sector -- unbeknownst to his wife, who thinks he's just a boring computer salesman.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 02:20:52
Netflix ID: 60029814 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a couch potato falls deathly lethargic, he desperately fights to combat the one thing zapping his life force -- the television screen.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:42:04
Netflix ID: 81192051 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a disturbed young man kidnaps and ties up a porn queen, a psychological power play ensues, with both serious sex and offbeat laughs.

Year: 1990
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:41:36
Netflix ID: 60000729 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While picking hops in the country for the summer, a misunderstood teen experiences first love that soon stirs up both conflict and musical harmony.

Year: 1964
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 01:29:03
Netflix ID: 81289312 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a soldier deserts his enlistment and hides out in a school, the guns of those chasing him start mysteriously morphing into musical instruments.

Year: 1964
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 02:10:49
Netflix ID: 81289311 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After losing everything, an indolent sad sack impulsively joins the U.S. Army and cajoles his best friend into enlisting, too.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:46:08
Netflix ID: 1008581 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Fate and a tenacious 8-year-old boy conspire to unite a lovelorn widower and an unhappily engaged journalist in this Oscar-nominated romantic comedy.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:45:05
Netflix ID: 973331 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This adaptation of the smash Broadway musical follows America's favorite urchin as she captures Daddy Warbucks's heart with her unquenchable optimism.

Year: 1982
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:07:23
Netflix ID: 60031747 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

It's a clash of cultures and a recipe for comedy when a crocodile hunter is plucked from the Australian outback for a visit to the Big Apple.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:37:40
Netflix ID: 60010265 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A cosmetologist becomes romantically involved with a voyeuristic photographer and his stepfather, who may be a murderer.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:49:19
Netflix ID: 80053617 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Smitten with a beautiful stargazer, a fearless small-town firefighter with an exceedingly long nose woos her vicariously through his handsome rival.

Year: 1987
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:46:54
Netflix ID: 921910 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Attempting to win the affections of their respective love interests, four cousins enlist the help of a love doctor to impart the art of seduction.

Year: 1989
IMDb: 4.8
Runtime: 01:36:11
Netflix ID: 81220421 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Longing for a country getaway, a family buys a ramshackle cottage from an aging farmer who, it is soon evident, has no intention of ever leaving.

Year: 1976
Runtime: 01:36:12
Netflix ID: 81225190 · Watch on Netflix

This collection restores films from women who tackled hot-button issues, transcended norms, and left a mark on the history of cinema and the industry.

Year: 1925
Netflix ID: 81030762 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A small-town brewery manager tries to impress a board of trustees in the midst of his spirited wife and eccentric brother's antics.

Year: 1981
Runtime: 01:33:40
Netflix ID: 81192871 · Watch on Netflix

Against the backdrop of unwelcome Communist rule, sensitive young Kvida experiences an eventful adolescence with his dysfunctional Czech family.

Year: 1997
Runtime: 01:37:14
Netflix ID: 81192091 · Watch on Netflix

At the turn of the 20th century, a private eye and his cutting-edge crime-solving inventions are summoned to Prague, where a mysterious case awaits.

Year: 1977
Runtime: 01:42:36
Netflix ID: 81289306 · Watch on Netflix