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Action Comedy, Satire, Sci-Fi, alternate history film, comedy film, parody film, science fiction film
The year is 2047, 29 years after the nuclear war immediately following the battle between the Earth and Moon Nazis rendered the planet inhospitable. The last survivors have rallied together on "Neomenia", the former Moon Nazi base on the f…
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Raunchy comedy, Satire On Media, Sci-Fi, parody film, retrofuturism, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Fictional television station WIDB-TV (Channel 8) experiences problems with its late-night airing of science-fiction classic Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1950s B movie in which Queen Lara and Captain Nelson battle exploding volcanoes and man…
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Komödie, comedy film
In the Soviet Union in 1927, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, an impoverished aristocrat from Imperial Russia now working as a local village bureaucrat, is summoned to the deathbed of his mother-in-law. She reveals before dying that she h…
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Action, Komödie, Pirate Film, adventure film, pirate film
In 1687, pirate Yellowbeard attacks the ship of inquisitor El Nebuloso and seizes a treasure hoard from the Spanish Main. Although his second-in-command Moon devised the attack plan, Yellowbeard treats him harshly and severs Moon's hand fo…
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Dark Comedy, Parodie, Silly Movie, Splatstick, comedy film, crime film
Commandant Eric Lassard decides the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side by side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). Carey Ma…
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Komödie, Musical, Satire, comedy film, musical film
The film is presented as a series of vignettes centered around Byrne as an unnamed, cowboy-hat-wearing stranger who visits the fictional Texas town of Virgil, where he observes the citizens as they prepare for the "Celebration of Specialne…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Satire, crime film, parody film
Clark Kellogg leaves his mother Liz and environmental activist stepfather Dwight in Vermont to go to New York University (NYU) to study film. After arriving at Grand Central Terminal, a man named Victor Ray offers to drive Clark and his lu…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, heist film
After three years confinement in a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector of the Sûreté Charles Dreyfus has recovered his sanity and has been cured of his obsession with killing Inspector Jacques Clouseau, who has replaced Dreyfus as…
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Fake Documentary, Political Satire, comedy film, drama film
Bob Roberts takes place in Pennsylvania in 1990. It depicts a fictitious senatorial race between a conservative Republican folk singer, Bob Roberts, and the incumbent Democrat, Brickley Paiste. The film is shot through the perspective of T…
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Parodie, comedy film, parody film, satirical film, silent film
Mel Funn, a once-great Hollywood film director, is now recovering from a drinking problem and down on his luck. He and his sidekicks, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell, want to make the first silent movie in 40 years and Funn pitches the idea to the…
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Silly Movie, comedy film, parody film
Shecky Moskowitz is a struggling comedian working on a cruise ship. Shecky gets his chance to be the ship's comedian when it is thought that the regular insult comedian, Dickie Diamond, had fallen overboard and drowned. (Dickie actually lo…
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Komödie, comedy film
The plot revolves around a fictitious Onion television news anchorman, Norm Archer (Len Cariou). He is forced to face a corporate takeover by Onions perennial multinational, Global Tetrahedron. The media conglomerate is interrupting Archer…
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Treasure Hunting, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, treasure hunt film
Jesse Huston hires Allan Quatermain to find her father Professor Jediah Huston, believed lost on an expedition to find the fabled King Solomon's Mines. Quartermain and his companion, the mysterious Umbopo, penetrate unknown country, follow…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
In 1962, aspiring author Barbara Novak arrives in New York to promote her book, Down with Love, to Banner House publishing. It is about freeing women from love, enjoying sex without commitment, and replacing the need for a man with things …
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
The people of Harford Road are firmly divided into two camps: the neuters, the puritanical residents who despise anything even remotely carnal; and the perverts, a group of sex addicts whose unique fetishes have all been brought to the for…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, Splatstick, Utopia & Dystopia, comedy film, parody film, science fiction film
Kantmiss Evershot practices archery in the forest, but her boyfriend, Dale, surprises her; the arrow accidentally hits The Wizard of Oz. They return to District 12, where children afraid of getting picked for the Games deliberately injure …
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Komödie, War Film, science fiction film
The minuscule European Duchy of Grand Fenwick is bankrupted when an American company comes up with a cheaper imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. Crafty Prime Minister Count Mountjoy devises a plan: Gran…
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Christmas film, Komödie
Some time after the events of the previous film, Eddie and his family are no longer living on the bomb test site in Nevada. However, the government has given Eddie a job at the Chicago Atomic Testing Agency measuring his brain waves for ra…
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Komödie, comedy drama
thumb|left|Tab Hunter and Divine in a publicity still for the film Overweight housewife Francine Fishpaw watches her upper-middle-class family's life crumble in their suburban Baltimore home. Her husband Elmer is a polyester-clad lout who …
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Buddy Cop, Parodie, Police Film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime film
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday's nephew and namesake, whose anachronistic views reflect those of his deceased uncle, is involuntarily assigned a cocky, streetwise new partner, Pep Streebek, as Friday's previous longtime partner in the Robbery-Ho…
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Biographical picture, Cannibal-Movie, Horror, Komödie, Musical, Western, biographical film, comedy horror, musical film
The film begins with a reenactment of the gruesome act of cannibalism described by the prosecuting attorney during Alferd Packer's 1883 trial. During this sensationalized account, a haggard Packer repeatedly insists that was not how it hap…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, comedy film
The film opens in the Rocky Mountains on the Colorado ranch of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a journalist furiously trying to finish a story about his former attorney and friend, Carl Lazlo, Esq.
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Action, Detective Film, Komödie, Musical, action film, comedy film, mystery film
Private investigator Ford Fairlane is sitting on a beach smoking. A flashback shows a roaring crowd at a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado, given by heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black makes a…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, parody film
The Old West town of Calendar in the Colorado Territory springs up almost overnight when clumsy, hotheaded Prudy Perkins notices gold in a freshly dug grave during a funeral. Her father, bumbling farmer Olly, becomes the first mayor, but s…
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