Comedy Movies 2021 List

With Michelle Pfeiffer • Azazel Jacobs • Patrick Dewitt • Tracy Letts • Lucas Hedges • Thorsten Schumacher

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Michelle Pfeiffer), but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

With Derek Jacobi • Roger Allam • Tom Brooke • Harry Melling • Harry Michell • Vinette Robinson • Anna Maxwell Martin • Jamie Fraser

Orphaned brothers and Christian radicals, Tim and Vic, arrive in Ilkley with the relatively straightforward task of assassinating Professor John Huxley. However, after a classic case of mistaken identity, they find themselves having murdered the wrong man. Now stuck in the town during Ilkley's busiest weekend, they wait for the arrival of a foreboding mentor to give them instruction. The mission must still be completed - that's providing Vic’s rage, Tim’s doubts or the efforts of foul-mouthed Detective Inspector Brough don't get in the way first.

With Samuel Bottomley • Brian Cox • Michiel Huisman • Jim Norton • Michael McElhatton • Niamh Algar • Eleanor O'Brien • Colm Meany • Aidan O'Hare

New York-based Daniel Murphy wakes on a flight to Ireland to find elderly passenger Padraig Murphy (no relation) has died in the next seat. To his surprise, the lonely Padraig had just listed him as his next of kin. Daniel, his autistic brother and a woman they’ve just met must journey across the Emerald Isle to bury the stranger, becoming the focus of a nationwide manhunt for body snatching.

With Jason Bateman • Melissa McCarthy • Octavia Spencer • Sarah Baker • Pom Klementieff • Bobby Cannavale • Ben Falcone • Tyrel Jackson Williams

In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.

With Betti Pedrazzi • Donatella Finocchiaro • Lucia Sardo • Paolo Pierobon • Maria Roveran • Samad Zarmandili

Partially inspired by true stories, the comedy BEATE is a modern social fairytale set in Northeast Italy. When the employees of the Veronica lingerie factory discover they’re to be fired, they take matters into their own hands and borrow equipment to produce their own garment line. Lead by plucky forewoman, Armida, they’re determined to overcome the odds and succeed. Nearby, in "Convent of the Holy Mantle", a handful of nuns skilled in the art of embroidery and devoted to a mummified body of a “blessed one”, are in danger of being transferred, while the unscrupulous mayor – also the owner of the Veronica factory – wants to develop a luxury resort where the convent resides. Together, to oppose their unfortunate turns, they join forces for a surprising collaboration: a line of sexy lingerie. However, they ‘re soon attacked by the owner of Veronica and the convent’s Mother Superior, from whom the operation had to be kept secret. But for things to go in the right direction, they must all pray for a miracle from the “blessed one,” who has yet to provide proof of even one.

With Ed Helms • Tig Notaro • Nikole Beckwith • Julio Torres

When young loner Anna is hired as the gestational surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s who wants a child, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.

With Michael Maloney • Amanda Abbington • Jordan Stephens • Hannaj Bang Bendz • Richard J. Perry • Cassia Littler

When three down-on-their-luck strangers wake up in an English Countryside pub, they find a dead woman lying on the table with hefty chunks of flesh missing. They assume the stories of the Berkshire Rabid Dog roaming the county must be true and they are forced to work together if they are to survive the monster. As the night unfolds and they learn more about each other, they soon realize that if the Rabid Dog isn’t the killer then it must be one of them. As each of the strangers try to figure out what happened to the dead woman, their memories begin to return and the true killer emerges.

With Ron Funches • Aparna Nancherla • Kate Flannery • Eugene Cordero • Betsy Sodaro • Dawn Luebbe • Dot-Marie Jones • Olivia Stambouliah • Marry Holland • Ahmed Bharoocha • Maureen Bharoocha

When her best friend Danny ropes her into taking her spot at the Women's Arm Wrestling Championship, nice girl baker Melanie must trade whisks for barbells as she trains to face off with the reigning champ for a chance at newfound badassery and the grand prize.

With Brian Tyree Henry • Asia Kate Dillon • Sunita Mani • Sonequa Martin • Olivia Edward • Michael Cyril Creighton • Casimir Nozkowski

Brian Tyree Henry takes on his first big screen lead role as Charles Young, a broken-hearted video editor. Perceiving a betrayal of trust as a sign his girlfriend Isha (Sonequa Martin-Green) is leaving him, Charles preemptively blows up his relationship and sequesters himself at home. The fates do not comply and Charles locks himself out of his apartment. Stumbling into a transformational, timely odyssey exploring his community, Charles meets a dynamic ensemble of previously avoided neighbors (including Sunita Mani, Olivia Edward and Asia Kate Dillon) who show him everyone’s got issues and it never helps to keep them all locked up inside.