Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore stories exploring identity and who people become.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 481 films · Page 13.
Animation, action film, science fiction film
Dr. Leo Quintum and his team are exploring the Sun when they are sabotaged by a booby-trapped genetically-enhanced time-bomb clone made by Lex Luthor. Superman stops the clone but in doing so receives an overdose of solar radiation; it has…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Sitcom, comedy film, drama film
Bernie LaPlante is a pickpocket and petty criminal who anonymously rescues survivors, including TV reporter Gale Gayley, at an airplane crash. At the same time, he also steals her purse, losing a shoe in the process. After his car breaks d…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Romantic Comedy, female buddy film, romantic comedy
Abby Barnes is a veterinarian and host of a radio show called The Truth About Cats and Dogs. Photographer Brian calls into her show for advice, and unexpectedly sends her a gift and calls her at work to ask her out; she agrees to meet. Her…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Crime Comedy, comedy film
Veterinary technician Corky Romano, banished from his family after the death of his mother, is unaware of their criminal connections until he receives a call from his father "Pops", a Mafia crime lord. Indicted on racketeering charges and …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Parodie, coming-of-age film, parody film, romantic comedy film
Four gay friends have recently graduated from San Torum High School. Andy is an awkward, sex-crazed character who frequently masturbates with his drag queen mother's fruits and vegetables. Jarod is a handsome and fit jock who is quite inse…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film
Daniel Lucas, a criminal convicted for armed robbery 5 years prior, is released from prison. Lucas hitches a ride with Detective Marvin Dugan, who drops him off at a bank Lucas sarcastically claims he will rob. As Lucas is opening an accou…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Psychological Thriller, drama film, psychological thriller
Philip Clark is a psychiatrist who lives a strained, distant life with his wife Grace and daughter Lucy, who are all struggling to cope with grief associated with the death of the younger child, Evan, after a car accident three years prior…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Romantic Comedy, comedy film, romance film, romantic comedy film
Nancy is a 34-year-old journalist who has been dating unsuccessfully for the past four years. Her sister encourages her to keep putting herself out there. Nancy goes to her friend's engagement party and has an awkward blind date.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Christmas film, Criminal Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy film, prison film
In 1935, Great Depression-era convicts Ned and Jim, jailed on unspecified charges and abused by a ruthless warden, become escaped convicts when a vicious killer named Bobby escapes the electric chair. The two escape to a small upstate New …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Romantic Comedy, comedy film
Manhattan millionaire commercial developer Brad Sexton turns his marriage's 10th anniversary party into a pitch for "The Holy Land", a theme park modeled after Biblical lore. One of the display's special effects catches the wardrobe of Jud…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Crime, Drama, drama film, flashback film
The film begins when Eric Wilson is released from a secure unit or prison under the name Jack Burridge. His past is told through flashbacks. Eric befriends Philip Craig, who is a troublemaker and rescues him from a group of bullies.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Crime, Thriller, action film, drama film, mystery film
On a live fire exercise in the jungles of Panama, a team of Army Rangers trainees is led by instructor and Master Sergeant Nathan West, tasked with traversing the jungle in hurricane weather, attacking pop-up metal targets with live ammuni…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Newton Davis is a struggling architect. After building his dream house for himself and his longtime girlfriend Becky in his hometown of Dobb's Mill, Massachusetts, he is devastated when she refuses to marry him. Unable to bring himself to …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, Secret Agent, action comedy film, action film, comedy thriller, mystery film
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama becomes President of the United States and it is the first day of work for a man known as "The Fool". The Factory, a secret office of government agents, has hired him as a thief. After two agents, High Pri…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Komödie, comedy film, comedy thriller, spy film
An agent of the United States CIA is arrested in Morocco on drug-smuggling charges. The person behind the smuggling operation is CIA deputy director Burton Cooper, who hopes the scandal will lead to the resignation of CIA Director Ross and…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Mysterie, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Recently divorced novelist John James moves into an old house in rural South Carolina with his teenage daughter, Louisa, and young son, Sam. The house is locally infamous for the disappearance of Sarah Wayne, a woman who lived there. On th…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Two FBI agents are conducting surveillance at a warehouse. As U.S. Senator Dennis Darden walks out of the door, he is approached by an assassin from behind who slits his throat and escapes.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Action, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Criminal Comedy Film, Romantic Comedy, action film, comedy film, crime film, road movie
Convict Jack Hammond stops at a gas station in Newport Beach, California, where he encounters two police officers and a young woman. When the officers receive a radio call indicating that the car Jack is driving is stolen, he panics and us…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Animation, Super Hero, action film, mystery film
Batman and Robin face a brand-new mystery; a new heroine, Batwoman, has arrived in the city, whose identity is a mystery. While she claims to fight for justice, Batwoman forsakes Batman's code to never take a life. Batman must figure out w…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Event Documentary, boxing film, documentary film
Gangster Film
In 1991 Hong Kong Police Force Senior Inspector Wong Chi-Shing meets his Triad informant, Hon Sam. Meanwhile, Lau Kin-Ming, who is due to become Hon's prospective mole within the Hong Kong Police Force, assassinates Hon's Triad boss, Ngai …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Erotic Film, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
During the first day of the summer in June, Alba, a 30-year-old Spanish tourist in Rome, brings a younger Russian woman, Natasha, to her hotel room during the last night of both their vacations in Rome. The details of how they met are left…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Crime, Drama, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film, heist film
John Sedley is a man with a disfigured face, mocked by others as "Johnny Handsome." He and a friend are double-crossed by two accomplices in a crime, Sunny Boyd and her partner Rafe, and a Judge sends Johnny to jail, where he vows to get e…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, Melodrama, Social Drama, drama film
As far back as Sandra Larson can remember, she has been fascinated by death. As a child, she dances with the corpses of animals at night, rubbing them on her body, before giving them a funeral. She performs this dance in front of her only …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution