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 32.
parody film
The plot follows the quest of Art Chew (Michael Chow) to retrieve the ancient peach. The movie starts with Art Chew traveling to America, after briefly showing Art's training at the Shur-li temple, showing many kung-fu clichés such as grab…
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parody film
The film is a martial arts movie star mockumentary in the loose tradition of This Is Spinal Tap.
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parody film
Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Schatzi played by Felix Sillas. The inspector has delusions that he is a great Samurai warrior and the film flashes back and forth between present da…
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Parodie
Victor, a 76-year-old physics professor traveling by chauffeured car to give a university lecture, decides to visit his boyhood home. In the outhouse, he finds a figurine of a dove that reminds him of a summer picnic from his youth. Later …
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comedy film
Melinda is a female employee of The Pentagon's public information service, who loses her job when she refuses to give in to her male superiors' sexual advances. She then becomes outraged by the Pentagon's "un-patriotic" actions, and takes …
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Komödie, Parodie
The film is very loosely based on Pablo Picasso's life, narrated by Toivo Pawlo, who introduces himself as Elsa Beskow. It opens with a quote by Picasso himself: "Art is a lie that leads us closer to the truth." The story starts with Picas…
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Komödie
Ollie, deeply infatuated with his absent sweetheart Jeanie-Weenie, serenades her with piano melodies before revealing to his friend Stan his plans to marry her. However, their aspirations are swiftly shattered when Ollie receives a letter …
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Musical, Western, musical film
A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue, where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall, a citizen who got shot. Jason objects to the str…
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parody film
Failing UHF TV station KRUD, Channel 17, is "reborn" as Christian television station KGOD. The new format is a big success but attracts an incompatible mix of fringe ministries and broadcasters wanting time on the station. A series of humo…
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Fake Documentary, Parodie, Satire On Media, comedy film
The film begins with the camera panning through pictures of Medusa's album covers and film posters eventually showing her lying in a bed while getting a massage and her hair done. She starts telling the viewers about how lonely she feels s…
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Parodie, spy film
American intelligence agents recruit burlesque comic Peanuts White to pose as international spy Eric Augustine, whom he resembles, to acquire a million-dollar microfilm in Tangier, Morocco. While there, he encounters Lily Dalbray, a woman …
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parody film, spy film
Secret Agent Charles Bind is called in to investigate the disappearance of Lord Dangerfield, a British diplomat. The trail leads Bind to Dangefield's daughter Carlotta Muff-Dangerfield who is called "Lotta Muff", an ambitious American Sena…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, spy film
A world's new kung-fu hero is out to stop drug dealers, gangs and help save the world from an evil con .
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beach party film
A mostly deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, lies off the coast of Florida. The island gets some visitors in the form of a teenage rock band, The Wild Ones, and their gang of swimsuit-clad young peop…
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comedy film, teen film
The story follows a group of interns and nurses working at St. Albert's, the worst teaching hospital in Canada, as they try to deal with work and relationship stress. Run by administrator Dr.
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Parodie, Sci-Fi, comedy television program
Roy DuBro (Karim Prince) and Ed Klingbottom (Thomas F. Wilson) are garbage men who are constantly undermined by their corrupt boss Junior Assistant Dispatcher Trainee Stanley Snyder (M. Emmet Walsh).
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parody film
Two Americans in Paris (Allen & Rossi) are reluctantly recruited by the Good Guys Institute (GGI) led by J. Frederick Duval (John Williams) to thwart the plans of the evil crime and espionage organisation THEM led by Zoltan Schubach (Theo …
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Horror comedy, comedy horror, parody film
Mild-mannered insurance salesman Albert L. Tuttle (Jack Haley) visits eccentric millionaire Cyrus J. Rutherford, intent on selling him a $200,000 insurance deal.
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Horror, horror film, zombie film
Nicholas runs an isolated gas station in the countryside. One night, he gives a young woman driver directions to Twin Falls, but after she leaves, he notifies someone via a special telephone. Two men, Toby and Grego, block the road with a …
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Drama, Parodie, erotic film
The film is about a depressed, sexually frustrated independent director whose actress quits due to too many nude scenes. It features partial nudity and sex scenes; the actress and her boyfriend make love in the shower. In summary, "a very …
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comedy film
Taylor Brandon Burns, who happens to be America's most famous child star, is in Canada to shoot a big-budget action film. Wanting to get away from his stage mom Suzanne and the pressures of show business, he runs off set with a fellow actr…
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parody film
Wanted carrot thieves and lovers Bunny and Claude are introduced through the aptly-titled song, "The Ballad of Bunny and Claude", revealing themselves to rob carrots from anywhere in Oklahoma around U.S. Route 66, be it general stores, car…
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parody film
On the countertop, Bob and Larry welcome everyone to the show. Larry is acting nervous because he's hiding a toy aardvark behind his back. Bob asks why he's doing this Larry responds because he broke the aardvark craft which belongs to his…
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science fiction comedy, science fiction film
A humanoid alien (R. L. Ryan) lands on Earth and soon discovers he likes to eat Italian people.
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