English-language fantasy comedy films

2014 American animated film directed by Jorge Gutiérrez

2006 film by Marc Forster

1970 film directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman

2006 film directed by Donald Petrie

2001 film directed by James Mangold

2020 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

2018 film by John Stevenson

2019 animated film by Dylan Brow

The Santa Clause is a 1994 American Christmas fantasy comedy film directed by John Pasquin and written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick. The first installment in The Santa Clause franchise, it stars Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, a divorced marketing executive who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof to his presumed death on Christmas Eve, inadvertently agreeing to a contract that forces him to take up the mantle.

2018 film directed by Eli Roth

2023 animated film directed by Walt Dohrn

2024 film directed by Gil Kenan

1990 film directed by Nicolas Roeg

1978 film by Warren Beatty, Buck Henry

2005 film by Lawrence Guterman

2010 film directed by Rob Letterman

1998 film directed by Betty Thomas

2006 film directed by Woody Allen

2011 film by David Dobkin

2007 film by Zach Helm

2009 film directed by Lev L. Spiro

2016 film directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan

2019 film directed by James Bobin

1947 film directed by Henry Koster

1998 film directed by John Roberts

2008 film by Adam Shankman

Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 independent animated musical comedy film produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios Ireland Limited and Goldcrest Films. Loosely based on Edmond Rostand's 1910 comedy play Chantecler, Rock-a-Doodle was directed by Don Bluth and written by David N. Weiss. The film features the voices of Christopher Plummer, Phil Harris (in his final film role), Glen Campbell, Sorrell Booke, Sandy Duncan, Eddie Deezen, Ellen Greene, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Toby Scott Ganger (in his film debut).

2004 animated film directed by Donovan Cook

2019 film directed by Danny Boyle

2010 film by Susanna White

2003 film by Paul Hunter

2011 US stoner comic fantasy film by David Gordon Green

1990 film by Woody Allen

2016 Russian animated film

2024 film by John Krasinski

2005 film directed by Nora Ephron

2006 film directed by Elizabeth Allen

2005 film by Robert Rodriguez

1985 film by John Hughes

2024 animated film directed by Sean Charmatz

2004 film by Tommy O'Haver

1972 Italian film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

2006 film by Liam Lynch

2010 television film directed by Peter DeLuise

2002 film directed by Michael Lembeck

2001 film directed by Gil Junger

2025 film directed by Nisha Ganatra

1994 film by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

2022 film directed by Adam Shankman

2004 animated Disney film directed by Matthew O'Callaghan

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,

2010 film by Michael Lembeck

2014 film directed by Mark Waters

1935 film by William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt

2009 film by Harold Ramis

2006 film by Michael Lembeck

2000 film by Peter Segal

2000 film directed by Des McAnuff

2022 film directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon

1941 film by Alexander Hall