English-language fantasy comedy films

2000 film by Nancy Meyers

2014 film directed by Paul King

1985 film by Woody Allen

2005 film by Terry Gilliam

2014 film directed by Shawn Levy

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

1988 film by Penny Marshall

2009 film directed by Burr Steers

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

1989 film directed by Ivan Reitman

2021 film directed by Malcolm D. Lee

1999 animated film directed by Trey Parker

2012 film by Tim Burton

2019 film directed by Rob Letterman

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.

2016 film by Paul Feig

2014 animated film directed by Roberts Gannaway

2021 film directed by Jason Reitman

1995 American fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling

2015 film directed by Rob Letterman

2016 film directed by Mike Mitchell

2006 film directed by John A. Davis

2009 film by Karyn Kusama

2012 comedy fantasy film by Tarsem Singh

2002 film directed by Raja Gosnell

2016 animated film directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan

2011 film by Simon Wells

2017 film by Paul King

2003 film by Bo Welch

2021 film directed by Chris Appelhans

2019 animated film directed by Sergio Pablos

2020 animated film directed by Walter Dohrn

2013 animated film by Manuel Sicilia

2004 film directed by Gary Winick

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.

2005 film directed by Mark Waters

2003 American film directed by Mark Waters

2011 film directed by Kelly Asbury

1997 film by Mark Dindal

2009 film by Mark Waters

2021 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra

2002 film by Tom Brady

1995 film by Woody Allen

1998 film directed by Griffin Dunne

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

2005 film by Kirk Jones

2014 film by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi

2000 film by Harold Ramis

1984 film by Ron Howard

2004 American film directed by Raja Gosnell

1986 film directed by John Carpenter

1996 film directed by Danny DeVito

2002 film directed by Rob Minkoff

2001 film by Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

2003 film by Rob Minkoff

2006 film by Marc Forster