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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 283.

The Mad Doctor (1933)

animated film, Comedy, Horror

thumb|thumbtime=7|The full short.|left The plot centers on the titular character, a mad scientist who has kidnapped Mickey's dog, Pluto. Mickey tries to rescue him before the doctor can perform his experiment: attaching Pluto's head onto the body of a chicken in order to ascertain what noise the potential hatchling will make. Mickey battles his way through booby traps and animated skeletons before eventually getting caught and strapped onto a table to be cut in half by a circular saw, forcing Mickey to suck in his belly as he trembles.

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Water (1985)

Adventure, Comedy

The story is set in the fictional Caribbean island and British colony of Cascara. Widely ignored by the British Government, media, and general public, local Governor Baxter Thwaites is having an easy life in his small and peaceful colony. That peace is disturbed when an abandoned oil rig starts delivering water - at the standard of the finest table water brands (and laxative companies, as it contains a substance that makes you "shit like clockwork").

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Zee and Co. (1972)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

Zee Blakely is a 40-something socialite, whose marriage to her architect husband Robert is on the rocks, as witnessed by their frequent verbal sparring matches. Tiring of the situation, Robert is drawn to quiet boutique owner Stella who is the complete antithesis to Zee in terms of personality. Feeling bored and rejected, Zee makes several attempts to regain Robert's attention, including attempting suicide, but these do not work.

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Disorderlies (1987)

Comedy, Silly Movie

Winslow Lowry is a no-good, indebted gambler and the nephew of elderly, infirm millionaire Albert Dennison. Winslow seeks to speed up his uncle's demise by hiring three of the most inept orderlies he can possibly find. The trio (played by The Fat Boys Markie, Buffy and Kool) only mean well, however.

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Sunshine State (2002)

Comedy drama, Drama, romance film

As the primarily white town of Delrona Beach, Florida, is preparing for its annual festival, one of the parade floats is set afire. A young black boy named Terrell is found guilty of the deed, and he is sentenced to community service with a local community theater. An orphan, Terrell is in the care of an elderly relative, Eunice Stokes, who lives in the neighboring, primarily black community of Lincoln Beach.

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Space Cop (2016)

Action Comedy, Science fiction

Space Cop, a highly disgruntled, impulsive, and destructive police officer from the future of 2058 (the future of space), accidentally travels back in time to 2007 after a pursuit through space causes him to travel through a time rift. He then spends eight years as a member of the Milwaukee Police Department. After encountering two alien criminals he comes across during a heist at a cryonic storage facility, he is teamed up with a comparatively more methodical and by-the-book police officer from the past who is accidentally unfrozen in the present.

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Relative Strangers (2006)

Comedy

Thirty-four-year-old psychologist Richard Clayton's parents reveal to him that he was adopted. He then sets out to find out who his biological parents are, but disaster ensues when it turns out that his parents, Frank and Agnes Menure, are crude, lower class carnies. They follow him home and cause chaos to his normal life.

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The Hyperions (2022)

Action Comedy, Superhero

In 1960, Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum invents a device known as Titan Badge, which offers humans superpowers by altering the wearer’s DNA. He gave three Badges to two down-on-their-luck children, and one adult— creating America's most famous family of superheroes, which included telepath Vista, super-strong Ansel, and teleporter Maya. But over the years, as egos bruised and resentments developed, the professor replaced the team with newer members.

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