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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 709 films · Page 25.
comedy drama, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film
Comic book fan Les Franken (Michael Rapaport) signs up for an experimental antidepressant. Dr. Dobson (Jack Kehler) instructs him to take one pill per day.
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comedy film
Dexter Jackson (Terrence C. Carson) is a young, black deliveryman in Atlanta, who aspires to become a news reporter. He gets what he considers his big break when he drives up to a hostage situation.
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Satire, comedy film
Set in the artsy Chelsea, this satirical film centers on a young bohemian avant-garde composer Adrian, who becomes involved with a trendy New York art gallery owner, Madeleine. Adrian is a composer who makes music by breaking glass and kic…
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Dark Comedy, Satire, comedy film
In a dystopian near-future, the Jeffers Corporation is the "largest, friendliest and most profitable business in the history of Mankind," and is driving out a culture of independent thought and intimacy. The corporation and its leader, Mr.…
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American football film, Thriller
Lionel Powers and Julian Messenger are filthy rich men with vast media holdings and dirty family secrets. They play dirty as well, fighting for control over a professional football team in Los Angeles with every weapon at their disposal. P…
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Documentation, Komödie, Satire
Komödie, romantic comedy film
Beauregard Bottomley is a polymath who lives in Hollywood with his piano-instructor sister Gwenn. He is knowledgeable about every subject but cannot hold a job. By accident, Beauregard and Gwenn see a television quiz show, Masquerade for M…
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Satire On War, comedy film
During the Second World War, Norman Pitkin, a roadmender with the St Godric's Borough Council, enjoys annoying the soldiers of the nearby British Army camp, even a general. Despite the efforts of his boss, Borough Engineer Mr Grimsdale, Co…
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comedy film, satire
The film follows Alice (Saskia Axten) a young student who stumbles into a bizarre version of London after her night with a newfound lover, Rabbit (Elijah Rowen) appears to suddenly have never happened. The night in question just happens to…
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Dark Comedy, Satire, comedy drama
Sister Mary (Diane Keaton) is an authoritarian Catholic nun who teaches children. Her teaching is heavily influenced by her fanatical beliefs. Four of her former pupils, Gary (Brian Benben), Aloysius (Wallace Langham), Angela (Laura San Gi…
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satire
When a high-stake heist becomes their only hope of escape from the life, they know to the life they want, four women with nothing to lose, brought together by fate, must take a stand! Bound by a shared vendetta, they join forces to pull of…
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Drama, drama film
Dancing In September tells the story of two hopeful and ambitious African-Americans attempting to make their mark in the television industry. One is a scriptwriter named Tomasina “Tommy” Crawford (Parker), who has grown weary of contributi…
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Komödie, comedy film
Matthew Barnes arrives in London from Chicago with his wife, Linda, to oversee a high-profile merger between his employer, Compu-Corps, and a powerful German corporation. Although Barnes has corresponded with the company representative he …
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Satire, comedy film
A former beauty queen and mother who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities, but not everything goes as planned as her wild tempered ex-boyfriend starts to lose it.
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Dark Comedy, black comedy, comedy horror
The film begins as Archie Andrews, a kindergarten teacher and vegan, regularly buys products from Lorraine's vegetarian roadside stand. He is developing an engine powered by wheatgrass, but his experiments prove unsuccessful until he accid…
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Komödie, comedy film
A title sequence prologue details Britain's accidental acquisition of the island of Gaillardia (located somewhere on the 33rd parallel south) during the 18th century, the feud between the two halves of the island and Britain's granting Gai…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Satire, Sci-Fi, comedy film
The film, set in 1972 (five years after it was made), was inspired by an actual incident which occurred on 17 January 1966: a USAF Boeing B-52G Stratofortress collided with a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker over Palomares, Spain, and four 1.1-m…
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Komödie, Romance Film, romantic comedy
Lawrence "Rip" Smith is a former basketball player and veteran who now runs a company that performs polls and consumer surveys. Lately he has started obsessing about being able to find a perfect mathematical "miracle formula" to perform th…
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Komödie, Satire, comedy film
parody film
The film begins with Bruce in Houston on a search for the American G.I. who helped Bruce when he was just a child in Korea. With little more than a name and a fuzzy memory of his hero, Bruce is determined to find G.I.
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Komödie, comedy drama, satirical film
World-renowned American film director Don Tyler (played by Donald Sutherland) is shooting a remake of The Last Emperor in the Forbidden City, Beijing. The director's assistant Lucy, a Chinese American (Rosamund Kwan), hires a Beijing camer…
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comedy film
Monkey Zetterland is a struggling screenwriter and a former child actor who is working on a historical script based on the defunct Red Car subway of Los Angeles. He lives in a building owned by his neurotic mother Honor Zetterland, who is …
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Komödie, Satire, parody film
In 1692, Miles Campbell, recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School, arrives in Salem, Massachusetts to become the local parson's assistant. He meets with his childhood sweetheart, baker Sara Lee, and plans to marry her. Meanwhile, greedy …
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Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Tony Ryder's uncle, the wealthy publisher of magazines, has just died. The young playboy Tony inherits the paper but is left with a board of directors that thinks he's unsuited for the task, plus a hotel detective who thinks Tony should kn…
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