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Komödie, comedy film
Goliath, the circus strongman and the midget, Little Professor Atom, both employed by Wilson's Wonder Circus, are accomplices of villanous businessman John Carter in taking over the circus from owner Jeff Wilson. Julie Randall, Jeff's girl…
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Satire, Sitcom, Splatstick, comedy film, social comedy film
Monsieur Hulot is a bumbling automobile designer who works for Altra, a Paris auto plant. He is tasked to transport a new camper-car of his design to an international auto show in Amsterdam. He is accompanied by Marcel, a truck driver, and…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
The film opens with mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester, working from an underground laboratory, explaining the premise of the film (and associated series). Mike Nelson and the robots Crow T.
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Action, B-action, Exploitation Film, action comedy film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
An earthquake leaves the California coastline in ruins and reduces the beaches to a state of chaos. A group of neo-Nazis led by Adolf, the self-proclaimed "Führer of the new beach", takes advantage of the resulting chaos by fighting off se…
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Horror, horror film
Horror writer Edmund Blackstone sees his recurring nightmare come to chilling life one weekend as one by one, his friends and family are killed by three villains: the Queen of Evil, a dwarf named Spider, and a giant scar-faced strongman ca…
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Melodrama, drama film, romantic comedy film
thumb|left|Lauren Bacall and Lillian Gish in a publicity still of the film. The opening credits are followed by the following onscreen words: "The trouble began ---" Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) is now in charge of a psychiatric in…
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Komödie, comedy film, parody film
In the year 1750, England is rife with crime and highway robbers. To stop the wave of chaos, King George II sets up the first professional police force named the Bow Street Runners, under the command of the bellowing Sir Roger Daley, and s…
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Satire, comedy film
After winning a lifetime achievement award, esteemed screenwriter Steven Phillips has a rude awakening. Believing the award has no real meaning, he finds out it means his career is over. His studio has reneged on renewing his contract, tel…
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Drama, comedy film
In the near future, violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths. Patrick Hale, a globe-trotting reporter with access to a staggering array of world leaders, has ventured to the Arab co…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
Peter Morgan, a young doctor, begins a new job at Monument Heights Veterans' Hospital in Washington, D.C. The government-funded hospital is suffering from cutbacks upheld by Executive Director Dr. Henry Dreyfoos.
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Komödie, Satire, parody film
Reverend Ray Porter runs a Pentecostal faith healing and televangelism empire based in Arkansas. Four locals, one of whom was bilked out of her inheritance by Rev. Porter's ministry and another of whom just got out of prison, try to rob Po…
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Komödie, comedy film
A naive but caring prison chaplain, John Smallwood, is accidentally assigned as vicar to the small and prosperous English country town of Orbiston Parva, instead of a cleric with the same name who is favoured by the Bishop who wants to mai…
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Komödie, comedy film
Adolf Hitler moves into Buckingham Palace and plans to marry into the Windsors. A U.S. Army officer claims the iconic cigar-smoking PM was an actor named Roy Bubbles; however, he was actually USMC lieutenant Winston Churchill who had stole…
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Action, Crime, Groteske, Komödie, Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, action film
In 1958 Long Beach, California, Melba Stokes is a beauty salon owner, living with her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl. They flee when landlord Mr. Albertson comes to demand the back rent and repossess their belongings.
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Historie, Romance Film, Satire, comedy film
Richard "Dick" Dudgeon (Kirk Douglas) is apostate and outcast from his family in colonial Websterbridge, New Hampshire, who returns their hatred with scorn. After the death of his father, mistakenly hanged by the British as a rebel in near…
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Documentation, Satire, documentary film
Vikram Gandhi, the child of observant Hindu immigrants to America, became increasingly skeptical of religion as he grew into adulthood. After noticing the growing popularity of yoga in the United States, he decided to make a documentary ab…
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Romance Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
The film follows the radicalization of Simon, a student at a fictional university in San Francisco. Initially indifferent to the student protests around him, Simon learns of plans to occupy a university building in opposition to the constr…
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LGBTQ-related film, Political Satire, Sex Film, comedy film, sex film
The core plot begins with the kidnapping of Patrick (Andreas Stitch), the son of a wealthy industrialist. Sexual and romantic entanglements push the drama forward. At the film's climax, Gudrun delivers a soliloquy on the importance of pers…
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Drama, Satire, drama film
Set in rural New Zealand in the 1990s, the film tells the story of the developing relationship of the adolescent Sam and his acerbic and alcoholic grandmother with an unconventional past, whom he has not met before. George, a troubled teen…
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Drama, Komödie, Western film, comedy film, drama film
In 1913, Lena Doyle is the owner of a small tract of land outside Almira, Oklahoma that contains a prominent hill. Lena believes the hill is a dome above a large pool of oil and runs a "wild cat" drilling operation, but her derrick has yet…
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Political Satire, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Richard "Dicky" Pilager, the dim-witted scion of a powerful political dynasty, is running for Governor of Colorado. One day, while filming a campaign ad that shows him fishing at Arapahoe Lake, Pilager hooks a corpse on location. Chuck Rav…
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Fantasy, Komödie, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film
After his inauguration, U.S. President Judson "Judd" Hammond, an amiable party-line politician, tells his new secretary Harley "Beek" Beekman that two people may be admitted to his presence at any time: his young nephew Jimmy, and Pendola …
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Adventure, Drama
The film centers on the relationship between Lady Mary Loam, a British aristocrat, and her butler, Crichton. Crichton fancies a romance with Mary, but she disdains him because of his lower social class. When the two and some others are shi…
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Action, Satire, Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, drama film
Harry is the manager of a tag team of attractive female wrestlers, Iris and Molly. On the road, they all endure a number of indignities, including bad motels, small-time crooks and a mud-wrestling match while trying to reach Reno, Nevada, …
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