American fantasy comedy films

2000 film by Nancy Meyers

2000 animated film directed by Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul

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.

2007 film by Tom Shadyac

2013 animated film directed by Klay Hall

1985 film by Woody Allen

2014 film directed by Shawn Levy

2017 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film

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

2021 film directed by Malcolm D. Lee

1988 film by Penny Marshall

2009 film directed by Burr Steers

1999 animated film directed by Trey Parker

2012 film by Tim Burton

1993 film directed by John McTiernan

Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum. It stars Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf, a human raised by Santa's elves, who learns about his origins and heads to New York City to meet his biological father. James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Asner and Bob Newhart appear in supporting roles.

1999 film by Kevin Smith

2016 film by Paul Feig

1994 animated film

2015 film directed by Rob Letterman

2014 animated film directed by Roberts Gannaway

2015 film directed by Kenny Ortega

1995 American fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling

2021 film directed by Jason Reitman

2016 film directed by Mike Mitchell

2003 film directed by Stephen Norrington

2012 comedy fantasy film by Tarsem Singh

2002 film directed by Raja Gosnell

2016 animated film directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan

2009 film by Karyn Kusama

2011 film by Simon Wells

2003 film by Bo Welch

2023 film directed by David F. Sandberg

2020 animated film directed by Walter Dohrn

2024 film directed by Tim Burton

2019 animated film directed by Sergio Pablos

2004 film directed by Gary Winick

2003 American film directed by Mark Waters

2005 film directed by Mark Waters

Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Kenny Ortega from a screenplay by Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert, and a story by David Kirschner and Garris. It follows a villainous comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night.

2002 film by Tom Brady

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.

2021 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra

1987 film by George Miller

1998 film directed by Griffin Dunne

1995 film by Woody Allen

2009 film by Mark Waters

2014 film by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi

2015 American animated short film

2005 film by Kirk Jones

2000 film by Harold Ramis

1996 film directed by Danny DeVito

2004 American film directed by Raja Gosnell

1984 film by Ron Howard

Last Christmas is a 2019 Christmas romantic comedy film directed by Paul Feig and written by Bryony Kimmings and Emma Thompson, who co-developed the story concept with her husband, Greg Wise. Based on the 1984 song of the same name by Wham!, the film stars Emilia Clarke as a disillusioned Christmas store worker who forms a relationship with a mysterious man and begins to fall for him; Thompson and Michelle Yeoh also star.

2021 animation film

1986 film directed by John Carpenter

2023 film directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley

2002 film directed by Rob Minkoff