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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 166.

Psycho Goreman (2020)

Comedy, Horror, Science fiction, Splatter Film

Siblings Mimi and Luke discover a strange, glowing gem while digging in their garden. That night, an alien monster emerges from the hole. The monster enters an old shoe factory and brutally kills a group of thieves hiding out there.

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An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)

Comedy

Challenger Films president Jerry Glover and producer James Edmunds hire acclaimed English editor Alan Smithee to direct Trio, a blockbuster action film starring Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jackie Chan. Though only hired due to his inexperience, which the producers believe will make him controllable, Smithee becomes invested in the project. Edmunds makes frequent changes to the film, hiring many additional writers to retool the script and giving Smithee frequent notes during production.

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An American Carol (2008)

Christmas film, Comedy, fantasy film, Parody

Left-wing activist and filmmaker Michael Malone campaigns to end the celebration of the Fourth of July holiday. Malone holds pronounced anti-American views and truculently argues that America's past and present are both offensive and therefore should not be celebrated. He has finished another film entitled Die, You American Pigs!

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Leprechaun: Origins (2014)

Comedy horror, fantasy film, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, monster film, Slasher

A young couple, Catherine and Francois, are attempting to escape from a figure who eventually catches and drags Francois to his death. It also grabs hold of Catherine just before she arrives at a monolith in a grassland. Four American college friends, Sophie, Ben, Jeni, and David are vacationing in the Irish countryside at Sophie's behest.

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Pirates (1986)

Adventure, Comedy, Pirate Film, swashbuckler film

In 1659, an infamous English pirate Captain Red and his cabin boy Jean-Baptiste, nicknamed "Frog", are lost on a raft in the ocean without food and supplies. They sneak aboard the passing galleon Neptune and are thrown into the brig, where they meet the ship's cook Boomako. Boomako has been imprisoned after being caught attempting to steal a golden Aztec throne that is being secretly transported in the hold.

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Quartet (2012)

Comedy, Drama

In Beecham House, a retirement home for former professional musicians patterned after the real-life Casa di Riposo per Musicisti founded by Giuseppe Verdi, Reg, Wilf and Cissy are retired opera singers who had often worked together. Among other residents are Cedric Livingstone, a former director, and diva Anne Langley. All the guests in the retirement home are suffering in varying degrees from the ailments that old age can bring, but continue to be engaged in their former professions, including lecturing and introducing young people to music.

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Livin in Oblivion (1995)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Parody, romantic comedy

In New York City, a low-budget independent film's catering crew is underfunded and apathetic, deciding not to replace a carton of milk on the craft service table for a week. The scene being shot is about a young woman, Ellen, reproaching her mother for not intervening when the father beat Ellen as a child. Shots are spoiled because of how the microphone is visible; the camera assistant fails to keep the shot in focus, a light gets blown which then causes Cora, the actress playing the mother, to forget her lines and Nicole, the actress playing Ellen, to become unfocused and careless.

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Smosh: The Movie (2015)

buddy film, romantic comedy

Anthony Padilla & Ian Hecox are best friends and live in a small house, with Ian's parents. Anthony has a dead-end job as a pizza delivery man and Ian is a stay-at-home guy who spends his days watching YouTube. After returning from the Game Bang arcade, in which they were bullied by some street kids due to Anthony's pizza car, they find a video of Anthony singing the Magic Pocket Slave Monsters theme at their high school graduation.

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Yatgo ho yan (1997)

Action Comedy, Martial arts

Giancarlo, the Italian mob's boss, discovers that his lover Tina is actually a mole for the Demons street gang, so he buries her alive at a mining site. Later, journalist Diana records footage of a cocaine deal between the mob and The Demons. During the deal, Giancarlo kills the Demons' leader Grank and a gun fight ensues.

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Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii (2023)

Comedy, Dark Comedy, Road Movie

Overworked and underpaid production assistant Angela is tasked to cast for a workplace safety video, commissioned by a multinational company headquartered in Austria. Starting her day at 5:50 AM, she drives around Bucharest to interview injured workers, powering through the day with caffeine while broadcasting profane and misogynist rants on Instagram as her Andrew Tate-esque male influencer alter ego, Bobiță, in her downtime. She takes a detour to negotiate the reburial of her grandparents, whose plot falls on a new housing development due to a clerical error.

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Village of the Giants (1965)

Comedy, Coming-of-age, exploitation film, Science fiction, teen film

Village of the Giants takes place in fictional Hainesville, California. After crashing their car into a roadblock during a rainstorm, a group of partying, big-city teenagers (Fred, Pete, Rick, Harry, and their girlfriends Merrie, Elsa, Georgette and Jean) first indulge in a vigorous, playful mud-wrestling fight, then hike their way into town. Fred remembers meeting a girl from Hainesville named Nancy, and they decide to look her up.

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The Hunting Party (2007)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Military Film, Political Thriller, war film

The film begins with a disclaimer: Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true. After years of covering one armed conflict after another, American journalist Simon Hunt is in Bosnia and Herzegovina in early 1994 reporting on the Bosnian War. In parallel, he has managed to romance a local Muslim young woman who is pregnant with his child.

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Madea's Witness Protection (2012)

Comedy

Good-natured but clueless, nerdy George Needleman (Eugene Levy) is the CFO of Lockwise Industries in New York City. He lives in nearby Connecticut with his second wife Kate (Denise Richards), mother Barbara (Doris Roberts), troubled teenage daughter from an earlier marriage Cindy (Danielle Campbell), and pre-teen son Howie (Devan Leos). One day, George arrives at work, only to discover a shocking scene: his co-workers frantically shredding documents.

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Man Of The House (1995)

Comedy

Eleven-year-old Ben Archer watches silently as his father starts up his car and drives away with his secretary, and they both offer only a wave out the window in parting. His mother, Sandy, can only watch heartbroken from the window of their house as her ex-husband leaves them. Ben's father promised to visit him, yet never comes back.

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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

Biography, Comedy drama, Drama, Family Drama, Historie, Road Movie, Tragicomedy

Jonathan Safran Foer, a young American Jew, goes on a quest to Ukraine to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the Holocaust. He searches for a small town called Trachimbrod that was wiped off the map when the Nazis liquidated Eastern European shtetls. Jonathan arranges to hire Odesa-based Heritage Tours.

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The Ladies Man (2000)

Comedy, sex comedy

Leon Phelps (also known as the "Ladies Man") was a Saturday Night Live character played by Tim Meadows during the 1990s. The sketch was that of a broadcast program in which Phelps, a young, suave black man, would give dubious romantic advice and sex tips. The Ladies Man openly proclaimed that he would court any woman at all including skanks, providing the woman weighs no more than 250 pounds.

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Dellamorte dellamore (1994)

Comedy horror, Horror, zombie comedy

Francesco Dellamorte is the cemetery caretaker in the small Italian town of Buffalora. He lives in a ramshackle house on the premises, constantly surrounded by death, with only his mentally disabled assistant Gnaghi for company. Young punks in town spread gossip that Dellamorte is impotent.

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Fierce Creatures (1997)

Comedy

Willa Weston arrives in Atlanta to take a high-ranking position in a company recently acquired by Octopus Inc.'s owner, Rod McCain. When he informs her he has already sold the company, she then agrees to run another recent acquisition, Marwood Zoo. She is to create a business model that can be used for multiple zoos in the future.

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Choke (2008)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Dark Comedy, Drama

Victor Mancini is a sex addict who works as a reenactor of life in Colonial America with his best friend Denny, who is also a reformed sex addict. To support his hospitalized mother, Ida, Victor cons others by intentionally choking at restaurants to obtain money from his rescuers. When Victor visits his mother one day, he meets Dr.

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The Band Wagon (1953)

Comedy, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy

Tony Hunter, once a famous star of musical comedies on stage and later on screen, is largely forgotten after three years without appearing in a film. He returns from Hollywood to New York. At Grand Central Terminal he is recognized but almost ignored by reporters who are there by chance, as Ava Gardner is on the same train.

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