15 Funny Movies Around 90 Minutes for an Easy Movie Night
Sometimes you want a proper film, a proper laugh and still enough evening left afterwards. These comedies mostly sit around the 80–95 minute mark, so they are useful when a two-hour commitment sounds exhausting.
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View movie detailsWHY IT FITSVampire flatmates turn centuries of supernatural history into arguments about chores, nightlife and house meetings.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 86 min · Mockumentary.
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Airplane!
1980View movie detailsWHY IT FITSA relentless disaster-film parody that keeps firing jokes faster than most films can set them up.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 88 min · Parody.
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The Naked Gun
1988WHY IT FITSDeadpan police spoofing, visual gags and gloriously stupid escalation packed into a very efficient runtime.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 85 min · Spoof.
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Rye Lane
2023View movie detailsWHY IT FITSTwo newly single Londoners spend one vivid day together in a warm, stylish romantic comedy.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 82 min · Rom-com.
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Shiva Baby
2020WHY IT FITSA family gathering becomes an escalating social panic attack with razor-sharp comic timing.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 78 min · Dark comedy.
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View movie detailsWHY IT FITSA music-industry mockumentary crammed with absurd songs, cameos and very specific pop-star vanity.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 87 min · Music comedy.
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Hot Rod
2007View movie detailsWHY IT FITSAn amateur stuntman prepares for one heroic jump in a comedy operating on its own wonderfully strange wavelength.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 88 min · Cult comedy.
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Borat
2006WHY IT FITSA deliberately outrageous mockumentary built around social discomfort and increasingly chaotic encounters.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 84 min · Adult comedy.
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Frances Ha
2012WHY IT FITSA lively black-and-white comedy about friendship, drifting and trying to build an adult life in New York.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 86 min · Indie.
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The Party
2017View movie detailsWHY IT FITSA dinner celebration collapses spectacularly in a brisk British black comedy.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 71 min · British.
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View movie detailsWHY IT FITSA very British family funeral goes wrong in increasingly elaborate and embarrassing ways.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 90 min · Farce.
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Palm Springs
2020View movie detailsWHY IT FITSA clever time-loop premise gives a romantic comedy more momentum and bite than the usual formula.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 90 min · Rom-com.
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Office Space
1999View movie detailsWHY IT FITSWorkplace frustration becomes a quietly iconic comedy about cubicles, bad management and giving up on pretending to care.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 89 min · Workplace.
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The General
1926View movie detailsWHY IT FITSBuster Keaton's silent locomotive comedy is still spectacular, precise and genuinely funny a century later.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: 78 min · Classic.
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My Cousin Vinny
1992View movie detailsWHY IT FITSA little longer than the rest but worth the stretch: courtroom plotting and character comedy that never wastes a scene.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: Around 2 hours · Courtroom comedy.
