Best mystery comedies - Charts
Best mystery comedies
1. The Garden (1968)
Czechoslovakia, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Jan Švankmajer
Cast: Jiří Hálek, Luděk Kopřiva
2. Zootopia (2016)
USA, Animation / Mystery
Directed by: Byron Howard, Rich Moore
Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman
4. Adam's Apples (2005)
Denmark / Germany, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen
Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen
6. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Mexico, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere
7. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
8. Un cadavre au dessert (1976)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Robert Moore
Cast: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote
9. A Shot in the Dark (1964)
UK / USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer
10. Kontroll (2003)
Hungary, Thriller / Comedy
Directed by: Nimród Antal
Cast: Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi
11. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
USA / Germany, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Woody Allen
Cast: John Tormey, Woody Allen
12. Hot Fuzz (2007)
UK / France, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
14. The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Poland, Drama / Fantasy
Directed by: Wojciech Jerzy Has
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska
15. The Red Squirrel (1993)
Spain, Mystery / Drama
Directed by: Julio Medem
Cast: Emma Suárez, Nancho Novo
16. La Famille Addams (1991)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia
18. After the Thin Man (1936)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
19. Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999)
USA, Animation / Family
Directed by: Jim Stenstrum
Cast: Frank Welker, Tress MacNeille
20. Broken Flowers (2005)
USA / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Bill Murray, Julie Delpy
21. Domovoi (2017)
Czech Republic, Short / Fairytale
Directed by: Pavel Soukup
Cast: Eva Kozderková, Jan Přeučil
22. The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
France, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Yves Robert
Cast: Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier
23. The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
UK, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman
24. Cold Fever (1995)
Iceland / Japan, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Lili Taylor
25. Shadows and Fog (1991)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow
27. City Zero (1989)
Soviet Union, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Karen Shakhnazaroff
Cast: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili
30. The Centrifuge Brain Project (2011)
Germany, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Till Nowak
Cast: Leslie Barany
31. The Runaway (2011)
Spain, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Víctor Carrey
Cast: Joaquín Díaz, Gori de Palma
34. The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
35. xxxHOLiC Šunmuki (2009)
Japan, Animation / Fantasy
Directed by: Tsutomu Mizushima, Shunsuke Tada
Cast: Kazuya Nakai, Rina Hidaka
36. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Shane Black
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer
37. The Thin Man (1934)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
38. Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004)
USA, Animation / Comedy
Directed by: Joe Sichta, Scott Jeralds
Cast: Frank Welker, Casey Kasem
39. Slim Susie (2003)
Sweden, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Ulf Malmros
Cast: Tuva Novotny, Jonas Rimeika
40. Addams Family Values (1993)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia
43. Case Closed Movie: The Time Bombed Skyscraper (1997)
Japan, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Kenji Kodama
Cast: Ikue Ōtani, Kaneto Shiozawa
44. Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003)
USA, Animation / Comedy
Directed by: Scott Jeralds
Cast: Frank Welker, Casey Kasem
45. Gosford Park (2001)
UK / USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Robert Altman
Cast: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon
46. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
48. Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
USA, Animation / Comedy
Directed by: Chuck Sheetz, Jae Woong Kim
Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Mindy Cohn
49. Long Live Life (1984)
France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli
50. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
USA, Mystery / Comedy
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe
51. The Cat and the Canary (1927)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Paul Leni
Cast: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale
52. Les Invasions barbares (2003)
Canada / France, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Denys Arcand
Cast: Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau
55. The Nice Guys (2016)
USA, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Shane Black
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling
56. Palm Springs (2020)
USA / Hong Kong, Fantasy / Mystery
Directed by: Max Barbakow
Cast: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti
58. The Bothersome Man (2006)
Norway / Iceland, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Jens Lien
Cast: Trond Fausa, Petronella Barker
59. Rehearsal for a Crime (1955)
Mexico, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Miroslava Stern, Rita Macedo
60. The Triumphant Return of General Rouge (2009)
Japan, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast: Yuko Takeuchi, Hiroshi Abe
61. The Notorious Landlady (1962)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Richard Quine
Cast: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
62. The Miraculous Virgin (1966)
Czechoslovakia, Poetic / Comedy
Directed by: Štefan Uher
Cast: Jolanta Umecka, Ladislav Mrkvička
63. In the House (2012)
France, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: François Ozon
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer
64. The Black Cat (1941)
USA, Crime / Comedy
Directed by: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert
65. The Door in the Floor (2004)
USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Tod Williams
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger
66. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
UK, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely
68. The River Is Performing Magic (1945)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Poetic
Directed by: Václav Krška
Cast: František Hanus, Růžena Šlemrová
69. The Cat and the Canary (1978)
UK, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Radley Metzger
Cast: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan
70. The Cat and the Canary (1939)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard
71. Andhadhun (2018)
India, Thriller / Comedy
Directed by: Sriram Raghavan
Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Radhika Apte
74. The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Leigh Jason
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
75. Another Thin Man (1939)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
77. Murder Most Foul (1964)
UK, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: George Pollock
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody
78. Common Wealth (2000)
Spain, Comedy / Thriller
Directed by: Álex de la Iglesia
Cast: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuña
79. Tales of Terror (1962)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre
80. Atrocious Tales of Love and Death (1979)
Italy, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Ornella Muti
81. In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
Italy, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Dino Risi
Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman
82. The Glorious Team Batista (2008)
Japan, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast: Yuko Takeuchi, Hiroshi Abe
83. Do You Want to Dance with Me? (1959)
France / Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Michel Boisrond
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Henri Vidal
84. Angelus (2001)
Poland, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Lech Majewski
Cast: Jan Siodlaczek, Paweł Steinert
85. The King's Case Note (2017)
South Korea, Historical / Crime
Directed by: Hyeon-seong Moon
Cast: Sun-kyun Lee, Jae-hong Ahn
86. Under the Tree (2017)
Iceland / Poland, Mystery / Comedy
Directed by: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
87. Deduce, You Say (1956)
USA, Animation / Short
Directed by: Chuck Jones
Cast: Mel Blanc, June Foray
88. Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)
Japan, Mystery / Action
Directed by: Katsuhito Ishii
Cast: 浅野忠信, Ittoku Kishibe
89. Vienna Waits for You (2012)
Austria / Chile, Short / Horror
Directed by: Dominik Hartl
Cast: Adele Neuhauser, Cosima Lehninger
90. Advantages of Travelling by Train (2019)
Spain, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Aritz Moreno
Cast: Javier Botet, Macarena García
91. Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (2010)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Animation / Comedy
Directed by: Jan Švankmajer
Cast: Václav Helšus, Klára Issová
92. Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie (2013)
France, Animation / Mystery
Directed by: Olivier Jean Marie
Cast: Hugues Le Bars
93. Come Sweet Death (2000)
Austria, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Wolfgang Murnberger
Cast: Karl Markovics, Josef Hader
94. Book Girl (2010)
Japan, Animation / Comedy
Directed by: Shunsuke Tada, Shinsaku Sasaki
Cast: Aya Hirano, Aki Toyosaki
95. The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
Italy / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Dino Risi
Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti
96. Who Killed Who? (1943)
USA, Animation / Mystery
Directed by: Tex Avery
Cast: Tex Avery, Richard Haydn
97. Wicked Little Letters (2023)
UK / France, Comedy / Historical
Directed by: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley
98. Scoop (2006)
UK / USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Woody Allen
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen
99. Harry, He's Here to Help (2000)
France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Dominik Moll
Cast: Laurent Lucas, Sergi López
100. Song of the Thin Man (1947)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Edward Buzzell
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy