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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, heist film
Eddie Hawkins—"Hudson Hawk" (from the bracing winds off the Hudson)—is a master cat burglar and safe-cracker with a penchant for using low-tech solutions against high-tech security systems. He is also known for conducting his robberies wit…
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Gruselfilm, Horror, ghost film, horror film, psychological horror fiction
thumb|Carnival of Souls (1962) by Herk Harvey In Kansas, Mary Henry is riding in a car with two other young women when two men challenge them to a road race. During the race, the women's car is nudged by the boys' car and plunges off a bri…
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Musical, Sex Film, erotic film, fantasy film, musical comedy, musical film, pornographic film, pornographic parody film
After rejecting the advances of her boyfriend, William, mousy librarian Alice falls asleep reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The White Rabbit appears to her in a dream and she follows him into Wonderland. Finding herself in a room …
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Parodie, Romantic Comedy, black comedy, romantic comedy, surrealist film, teen film
In the fictional Northern California town of Greendale, high school student Lane Meyer's two main interests are skiing and his girlfriend of six months, Beth Truss. Shortly before Christmas, Beth dumps him for the handsome and popular capt…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, drama film
Marvin Lucas, a political consultant, must find a Democratic candidate to oppose three-term California Senator Crocker Jarmon, a popular Republican, in the upcoming election. With no big-name Democrat eager to enter the unwinnable race, Lu…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Parodie, Secret Agent, spy film
Matt Helm is assigned by his secret agency, ICE, to bring down an evil count named Contini, who is trying to collapse the world economy by stealing a billion dollars in gold. Helm travels to Copenhagen, where he is given a guide, Freya Car…
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Parodie, comedy film, parody film
One night, an American special forces team invades Saddam Hussein's palace and a nearby prison camp to rescue captured soldiers from Operation Desert Storm and to assassinate Saddam, but they find the Iraqis waiting for them, and the entir…
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comedy film, musical film
Continuing from The Rocky Horror Picture Show are the characters of Brad and Janet Majors, now married. The film takes place in the town of Denton, U.S.A., which has been taken over by fast food magnate Farley Flavors. The film is set with…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Parodie, biographical film, comedy film
Following his appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards as his superhero character Fartman, radio personality Howard Stern boards his flight home and finds himself seated next to a stranger named Gloria who is visibly repelled by him. Stern…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, black comedy film
"Rainbow" Randolph Smiley hosts a popular children's television show on the fictional children's TV network KidNet called The Rainbow Randolph Show, with his friendly onscreen persona masking his alcoholism, emotional instability, and crim…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, Police Film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Late at night at the country home of millionaire Benjamin Ballon, several of its occupants are moving about rooms, hiding and spying on others. The household consists of: Ballon's wife Dominique; Henri LaFarge, the head butler, and his wif…
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Crime Comedy, Detective Film, Modern-Day Fantasy, crime film, parody film, puppet film
In a world where living puppets coexist with humans but are treated as second-class citizens, Phil Phillips was the first puppet cop on the LAPD before being fired. Now a private investigator with a human secretary named Bubbles, he is hir…
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Silly Movie, Time Travel, buddy film, fantasy film, ghost film, parody film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, teen film, time-travel film
The music of Wyld Stallyns has created a utopian future society. In the year 2691, former gym teacher turned terrorist Chuck De Nomolos attacks the Bill & Ted University and steals a time-traveling phone booth, intending to alter the histo…
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Komödie, Parodie, Secret Agent, buddy film, comedy film, spy film
Austin Millbarge is a code breaker dwelling in the dark basement at the Pentagon who aspires to escape his under-respected job to become a secret agent. Emmett Fitz-Hume, a wisecracking, pencil-pushing son of an envoy, takes the foreign se…
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Dark Comedy, Parodie, action film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime comedy film, crime film, exploitation film, horror film, musical film, satirical film, splatter film
The Fabulous Feebles Variety Hour theatre troupe is rehearsing with hopes of finding success through being chosen for a syndicated television show. Star performer Heidi the hippopotamus is insulted by pornographic rat director Trevor and c…
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Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Devout evangelical Christian Mary Cummings is entering her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore. She and her friends Hilary Faye and Veronica have formed a girl group called the Christian Jewels. One afternoon…
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Animalhorror, Horror comedy, comedy horror, horror film, science fiction film
Two teenagers find an abandoned military compound and skinny dip in a holding pool, but are attacked and killed by unseen creatures. Sometime later, determined yet absent-minded skiptracer Maggie McKeown is dispatched to find the missing t…
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Horror, Komödie, Mysterie, comedy film, comedy horror, drama film, horror film
An elderly man at The Shady Rest Retirement Home in East Texas is known to the staff as Sebastian Haff, but claims to be the real Elvis Presley. He explains that during the 1970s, he grew tired of the demands of his fame and switched place…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
As a young man, Jables (JB) runs away from his strict, religious family and oppressive Midwestern town for Hollywood after being graced by the word of Dio on a quest to form the world's "most awesome" rock band. There, he meets acoustic gu…
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Komödie, Sport, buddy film, comedy film
Milwaukee slackers and lifelong best friends Joseph R. "Coop" Cooper and Douglas "Doug" Remer gate crash the college graduation party of a high-school friend and are shunned by their classmates. They find themselves outside drinking beer a…
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Crime, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, parody film, prison film
After serving three prison sentences, repeat offender John Lyshitski plots revenge on Judge Nelson Biederman III, a tough judge who presided over each of his trials, passing him stiff sentences. John calls the courthouse to determine when …
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Blaxploitation, Western, Western film, blaxploitation film
Upon finding a wagon under attack by bandits, two Black bounty hunters, Boss and Amos intervene and save Clara Mae, a Black woman. Upon inspecting the bodies, the bounty hunters find several have rewards to their name and one holds a lette…
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Found Footage, Horror comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, Parodie, comedy film, comedy horror, found footage film, horror film, parody film
Malcolm Johnson and his cousin Ray-Ray are driving Malcolm's possessed girlfriend Kisha to the hospital after he beat her senseless for trying to attack him. Kisha starts making a fuss and fights Malcolm, then breathes into Ray's face. He …
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Komödie, biographical film, buddy film, comedy film, teen film
Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo are two sweet-natured, ditzy teenagers living in Washington, D.C., in 1972. Betsy comes from a wealthy Georgetown family, while Arlene lives with her widowed mother in an apartment in the Watergate building. O…
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