1980s fantasy comedy films

1989 animated film directed by John Musker and Ron Clements

1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and William Atherton in supporting roles.

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American gothic horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren based on a story by McDowell and Larry Wilson. The film stars Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, along with Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara and Winona Ryder.

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. Adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his kidnapped true love Princess Buttercup from the evil Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

1985 film by Woody Allen

1989 film directed by Ivan Reitman

Gremlins is a 1984 American black comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus and starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday and Frances Lee McCain, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of Gizmo the Mogwai. It draws on legends of folkloric mischievous creatures that cause malfunctions—"gremlins"—in the British Royal Air Force going back to World War II. The story follows Billy Peltzer, who receives Gizmo as a pet, who then spawns more of his kind that evolve into the titular imp-like monsters that wreak havoc on Billy's hometown during Christmas E

1987 film by George Miller

Zelig is a 1983 American satirical mockumentary comedy film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma, who, apparently out of his desire to fit in and be liked, unwittingly takes on the characteristics of strong personalities around him. The film, presented as a documentary, recounts his period of intense celebrity during the 1920s, including analyses by contemporary intellectuals.

1981 film directed by Terry Gilliam

1986 film directed by John Carpenter

1984 film by Ron Howard

1985 film by John Hughes

Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy black comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Inspired by Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, the film is a metafictional modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who, while prepping for a live broadcast adaptation of A Christmas Carol, is visited on Christmas Eve by a succession of ghosts intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The supporting cast includes Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane,

1985 film directed by Rod Daniel

1987 film by William Dear

1986 film by Michael Ritchie

1987 film by Matthew Robbins

1985 film by Howard Storm

1989 film by Terry Jones

1987 film by Michael Gottlieb

1989 film by Emile Ardolino

1984 film directed by Carl Reiner

1986 film directed by John Carl Buechler

1981 film by Carl Gottlieb

1988 film by Neil Jordan

1989 film by John Derek

270px|thumb|Quotation from film 'Kingsajz' advertising XXXIV Polish Film Festival in Gdynia 2009 270px|thumb|Some of the surviving huge props used in the film, displayed in Łódź in 2010 Kingsajz is a 1988 cult Polish comedy fantasy film directed by Juliusz Machulski. The action takes place in late communist Poland and in a fictional Lilliputian kingdom called Szuflandia (Drawerland), hidden deep underground the Quaternary Research Institute. The movie is an allegory of a communist regime and thus was received very enthusiastically by anti-communist society.

1988 film by John R. Cherry III

1988 film by Brian Gilbert

1982 animated feature film

1986 film by Mikhail Yuzovsky

1981 film directed by Yefrem Pruzhanskyi

1983 Looney Tunes traditionally animated compilation film

1988 animated feature film

1993 animated feature film directed by David Silverman

1982 film by Nadezhda Kosheverova

1987 film directed by Rod Amateau

1989 film by Marc Rocco

1988 film by Ken Kwapis

1987 film by Alan Rudolph

Ghoulies is a 1985 American horror film, directed by Luca Bercovici in his directorial debut. The film was co-written with producer Jefery Levy. It stars Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance, Scott Thomson, and Mariska Hargitay. The film follows a young man named Jonathan Graves who, after inheriting his satanic father's estate, becomes seduced by its occult secrets. It is the first in the Ghoulies film series. It received negative reviews from critics.

1987 film by Rod Daniel

1988 film by Paul Flaherty

1987 film by Christopher Leitch

1985 American comedy film directed by Cary Medoway

1988 film

Superfantagenio (also known as Aladdin) is a 1986 Italian/American fantasy comedy film, starring Bud Spencer as the Genie and Luca Venantini as Aladdin, and with Spencer's daughter Diamy participating in a secondary role as Aladdin's love interest.

1980 film

1984 film by Mamoru Oshii

1986 film directed by Clive Donner

1981 film by Steven Hilliard Stern

1989 film by Dorian Walker

1989 film directed by Richard Alan Greenberg

1987 film by Frank Perry

1982 film by Steven Paul

1987 film by Tom McLoughlin

1988 film by Rick Sloane

1986 television film directed by Paul Bogart