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 25.
Modern-Day Fantasy, Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy film, vampire film
One night, a young man named Ronald is attacked by an unseen assailant, and during the course of the attack he loses his shirt, then one of his teeth, and gains a tattoo. Finally, he's bitten on his buttocks, which causes him to begin tran…
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Komödie, parody film
In the silent film era, Rainbow Studios executives figure they are losing revenue to a rival studio because they do not have Rudolph Valentino. Led by studio head Adolph Zitz, they decide to hold a contest for the World's Greatest Lover in…
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Adventure, Komödie, comedy film, parody film
Ornithologist Professor Inigo Tinkle tells a less-than-enraptured audience about his most recent expedition to Africa in search of the Oozlum bird, which is said to fly in ever decreasing circles until it disappears up its own rear end. Fi…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
It is December 31, 1982, and the Saturn Theater is preparing for its big New Year's Eve concert under the direction of owner and master showman Max Wolfe (Allen Garfield, credited as Allen Goorwitz), who has operated the Saturn since 1968.…
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Komödie, comedy television program
Maxwell Smart, acting as a protocol officer since CONTROL was disbanded in the early 1970s, is reactivated as a counterintelligence agent by Commander Drury, of the United States Intelligence Agency. KAOS, long considered defunct, has been…
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parody film
McHattie plays Reverend Randall, a Staten Island-based televangelist who has been bilking his flock and secretly watches pornography while he is rehearsing his sermons in his stately home. Cervenka plays Rhonda Stample, a born again Christ…
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Parodie, musical film, superhero film
The plot involves the superhero called Captain Invincible (also known as the 'Legend in Leotards', 'Caped Contender' and 'Man of Magnet') who is active during Prohibition, The Depression, World War II, and the early 1950s. Once a popular h…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
A small spaceship docks at a refuelling station, carrying four aliens: Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period at the station, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian begin playing with the ship's controls, while Ber…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Natives on a jungle island find two long-haired, bearded men dressed in frayed tuxedos asleep in the jungle and carry them to their chief and his daughter, who insists on protecting them. She mimes instructions that the men are to be dress…
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Komödie, Western film, comedy film, parody film
Outlaw Johnny Finger, better known as The Rumpo Kid (Sid James), rides into the frontier town of Stodge City, and immediately guns down three complete strangers, orders alcohol at the saloon—horrifying Judge Burke (Kenneth Williams), the t…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order …
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Komödie, comedy film, historical film, parody film
The film opens with a passage, which states: This film is based on a recently discovered manuscript by one William Cobbler, which reveals that Henry VIII did in fact have two more wives. Although it was first thought that Cromwell originat…
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Romantic Comedy, Satire, comedy film, drama film, romance film
Toby, a young homeless man, and paparazzo Les meet when Toby interrupts a crowd of paparazzi waiting to take pictures of pop diva K'harma Leeds (Allison Lohman). Toby volunteers to go get coffee for Les and two of his colleagues. On his wa…
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Komödie, comedy film, spy film
In the 1960s, Alan Quimp is a schoolteacher of English grammar and married to the very demanding Daisy Quimp. In order to avoid the constant mockery in Daisy's family, Alan says that he is a secret CIA agent. Daisy tells everybody, the CIA…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, comedy film
Pilots Philo Henderson and George Bunkle are about to land a plane, only for Philo to accidentally knock out his contact lenses, causing the plane to malfunction and crash into a Los Angeles skyscraper. The destruction is then revealed to …
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parody film
Phil Ken Sebben awakes to find that he has been elected the 46th-and-a-half (46.5) President of the United States, without having any memory of being elected. His first act as president is to bring Peter Potamus, who runs a radio show, Hip…
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Komödie, musical film, parody film
Film directors Raoul Walsh, King Vidor, Michael Curtiz, and David Butler all refuse to helm producer Arthur Trent's new Warner Bros. film Mademoiselle Fifi, starring Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, because of Carson's huge ego. Frustrated, …
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LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, independent film
Set in New York City, Women in Revolt follows three disillusioned women—Candy, Jackie, and Holly—who form a radical feminist group called P.I.G. ("Politically Involved Girls"). Candy Darling plays Candy, a wealthy but unhappy heiress trapp…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Sunset Strip tells the story of a number of music industry artists, all in the span of 24 hours on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Michael secretly pines for Tammy. She is busy sleeping with the up-and-coming country rocker Glen Walker and …
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Erotic Film, Parodie, Super Hero, erotic film, science fiction film
Patricia Porker is a shy New Jersey high school girl whose life is changed forever when she is bitten by a genetically-engineered spider and turns into a wall-climbing beauty with superhuman strength. Calling herself SpiderBabe, she uses h…
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Parodie
François Merlin (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a Jean Bruce type writer of pulp espionage novels (he has written 42 so far) and about half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is the world-renowned superspy Bob Sinclar. (The name of the…
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Action Comedy, action film, martial arts film, parody film
The film opens with a young boy running to meet his grandfather (played by Yune), who lies dying on his bed. The young boy sadly explains that he could not find the medicine required to cure his grandfather's ailment and wonders aloud who …
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Komödie, Parodie, Western, Western film, comedy film
In Serendipity, Colorado, before the 1908 United States presidential election, Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, has finally found after 15 years his ex-business partner Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a…
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Komödie, Secret Agent, spy film
Fathom Harvill, a skydiver, is in Spain with a U.S. parachute team. She accepts a lift from a man called Timothy and is taken to see Douglas Campbell, who convinces her that he is a British agent working for NATO and wants Fathom to help h…
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