Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore parodies and films playfully reworking familiar conventions.
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Komödie, comedy drama, drama film
Aspiring journalist Andrea "Andy" Sachs has recently graduated from Northwestern University. Despite her lack of knowledge of the fashion industry, she is hired as a junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly, the cruel editor-in-chief …
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Horror comedy, Parodie, comedy drama, comedy horror, horror film, parody film
While watching Horror Movie—an in-universe spoof of Scary Movie—teenager Tuesday Campbell is attacked by Ghostface. Tuesday's drug addict older half-sister Sara and her boyfriend Jack Kirsch learn that Tuesday is hospitalized, and suspect …
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Satire On War, War Film, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, alternate history film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, parody film, period drama film, political satire, suspense film, thriller film, war drama, war film
In 1941, Austrian SS- Hans Landa interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite about a fugitive Jewish family, the Dreyfuses. He boasts his nickname, "The Jew Hunter", then offers LaPadite amnesty if he will give up the Dreyfuses. LaPa…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Monster Film, Musical, Sci-Fi, comedy horror, erotic thriller, horror film, musical film, science fiction film
The film begins with a pair of floating disembodied lips welcoming the audience to a science fiction double feature ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"). Throughout the film, a criminologist from an unspecified point in the future narrates a…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy horror, horror film, parody film, slasher film, teen film
On Halloween night, Drew Decker receives a threatening phone call while home alone. Chased outside by somebody dressed as Ghostface, she is stripped to her bra and panties before being stabbed in the breast, removing one of her silicone im…
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Drama, Satire On Media, Sci-Fi, comedy film, drama film, dystopian fiction, dystopian film, science fiction film, tragicomedy
Selected at birth and legally adopted by a television studio following an unwanted pregnancy, Truman Burbank is the unsuspecting star of The Truman Show, a reality television program filmed and broadcast worldwide, 24/7, through hidden cam…
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Mysterie, Parodie, Teen Horror Film, comedy film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, teen film
In the small town of Woodsboro, California, high school student Casey Becker is home alone when she receives a phone call from an unknown person. Their conversation about horror films turns sadistic when the caller reveals that her boyfrie…
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Concert film, Komödie, Satire, comedy film, mockumentary, musical film, parody film
Filmmaker Martin "Marty" Di Bergi is filming a documentary about English rock band Spinal Tap's 1982 United States concert tour to promote their new album, Smell the Glove. The band comprises childhood friends David St. Hubbins and Nigel T…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Fairy-Tale Film, Parodie, Romantic Comedy, adventure film, buddy film, cinematic fairy tale, fantasy comedy, fantasy film
Shrek is an asocial ogre who loves the solitude of his swamp and enjoys fending off mobs and intruders. One day, his life is interrupted after he inadvertently saves a talkative Donkey from some soldiers, prompting Donkey to forcibly stay …
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Horror comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Obsession, Teen Horror Film, comedy horror, desire horror fiction, female buddy film, horror film
Anita "Needy" Lesnicki, once an insecure and studious teenager living in the small town of Devil's Kettle, Minnesota, has become a violent asylum inmate who narrates the story as a flashback while in solitary confinement. Since childhood, …
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Adventure, Komödie, Musical, Treasure Hunting, buddy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, musical film, road movie, thriller film, treasure hunt film
In the summer of 1937, three convicts – Pete, Delmar, and Everett – escape from a Mississippi chain gang to retrieve a buried treasure hidden by Everett before the area is flooded to make a lake. The three are assisted by a blind man drivi…
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Action Comedy, Satire On Media, action film, comedy film, parody film
Tropic Thunder, the memoir of handless Vietnam veteran John "Four Leaf" Tayback, is being made into a film on location in Vietnam. Except for supporting actor Kevin Sandusky, the cast — faded action hero star Tugg Speedman, overbearing fiv…
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Historie, Parodie
The Davenports have been owners of Fackham Hall for generations, but patriarch Lord Humphrey Davenport has no surviving male heir. The Davenports' younger daughter Poppy is due to marry her paternal first cousin, Archibald, which will keep…
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Computeranimation, Parodie, Super Hero, action film, comedy film, family film, superhero film
During the glory days of superheroes, Bob Parr (alias Mr. Incredible) thwarts a civilian's attempted suicide by tackling him through a skyscraper window. Bob discovers supervillain Bomb Voyage robbing the building, but is interrupted by hi…
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Arranged Documentary, Dark Comedy, Fake Documentary, Road Movie, Splatstick, comedy film, mockumentary, parody film
At the behest of the Kazakh Ministry of Information, reporter Borat Sagdiyev leaves Kazakhstan to make a documentary about American society and culture. Leaving behind his wife Oksana, and accompanied by his producer Azamat Bagatov, and a …
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Ghost-Movie, Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy horror, ghost film, parody film, supernatural
At the haunted mansion Hell House, teenager Megan Voorhees becomes possessed by the spirit of Hugh Kane, the house's cruel, wicked previous owner. She interrupts a formal dinner party, thrown by her mother, who seeks help from two Roman Ca…
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Animation, Komödie, Romance Film, Satire On Media, buddy film, comedy film, crossover fiction, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, neo-noir
In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans. Private detective Eddie Valiant, once a staunch ally of the toons, has become a depressed alcoholic following his brother Teddy's murder by an unknown toon…
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Fantasy, Parodie, Pirate Film, Romantic Comedy, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, pirate film, swashbuckler film, treasure hunt film
About one year after Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann helped Captain Jack Sparrow escape from Port Royal, their wedding is interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who arrives with arrest warrants. Commodore Jam…
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Parodie, Satire, Space Opera, Splatstick, adventure film, comedy film, parody film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In a galaxy "very, very, very, very far away", the ruthless Spaceballs, led by President Skroob, have squandered their planet's atmosphere. Desperate for oxygen, Skroob hatches a plan to steal it from the neighboring planet Druidia by obta…
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Accident, Parodie, Satire, comedy film, disaster film, parody film, romantic comedy film, slapstick
Ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker is a traumatized war veteran turned taxi driver. Because of his pathological fear of flying and subsequent "drinking problem"—he splashes beverages anywhere but into his mouth—Ted has been unable to hold a resp…
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Horror comedy, Teen Horror Film, comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, teen film
On the 15th anniversary week of the original Woodsboro murders, high school students Marnie Cooper and Jenny Randall are murdered by Ghostface. Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro the following day to promote her self-help book with her p…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Parodie, Silly Movie, alien invasion, comedy horror, ghost film, parody film, science fiction film, supernatural, thriller film
High schoolers Becca Kotler and Katie Embry discuss a cursed videotape that allegedly causes the death of anyone who watches it within seven days. After they both watch the tape, an unseen entity kills them. On a farm outside Washington, D…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy drama, comedy horror, horror film
Charlie Sanders and his girlfriend Lindsay get together to make a sex tape with over 20 cameras in his room. They do all sorts of bedroom antics, including gymnastics, riding a horse, and having clowns jump in. Charlie is pulled into the a…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, Komödie, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film, parody film
In 1954, six strangers are invited to a secluded New England mansion. They are greeted by the butler Wadsworth and the maid Yvette. Each is assigned a pseudonym to maintain confidentiality: "Colonel Mustard", "Mrs.
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