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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,080 films · Page 20.
Komödie, comedy film, farce, parody film, slapstick
Charlatan faith healer Francis Bigger, who convinces attendees, with the help of his assistant Chloe Gibson, that "mind over matter" is more effective than medical treatment, suffers an accident during one of his lectures. Admitted to the …
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Crime Comedy, comedy film
In 1975, Duncan's, a fast-food restaurant owned by Norm Duncan in the tiny hamlet of Scotland, Pennsylvania, hosts a variety of workers. Joe “Mac” McBeth is passed over for a promotion to manager by Douglas McKenna, who has been embezzling…
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Komödie, comedy film
Although the film does not have a linear plot, a structure exists, telling the same story from three different perspectives. At the beginning, Soderbergh speaks to the audience in a style meant to evoke Cecil B. DeMille's introduction to T…
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Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, horror film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In 1958, the town of Centreville, Illinois is quietly invaded by extraterrestrial aliens. The aliens fire mysterious beams of energy from their hands and eyes, which turn the town's inhabitants into crystalized pulsing blue orbs. Using art…
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Drama, Horror, Parodie, comedy horror, zombie comedy
The film takes place in a 1950s-esque alternate universe where radiation from space has turned the dead into zombies. This resulted in the "Zombie Wars", where humanity battled zombies to prevent a zombie apocalypse, with humanity the ulti…
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Erotic Film, Komödie, Raunchy comedy, Satire, Sex Film, comedy film
A committee of independent U.S. political party leaders have gathered to join forces and select a candidate for the upcoming presidential election. One of the committee members flippantly suggests nominating Linda Lovelace.
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Komödie, Parodie, Silly Movie
Armando Álvarez has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother Raúl shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia. It seems that Raúl's success as an i…
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comedy film
John Bourgignon is an amiable chauffeur and would-be drummer who is engaged to Nancy, the daughter of the disapproving United States congressman Ed Reese. As the wedding date approaches, John's sleazy film-director friend, Sal DiPasquale, …
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Komödie, comedy film, parody film
The story follows the fortunes of Simon Sparrow starting as a new medical student at the fictional St Swithin's Hospital in London. His five years of student life, involving drinking, dating women, and falling foul of the rigid hospital au…
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comedy film, drama film, farce, parody film, slapstick
During the darkest days of the war Captain S Melly is put in charge of the experimental 1313 Anti-Aircraft Battery along with the bellowing, ball-squeezing Sergeant Major “Tiger” Bloomer. Melly soon discovers the “experiment” is that half …
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Action, Adventure, action film, thriller film
A wealthy playboy/private investigator named Cody Abilene is hired by a government intelligence operative to investigate a lead into who is selling computer technology to the Russians. While investigating rich socialites, amorous naked vix…
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Komödie, comedy film
Jimmy Alto is a failing actor living in Los Angeles. After increasing frustration with his career going nowhere and with crime in the city, Jimmy, along with his "spaced-out" best friend William, decides to take the law into his own hands.…
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Silly Movie, parody film
comedy film, drama film, parody film
On Christmas Day 2012, Peter Davison watches the Doctor Who episode "The Snowmen" with his sons. They speculate as to whether Davison will be invited to return in the upcoming 50th anniversary special or if it will only feature the two mos…
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comedy horror
Things have become peaceful again in Tromaville, putting Melvin Junko the Toxic Avenger into depression, as he can no longer fight crime and fails at normal jobs such as auto mechanic and babysitter. Claire, his blind girlfriend, may be ab…
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Komödie, comedy film
Emory Leeson is an advertising executive who experiences a nervous breakdown. He designs a series of "truthful" advertisements, blunt and bawdy and of no use to his boss Drucker's firm. One of his colleagues, Stephen Bachman, checks him in…
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Dark Comedy, Parodie, comedy film
Following a series of accidents, the United States congress prohibits all alcohol and drugs. However, there is one day titled the Binge, where alcohol and drugs are permitted for 12 hours. In 2032, high school friends, Griffin, Andrew, and…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy
Terpsichore, one of the Nine Muses of Olympus, is annoyed that popular Broadway producer Danny Miller is putting on a play which portrays the Muses as man-crazy tarts fighting for the attention of a pair of Air Force pilots who crashed on …
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Komödie, comedy film, parody film
Prologue As a cartoon character dressed in prison stripes (and holding a peace-logo flower which turns into a tiny parasol and then a helicopter blade) executes a few dance steps to the music of Nilsson's Skidoo theme, the words "Otto Prem…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror, horror film
In the New England town of New Gilead during the late 19th century, unscrupulous drunkard Waldo Trumbull runs a funeral parlor that he acquired from his former business partner Amos Hinchley. Trumbull is unhappily married to Hinchley's dau…
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Komödie, comedy film, slapstick
In bathroom ceramics factory W.C. Boggs & Son, the traditionalist owner W.C. Boggs is having no end of trouble.
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Komödie, comedy film, musical film
After printer John R. Hodges is forced to retire at age 65 because of a company policy, he dyes his hair and beard black to pose as Harold P. Cleveland, the president of his former employer's parent company.
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Komödie
Ebenezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), the Victorian proprietor of a "moustache shop", is the nicest man in England. He is everything that Ebenezer Scrooge was by the end of the original story: generous and kind to everybody, and sensitive …
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comedy film, parody film
The film begins with Brian Thompson's explanation that the movie is his answer to the question: "What's it like to work with Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Seagal or Jean-Claude Van Damme?" By combining the distinguishab…
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