List of British comedy films

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This is a list of British comedy films.

1920s

• A Woman Of Paris (1923)
• Champagne (1928)

1930s

• Boots! Boots! (1934)
• Radio Parade of 1935 (1934)
• Those Were the Days (1934)
• Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
• Dandy Dick (1935)
• The Ghost Goes West (1935)
• No Limit (1935)
• Off the Dole (1935)
• Keep Your Seats, Please (1936)
• Where There's a Will (1936)
• Windbag the Sailor (1936)
• Feather Your Nest (1937)
• Good Morning, Boys (1937)
• It's Not Cricket (1937)
• Keep Fit (1937)
• Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
• Convict 99 (1938)
• The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
• Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
• I See Ice (1938)
• It's in the Air (1938)
• Old Bones of the River (1938)
• Pygmalion (1938)
• Ask a Policeman (1939)
• Come On George! (1939)
• The Frozen Limits (1939)
• Trouble Brewing (1939)

1940s

• Let George Do It! (1940)
• Somewhere in England (1940)
• Spare a Copper (1940)
• Where's That Fire? (1940)
• Crook's Tour (1941)
• Gasbags (1941)
• The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
• The Ghost Train (1941)
• Major Barbara (1941)
• South American George (1941)
• Turned Out Nice Again (1941)
• Back-Room Boy (1942)
• The Big Blockade (1942)
• The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
• Go to Blazes (1942)
• The Goose Steps Out (1942)
• Much Too Shy (1942)
• Somewhere in Camp (1942)
• Bell-Bottom George (1943)
• Get Cracking (1943)
• It's That Man Again (1943)
• My Learned Friend (1943)
• Somewhere in Civvies (1943)
• Somewhere on Leave (1943)
• He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
• On Approval (1944)
• Blithe Spirit (1945)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
• I Didn't Do It (1945)
• George in Civvy Street (1946)
• Hue and Cry (1947)
• Holidays with Pay (1948)
• When You Come Home (1948)
• It's Not Cricket (1949)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• Passport to Pimlico (1949)
• School for Randle (1949)
• Somewhere in Politics (1949)
• Whisky Galore! (1949)

1950s

• The Girl Who Couldn't Quite (1950)
• The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
• Her Favourite Husband (1950)
• Into the Blue (1950)
• Last Holiday (1950)
• The Magnet (1950)
• Old Mother Riley Headmistress (1950)
• Over the Garden Wall (1950)
• Something in the City (1950)
• Appointment with Venus (1951)
• Encore (1951)
• The Galloping Major (1951)
• Happy Go Lovely (1951)
• Hotel Sahara (1951)
• Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
• Laughter in Paradise (1951)
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
• Let's Go Crazy (1951)
• Madame Louise (1951)
• The Man in the White Suit (1951)
• Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure (1951)
• One Wild Oat (1951)
• Penny Points to Paradise (1951)
• Talk of a Million (1951)
• Young Wives' Tale (1951)
• Brandy for the Parson (1952)
• The Card (1952)
• Castle in the Air (1952)
• Curtain Up (1952)
• Down Among the Z Men (1952)
• Father's Doing Fine (1952)
• The Happy Family (1952)
• His Excellency (1952)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
• Little Big Shot (1952)
• Made in Heaven (1952)
• Miss Robin Hood (1952)
• Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
• My Wife's Lodger (1952)
• Penny Princess (1952)
• The Pickwick Papers (1952)
• Song of Paris (1952)
• Time Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
• Treasure Hunt (1952)
• Who Goes There! (1952)
• You're Only Young Twice (1952)
• The Captain's Paradise (1953)
• Folly to Be Wise (1953)
• Genevieve (1953)
• Innocents in Paris (1953)
• It's a Grand Life (1953)
• The Oracle (1953)
• Our Girl Friday (1953)
• The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
• Trouble in Store (1953)
• The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)
• Doctor in the House (1954)
• Happy Ever After (1954)
• Hobson's Choice (1954)
• The Maggie (1954)
• The Million Pound Note (1954)
• Orders Are Orders (1954)
• The Runaway Bus (1954)
• Trouble in the Glen (1954)
• You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
• An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
• The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn (1955)
• Doctor at Sea (1955)
• Geordie (1955)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• To Paris with Love (1955)
• You Lucky People (1955)
• The Green Man (1956)
• Dry Rot (1956)
• Not So Dusty (1956)
• Private's Progress (1956)
• Up in the World (1956)
• Barnacle Bill (1957)
• Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957)
• Brothers in Law (1957)
• Carry on Admiral (1957) (not part of the Carry On series)
• Doctor at Large (1957)
• Just My Luck (1957)
• Lucky Jim (1957)
• The Naked Truth (1957)
• Rockets Galore! (1957)
• The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
• True as a Turtle (1957)
• Carry On Sergeant (1958)
• Further Up the Creek (1958)
• The Horse's Mouth (1958)
• I Only Arsked! (1958)
• Indiscreet (1958)
• Next to No Time (1958)
• Up the Creek (1958)
• Battle of the Sexes (1959)
• The Bridal Path (1959)
• The Captain's Table (1959)
• Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
• Carry On Nurse (1959)
• Carry On Teacher (1959)
• Don't Panic Chaps! (1959)
• Follow a Star (1959)
• I'm All Right Jack (1959)
• Idol on Parade (1959)
• Left Right and Centre (1959)
• The Mouse That Roared (1959)
• The Navy Lark (1959)
• The Night We Dropped a Clanger (1959)
• Operation Bullshine (1959)
• Our Man in Havana (1959)
• Please Turn Over (1959)
• Too Many Crooks (1959)

1960s

• A French Mistress (1960)
• And the Same to You (1960)
• Bottoms Up (1960)
• The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960)
• The Bulldog Breed (1960)
• Carry On Constable (1960)
• Dentist in the Chair (1960)
• Doctor in Love (1960)
• Follow That Horse! (1960)
• The Grass Is Greener (1960)
• His and Hers (1960)
• Inn for Trouble (1960)
• The League of Gentlemen (1960)
• Let's Get Married (1960)
• Life Is a Circus (1960)
• Light Up the Sky! (1960)
• Make Mine Mink (1960)
• Man in the Moon (1960)
• The Millionairess (1960)
• No Kidding (1960)
• Operation Cupid (1960)
• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)
• Sands of the Desert (1960)
• School for Scoundrels (1960)
• There Was a Crooked Man (1960)
• Two-Way Stretch (1960)
• Watch Your Stern (1960)
• Your Money or Your Wife (1960)
• A Matter of WHO (1961)
• A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
• Carry On Regardless (1961)
• Dentist on the Job (1961)
• Don't Bother to Knock (1961)
• Double Bunk (1961)
• The Girl on the Boat (1961)
• Invasion Quartet (1961)
• Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961)
• The Night We Got the Bird (1961)
• No My Darling Daughter (1961)
• On the Fiddle (1961)
• A Pair of Briefs (1961)
• Petticoat Pirates (1961)
• Raising the Wind (1961)
• The Rebel (1961)
• Very Important Person (1961)
• Watch it, Sailor! (1961)
• What a Carve Up! (1961)
• What a Whopper (1961)
• The Amorous Prawn (1962)
• Carry On Cruising (1962)
• Crooks Anonymous (1962)
• The Dock Brief (1962)
• Go to Blazes (1962)
• The Iron Maiden (1962)
• Mrs Gibbons' Boys (1962)
• On the Beat (1962)
• Only Two Can Play (1962)
• Operation Snatch (1962)
• The Punch and Judy Man (1962)
• She'll Have to Go (1962)
• Twice Round the Daffodils (1962)
• We Joined the Navy (1962)
• A Stitch in Time (1963)
• Billy Liar (1963)
• Carry On Cabby (1963)
• Carry On Jack (1963)
• The Cracksman (1963)
• Crooks in Cloisters (1963)
• Doctor in Distress (1963)
• Hot Enough for June (1963)
• Ladies Who Do (1963)
• The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
• Nurse on Wheels (1963)
• The Pink Panther (1963)
• Tom Jones (1963)
• Strictly for the Birds (1963)
• Two Left Feet (1963)
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
• The Bargee (1964)
• Carry On Spying (1964)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• Never Put It in Writing (1964)
• Nothing But the Best (1964)
• One Way Pendulum (1964)
• A Shot in the Dark (1964)
• The Big Job (1965)
• Carry On Cleo (1965)
• Carry On Cowboy (1965)
• The Early Bird (1965)
• The Intelligence Men (1965)
• Joey Boy (1965)
• Rotten to the Core (1965)
• Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965)
• You Must Be Joking! (1965)
• Alfie (1966)
• Carry On Screaming! (1966)
• Doctor in Clover (1966)
• Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
• The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
• Morgan! (1966)
• Press for Time (1966)
• The Sandwich Man (1966)
• The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
• That Riviera Touch (1966)
• Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
• The Wrong Box (1966)
• Bedazzled (1967)
• Carry On Doctor (1967)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• Follow That Camel (1967)
• The Magnificent Two (1967)
• The Plank (1967)
• Smashing Time (1967)
• Carry On Up the Khyber (1968)
• Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
• Only When I Larf (1968)
• Prudence and the Pill (1968)
• Till Death Us Do Part (1968)
• The Assassination Bureau (1969)
• The Best House in London (1969)
• Carry On Again Doctor (1969)
• Carry On Camping (1969)
• Crooks and Coronets (1969)
• The Italian Job (1969)
• The Magic Christian (1969)
• Otley (1969)
• What's Good for the Goose (1969)

1970s

• Doctor in Trouble (1970)
• Hoffman (1970)
• Loot (1970)
• There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
• And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
• Dad's Army (1971)
• Melody (1971)
• On the Buses (1971)
• Percy (1971)
• Please Sir! (1971)
• Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
• Up Pompeii (1971)
• Bless This House (1972)
• Mutiny on the Buses (1972)
• Nearest and Dearest (1972)
• Our Miss Fred (1972)
• Pulp (1972)
• Steptoe and Son (1972)
• Up the Front (1972)
• Father, Dear Father (1973)
• Holiday on the Buses (1973)
• The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
• Love Thy Neighbour (1973)
• The Lovers (1973)
• Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1973)
• Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973)
• Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
• Man About the House (1974)
• Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
• Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976)
• Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976)
• Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
• The Likely Lads (1976)
• Adventures of a Private Eye (1977)
• Are You Being Served? (1977)
• Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
• Jabberwocky (1977)
• Adventures of a Plumber's Mate (1978)
• Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
• The Plank (1979) — remake of the 1967 film
• Porridge (1979)

1980s

• George and Mildred (1980)
• Rising Damp (1980)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Gregory's Girl (1981)
• Time Bandits (1981)
• The Boys in Blue (1982)^[1]
• Privates on Parade (1982)
• Victor Victoria (1982)
• Bullshot (1983)
• Educating Rita (1983)
• Local Hero (1983)
• Brazil (1985)
• Clockwise (1986)
• Comfort and Joy (1984)
• Consuming Passions (1988)
• Erik the Viking (1989)
• A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
• High Hopes (1988)
• Jane and the Lost City (1988)
• Loose Connections (1983)
• The Missionary (1983)
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
• Morons from Outer Space (1985)
• Personal Services (1987)
• A Private Function (1984)
• Restless Natives (1985)
• Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)
• Shirley Valentine (1989)
• The Tall Guy (1989)
• Turtle Diary (1985)
• Water (1985)
• Wish You Were Here (1987)
• Withnail and I (1987)

1990s

• Nuns on the Run (1990)
• The Commitments (1991)
• Life Is Sweet (1991)
• The Pope Must Die (1991)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (1991)
• Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991)
• Carry On Columbus (1992)
• Hear My Song (1992)
• Just like a Woman (1992)
• Peter's Friends (1992)
• Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
• The Big Freeze (1993)
• Leon the Pig Farmer (1993)
• Splitting Heirs (1993)
• Bean (1997)
• Beautiful People (1999)
• Brassed Off (1996)
• Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997)
• East is East (1999)
• The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
• The Full Monty (1997)
• Funny Bones (1995)
• Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
• Guest House Paradiso (1999)
• Hour of the Pig (1993)
• An Ideal Husband (1999)
• Jack and Sarah (1995)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
• A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
• Little Voice (1998)
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
• Mad Cows (1999)
• The Madness of King George (1995)
• A Month by the Lake (1995)
• Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
• Notting Hill (1999)
• Plunkett and MacLeane (1999)
• Princess Caraboo (1994)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Shooting Fish (1997)
• Sliding Doors (1998)
• Still Crazy (1998)
• Trainspotting (1996)
• Twin Town (1997)
• Waking Ned (1998)
• Widows' Peak (1994)

2000s

• About a Boy (2002)
• Ali G Indahouse (2002)
• Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
• Billy Elliot (2000)
• Birthday Girl (2001)
• Blackball (2003)
• The Boat That Rocked (2009)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
• Bunny And The Bull (2009)
• Calendar Girls (2003)
• Chicken Run (2000)
• Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)
• A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
• Confetti (2006)
• Death at a Funeral (2007)
• Driving Lessons (2006)
• Fishtales (2007)
• Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
• Greenfingers (2000)
• Grow Your Own (2007)
• Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
• Hello Friend (2003)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
• In the Loop (2009)
• It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
• Kinky Boots (2005)
• Johnny English (2003)
• Keeping Mum (2005)
• Kevin and Perry Go Large (2000)
• The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
• Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)
• Love Actually (2003)
• Love and Other Disasters (2006)
• Lucky Break (2001)
• Magicians (2007)
• Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
• Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)
• RocknRolla (2008)
• Run Fatboy Run (2007)
• The Actors (2003)
• The Martins (2001)
• The Parole Officer (2001)
• Relative Values (2000)
• S Club: Seeing Double (2003)
• Saving Grace (2000)
• Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Six Bend Trap (2006)
• Snatch (2000)
• Son of Rambow (2007)
• Starter for 10 (2006)
• Stella Street: The Movie (2004)
• St Trinian's (2007)
• St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)
• Three and Out (2008)
• The Truth About Love (2005)
• Valiant (2005)
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
• Wimbledon (2004)

2010s

• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
• Anuvahood (2011)
• Attack the Block (2011)
• Burke & Hare (2010)
• Cemetery Junction (2010)
• Four Lions (2010)
• Horrid Henry the Movie (2011)
• I Give It a Year (2013)
• The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)
• The Infidel (2010)
• Johnny English Reborn (2011)
• My Last Five Girlfriends (2010)
• Paul (2011)
• Sightseers (2012)
• Submarine (2011)
• Wild Target (2010)
• The World's End (2013)
• About Time (2013)
• Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

See also

• List of British comedians
• List of American comedy films
• List of films based on British sitcoms
• Film genre

References

1. The Boys in Blue

External links

• Archive Interactive: Paul Merton on Early British Comedy
  • The British Film Institute in association with BT present a guide to early British comedy film by Paul Merton.