Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore parodies and films playfully reworking familiar conventions.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,080 films · Page 17.
Dark Comedy, Ghost-House-Movies, Horror, comedy horror, horror film
Kenneth Magee, a young writer, bets his publisher $20,000 that he can write a novel of the calibre of Wuthering Heights in 24 hours. To get in the mood for the undertaking, he goes to a deserted Welsh manor. Upon his arrival, however, Mage…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Detective Film, Parodie, comedy film, crime film, parody film, thriller film
Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), a bumbling San Francisco private detective, tries to prove himself innocent of his partner's murder while helping a bizarre array of characters recover a lost treasure. A large number of people are murdered in…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, comedy film
Stanley Windrush chats with his father at the Sunnyglades Nudist Camp, and is persuaded to seek a job as a business executive: he is interviewed for the "Detto" company, which makes washing detergent; he makes a very unfavourable impressio…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Horror comedy, Parodie, comedy horror, horror film, parody film
In 1973, Father Jedediah Mayii casts out the devil from the body of young Nancy Aglet. In 1990, Nancy's body is possessed once again, while watching The Ernest and Fanny Miracle Hour, a prosperity gospel broadcast by hucksters Ernest and F…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, black comedy film, comedy drama
Following the death from accidental asphyxiation of Ralph Gurney, 13th Earl of Gurney, Jack Gurney becomes the 14th Earl of Gurney. Jack, a paranoid schizophrenic, thinks he is Jesus Christ and shocks his family and friends with his talk o…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Horror comedy, Parodie, comedy horror, horror film, parody film, romantic comedy, vampire film
The infamous vampire Count Dracula is expelled from his castle by the Communist government of Romania, which plans to convert it into a training facility for gymnasts (including Nadia Comăneci). The world-weary Count travels to New York Ci…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Anarchic Comedy Film, Parodie, comedy film, parody film
A plane carrying beauty contestants crash lands on a deserted island. Captain Maximus Powers and co-pilot Mike Saunders have to take care of their passengers, while avoiding the dangers of Jurassic Pork and a group of apes busy trying to r…
CC-BY-SA-3.0-US · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Blaxploitation, Christmas film, Komödie
The film begins with a flashback to a young Mordechai Jefferson Carver. At school, Mordechai is tormented by his fellow students and his teacher for being a Jewish child in a public school predominantly attended by Christians, and for cele…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Horror, Parodie, comedy horror, horror film, parody film, zombie film
In the mining town of Gold Lick, Oregon, Jeff, a young fan of B-movie actor Bruce Campbell, and his friend Clayton go out to a cemetery to meet two girls, Big Debbie and Little Debbie. Jeff removes a medallion off the mausoleum, unleashing…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Parodie, Satire, parody film
At the start of the movie, Don LaFontaine's voice talks about how Quentin Tarantino started a trend of extremely violent movies, and says that the time has come for much more wholesome, life-affirming movies — and he is cut off as someone …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Horror, Horror comedy, Parodie
A psychiatrist informs the mother of young Dornwinkle that he is a genius, but has the potential for madness; however, with proper nurturing, he will be fine. The mother catches her son peeping at a neighbor undressing. She berates him as …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Havoc is wrought on the inhabitants of a small New England town by a troubled film production. After Bob Barrenger, the leading man's penchant for underage girls gets them banished from their New Hampshire location, the crew moves to the s…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Parodie, comedy film, katastrophe, parody film, road movie, science fiction film
Coyote Bus Lines' scientists and designers work feverishly to complete Cyclops, a state-of-the-art articulated jumbo bus, enabling man to achieve a new milestone in bus history, namely non-stop service between New York City and Denver. Alm…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Horror, Komödie, Sex Film, Sexploitation Film, Thriller, Vampirfilm, exploitation film, horror film, pornographic film, pornographic parody film, sex film, vampire film
In a psychiatric institution, patients are behaving oddly and are being discovered with bite marks on their necks. Professor Van Helsing believes it to be the work of vampires, and just when things are already bad, they get worse with the …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Parodie, comedy film, parody film, slapstick
The film opens during Caesar's invasions of Britain, with Mark Antony struggling to lead his armies through miserable weather. At a nearby village, cavemen Horsa and Hengist Pod attempt to alert Boudica to the invasion, but are captured by…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, beach party film, musical film
Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are a husband and wife living in Ohio — far from the surf and sand of their earlier lives together. Frankie is a stressed out car salesman and former "Big Kahuna" of the surf scene in California while A…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, comedy film
Henry Palfrey, the head of a family firm in London, travels to Yeovil to enroll in the College of Lifemanship. Following his arrival, he meets with the principal, Mr. S.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
comedy horror, found footage film, parody film
Standing outside the Mystery Machine, Velma introduces each member of Mystery Inc. and explains that she is documenting one of their new mysteries. The footage cuts to the gang's interviews with locals of Casper County, each describing the…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, Fantasy, Parodie, Sexploitation Film, Super Hero, Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, sword and sorcery film
Princess Evie of the Jzafir kingdom is possessed by the sorcerer Jerak, who creates an evil clone of Evie. Through the clone, Jerak and his voluptuous and dangerous ally, Sultana, rule over Jzafir. The real Evie escapes Jerak's control, an…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, comedy film
Brian Stimpson, headmaster of Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School, has been elected to chair the annual Headmasters' Conference meeting in Norwich. Openly careless as a young man, Stimpson is now compulsively organised and punctual and his…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
High School Comedy Film, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, comedy film
Dana Marschz is a recovering alcoholic and failed actor who has become a high school drama teacher in Tucson, Arizona. Despite considering himself an inspirational figure, he only has two enthusiastic students, Rand Posin and Epiphany Sell…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, Splatstick, comedy film
Ernest, working as a golf ball collector at a golf range in Valdosta, Georgia, fantasizes about driving a big rig. His friend, Ben, tells him that if he joins the United States Army, he will get to drive large vehicles and never have to go…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Western, Western film
In 1922, in an unnamed country south of Mexico torn by revolution, Emmet Keogh, an Irish patriot and political assassin, is coerced into transporting a truckload of Scotch whiskey for English gunrunner, Jennings. Along the way, he helps Am…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, comedy film, parody film
Pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange flirts with the young widow Sadie Tompkins as his wife, Cora, looks on with disdain. Their friend Harry, who is prone to violent twitches, arrives and reveals that the package holiday Vic h…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution