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    1930s Comedy Movies

    The 40 most popular 1930s comedy movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.

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    Modern Times
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    Modern Times

    1936 · 1h 27m · US

    A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

    Steputat & Co.
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    Steputat & Co.

    1938 · 1h 27m · DE

    A rich East Prussian shopkeeper,jealous that one of his male employees is in love with a female employee he himself covets, frames the couple for stealing lottery tickets.

    Delikatessen
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    Delikatessen

    1930 · 1h 18m · DE

    Friends Franz and Bela work in a deli belonging to Mr. Wallis. Franz is the manager and Bela a salesclerk. Both get to know the lovely Lilo. But while Bela is rebuffed, the charming womanizer Franz is more successful. After a boisterous celebration in the deli, Mr. Wallis tells Franz to get lost and hires Lilo as a new salesperson. Franz and Bela take a job at Mr. Markow's deli across the street and a serious competition begins between the two delis for survival.

    Playing at Politics
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    Playing at Politics

    1931 · 56m · US

    Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.

    Glückliche Reise
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    Glückliche Reise

    1933 · 1h 23m · DE

    This operetta adaptation centers on two men who return to Hamburg from Brazil: one seeks a woman for love whereas the other seeks a woman who claims to be an heiress.

    Night attack
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    Night attack

    1931

    A woman enters a police station at night to ask the commissioner to help her get rid of her dead lover's body to protect her honor.

    Familie Schimek
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    Familie Schimek

    1935 · 1h 25m · DE

    For three difficult orphans living by her aunt the former employee of the family searches a new premouth; he releases with it a result of tumultuous involvements. - Humble-entertaining mistake farce, completely fitted on Hans Moser.

    Petersburger Nächte
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    Petersburger Nächte

    1935 · DE

    No overview available

    Das Ehesanatorium

    TMDB3.5

    Das Ehesanatorium

    1938 · 1h 25m · DE

    No overview available

    City Lights
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    City Lights

    1931 · 1h 27m · US

    A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

    The King
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    The King

    1936 · 1h 30m · FR

    King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix and involved in a bit of cuckoldry with YouYou Bourdier, the ex-seamstress wife of a French senator, who is un-awed by money, power or the King's kisses. For his part, her husband, Senator Bourdier, is glad to use his wealth, wife and collectivist ideals for social position, in spite of his democratic posing.

    Radio Bar

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    Radio Bar

    1936 · 1h 23m · AR

    The employees of a cabaret who aspire to become artists get the opportunity to work on the radio.

    Miss Madame
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    Miss Madame

    1934 · 1h 25m · DE

    On their honeymoon in St. Moritz,a new husband who is much older than his young bride is driven to despair when he thinks she prefers to spend her time with a younger man there, an actor.

    My Leopold
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    My Leopold

    1931 · DE

    No overview available

    Strange Innertube
    TMDB2.4

    Strange Innertube

    1932 · 19m

    After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.

    Hoi Polloi
    TMDB3.7

    Hoi Polloi

    1935 · 19m · US

    A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges' new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as gentlemen.

    Princess Sissy
    TMDB3.5

    Princess Sissy

    1939 · 1h 24m · AT

    Sissy (a character Romy Schneider would later popularize in the 50s) is Duke Maximilian of Bavaria's favorite daughter.The gift of a necklace,meant for her, falls into the hands of a crooked circus director.

    Three Girls Around Schubert
    TMDB4.0

    Three Girls Around Schubert

    1936 · 1h 33m · DE

    Composer Franz Schubert becomes involved with a family with three daughters, falling in love with the two blonds, first one, then the other; but will he notice the quiet brunet third daughter, who has fallen madly in love with him?

    Caras argentinas
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    Caras argentinas

    1939 · 1h 2m · AR

    A young singer, in order to escape the harassment of an older woman, makes her believe that he has as his girlfriend the woman who will eventually become his wife.

    Passport Husband
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    Passport Husband

    1938 · 1h 12m · US

    At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is arrested. After Tiger is deported, Duke Selton, of Tiger's gang, pays a visit to Conchita and tells her he believes that Blackie Bennet, the leader of a rival gang, is responsible for tipping off the police about Tiger's citizenship.

    Start Cheering
    TMDB3.5

    Start Cheering

    1938 · 1h 18m · US

    After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

    Touchdown, Army
    TMDB3.8

    Touchdown, Army

    1938 · 1h 10m · US

    Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.

    Ariane
    TMDB2.9

    Ariane

    1931 · 1h 23m · DE

    Ariane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner's first talking picture. Starring in the title role is Czinner's charming wife, Elizabeth Bergner, likewise making her talkie debut. Young, naive Ariane sets herself for an emotional fall when she falls in love with Konstantin (Rudolf Forster), a much older and very married businessman. For his part, Konstantin regards the girl as just another harmless fling -- until he realizes a shade too late that he's really in love with her after all. Filmed in German, Ariane was simultaneously lensed in an English-language version, The Loves of Ariane.

    Morena clara
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    Morena clara

    1936 · 1h 45m · ES

    Trini and her brother Regalito are two gypsy brothers stealing hams. At trial, the severe prosecutor Enrique accused them of the misdemeanor, although they do not understand the nature of their crime and the justice of non-gypsies. Trini ends up serving in the house of the prosecutor, who, discovering her good heart, eventually falls in love with her.

    The Jumping Jack
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    The Jumping Jack

    1930 · DE

    Herr Eickmeyer is a wealthy parfumier: well past middle age, and stout with it. His blonde wife Lissy is much younger, pretty and vivacious. Since Eickmeyer can't keep up with his young wife, he commissions a companion for her in the form of a life-sized talking clockwork man, purchased for 5,000 deutschemarks ... to be shipped to his home immediately it's assembled.

    Huapango
    TMDB2.9

    Huapango

    1938 · 1h 25m · MX

    No overview available

    Ninotchka
    TMDB3.8

    Ninotchka

    1939 · 1h 50m · US

    A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

    It Happened One Night
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    It Happened One Night

    1934 · 1h 45m · US

    A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

    Dora Nelson
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    Dora Nelson

    1935 · 1h 35m · FR

    Dora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was playing in a movie directed by Nivert, to follow her lover Santini in Italy. But she soon realizes that Santini deceives her with a girl named Elsa. In vexation she decides to return to her husband and to her career. Unfortunately for her, Suzanne Verdier, a little working girl, has in the meantime replaced her not only in the film she had left unfinished but in her husband's heart as well. Dora eventually understands she must step aside.

    I Sing
    TMDB3.0

    I Sing

    1938 · 1h 28m

    Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.

    Modern dowry
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    Modern dowry

    1932 · 1h 23m · DE

    Dan Douglas is a typical Scottish. When his niece Evelyne marries engineer Fred Keller aboard the ship to Scotland, he gives her a pearl necklace as dowry, but it's false. The newlyweds face their differences when the necklace gets lost.

    Beau Hunks
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    Beau Hunks

    1931 · 37m · US

    Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

    Heart of Paris
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    Heart of Paris

    1937 · 1h 26m · FR

    Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house. While he tries to keep her identity a secret for his family her presence leads to a number of unfortunate incidents.

    Libeled Lady
    TMDB3.6

    Libeled Lady

    1936 · 1h 38m · US

    When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

    Just Speeding

    TMDB4.0

    Just Speeding

    1936 · 18m · US

    To avoid getting a speeding ticket from a motorcycle cop, Tom pretends to be a surgeon rushing Monty to the hospital for an emergency operation.

    Mr. Skitch
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    Mr. Skitch

    1933 · 1h 10m · US

    After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.

    Verliebtes Abenteuer

    TMDB3.8

    Verliebtes Abenteuer

    1938 · DE

    Charming Tom is pursuing fine Olivia both cheerfully and stubbornly. At first, she rejects him brutally; but then she finds pleasure in this intrusive guy, who’s following her everywhere. They spend an evening together; but afterwards, Olivia determines, that a valuable bracelet has been stolen from her. Now she thinks Tom is the infamous jewel thief, who’s been terrorizing the neighborhood.

    Our Wife
    TMDB3.5

    Our Wife

    1931 · 21m · US

    Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.

    The Optimist
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    The Optimist

    1938 · 1h 24m · DE

    A moron buys a worthless piece of land, which a swindler passed off as an oil field.

    Last Stop
    TMDB3.3

    Last Stop

    1935 · 1h 30m · DE

    Endstation offers the American viewer tantalizing glimpses of busy, bustling mid-1930s Vienna. Otherwise, this minor yarn of an amorous streetcar conductor is strictly formula material. The film benefits from the star power of Paul Horbiger, resplendently garbed in an elaborate conductor's uniform. Also worth noting is the performance of Maria Andergest as the woebegone hatmaker whose fate is inextricably linked with hero Horbiger. Incidentally though the direction is credited with one E. W. Emo, Paul Horbiger actually called most of the shots on Endstation.

    About 1930s Comedy Movies

    The 1930s

    The 1930s were the studio system at full power, with sound now fully integrated and the Production Code arriving mid-decade to sharply narrow what films could depict. It's the decade of the Universal monster cycle, screwball comedy, and the first Technicolor spectacles.

    Comedy

    Comedy is the genre that travels least well and dates fastest, which makes the films that survive genuinely remarkable. Screwball, satire, slapstick, and cringe each have their own era and their own rules.

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    Best reviewed
    Modern Times (8.3)
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    Romance, Drama, Music

    Common questions

    What are the best 1930s comedy movies?
    By popularity across Flickfolio and TMDB, the top picks right now are Modern Times, Steputat & Co., and Delikatessen. The full ranked list of 40 sits above — open any movie for ratings, reviews, and streaming availability.
    How is this list ranked?
    1930s comedy movies are ordered by overall popularity, which blends how often a title is viewed, searched, and logged. It updates as viewing habits shift, so the list reflects what people are actually watching rather than a fixed critical canon.
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