The best Peter Sellers’s comedy movies

Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers

08/09/1925- 24/07/1980
We present our ranking of the best Peter Sellers’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Peter Sellers.
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The Party

The Party
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1968
  • Character: Hrundi V. Bakshi
Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

Casino Royale

Casino Royale
5/10
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove
8.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 29/01/1964
  • Character: Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/12/1963
  • Character: Insp. Jacques Clouseau
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...

Murder by Death

Murder by Death
7.3/10
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

Being There

Being There
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/12/1979
  • Character: Chance
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/12/1976
  • Character: Chief Inspector Clouseau
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/12/1955
  • Character: Harry, alias 'Mr. Robinson'
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark
7.4/10
Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate. A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther
6.6/10
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

The Millionairess

The Millionairess
5.4/10
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.

The Return of the Pink Panther

The Return of the Pink Panther
7/10
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.

What's New Pussycat?

What's New Pussycat?
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/06/1965
  • Character: Dr. Fritz Fassbender
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.

Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 03/12/1982
  • Character: Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil
6.4/10
The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard an ill-fated tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/07/1959
  • Character: Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.

The World of Henry Orient

The World of Henry Orient
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/03/1964
  • Character: Henry Orient
A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.

Heavens Above!

Heavens Above!
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1963
  • Character: The Rev. John Smallwood
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...

The Wrong Arm of the Law

The Wrong Arm of the Law
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/03/1963
  • Character: Pearly Gates
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box
6.7/10
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

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