Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore parodies and films playfully reworking familiar conventions.
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Parodie, comedy film
The film once again centers on the Brooklyn Cigar Store and manager Auggie (Harvey Keitel), although most of the other characters are different. The store owner's frustrated wife Dot (Roseanne Barr) is one of them, and one of the plotlines…
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Action Comedy, comedy film, parody film
Larry, Bill, and Everett are three down on their luck friends. Larry was a waiter who lost his job after attempting to publicly propose to his girlfriend Karen, who turned out to be cheating and got pregnant by the other man, causing him t…
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Cartoon, Komödie, Parodie, Satire, children's film, comedy film
The Tiny Toon Adventures characters excitedly prepare for their summer vacations after their term at Acme Looniversity ends. Babs and Buster Bunny have a water pistol fight, which eventually escalates into flooding Acme Acres. The bunnies,…
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Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Trudy Kockenlocker is the daughter of the town constable of Morgan's Creek. Against her father's orders, she attends a wild farewell party for a group of soldiers at which she hits her head on a chandelier while dancing. The next morning, …
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Komödie, Romantic Drama, comedy film, romantic comedy
Val Waxman is a film director that turned into directing television commercials. After being fired from his latest job, a deodorant ad shot in the frozen north of Canada, he desperately seeks a real film project. Out of the blue, Val recei…
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Political Satire, Silly Movie, comedy film, musical film
On the morning after his re-election, U.S. President Joseph Staton decides to read the newspaper for the first time in four years. This starts him down a slippery slope.
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Horror comedy, Musical, comedy horror, parody film, romantic comedy
In the 1930s, Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are performers on a hit radio show, Manhattan Mystery Theater, who are about to be married. Over the previous few weeks, Larry has been plagued by stammering and forgetting his lines, as well as …
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Komödie, comedy film
The journalist Ted York is rushed to Haven Hospital with appendicitis. The ambulance gets there quick, but only because the driver wants to know the result of a horse race. After being given a bed, Ted is smitten with Nurse Denton.
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parody film
The short film is presented as a trailer for a faux parody of a Peanuts television special whilst playing its signature song "Linus and Lucy". A narrator describes the premise of the special: the Great Pumpkin has placed a bounty on Charli…
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pornographic film, pornographic parody film, superhero film
Bruce Wayne's girlfriend, Lisa Carson, is kidnapped by the Riddler. She has sex with him in an attempt to curry his favour, but he still ultimately delivers her to the Joker. Batman and Robin are called in by the police to help in the resc…
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comedy film
Stella Johnson is a beautiful widowed single mother who lives in the town of Harper Valley, Ohio. She sells cosmetics door-to-door for the fictitious AngelGlo Cosmetics and is not afraid to enjoy life. Her fourteen-year-old daughter, Dee, …
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Horror comedy, Parodie, comedy horror, slasher film, teen film
While babysitting on Jamie Lee Curtis' birthday, teenager Julie and her boyfriend Charlie are stalked by a voyeuristic serial killer known as the "Breather". As Julie and Charlie prepare to have sex, the Breather, bypassing conventional we…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Attorney Harold Fine is cornered into setting a date for marriage by his secretary/fiancée, Joyce. Because of a fender bender, he ends up driving a hippie vehicle, a psychedelically painted station wagon. When taking his hippie brother, He…
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Action, Komödie, cannibal film, comedy film, comedy horror, parody film
The U.S. government grows worried for the nation's avocado supply after some confrontations with the "Piranha" tribe of cannibal women, who live in the mysterious "Avocado Jungle" (westernmost outpost: San Bernardino) and ritually sacrific…
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Komödie, romantic comedy
Swedish-American Katie Holstrom leaves the family farm to attend nursing school in Capitol City. Barn painter Adolph Petree, who completed a job for Katie's father, offers her a ride, then steals her money along the way. Katie, refusing to…
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The film takes place in Channelview, Texas. When Wanda Holloway was a teen, her father forbade her from trying out for her school's cheerleading team. Many years later, when Wanda had a daughter of her own, she was determined that her daug…
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Komödie, comedy drama
Big Bob Freelander is a used car dealer, and the head judge of the Young American Miss Pageant held in Santa Rosa, California. Brenda DiCarlo is the pageant's executive director, and her husband Andy is a resentful alcoholic. Andy is unhap…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
thumb|upright|Drive-in advertisement from 1957 Struggling writer Rockwell P. Hunter is low rung of the ladder at the La Salle advertising agency. With the agency set to lose its biggest account — Stay-Put Lipstick — he hatches an idea to g…
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film
On a crowded New York City street, people have gathered to watch a film crew shoot a sequence where The Actress in a white dress is standing on a grate while the rush of wind caused by a huge fan to imitate the subway going by below blows …
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Komödie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite playwright, buys a vacation home on a resort island in Massachusetts. Two of his new neighbors, the Gillmans, mistake him for a burglar and call the police, unaware of the previous owners' depar…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror
An all-American family inherits a deceased uncle's house. John and Mary Hyatt, together with daughter Debbie and son Billy move in, but Waldemar, a vampire, and Yolanda, his wife, want desperately to get into the rundown house because it c…
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Komödie, comedy film, farce, parody film, sex comedy
The seaside town of Fircombe is facing a crisis – it is always raining and there is nothing for the tourists to do. Councillor Sidney Fiddler hits on the notion of holding a beauty contest. The mayor, Frederick Bumble, is taken with the id…
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Action, Anarchic Comedy Film, Crime, Silly Movie, action film
Alex is a waiter in high-class London restaurant Bastards, subject to the upper-class customers' daily contempt. He is fired for being rude to the clientele. After witnessing a terrorist act on an embassy, he robs a benefits office and goe…
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Komödie, comedy film, parody film, science fiction film
The film's opening titles announce it is set "possibly around 1933." The story concerns the 168-year-old Fu Manchu, who must duplicate the ingredients to the elixir vitae that extends his life after the original is accidentally destroyed b…
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