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Komödie, comedy film
David and Linda Howard are typical 1980s yuppies in Los Angeles, dissatisfied with their bourgeois lifestyle. He works in an advertising agency and she for a department store, but after failing to receive an expected promotion and instead …
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Komödie, comedy film
Mays Gilliam is the alderman for the 9th Ward in Washington, D.C. After learning he is likely to lose his job and getting dumped by his girlfriend, Kim, Gilliam is unexpectedly chosen as the Democratic Party candidate for the 2004 presiden…
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Fake Documentary, Satire, alternate history film, black comedy film, comedy drama, mockumentary
During the Civil War, Judah P. Benjamin, CSA Secretary of State and chief advisor to Jefferson Davis, successfully convinces France and Britain to aid the CSA militarily by framing the issue as one of "states' rights", not slavery. The com…
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Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, mystery film
At a Manhattan teaching hospital, the life of Dr. Bock, the Chief of Medicine, is in disarray: he has left his wife, his children don't talk to him, and his once-beloved teaching hospital is falling apart. The hospital is dealing with the …
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Fake Documentary, Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, comedy horror, horror film, slasher film
The film is shot as a documentary set in a world where the killers depicted in famous slasher films are historical figures. A journalist named Taylor Gentry and her two cameramen, Doug and Todd, document Leslie Vernon as he prepares to joi…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, drama film
In an attempt to revitalise his career, washed-up film director René Vidal resolves to remake Louis Feuillade's silent film serial Les Vampires. Maggie Cheung has been cast to play the film's heroine, Irma Vep, a burglar and a spy, who dre…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, science fiction film
Dwayne Hoover, a car salesman who is the most respected businessman in Midland City, Indiana, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, even attempting suicide daily. His wife, Celia, is addicted to pills, and his sales manager and best frie…
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Komödie, black comedy film
Sir Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire, together with his newly adopted heir (a homeless man sleeping in the park), Youngman Grand, start playing elaborate practical jokes on people. A big spender, Grand does not mind handing out large su…
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Action, Political Satire, action film, war film
In a bar in Nunavut, hitman Brand Hauser shoots and kills three men. He takes pictures of the men with his phone, sends the pictures, and then throws the phone into a burning garbage can. Hauser is then seen on a plane getting directions a…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Pat Kramer of Tasty Meadows is an ordinary suburban housewife and mother of two children Beth and Jeff. Her husband Vance is an advertising executive. After exposure to an experimental perfume and other chemicals from Vance's company, she …
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Komödie, screwball comedy film
The film opens with Howard Cosell's coverage of the assassination of the president of the fictional "banana republic" of San Marcos and a coup d'état that brings Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas to power. Fielding Mellish is a neurotic blue-colla…
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Drama, Romantic Comedy, Satire On War, comedy drama
In 1989, U.S. Army Supply Specialist (SPC) Ray Elwood is a disillusioned enlisted soldier stationed in Stuttgart, West Germany. With much spare time, he participates in black marketeering and cooking heroin for several corrupt Military Pol…
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Criminal Comedy Film
Henry "Dutch" Holland lives the life of luxury in Rio de Janeiro, and spends an evening dining out with a British visitor. During their meal, he narrates a story concerning how he changed his life by instigating an intricate gold bullion r…
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LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
A New Wave fashion show is being held in a crowded Manhattan nightclub. Among the models are bisexual, cocaine-addicted Margaret and her similarly cocaine-addicted nemesis Jimmy. Margaret's drug-dealing girlfriend, Adrian, is constantly ha…
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Drama, Fantasy, Komödie, Musical, arthouse science fiction film, comedy drama, fantasy film
The film is prefaced by a short story that begins "Once Upon a Time", a silent, black-and-white film that depicts an unnamed country filled with peasant labourers. They pick coffee beans while armed foremen push rudely between them. One wo…
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Komödie, Marital Tragedy, Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
In 1965, bohemian musician Arlo Guthrie has attempted to avoid the draft by attending college in Montana. His long hair and unorthodox approach to study gets him in trouble with local police as well as residents, so he quits school and hit…
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Horror comedy, Psychological Thriller, Teen Horror Film, comedy horror, teen film
In the woods outside of Cherry Falls, Virginia, a teenage couple, Rod Harper (Jesse Bradford) and Stacy Twelfmann (Bre Blair) are getting romantic in a car when a black-haired woman appears and murders them both. Meanwhile, in town, teenag…
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Drama, drama film
Kansas is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed while doing a stunt, he decides to quit the movie business and stay in P…
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Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Ex-convicts Emil Slovák and Oleg Razgul arrive in the United States to claim their part of a bank heist in Eastern Europe. Oleg steals a video camera from an electronics store. At the rundown apartment of their old partner Milos Karlova, t…
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Dark Comedy, Satire, Social Drama, comedy drama, comedy film, romance film
Three characters are recounting events from their intertwined lives; Puff, a man who was raised as a chimpanzee in the wilderness, makes a testimony in front of Congress; writer Lila Jute is giving a statement to the police after her arres…
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Family Comedy, Political Satire, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, romantic comedy film
Former President of the United States Monroe "Eagle" Cole moves to his vacation home in the town of Mooseport, Maine, to escape from his ex-wife Charlotte. Harold "Handy" Harrison is the town's local hardware store owner and plumber. Handy…
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Dark Comedy, Political Satire, Satire On Media, comedy film
Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, voiced by Robert Downey Sr.), the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, is inadvertently put in charge after the sudden death of the chairman of the board. Prevented by the company by-l…
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Dark Comedy, Drama, comedy drama, drama film
The film consists of two stories that are unrelated and have different actors, titled "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction". College and high school serve as the backdrop for these two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil. Fiction Vi is a …
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Dark Comedy, Drama, Komödie, Satire, comedy film, drama film
Kate, Steve, Mick, and Jenn Jones move into an upscale suburb under the guise of being a typical family relocating because of the changing nature of Kate's and Steve's careers. In reality, Kate is the leader of a team of stealth marketers,…
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