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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 709 films · Page 16.
Komödie, drama film, musical film
An iconic rock legend, Jack Fate (Dylan), is bailed out of prison to perform a one-man benefit concert for a decaying future North American society. The film touches on many subjects, from the futility of politics to the confusion of loose…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Alexander Meyerheim hires veteran playboy screenwriter Richard Benson to write a screenplay. Overly immersed in his playboy lifestyle, Benson procrastinates writing the script until two days before the due date. Gabrielle Simpson, a temp s…
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Komödie, Romance Film, romantic comedy
In 1947 in post-World War II Berlin, prim Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost arrives with a congressional committee on a fact-finding mission to investigate the morale of American occupation troops reportedly infected by a "moral malaria." Co…
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Komödie, comedy film
The film's opening credits end with the words "dedicated to the memory of", with an image of Second World War British food and clothing ration coupons. In post-Second World War London, an unexploded bomb detonates in Miramont Gardens, Piml…
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Western, Western film
In 1922, in an unnamed country south of Mexico torn by revolution, Emmet Keogh, an Irish patriot and political assassin, is coerced into transporting a truckload of Scotch whiskey for English gunrunner, Jennings. Along the way, he helps Am…
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Family Comedy, comedy film
Roger Hobbs is an overworked banker who reflects on his recent vacation. Originally, he and his wife Peggy were to travel overseas alone together, but Peggy instead arranges a seaside holiday, which includes their two grown daughters Susan…
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Road Movie, Romantic Comedy, Satire On Media, Social Drama, comedy drama, comedy film
A known Hollywood actor, who has not had an acting role in four years, gets recruited for a potential one as a supermarket manager by young filmmaker Packy. He has not agreed to commit to the role, but goes along with the enthusiastic guy …
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Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Ellie Parker is the story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still go to auditions back and forth across Los Angeles, changing wardrobes and slapping on makeup en route, but just old enoug…
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Satire, comedy drama, drama film, teen film
Troy Johnson, the supplier of prescription drugs to fellow high school students in the fictional southern California town of Hillside, commits suicide. Troy's best friend Dean finds his dead body but does not show any emotion about the los…
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American football film, Komödie, comedy film, parody film
The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, is convinced by his son Frank, a student at the school, to recruit…
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Horror, Mysterie, Satire, Thriller, comedy horror, slasher film
Television director Jake Tanner travels to a small town to film a reality television show about the town's hockey team. However, town local Jaynie is soon murdered, being decapitated by a piece of wire hung up between two trees, but the mu…
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Crime, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional creation, the central character in a series of short stories written by Dr John Watson and published in The Strand Magazine. Watson conceives of Holmes as a way for him to solve crimes incognito, as he views …
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Drama, Satire, black comedy film, drama film
Raqqa fiances Sam and Abeer are separated by the Syrian Civil War. While Sam seeks refuge in Lebanon, Abeer's family forces her to marry a richer man and move with him to Brussels. In the desperate pursuit of money and the needed paperwork…
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Satire
Young Englishman—and aspiring poet—Dennis Barlow wins an airline ticket and decides to visit his uncle, Sir Francis Hinsley, in Los Angeles. Shortly after Dennis's arrival, Sir Francis, who has worked at a major Hollywood studio for more t…
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Drama, comedy film
Cliff Spab and his friend Joe Dice go out one evening to buy beer from a convenience store, where a group of armed, masked terrorists take them and three other people hostage. The terrorists, who call themselves S.P.L.I.T. Image, have a vi…
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Dark Comedy, Groteske, Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
A new wing at Britannia Hospital is to be opened, and the Queen is due to arrive. The administrator of the hospital, Potter, is confronted with demonstrators protesting against an African dictator who is a VIP patient, striking ancillary w…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, Horror, Horror comedy, Political Thriller, Satire, Slasher Horror, Thriller, Zombiefilm, comedy horror film, satirical film
During an epidemic in Hemet that is turning bath salt users into cannibals, landlady Liz Topham-Myrtle grows more vicious toward her tenants every day. For some, she revokes privileges such as their parking spot, while others face eviction…
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Komödie, comedy film
Stuart Smalley is a Chicago resident who participates in several twelve-step programs and hosts Daily Affirmation, a self-help program on a public-access television station. After station manager Roz Weinstock moves the program from midday…
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Satire, comedy film
As part of a public relations and marketing strategy to compare the empathy of Big Tobacco to the nobility of the Nobel Peace Prize, advertising executive Merwin Wren convinces the Valiant Tobacco Company to propose a challenge: a tax-free…
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Satire, Silly Movie, comedy film
A mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley, suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream. He has a crisis of conscience about the ethics of advertising, which leads to mania. He then develops a …
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Komödie, Satire, comedy film
Don Verdean is a Biblical Archaeologist who searches for items that can prove that the stories from the Bible are true. The film opens to what seems to be an old VHS tape showing Verdean's archaeological achievements, all of which have no …
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Satire, Western, Western film, comedy film, parody film
The story begins in 1885 with the arrival of an important new guest star in Buffalo Bill Cody's grand illusion, Chief Sitting Bull of Little Big Horn fame. Much to Cody's annoyance, Sitting Bull proves not to be a murdering savage but a ge…
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Komödie, comedy film
Sidney Stratton, a gifted research chemist and former Cambridge scholar, is obsessed with developing a fibre that never wears out and resists dirt. His fixation and insistence on costly laboratory facilities lead to repeated dismissals fro…
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Komödie, comedy film
In a small town in Northern England in 1947, the citizens endure continuing food rationing, resulting from World War II. Some local businessmen plan a party to celebrate the royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip and decide t…
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