The best Paul Newman’s comedy movies

Paul Newman

Paul Newman

26/01/1925- 26/09/2008
Today we present the best Paul Newman’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Paul Newman’s movies.
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Cars 3

Cars 3
6.7/10
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!

Cars

Cars
7.2/10
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.

The Sting

The Sting
8.3/10
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.

Slap Shot

Slap Shot
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/02/1977
  • Character: Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

Silent Movie

Silent Movie
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/06/1976
  • Character: Himself
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/03/1994
  • Character: Sidney J. Mussburger
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

What a Way to Go!

What a Way to Go!
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/10/1964
  • Character: Larry Flint
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

La Classe américaine

La Classe américaine
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyTV Movie
  • Release: 31/12/1993
  • Character: Dave (archive footage)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. With his last breath, he whispers: “Shitty world.” The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery… (16 French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)

Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1994
  • Character: Sully Sullivan
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.

Lady L

Lady L
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/12/1965
  • Character: Armand Denis
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.

A New Kind of Love

A New Kind of Love
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/10/1963
  • Character: Steve Sherman
The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) is a high-priced call girl, who is to be interviewed by Steve Sherman (Paul Newman), a journalist looking for insights on the profession.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 24/06/1976
  • Character: The Star (William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody)
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.

Pocket Money

Pocket Money
5.4/10
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

The Secret War of Harry Frigg
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 29/02/1968
  • Character: Pvt. Harry Frigg
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...

Where the Money Is

Where the Money Is
6.3/10
Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann McKay, has a plan of her own.

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/12/1958
  • Character: Harry Bannerman
Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.

The Battler

The Battler
5.7/10
Wandering around America, young Nick Adams encounters a washed-up punch-drunk boxer known as "The Battler".

Come Along with Me

Come Along with Me
6.1/10
Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. There she rents a room in a boarding house and holds a seance with the other tenants, with comical results.

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