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Satire On War, action comedy film, spy film, war film
The film takes place as two parallel plots separated by a couple of years: In 1982, Wylie Cooper is an engineer developing a targeting system on a tank for the United States Army. In 1984, US Army tank commander Lt. T.M.
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Drama, Satire, Sexploitation Film, drama film, erotic film
Fontaine Khaled is the London wife of a wealthy Arab businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, Hobo, and her hedonistic partying lifestyle. She hires a handsome manager, Tony, to run the nightclub, but it is understood that his j…
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Family Drama, Satire, comedy film, crime film, drama film
The film opens with a little girl jumping rope and counting stars to "a hundred". The film's plot centres on three married women — a grandmother, her daughter, and her niece — each named Cissie Colpitts. As the story progresses, each woman…
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Animation, Musical, children's film, comedy drama, comedy film, fantasy film, musical film, satire, slapstick
In the town of Acme Falls within the kingdom of Warnerstock, all the people (including the mime) live happily together. However, upon the death of their beloved king, William the Good, Warnerstock enters a state of civil war. Taking advant…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Satire On Media, drama film, lesbian-related film
Middle-aged actress June Buckridge plays "Sister George", a lovable motor scooter-riding district nurse and local sage, in a fictional long-running BBC television soap opera, Applehurst. She has been with the show for four years and is so …
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Komödie, romantic comedy, satanic film
Cantankerous tycoon John P. Merrick, the richest man in the world, learns that he has been hung in effigy by the employees of a department store that he owns, who are trying to unionize the store. To identify the agitators, Merrick, who ha…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Dark Comedy, Dramedy, Gross Out Film, Horror, Horror comedy, Komödie, Mysterie, Satire, Satire On War, Sci-Fi, Silly Movie, Splatter Film, Thriller, Zombiefilm, absurdist fiction, art film, black comedy film, body horror film, comedy drama, comedy horror, experimental film, horror film, katastrophe, post-apocalyptic film, psychedelic film, satirical film, science fiction film, surrealist film, thriller film, zombie film
Diane (Alexandra Slade) awakens in a bunker surrounded by dead bodies after a brutal massacre. After attempting to escape the structure, she eventually passes out at the bottom of an elevator shaft where she is rescued by a mysterious man …
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Horror, Political Drama, Political Satire, Sci-Fi, musical film, science fiction film
Popular rock singer and aspiring revolutionary Max Frost was born Max Jacob Flatow Jr. His first public act of violence was blowing up his family's new car. Frost's musical band, the Troopers, live with him, their women and others in a spr…
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Cartoon, Komödie, Parodie, Satire, children's film, comedy film
The Tiny Toon Adventures characters excitedly prepare for their summer vacations after their term at Acme Looniversity ends. Babs and Buster Bunny have a water pistol fight, which eventually escalates into flooding Acme Acres. The bunnies,…
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Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Trudy Kockenlocker is the daughter of the town constable of Morgan's Creek. Against her father's orders, she attends a wild farewell party for a group of soldiers at which she hits her head on a chandelier while dancing. The next morning, …
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Komödie, Romantic Drama, comedy film, romantic comedy
Val Waxman is a film director that turned into directing television commercials. After being fired from his latest job, a deodorant ad shot in the frozen north of Canada, he desperately seeks a real film project. Out of the blue, Val recei…
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Political Satire, Silly Movie, comedy film, musical film
On the morning after his re-election, U.S. President Joseph Staton decides to read the newspaper for the first time in four years. This starts him down a slippery slope.
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Satire, comedy film
After 17 years of marriage, affluent Los Angeles suburban couple Richard Harmon (Van Dyke) and his wife Barbara (Reynolds) seem to have it all, but they are constantly bickering. When they discover they can no longer communicate properly, …
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Drama, Satire On Media, drama film
Robin Stone, a handsome, ambitious newsman for a New York television station, attracts the attention of Judith Austin, wife of Gregory Austin, the head of the IBC network. Concerned about ratings, Greg is encouraged by Judith to hire Robin…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Attorney Harold Fine is cornered into setting a date for marriage by his secretary/fiancée, Joyce. Because of a fender bender, he ends up driving a hippie vehicle, a psychedelically painted station wagon. When taking his hippie brother, He…
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The film takes place in Channelview, Texas. When Wanda Holloway was a teen, her father forbade her from trying out for her school's cheerleading team. Many years later, when Wanda had a daughter of her own, she was determined that her daug…
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Komödie, comedy drama
Big Bob Freelander is a used car dealer, and the head judge of the Young American Miss Pageant held in Santa Rosa, California. Brenda DiCarlo is the pageant's executive director, and her husband Andy is a resentful alcoholic. Andy is unhap…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
thumb|upright|Drive-in advertisement from 1957 Struggling writer Rockwell P. Hunter is low rung of the ladder at the La Salle advertising agency. With the agency set to lose its biggest account — Stay-Put Lipstick — he hatches an idea to g…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
The film follows the exploits of film actor Jack Noah, who is filming in the small, fictional South American country of Parador when Paradorian President Alfonse Simms, a dictator, invites him and the cast and crew to the film at their pal…
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film
On a crowded New York City street, people have gathered to watch a film crew shoot a sequence where The Actress in a white dress is standing on a grate while the rush of wind caused by a huge fan to imitate the subway going by below blows …
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Komödie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite playwright, buys a vacation home on a resort island in Massachusetts. Two of his new neighbors, the Gillmans, mistake him for a burglar and call the police, unaware of the previous owners' depar…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, crime film, thriller film
Graham Marshall, a long-time executive in a large advertising company, is unexpectedly passed over for promotion in favor of his obnoxious younger rival Bob Benham. While he sympathizes with his friend George Brewster, whose dismissal in t…
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Komödie, comedy film
Wally Sparks is the host of a sleazy tabloid-style TV talk show who makes Jerry Springer seem gentle by comparison. His show has become so foul that he has alienated his not-especially discriminating viewers, and his ratings are taking a n…
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Action, Anarchic Comedy Film, Crime, Silly Movie, action film
Alex is a waiter in high-class London restaurant Bastards, subject to the upper-class customers' daily contempt. He is fired for being rude to the clientele. After witnessing a terrorist act on an embassy, he robs a benefits office and goe…
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