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 30.
American football film, Thriller
Lionel Powers and Julian Messenger are filthy rich men with vast media holdings and dirty family secrets. They play dirty as well, fighting for control over a professional football team in Los Angeles with every weapon at their disposal. P…
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parody film
Set during the World War II North African Western Desert Campaign, the story follows a misadventurous squad of French Foreign Legion deserters, led by their charismatic Sarge. They set out across the Sahara desert to strike a blow on the G…
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parody film
Komödie, romantic comedy film
Beauregard Bottomley is a polymath who lives in Hollywood with his piano-instructor sister Gwenn. He is knowledgeable about every subject but cannot hold a job. By accident, Beauregard and Gwenn see a television quiz show, Masquerade for M…
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High School Comedy Film, Komödie, Parodie, comedy film
Ben Stein introduces the film as a long-lost film from the 1980s, so a lot of the jokes are now outdated in 2006. As the Gunderson family sets out on a cross-country road trip to their new home, boyishly handsome Charlie, blossoming dancer…
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horror film
During a camping trip, two teenagers are killed by an unseen force whilst making out in a field near to the Tall Grass Country Club's famed golf course, and their mangled bodies are discovered the next morning. Later that day, another club…
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comedy drama
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), mild-mannered accountant Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause in what may seem to be an unconventional manner: He declares war on the IRS. Af…
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Horror, Parodie, comedy horror
In a movie theater, a mysterious stranger sits next to two girls and starts to tell them a scary story that he claims is true: Alex moves into an old house at 3 Blood Street. He is excited about moving in, until his friend Thomas points ou…
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Komödie, Parodie, romantic comedy
In the film, George Lucas (Martin Hynes) is a 1967 USC college student, suffering from writer's block as he attempts to write a movie about a young space farmer with a bad crop of "space wheat". Taking a break from his work, George goes on…
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Komödie, comedy film
Janitor Sidney L. Pythias is mistaken for a gang member and arrested along with three juvenile delinquents, Artie, Monk and Harry. Police officer Mike Damon believes that he can help a wayward youth as a cop had once done for him.
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Drama, drama film
Dancing In September tells the story of two hopeful and ambitious African-Americans attempting to make their mark in the television industry. One is a scriptwriter named Tomasina “Tommy” Crawford (Parker), who has grown weary of contributi…
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Horror, Komödie, comedy film, horror film, parody film
Johnny Wentworth wakes and prepares to go to his job at the Dandy Donuts donut shop, where he works with his childhood friend Michelle Kester. He first retrieves his tablet from his Uncle Luther, a mad scientist who has unwittingly created…
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gay pornographic film, horror film, pornographic parody film
While making popcorn, Kenny is called by an unknown person, who flirts with him. The conversation turns disturbing, and ends when a man wearing a hood and face paint breaks into Kenny's house, and rapes him. The next day, Kenny's friends d…
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Komödie, comedy film
Matthew Barnes arrives in London from Chicago with his wife, Linda, to oversee a high-profile merger between his employer, Compu-Corps, and a powerful German corporation. Although Barnes has corresponded with the company representative he …
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crime film, superhero film
After murdering an unnamed woman, the villainous "Chain Gang" targets Cee Bee Beaumont, the girlfriend of rock and roll star Lonnie Lord. The Chain Gang harasses, stalks, and eventually abducts Beaumont. In order to save his girlfriend, Lo…
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Dark Comedy, black comedy, comedy horror
The film begins as Archie Andrews, a kindergarten teacher and vegan, regularly buys products from Lorraine's vegetarian roadside stand. He is developing an engine powered by wheatgrass, but his experiments prove unsuccessful until he accid…
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Komödie, Parodie, Silly Movie, War Film, comedy film, war film
Master Sergeant Dan O'Farrell is a G.I. on an island somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II, bemoaning the loss of a ship torpedoed while ferrying to the island a desperately needed cargo of beer. Among his problems are the Nav…
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Komödie, parody film
An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.
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Komödie, comedy film
A title sequence prologue details Britain's accidental acquisition of the island of Gaillardia (located somewhere on the 33rd parallel south) during the 18th century, the feud between the two halves of the island and Britain's granting Gai…
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Action, Parodie, parody film
An ex-CIA agent who is now a mall security guard discovers that things are being taken from him. He must team up with his mom, also an ex-CIA agent, to defeat his rival and save his family.
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LGBTQ-related film, adventure film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Captain Dan Tracey and his two lieutenants are ordered to investigate trouble on the resort planet Clitoris, a pleasure world filled with shopping and gambling where, according to the Articles of the Venus Convention, only women are allowe…
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Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, science fiction film, spy film
Adam Chance (Peter Mark Richman) works for an American agency called Human Aetiological Relations Machine, or H.A.R.M. He is assigned to protect Dr. Jan Steffanic (Carl Esmond), a recent Soviet defector who has developed a new weapon which…
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Western film, comedy film, heist film
Gold stolen by outlaws is stashed in the impenetrable bank of Friendly, a small town in Texas. A preacher, Rev. Pious Blue, is actually a thief.
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