Comedy mystery is a film genre combining elements of comedy and mystery fiction. Though the genre arguably peaked in the 1930s and 1940s, comedy mystery films have been continually produced since.
Below is a chronological list of comedy mystery films.
1930s
1930 Ghost Parade The Limejuice Mystery or Who Spat in Grandfather's Porridge? Raffles
1932 The Crooked Circle Jewel Robbery The Penguin Pool Murder Strangers of the Evening
1933 Whistling in the Dark
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back Death on the Diamond Murder on the Blackboard The Thin Man
1935 Murder on a Honeymoon One Frightened Night Star of Midnight Streamline Express The Casino Murder Case
1936 The Ex-Mrs. Bradford The Mandarin Mystery The Princess Comes Across Murder on a Bridle Path After the Thin Man Satan Met a Lady
1937 Smart Blonde Fly-Away Baby The Adventurous Blonde
1938 Blondes at Work Fast Company Nancy Drew... Detective The Lady Vanishes The Mad Miss Manton There's Always a Woman Tom Sawyer, Detective Torchy Blane in Panama Torchy Gets Her Man
1939 The Cat and the Canary It's a Wonderful World Nancy Drew... Reporter Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase Torchy Blane in Chinatown Torchy Runs for Mayor Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite Another Thin Man
1940s
1940 His Girl Friday Up in the Air
1941 Footsteps in the Dark Murder by Invitation Whistling in the Dark - better-known remake, starring Red Skelton Shadow of the Thin Man
1942 A Night to Remember One Thrilling Night Whistling in Dixie Who Done It?
1943 Whistling in Brooklyn
1944 Arsenic and Old Lace The Case of the Screaming Bishop One Body Too Many The Thin Man Goes Home
1945 Lady on a Train Scared Stiff
1946 Dangerous Money
1947 The Chinese Ring Song of the Thin Man
1948 Docks of New Orleans The Golden Eye Shanghai Chest
1949 Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff Two Knights from Brooklyn
1950s
1953 Scared Stiff
1954 The Runaway Bus
1955 The Trouble With Harry
1960s
1960 Crimen Inspector Palmu's Mistake
1963 Charade The Pink Panther
1964 A Shot in the Dark
1965 That Darn Cat!
1967 Catalina Caper
1970s
1971 Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate
1973 The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1974 Return of the Pink Panther
1975 The Black Bird One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1976 Murder By Death Peeper The Pink Panther Strikes Again Silver Streak
1977 High Anxiety The Late Show
1978 The Big Fix The Cheap Detective Foul Play Revenge of the Pink Panther Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1980s
1980 The Private Eyes
1982 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Deathtrap Trail of the Pink Panther
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther
1984 Bianca
1985 Clue Desperately Seeking Susan Fletch
1986 The Great Mouse Detective
1987 Forever, Lulu Outrageous Fortune
1988 Sunset Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 The 'Burbs Fletch Lives Who’s Harry Crumb
1990s
1990 Off and Running
1992 Once Upon a Crime
1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery So I Married an Axe Murderer
1994 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Radioland Murders
1995 Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1996 Harriet the Spy
1997 Zero Effect
1998 Where's Marlowe?
1999 Safe House
2000s
2000 Phantom of the Megaplex Trixie Scary Movie
2001 Head over Heels Recess: School's Out
2002 Get a Clue Scooby-Doo
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2004 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
2005 Hoodwinked Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2006 The Pink Panther
2007 Nancy Drew
2009 Mystery Team The Pink Panther 2 Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins Sherlock Holmes
2010s
2010 One Hundred Years of Evil Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
2011 A Ghost of a Chance Seniors Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2012 Ace Attorney
2014 Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
2015 Hero
2016 The Nice Guys Zootopia
2018 Sherlock Gnomes A Simple Favor
2019 Murder Mystery Knives Out
See also Lists of films Buffoon Slapstick comedy
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