Best Comedies of 2024: Must-Watch Movies to Make You Laugh

2024 has brought us a fantastic lineup of comedies that deliver laughter, charm, and unforgettable moments. From witty dialogue and quirky characters to heartwarming stories, this year’s best comedies offer something for every taste and mood.

In our selection, you’ll find films that guarantee smiles and good vibes. Whether you’re looking for light entertainment for a cozy night in or sharp humor with a clever twist, these are the must-watch comedies of 2024 you won’t want to miss.

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30 Role Play

Dave and Emma have the seemingly perfect life — two kids, suburban house, good jobs — but they just want a little more fun. In fact, they need it. Looking to shake things up, they decide to ROLE PLAY. The rules are simple — they meet as strangers for one night to rekindle their relationship. While waiting for her ‘stranger’ at a hotel bar in New York, Emma attracts the attention of a mysterious older man, who stays to buy her and Dave drinks long into the night. 24 hours later, the man is found dead and a murder investigation is launched. Emma and Dave’s role play game now becomes a case of mistaken identity that leads to Emma disappearing and Dave being questioned by the police for murder. As disguises unravel, Dave uncovers the unbelievable truth: his wife Emma is a professional assassin who has been living a double life for years.

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29 Argylle

Elly Conway, an introverted spy novelist who seldom leaves her home, is drawn into the real world of espionage when the plots of her books get a little too close to the activities of a sinister underground syndicate. When Aidan, a spy, shows up to save her (he says) from being kidnapped or killed or both, Elly and her beloved cat Alfie are plunged into a covert world where nothing and nobody is what it seems.

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28 Babes

Follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden and Dawn, who grew up together in New York City and are now firmly in different phases of adulthood. When carefree and single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge. «Babes» delves into the complexities of female friendship with a blend of laughter, tears, and labor pains.

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27 Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills after his daughter’s life is threatened for a family reunion that includes old pals John Taggart and Billy Rosewood to uncover a conspiracy.

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26 Greedy People

Follows the residents of a small island town who must navigate a sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars; a series of increasingly bad decisions upend the once peaceful community.

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25 The Second Act (Le deuxième acte)

Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father. But David isn’t attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

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24 Red One

After Santa Claus is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter and notorious hacker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

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23 Hit Man

Gary Johnson is the most sought-after professional killer in New Orleans. To his clients, he is like something out of a movie: the mysterious gun for hire. But if you pay him to rub out a cheating spouse or an abusive boss, you’d better watch out — he works for the cops. After he breaks protocol to help a desperate woman trying to flee an abusive husband, he finds himself becoming one of his false personas, falling for the woman and flirting with becoming a criminal.

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22 Kinds of Kindness

KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

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21 LaRoy, Texas

When Ray discovers that his wife is cheating on him, he decides he’s going to kill himself. His plans suddenly change when a stranger mistakes him for a low-rent hitman.

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20 Ricky Stanicky

When three childhood best friends pull a prank that goes wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years after creating this «friend», Dean, JT, and Wes still use the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their immature behavior. When their spouses and partners get suspicious and demand to finally meet the fabled Mr. Stanicky, the guilty trio decide to hire washed-up actor and raunchy celebrity impersonator «Rock Hard» Rod to bring him to life. But when Rod takes his role of a lifetime too far, they begin to wish they’d never invented Ricky in the first place.

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19 Thelma

When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.

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18 Wolfs

A professional fixer is hired to cover up a high-profile crime. But when a second fixer shows up and the two «lone wolves» are forced to work together, they find their night spiraling out of control in ways that neither one of them expected.

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17 Fly Me to the Moon

Marketing maven Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on NASA launch director Cole Davis’s already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, the countdown truly begins.

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16 Snack Shack

Nebraska City, 1991, two best friends get the chance to run the swimming pool snack shack, that later comes to be the perfect scenario for transgression, fun, personal discovery and romance.

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15 Bad Boys: Ride or Die

When their late police captain gets linked to drug cartels, wisecracking Miami cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett embark on a dangerous mission to clear his name.

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14 Saturday Night

At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television—and culture forever. «Saturday Night» is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, count down the minutes in real time until those famous words are uttered for the very first time.

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13 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.

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12 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Billed as a true story about a secret British World War II organization; the Special Operations Executive. Founded by Winston Churchill, their irregular warfare against the Germans helped to change the course of the war, and gave birth to modern black operations.

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11 Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul’s last wishes before day breaks.

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10 Wicked Little Letters

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark, absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger-than-fiction true story, «Wicked Little Letters» follows two neighbours: deeply religious local Edith Swan and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding. When Edith and fellow residents start to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women, led by Police Officer Gladys Moss, begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss and Rose might not be the culprit after all.

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9 A Real Pain

«A Real Pain» follows mismatched cousins David and Benji as they reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their adventure takes a dark turn when the odd couple’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

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8 Dìdi

A 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy named Chris as he navigates the summer before high school. He grapples with his cultural identity, experiences the joys and awkwardness of first love, and strengthens his bonds with friends while navigating the complexities of his relationship with his hardworking, single mother. Through skateboarding, online interactions, and everyday experiences, Chris begins to understand himself and his place in the world better. This coming-of-age story explores themes of family, identity, and self-discovery.

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7 Kanikuly (Каникулы)

Young teacher Tanya is taking her school theater group to a festival in Sochi. To be on the safe side, the head teacher of the same school, Mariya Genrikhovna, is coming with them. Tanya is not thrilled with the boss’s eye, but Mariya Genrikhovna quickly breaks all stereotypes about head teachers. In her, Tanya finally finds a worthy adult — either a role model, or a mother, or a mentor. Meanwhile, the festival insistently demands a return to reality — the organizers demand a change in the name of the play, the poster, and, preferably, the worldview. Choose a path of compromise for the sake of the children or take a principled position? In any case, Tanya and Mariya Genrikhovna will have to answer to twelve teenagers experiencing their own first dramas at the festival.

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6 The Fall Guy

He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?

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5 Kneecap

Kneecap is set in West Belfast in 2019. Fate brings together disillusioned music teacher JJ with self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise and Liam Og, changing the sound of Irish music forever. Under the name Kneecap, their band begins moulding the language to fit their tough, anarchic, hedonistic lives. A language encumbered with forty words for stone now has one for stoned. But to get their voices heard the trio must overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians as the future of the Irish language erupts into the public arena — with them at the centre. Yet their worst enemies are often themselves, as family and relationship pressures threaten their dreams, and their illegal exploits draw condemnation from all sides.

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4 Deadpool & Wolverine

In this multiverse story Deadpool is approached by a man named Paradox who intends on vaporizing his entire universe because apparently it’s not supposed to go on living without the now deceased hero Wolverine. Deadpool kidnaps another version of Wolverine to replace but this only results in Paradox banishing both Deadpool and Wolverine.

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3 Inside Out 2

A sequel that features Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result. As Riley tries to adapt to her teenage years, her old emotions try to adapt to the possibility of being replaced.

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2 Hundreds of Beavers

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

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1 Anora

Anora, a young stripper from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

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