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Horror, Parodie, comedy film, horror film, parody film, slasher film, teen film
While in her house alone teenager Screw Frombehind is attacked by "The Killer". While being chased, Screw accidentally runs into a bug zapper and is electrocuted. The killer's disappointed he was not the cause of her death, lights a cigare…
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Horror comedy, Komödie, Monster Film, comedy horror, vampire film
Jack Harrison and Gil Turner are writers for The Sensation, a supermarket-grade tabloid run by Turner's father, Mac Turner. When Mac receives a homemade videotape of two panicked men running from a creature they believe to be Frankenstein'…
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Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, horror film
In October 1962 in Key West, Florida, Gene Loomis and his younger brother Dennis live on a military base with their mother Anne while their father is away on a United States Navy ship. At a local movie theater one afternoon, Gene and Denni…
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Komödie, comedy film, comedy of manners, drama film, satirical film
Deposed by revolution in his home country of Estrovia, King Igor Shahdov comes to New York City almost broke, his securities having been stolen by his own prime minister. He tries to contact the Atomic Energy Commission with his ideas for …
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Raunchy comedy, Satire, Sci-Fi, adventure film, erotic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, sexploitation film
Distinguished Professor Gordon explains that Earth is being tormented by periodic "sex rays", which send people into a sexual frenzy. When one of the rays hits the passenger aircraft carrying Flesh Gordon and Dale Ardor, the pilots abandon…
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Action, Komödie, Spaghetti Western, Western, action film, comedy film
Three hitmen, Willy, Norwood, and Simms, are staying in a Los Angeles hotel. After failing a job, they take off in a car with Velma, Norwood's pregnant wife. They flee to Mexico to escape the wrath of their boss, Amos Dade, robbing a bank …
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Crime Comedy, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, parody film
Ned Ravine, who is both a police officer and lawyer (who often defends the people he arrests), believes that he knows everything about women, and says that he will throw away his badge if anyone ever proves him wrong. While on a stakeout, …
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Satire, comedy drama, comedy film
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg opened a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he practiced his unusual methods for maintaining health, including colonic irrigation, electrical stimulus and sexual abstinence, vegetarianism and physical exerc…
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Parodie, Secret Agent, buddy cop film, comedy film, spy film
At Bureau of National Security headquarters, Special Agent Alex Scott is accosted by rival, Carlos, before his next mission's briefing. Alex has to recover a prototype stolen fighter, the "Switchblade," sold to arms dealer Arnold Gundars. …
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Christmas film, Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film, parody film
Left-wing activist and filmmaker Michael Malone campaigns to end the celebration of the Fourth of July holiday. Malone holds pronounced anti-American views and truculently argues that America's past and present are both offensive and there…
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Parodie, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film
In New York City, a low-budget independent film's catering crew is underfunded and apathetic, deciding not to replace a carton of milk on the craft service table for a week. The scene being shot is about a young woman, Ellen, reproaching h…
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Horror, Komödie, Musical, Slasher Horror, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In the early 1960s, a motown three-girl "Greek chorus" – Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon – introduce the film, warning the audience of some impending horror ("Prologue: Little Shop of Horrors"). Orphaned Seymour Krelborn and his co-worker, Au…
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Komödie, parody film
Bobby Taylor is a young black man aspiring to become an actor. His younger brother Stevie watches him prepare to audition for a part in Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge, a movie about street gangs which is so full of stereotypes that the light-ski…
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Historie, Knights Tale, Komödie, Musical, musical film
King Roderick the Tyrant, having sent Lord Ravenhurst to slaughter the Royal Family of England, usurps the throne. The Black Fox and his band of rebels rescue the true king, an infant with the royal "purple pimpernel" birthmark on his back…
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Historie, Parodie, Political Satire, comedy film
C.R. "Mac" MacNamara is a high-ranking executive in the Coca-Cola Company, assigned to West Berlin after a business fiasco a few years earlier in the Middle East (about which he is still bitter). While based in West Germany for now, Mac is…
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pornographic film, pornographic parody film, science fiction film
After the original events of Avatar, Jake Sully reveals in a video log that the Na'vi have a darker side. After sexual flashbacks which show moments in the film which purport to show what actually happened, the film shows what occurs after…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, drama film, jazz, parody film
Sandy Bates is a director of comedy films. His latest film ends with a surreal sequence in which a character (played by Sandy) is trapped on a train carriage surrounded by grotesque and unhappy figures. The character looks out the carriage…
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Komödie, comedy film
David and Linda Howard are typical 1980s yuppies in Los Angeles, dissatisfied with their bourgeois lifestyle. He works in an advertising agency and she for a department store, but after failing to receive an expected promotion and instead …
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Parodie, comedy film
Wallace Ritchie flies from Des Moines, Iowa, to London, United Kingdom, to spend his birthday with his brother, James. James is not expecting the visit and is hosting a business dinner that night. To keep Wallace entertained, he sets him u…
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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…
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Horror comedy, fantastique film, horror film, teen film
Journalist Buzzy Crocker writes for a supermarket tabloid, The National Inquisitor, after his termination from the Los Angeles Banner (where his then-girlfriend Jill works as editor) for publishing a fake news story. Helping him in his job…
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Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, mystery film
At a Manhattan teaching hospital, the life of Dr. Bock, the Chief of Medicine, is in disarray: he has left his wife, his children don't talk to him, and his once-beloved teaching hospital is falling apart. The hospital is dealing with the …
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Western film, comedy film, parody film
In a cold open, two bandits kill a man and begin looting his belongings. No-Name arrives and kills them after a brief conversation. On the way into Deadwood Town, No-Name comes across a bounty poster for a man named The Squint.
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Fake Documentary, Komödie, Musical, Parodie, music-themed film, parody film, pseudo-documentary
All You Need Is Cash is a series of skits and gags that illustrate the fictional Rutles story, closely following the chronology of the Beatles' career.
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