Top 27 Comedy Movies Editor's Pick Released in 1979

Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah. More about Monty Python's Life of Brian / IMDB / YouTube

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress. Details on Manhattan / IMDB / YouTube

A simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly decides to leave his family home to experience life in the big city, where his naivete is both his best friend and his worst enemy. Explore The Jerk / IMDB / YouTube

Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside. Read about Hair / IMDB / YouTube

Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit. Read about The Muppet Movie / IMDB / YouTube

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. Check out 1941 / IMDB / YouTube

A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid cop struggle to free a princess from an evil count, and learn the secret of a treasure that she holds part of the key to. Details on Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro / IMDB / YouTube

A working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends. Get info on Breaking Away / IMDB / YouTube

Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp. Find out about Meatballs / IMDB / YouTube

H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period. More about Time After Time / IMDB / YouTube

A Hollywood composer endures a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a newly married woman honeymooning at a Mexican resort. Get info on 10 / IMDB / YouTube

A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society. Get info on L'Age d'Or / IMDB / YouTube

A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way, he is nearly burned at the stake by Native Americans and almost killed by outlaws. Look into The Frisco Kid / IMDB / YouTube

The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them. Check out La Cage aux Folles / IMDB / YouTube

On the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators. Info on The In-Laws / IMDB / YouTube

A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter. Look into The Electric Horseman / IMDB / YouTube

In St. Tropez, French gendarme Cruchot and his men battle petroleum-drinking, human-looking, metallic aliens. More about The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials / IMDB / YouTube

In Africa, 2 expat brothers are usually at each other's throats but now have a common enemy. Ormond's men are shooting or catching much of the wildlife for export as well as forcing the locals off their land. Lots of fun fights follow. See more about I'm for the Hippopotamus / IMDB / YouTube

Eight tourists who met in a holiday camp on the Ivory Coast are reunited for a skiing holiday. Check out French Fried Vacation 2 / IMDB / YouTube

A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash. Details on The Silent Partner / IMDB / YouTube

A poor Hungarian dyke-keeper is caught in the politics of illegally slaughtering his pig by a corrupt and deceitful system of government. Look into The Witness / IMDB / YouTube

Facing hanging, a bank robber makes a deal with the corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for a dirty assignment. See more about The Villain / IMDB / YouTube

Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical novel. They meet again in a station... More about Love on the Run / IMDB / YouTube

Beginning in 1951, neurotic married accountant George and naive married homemaker Doris have a one-night stand and then meet at the same place once each year. As years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship. Check out Same Time, Next Year / IMDB / YouTube

Alphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who has killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a series of events in a surrealist world. Look into Buffet Froid / IMDB / YouTube

American teenager Lauren King living in Paris, meets and falls in love with a local boy named Daniel Michon. They befriend storyteller Julius and take a trip to Venice in George Roy Hill's romantic comedy. Check out A Little Romance / IMDB / YouTube

After being evicted from his castle in Transylvania, Count Dracula and his assistant Renfield travel to New York to find a woman who the Count believes is the reincarnation of the woman he has loved for all eternity. Look into Love at First Bite / IMDB / YouTube