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Komödie, comedy film
Rudy Russo is a young and cunning car salesman in Mesa, Arizona, with aspirations of running for the state senate. He works at the struggling New Deal used car lot owned by the elderly Luke Fuchs, who agrees to invest $10,000 in Rudy's cam…
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Action, Adventure, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Farm world Akir is threatened by the tyrannical warlord Sador, ruler of the Malmori Empire. Sador's body parts are deteriorating and he lives only by stealing organs from others. Sador demands that the peaceful Akira submit to him when he …
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Dark Comedy, Secret Agent, crime film, film noir, mystery film
Juliet Forrest, daughter of scientist and cheesemaker John Forrest, asks private investigator Rigby Reardon to investigate her father's death. Searching Dr. Forrest's lab, Rigby finds two lists, "Friends of Carlotta" (FOC) and "Enemies of …
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Horror comedy, Monster Film, horror film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Skye Daley holds an interview with former child star Ricky Coogin, who recounts a bizarre story that began when he accepted an endorsement with the questionable Everything Except Shoes corporation to promote a fertilizer called "Zygrot 24"…
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Action, Dance Film, High School Comedy Film, comedy film, musical film, parody film
Suburban girl Megan White (Shoshana Bush) gets into a series of misadventures when she moves to the inner-city and pursues dance. A nerdy street boy named Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans Jr.) is passionate about street dancing, but he is stuck…
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Parodie, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film
In New York City, Lee Simon is an unsuccessful novelist turned fame-seeking celebrity journalist. Interviewing movie star Nicole Oliver on the set of her latest film, Lee flirts with Nola, a young background extra. Nicole takes the amorous…
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Parodie, Romantic Comedy, Silly Movie, romantic comedy film
As Joel and Molly have dinner with unhappy couple Kyle and Karen, they recount how they first began dating in New York City. At the time they first meet Molly owns a small independent candy store, Upper Sweet Side, which is being pushed ou…
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Satire On Media, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
Television network True TV is commencing interviews for a planned reality show that shows a normal person's life 24/7, created by TV producer Cynthia. They interview Ed Pekurny and his brother, Ray. When the producers see the interview, Cy…
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comedy film
Six years after socialite Ursula Stanhope left civilization to marry George of the Jungle, George has fathered George Jr. and finds himself hard-pressed to fulfill the roles of jungle king, father, and husband. George's stress level increa…
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biographical film, comedy film, parody film
Director Ron Howard begins by saying that he has discovered a long-lost movie of the week based on Donald Trump's bestselling book The Art of the Deal that was written by, directed by and stars Trump himself. The film starts in 1986, where…
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Satire, Splatstick, action film, comedy film, spy film
Secret agent WD-40 Dick Steele embarks on a mission, along with the mysterious and lovely Veronique Ukrinsky, Agent 3.14, to rescue the kidnapped Barbara Dahl and stop the evil genius, General Rancor, from seizing control of the planet. Ra…
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Horror, Komödie, comedy film, comedy horror, crossover fiction, parody film, vampire film, werewolf film
Larry Talbot makes an urgent phone call to a railway station in Florida, where Chick Young and Wilbur Grey work as baggage clerks. Talbot tries to warn Wilbur of a shipment due to arrive for "McDougal's House of Horrors". However, before h…
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Komödie, comedy film
Dickie Roberts is a very young actor who shot to fame on a 1970s television sitcom called The Glimmer Gang with his spoonerism catchphrase "This is Nucking Futs!". His career subsequently halted in the years following the show's cancellati…
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Satire On Media, parody film
American episodic film from 1972 by Woody Allen based on the 1969 sex education book of the same name by David Reuben. Allen takes up the individual chapters of the book and contrasts the conservative portrayal in the book with a satirical…
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Komödie, War Film, parody film
About to be executed for a crime he never committed, Boris Grushenko recalls how he got into his present predicament. Initially scheduled to die at 5:00 am, Boris receives leniency—a delay in execution until 6:00 am. While his brothers Iva…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, dystopian film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Miles Monroe is a jazz musician and owner of the Happy Carrot health-food store in New York City's Greenwich Village. He walks into the hospital in 1973 for a routine ulcer operation that goes wrong, leaving him relegated to 200 years of a…
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Komödie, musical film, romantic comedy
In a dream-like pre-credit sequence, Louisa, a black-clad widow, descends a pink staircase inside a pink mansion. She is followed by pallbearers carrying a pink coffin. The pallbearers slip and drop the coffin, which slides down the stairs.
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Romantic Comedy, Sitcom, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, parody film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a widowed brain surgeon, is renowned for inventing a method of "cranial screw-top" brain surgery. He saves the life of Dolores Benedict, a gold-digging femme fatale who is accidentally run over by Michael when fleei…
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Anti-War Film, Dark Comedy, Historie, Justice Drama, Parodie, Satire On War, comedy drama, war film
In 1939, the well-known stars of a Warsaw theater company, including "ham" Joseph Tura and wife Maria, are rehearsing Gestapo, a play satirizing the Nazi regime. During the company's production of Hamlet that night, with Joseph in the titl…
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Horror, Horror comedy, comedy film, comedy horror, vampire film
The Countess, a 400-year-old vampire, has created an army of young male and female vampires who accompany her on her centuries-old journey through eternal life and youth. Though she is immortal, she is required to drink the blood of a male…
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LGBTQ-related film, Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, teen film
The film is a series of vignettes with Matthew Lillard's sex advice intercut within every couple segments. Mike tries to impress his crush, Stacy. Fred meets a girl online and they arrange for "menacing action", only for Fred to break into…
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Komödie, Parodie, Road Movie, Teen Comedy Film, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
In 1998, Eric Bottler reunites with his old high school buddies Linus, Hutch, Windows, and Zoe at a Halloween party. Now a car salesman at his father's dealership, Bottler finds that his friends have not matured since high school, though t…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Stacy Holt is an associate producer on a talk show hosted by the domineering Kippie Kann. Stacy believes that "luck is when preparation meets opportunity". Her boyfriend Derek appears to be the fulfillment of all of her wishes, despite his…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Parodie, Silly Movie, Sitcom, comedy film, crime film
In an unnamed city, serious crime is increasing, particularly in the 16th precinct, which is beset by erratic criminal Zed McGlunk and his violent gang, the Scullions. With the citizens turning against the ineffective, outnumbered, and agi…
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