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High School Comedy Film, boxing film, comedy horror, romantic comedy
Todd Howard, the cousin of Scott Howard, has recently been accepted into Hamilton University on a full athletic scholarship on the recommendation of Coach Bobby Finstock, who was Scott's basketball coach at Beacontown High. Finstock's hope…
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Drama, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, drama film
In September 1980, Alice Kinnon and Charlotte Pingress, recent Hampshire College graduates, work as poorly paid readers for a New York City publisher. After work one night, they enter an exclusive disco nightclub where Alice hopes to socia…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Political Satire, comedy drama
Goddard Bolt is the callous CEO of Bolt Enterprises. Bolt shows little regard for other people's needs or for the environment. He has his eye on the slum of Los Angeles, with the intent of tearing it down.
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Komödie, comedy film
In 1974, Ron Burgundy is a famous anchorman for San Diego television station KVWN channel 4. The news team includes Veronica Corningstone, KVWN's first female reporter and anchor, and his childhood friends: lead field reporter Brian Fantan…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, musical film
On the opening night of Princess Ida at the Savoy Theatre in January 1884, the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, ill from kidney disease, is barely able to make it to the theatre to conduct. He goes on a holiday to the continent hoping that th…
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Parodie, Super Hero, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, superhero film
Jefferson Reed is a school teacher in Washington, DC. His neighborhood is terrorized by a gang called the Golden Lords led by Simon Caine and allied with drug lord Anthony Byers. One night, Jeff steps in to rescue a woman from the gang.
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LGBTQ-related film, Parodie, Slasher Horror, comedy horror, horror film, parody film, slasher film, teen film
Pleasure Island is a resort off the coast of Costa Rica, owned by famous, washed-up musician Coconut Pete. Staff members Rolo, Stacy, and Kelly sneak into the jungle to have sex, where they are ambushed and murdered by a masked figure. Mea…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Celeste Talbert, the long-time star of the daytime soap opera The Sun Also Sets, is targeted by her ambitious co-star Montana Moorehead; Montana connives to replace Celeste as the star by promising sexual favors to producer David Seton Bar…
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Crime, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
When the famous Pink Panther diamond is stolen again from Lugash, Chief Inspector Clouseau is called on the case despite protests by Chief Inspector Dreyfus. While on the case, Clouseau is pursued by the Mafia. Clouseau first goes to Londo…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Splatstick, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Philippe Douvier, a major French businessman and secretly the head of the French Connection, is suspected by his New York Mafia associates of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier…
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Parodie
In a dystopian world monitored by Batman, a young child grows up in Smallville, Kansas, idolizing the performers on a sketch comedy program, UCB Live. The protagonist's mother is disturbed when her child asks, "Was I born in the wrong body…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, hood film, musical film
Albert Brown, an aspiring rapper and suburban kid who idolizes the gangsta rappers he sees on TV, decides to start a rap group with his friends, Euripides and Otis. Unfortunately, even though all three of them are talented, they have no co…
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Komödie, fantasy film, parody film
Atouk is a bullied and scrawny caveman living in "One Zillion BC – October 9th". He lusts after the beautiful but shallow Lana, who is the mate of Tonda, their tribe's physically imposing bullying leader and brutish instigator. After being…
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Komödie, teen film
Preppy pre-freshman (pre-frosh) Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University (PCU), a college where fraternities have been outlawed and political correctness is rampant. During his visit, accident-prone Tom makes enemies with nearly every g…
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Romantic Comedy, parody film, romantic comedy
Set in San Francisco, Play It Again, Sam begins with the closing scenes of Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Allan Felix watches the film in a cinema. He leaves the cinema depressed that he will never be like Bogart.
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, parody film
In 1935, a pet shop owner catches a young boy shoplifting a puppy. To discourage the kid from a life of crime, the owner tells a story by way of a flashback. In 1910, Johnny Kelly is a poor newsboy in New York City.
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Computeranimation, Fairy-Tale Film, children's film, comedy film, crossover fiction, family film, fantasy film, parody film
The story begins with the idea that the Wizard controls all of the fairy tales and governs the Scales of Good and Evil, an artifact that maintains the balance of all good and evil in Fairy Tale Land. With the help of his assistants, the up…
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Fantasy, Parodie, fantasy film, parody film
Struggling Seattle plumbing salesman, former fencing athlete and couch potato Roy Knable lives with his neglected wife Helen. After a fight which involves Helen smashing the family's television with one of Roy's fencing trophies as a wake-…
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Horror comedy, Zombiefilm, comedy film, comedy horror, science fiction film, zombie comedy
Set some time after the events at the UNEEDA Warehouse in Louisville, KY, a U.S. military truck is transporting barrels of Trioxin, when one breaks loose and falls into a river without the driver noticing. The next morning, pre-teen bullie…
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Romantic Drama, Thriller, comedy thriller, drama film, romantic comedy, thriller film
Tom Dobbs is host of a satirical news program, tapping into public frustrations with divisive, special interest-driven politics. Dobbs laughs off an audience member's suggestion that he run for president but following online support, he an…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
In Lugash, the fabled Pink Panther diamond is stolen. A mysterious woman looking to procure the priceless gem has a tête-à-tête with a man regarding price. Clouseau, who had disappeared inexplicably on a plane flight, bursts in.
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Komödie, Raunchy comedy, parody film, science fiction comedy
At Ralph Waldo Emerson High School, bookish student Barney Springboro performs various scientific experiments on laboratory mice until his friend, yearbook photographer Peyton Nichols, retrieves him for a class assembly. Peyton questions B…
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Komödie, parody film
YouTuber Logan Paul is videocalling his Australian girlfriend, Ariel, with whom he has an online relationship. They attempt to have cybersex, but are interrupted first by Logan's foreign exchange brother Juanpa Zurita and then by Lele Pons…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, heist film, parody film
Undercover police officer Lucas White enters the world of underground street racing to join a gang of street racers led by Vin Serento to get closer to a crime ring led by Los Angeles kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol. The morning after losing…
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