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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

A Fish Called Wanda
1988 British-American heist comedy film

The King of Comedy
1982 film by Martin Scorsese

48 Hrs.
1982 film by Walter Hill

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 film by David Zucker

Raising Arizona
1987 film by the Coen Brothers

Prizzi's Honor
1985 film by John Huston

Midnight Run
1988 film by Martin Brest

Throw Momma from the Train
1987 film directed by Danny DeVito

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988 film directed by Frank Oz

Police Story
1985 film by Jackie Chan

Married to the Mob
1988 film directed by Jonathan Demme

Stakeout
1987 film by John Badham

Ruthless People
1986 film by Abrahams and Zucker

Police Story 2
1988 film by Jackie Chan

Confidentially Yours
1983 film by François Truffaut

Dragnet
1987 comedy film directed by Tom Mankiewicz

BMX Bandits
1983 film by Brian Trenchard-Smith

Clue
1985 comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn

Repo Man
1984 film by Alex Cox

Les Fugitifs
1986 film by Francis Veber

Le Guignolo
1980 film by Georges Lautner

Fletch
1985 film by Michael Ritchie

Super Fuzz
1980 film directed by Sergio Corbucci

Winners & Sinners
1983 film by Sammo Hung

Stir Crazy
1980 film directed by Sidney Poitier

City Heat
1984 film by Richard Benjamin

Les Compères
1983 film by Francis Veber

Armed and Dangerous
1986 film by Mark L. Lester

Buster
1988 film by David Green

Vabank
Vabank is a 1981 Polish comedy heist film written and directed by Juliusz Machulski, set in 1934 Warsaw (although actually filmed in Łódź and Piotrków Trybunalski).

The Umbrella Coup
1980 film by Gérard Oury
The Adventures of the Elektronic
1979 miniseries directed by Konstantin Bromberg

Johnny Dangerously
1984 film by Amy Heckerling

Flatfoot in Egypt
1980 film by Stefano Vanzina

Tough Guys
1986 film by Jeff Kanew

Hold-Up
1985 film by Alexandre Arcady

Thieves and Robbers
1983 film by Bruno Corbucci

Wise Guys
1986 television film directed by Brian De Palma

The Big Easy
1987 film by Jim McBride

Burglar
1987 film by Hugh Wilson

Crackers
1984 film by Louis Malle

Happy New Year
1987 film by John G. Avildsen

Crimewave
Crimewave is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Sam Raimi, from a screenplay he co-wrote with the Coen brothers. It stars Reed Birney, Sheree J. Wilson, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Louise Lasser and Bruce Campbell, with Campbell also serving as a co-producer. An unusual slapstick mix of film noir, black comedy, Hitchcockian suspense, and B-movie conventions, Crimewave portrays bizarre situations involving a nebbish everyman (Birney) entangled in a murderous plot while pursuing his love interest (Wilson).

Rough Cut
1980 film by Don Siegel

A Fine Mess
1986 film by Blake Edwards

Look for a Woman
1983 film by Alla Surikova

Hanky Panky
1982 film by Sidney Poitier
The Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a Titled Person
1981 miniseries by Evgeny Tatarsky

A Rogue's Saga
1985 film by Viktor Tregubovich

Partners
1982 film directed by James Burrows

Going Berserk
1983 film by David Steinberg

In the Old Rhythms
1982 film directed by Mikhail Yershov

Oh! Heavenly Dog
1980 film by Joe Camp

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1988 film by Mika Kaurismäki

Presumption of Innocence
1988 film by Evgenij Markovič Tatarskij

Viuuulentemente mia
1982 film by Carlo Vanzina

The Sting II
1983 film by Jeremy Kagan

Aces Go Places 3
1984 film by Tsui Hark

...But the Olsen Gang Wasn't Dead
1984 Norwegian comedy-crime film directed by Knut Bohwim