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 18.
Crime, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, mockumentary
The film opens outside a building where terrorists are holding hostages and a nuclear bomb. The fictitious Reno Sheriff's Department arrives in a helicopter, called in as experts. As the group prepare to deal with the situation, Deputy Tra…
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American football film, Komödie, comedy film, parody film
The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, is convinced by his son Frank, a student at the school, to recruit…
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Crime, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional creation, the central character in a series of short stories written by Dr John Watson and published in The Strand Magazine. Watson conceives of Holmes as a way for him to solve crimes incognito, as he views …
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Satire
Young Englishman—and aspiring poet—Dennis Barlow wins an airline ticket and decides to visit his uncle, Sir Francis Hinsley, in Los Angeles. Shortly after Dennis's arrival, Sir Francis, who has worked at a major Hollywood studio for more t…
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Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi, comedy horror, science fiction film
A group of medical students observe Dr. Daniel Jekyll perform brain surgery at Our Lady of Pain and Suffering Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Hubert Howes, the world's richest man, watches a recording of the procedure from his hospita…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror
The film opens in 1975 at a place called Headstone Manor, which is being used as a "businessman's weekend retreat and girls' summer camp". A few minutes into the film, a group of satanic monks enter the house and kill 18 of its occupants. …
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Komödie, comedy film
Leonard Hoffman is a Los Angeles insurance agent with a problem on his hands. He has teenage triplets who are all gifted musicians but wife Arlene insists that the kids attend college at Yale, requiring more than $40,000 in tuition, which …
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Dark Comedy, Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy film, horror film
The film follows rookie detective Jo Dee Fostar on his first case: apprehending a serial killer wanted for over 120 murders. To find the killer, Fostar enlists the help of convicted murderer Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza.
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Dark Comedy, Groteske, Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
A new wing at Britannia Hospital is to be opened, and the Queen is due to arrive. The administrator of the hospital, Potter, is confronted with demonstrators protesting against an African dictator who is a VIP patient, striking ancillary w…
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pornographic film, pornographic parody film, superhero film
J. Jonah Jameson is attempting to run the Daily Bugle, which is harassing the "menace" known as Spider-Man, while his employees Betty Brant and Robbie Robertson have intimate relations in a back room. Across town, a power line accident res…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, comedy film
Ronnie Dobbs—a redneck petty criminal whose hijinks are caught on tape by a Cops-like television show called Fuzz—is noticed by failing infomercial personality/inventor Terry Twillstein, who notices Dobbs' popularity with lowbrow viewers. …
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Parodie, Secret Agent, spy film
thumb|Monica Vitti at the set in Amsterdam, July 1965 thumb|Interview with Terence Stamp, Monica Vitti and director Joseph Losey After the assassination of one of their agents in Amsterdam, British Secret Service chief Sir Gerald Tarrant r…
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Komödie, comedy film
Frustrated butcher Fred Ramsden and his dim electrician friend Ernie Bragg happily head off for a holiday trip at the Riverside Caravan Site, while their respective wives Sylvia and Vera look forward to their health farm holiday. Once at t…
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Satire, Silly Movie, comedy film
A mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley, suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream. He has a crisis of conscience about the ethics of advertising, which leads to mania. He then develops a …
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Satire, Western, Western film, comedy film, parody film
The story begins in 1885 with the arrival of an important new guest star in Buffalo Bill Cody's grand illusion, Chief Sitting Bull of Little Big Horn fame. Much to Cody's annoyance, Sitting Bull proves not to be a murdering savage but a ge…
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Komödie, comedy film
Sidney Stratton, a gifted research chemist and former Cambridge scholar, is obsessed with developing a fibre that never wears out and resists dirt. His fixation and insistence on costly laboratory facilities lead to repeated dismissals fro…
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Komödie, comedy film
In a small town in Northern England in 1947, the citizens endure continuing food rationing, resulting from World War II. Some local businessmen plan a party to celebrate the royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip and decide t…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, comedy film
Dr. Richard Jacks is a perfumer working at a major fragrance company. His projects have failed and the chief executive, Mrs.
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Komödie, comedy film
The band Strange Fruit performs at the 1977 Wisbech Rock Festival. Hughie Case tells how, due to the pursuit of "fame, fortune and fornication" – and the drug overdose of their original singer, Keith Lovell – this is their last performance…
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Komödie, Parodie, parody film
Action, Adventure, Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, comedy horror, crossover fiction, parody film
Two Americans, Abbott and Costello, who are stranded in Cairo, Egypt, overhear Dr. Gustav Zoomer discussing the mummy Klaris, the guardian of the Tomb of Princess Ara. Apparently, the mummy has a sacred medallion that shows where the treas…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, comedy thriller, crime film, musical film
In 1891, Foreign Secretary Lord Redcliff haphazardly receives a document from Queen Victoria; the document is stolen from his safe later that night. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discuss the case.
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Horror, Political Drama, Political Satire, Sci-Fi, musical film, science fiction film
Popular rock singer and aspiring revolutionary Max Frost was born Max Jacob Flatow Jr. His first public act of violence was blowing up his family's new car. Frost's musical band, the Troopers, live with him, their women and others in a spr…
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Komödie, buddy film
To earn his long-awaited retirement, hitman Trabucco eliminates several witnesses against the mob. On his way to his last assignment, Rudy "Disco" Gambola, who is about to testify before a jury at the court of Riverside, California, he enc…
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