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Caddyshack
Caddyshack (1980) is an American golf-club comedy, Harold Ramis's directorial debut, written with Brian Doyle-Murray and Doug Kenney, starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Bill Murray, and Michael O'Keefe at Bushwood Country Club.
Caddyshack II
Caddyshack II, also known as Caddyshack 2, is a 1988 American sports comedy directed by Allan Arkush and the sequel to the 1980 film Caddyshack.
Can't Buy Me Love (film)
Can't Buy Me Love is a 1987 American teen romantic comedy, also known by its original title Boy Rents Girl, directed by Steve Rash and starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson; it grossed $31.6 million domestically on a $1.7 million budget and was remade in 2003 as Love Don't Cost a Thing.
Caveman (film)
Caveman (1981), also released as Cave Man, is a United Artists slapstick comedy directed by Carl Gottlieb, starring Ringo Starr as Atouk, with a fifteen-word invented caveman language, stop-motion dinosaurs, and a $6.5 million cost shot in Mexico.
Chances Are (film)
Chances Are (1989) is an Emile Ardolino romantic comedy-fantasy starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan O'Neal, and Mary Stuart Masterson: a reincarnated husband reunites with his widow via her daughter.
Cheerful Wind (风儿踢踏踩)
Cheerful Wind (風兒踢踏踩, aka Play While You Play) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1981/1982 Taiwanese romantic comedy, starring Feng Fei-fei and Kenny Bee in a love triangle on Penghu, restored in 2018.
Chicken and Duck Talk (鸡同鸭讲)
Chicken and Duck Talk (雞同鴨講, Gai tung ngap gong) is a 1988 Clifton Ko Hong Kong comedy starring Michael Hui as a roast duck restaurant owner fighting a rival fried chicken chain; it was summer 1988's top Hong Kong grosser.
Class (film)
Class is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Lewis John Carlino. It stars Rob Lowe and Jacqueline Bisset in a story set at a Chicago prep school.
Clockwise (film)
Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy directed by Christopher Morahan, written by Michael Frayn, starring John Cleese as punctual headmaster Brian Stimpson missing his train to the Norwich Headmasters' Conference; UK gross £3,075,796, US $1,476,356.
Cocktail (1988 film)
Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Tom Cruise as a bartender who becomes a star in New York and Jamaica.
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is Ed Graczyk's 1976 play about a James Dean fan club reunion in McCarthy, Texas, which Robert Altman directed on Broadway in 1982 and filmed the same year with Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, and Kathy Bates.
Comfort and Joy
Comfort and Joy (1984) is a British comedy written, directed, and produced by Bill Forsyth, starring Bill Paterson as Glasgow DJ Alan 'Dicky' Bird, who mediates a turf war between rival ice cream vendors Mr Bunny and Mr McCool; music by Mark Knopfler, cinematography by Chris Menges.
Coming to America
Coming to America: 1988 Paramount romantic comedy directed by John Landis, starring Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem of Zamunda and Arsenio Hall; released 29 June 1988, grossed $288.8 million, followed by the 2021 sequel Coming 2 America.
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes and Misdemeanors is Woody Allen's 1989 Orion Pictures comedy-drama, 104 minutes, PG-13, starring Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, and Alan Alda, intertwining an unpunished murder with a failed romance; three Oscar nominations.
Crimewave
Crimewave (1985) is Sam Raimi's studio comedy written by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Reed Birney and Bruce Campbell; a critical and commercial failure for Embassy Pictures, distinct from John Paizs's Canadian Crime Wave.
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy directed by Peter Faiman, starring Paul Hogan as bushman Mick Dundee opposite Linda Kozlowski. Second-highest-grossing film of 1986 worldwide and the most commercially successful Australian film ever made.
Crossing Delancey
Crossing Delancey (1988) is Joan Micklin Silver's romantic comedy, from Susan Sandler's play, starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, and Reizl Bozyk, about a matchmaker, a pickle seller, and the Jewish Lower East Side.
Cute Girl (就是溜溜的她)
Cute Girl (就是溜溜的她, Lovable You) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1980 Taiwanese directorial debut, a 90-minute romantic comedy starring Fong Fei-fei and Kenny Bee, a Taipei box-office hit with early long-take style.
Dark Habits
Dark Habits (Entre tinieblas) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1983 Spanish black comedy, his third feature, about singer Yolanda Bell hiding in a Madrid convent of vice-ridden nuns; produced by Tesauro, shown at Venice 1983.
Desperately Seeking Susan
Desperately Seeking Susan: 1985 Orion Pictures comedy directed by Susan Seidelman, written by Leora Barish, starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna in her first major film role; $5 million budget, $27 million gross, mistaken-identity plot in downtown New York.
Diner (1982 film)
Diner (1982) is Barry Levinson's directorial debut, an MGM comedy-drama about six young men in 1959 Baltimore gathering at a Fell's Point diner before Eddie's wedding; Oscar-nominated screenplay, starring Guttenberg, Rourke, Bacon, and Barkin.
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing (1987), Emile Ardolino's romance starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, written by Eleanor Bergstein; a $6 million Vestron film that grossed $214.6 million worldwide, topped 1988 video rentals, and joined the National Film Registry in 2024.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Frank Oz, starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin as rival con men on the French Riviera.
Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち)
Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち) is a 1980 Japanese ensemble drama, 126 minutes, directed by Kazuki Omori about Kyoto medical students in clinical training; released by ATG, 3rd in Kinema Junpo Best Ten.
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is Spike Lee's 1989 film about racial tensions exploding on one Brooklyn block on the hottest day of the year, starring Danny Aiello as Sal; it grossed $37 million, earned two Oscar nominations, and joined the National Film Registry in 1999.
Doctor Detroit
Doctor Detroit is a 1983 Universal comedy directed by Michael Pressman, starring Dan Aykroyd as professor Clifford Skridlow, conned into posing as a fictitious pimp; also known by the tagline "He's making the world safe for insanity."
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 Touchstone comedy directed by Paul Mazursky, a remake of Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning, starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, and Richard Dreyfuss; Disney's first R-rated film.
Down by Law (film)
Down by Law is Jim Jarmusch's 1986 black-and-white indie comedy in which Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni escape a New Orleans jail and wander the Louisiana bayous, shot by Robby Müller with a John Lurie score.
Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 Bruce Beresford film adapted by Alfred Uhry from his Pulitzer-winning play, starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman; it won four Oscars including Best Picture.
Dust in the Wind (1986 film)
Dust in the Wind (戀戀風塵), 1986 Taiwanese drama by Hou Hsiao-hsien, written by Wu Nien-jen and Chu Tien-wen; childhood sweethearts leave a declining mining town for Taipei; based on Wu's first love.