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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 709 films · Page 15.
Komödie, comedy film
The residents of the village of Titfield are shocked to learn that their railway branch line to the town of Mallingford is to be closed. Sam Weech, the local vicar and a railway enthusiast, and Gordon Chesterford, the village squire, decid…
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Crime, Satire, comedy film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
The film is divided into two separate, unequal stories. In the first and shorter of the two, in August 1887 Holmes is approached by Rogozhin, on behalf of a famous Russian ballerina, Madame Petrova. Madame Petrova is about to retire, and w…
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Komödie, Sport, boxing film, comedy film
James "The Grim Reaper" Roper (Damon Wayans), the undefeated heavyweight boxing champ of the world, defeats his latest challenger with ease and visits an after-party thrown by Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson), a conniving and manipulat…
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Arranged Documentary, Satire, documentary film
A range of views on various world religions is explored as Bill Maher travels to numerous religious destinations including Jerusalem, the Vatican City, and Salt Lake City, interviewing believers from a variety of backgrounds and groups. Th…
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Satire On War, Silly Movie, comedy film, war film
On a summer day in 1942, a lost RAF bomber strays over Paris and is shot down by German flak. After agreeing to rendezvous in the hammam at the Grand Mosque of Paris, the crew parachute out, but only three evade capture. Sir Reginald lands…
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Family Comedy, Komödie, Romantic Drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Sisters Tanzie and Ava are wealthy, spoiled Hollywood socialites who enjoy shopping and dating, paying little attention to their late father's company, Marchetta Cosmetics, run by co-founder and family friend Tommy Katzenbach. Tanzie, an a…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, science fiction film
The film is framed by Ray Santilli and his friend Gary Shoefield retelling the events to a documentary maker named Morgan Banner. In 1995, Ray and Gary go to the United States to find Elvis memorabilia to sell on the market stall Ray runs …
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Satire, comedy film, crime film
Eddie Muntz is a small-time American arms dealer who talks his way into a job with a large defense corporation selling high-tech military unmanned aerial vehicles to a mentally unstable South American dictator. Muntz arrives in war-torn an…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
Recently widowed Clare, a former television sitcom star, invites her next-door neighbor Lisabeth to stay with her while Lisabeth's house is fumigated. Lisabeth's brother Peter, a playwright, arrives with his new bride To-Bel, an African-Am…
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Komödie, comedy film
Joe McTeague is a wealthy, wheelchair-using scrap-metal tycoon who has to put up with his niece Patti, his nephews Carl, Frank, and Glen, and their respective spouses Ed, Nora, Tina, and Muriel. They named their kids after their uncle and …
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Animation, Raunchy comedy, adult animated film, comedy film, satire
In the 1970s, Fritz has graduated from college and is now married, on unemployment benefits and has a son named Ralphie, who often masturbates. As his wife berates him for his irresponsibility, Fritz smokes cannabis and imagines himself in…
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Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Guadalupe Rudolfo "Rudy" Robles is told by his mother to pick up his cousin Javier at a factory in Downtown Los Angeles before she and his sister leave for Fresno. Robles arrives shortly before immigration officials raid the factory, and b…
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Drama, Political Satire, Satire, Satire On Media, comedy drama
In a future United States, immigration has rapidly increased, resulting in a fractured multicultural society. The Mayor of Los Angeles speaks only in Spanish, Rhode Island is populated mostly by Chinese Americans, and Alabama has a Sikh co…
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Komödie, Romance Film, Satire, comedy film, romantic comedy
Charlie Cartwright, an amorous English tour guide, takes groups of Americans on whirlwind nine-countries-in-18-days sightseeing tours of Europe. Having overslept with his newest conquest, he is late meeting tour #225, finding a resentful g…
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Horror, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, satirical film, slasher film, vampire film
The film opens and follows a young man, Martin, traveling on an overnight train from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh. Martin sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics, rapes her, slices her forearm with a razor blade, then drinks her blo…
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Fake Documentary, mockumentary
Forgotten Silver purports to tell the story of "forgotten" New Zealand filmmaker Colin McKenzie, and the rediscovery of his lost films, which presenter Peter Jackson claims to have found in an old shed. McKenzie is presented as the first a…
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American football film, Komödie, Raunchy comedy, buddy film, romantic comedy
Wide receiver Marvin "Shake" Tiller and running back Billy Clyde Puckett are football buddies who play for a Miami pro team owned by "Big Ed" Bookman. Bookman's daughter Barbara Jane is roommates with both men, and the film depicts a subtl…
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Komödie, comedy film
Stanley Windrush chats with his father at the Sunnyglades Nudist Camp, and is persuaded to seek a job as a business executive: he is interviewed for the "Detto" company, which makes washing detergent; he makes a very unfavourable impressio…
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Horror comedy, Parodie, comedy horror, horror film, parody film
In 1973, Father Jedediah Mayii casts out the devil from the body of young Nancy Aglet. In 1990, Nancy's body is possessed once again, while watching The Ernest and Fanny Miracle Hour, a prosperity gospel broadcast by hucksters Ernest and F…
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Komödie, black comedy film, comedy drama
Following the death from accidental asphyxiation of Ralph Gurney, 13th Earl of Gurney, Jack Gurney becomes the 14th Earl of Gurney. Jack, a paranoid schizophrenic, thinks he is Jesus Christ and shocks his family and friends with his talk o…
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Drama, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, drama film, horror film, science fiction film
Three stories intertwine throughout the film, named in the closing credits: Hero: A seven-year-old, Richie Beacon, shoots his abusive father and then flies away, depicted in the style of a 1980s tabloid television news magazine. Horror: A …
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Parodie, Satire, parody film
At the start of the movie, Don LaFontaine's voice talks about how Quentin Tarantino started a trend of extremely violent movies, and says that the time has come for much more wholesome, life-affirming movies — and he is cut off as someone …
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film
Anna has been rejected by her college, her girlfriend broke up with her, and her older sister is getting married. She meets Sadie, who invites her to join Clits In Action, or C(i)A, a radical Third-wave feminist group. Anna soon gets in to…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
The Cocoanuts is set in the Hotel de Cocoanut, a resort hotel, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. Mr. Hammer runs the hotel, assisted by Jamison.
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