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Dark Comedy, Fake Documentary, Satire On Media, Thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
In Little Hope, New Hampshire, young ambitious Suzanne Stone is obsessed with being on television, aspiring to become a world-famous broadcast correspondent. But today's headline reads, "Little Hope's own weather (girl) reporter is possibl…
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Cartoon, Komödie, adult animated film, black comedy film, comedy film, satirical film
Set in 1960s Manhattan, a group of hippies gather at Washington Square Park to perform protest songs. Fritz, an anthropomorphic tabby cat, arrives with his friends in an attempt to impress three girls, who instead show interest in an anthr…
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High School Comedy Film, LGBTQ-related film, teen film
Jim McAllister is a well-liked U.S. history and civics teacher at Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska. One of his students is Tracy Flick, an academically driven and high-achieving junior whose single mother, Judith, encourages her to st…
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Political Satire, black comedy film, satirical film
Four radicalised British Muslims living in Sheffield (three of whom are British Pakistanis) aspire to become suicide bombers: Omar, who is deeply critical of Western society and interventionism; his dim-witted and anxious cousin Waj; Barry…
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Satire, Sci-Fi, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Upon discovering a UFO in American airspace, the National Guard sends fighter jets to investigate, which fire on the unresponsive craft and cause it to crash into the Atlantic Ocean, near Manhattan. The aliens from the planet Remulak, Beld…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Political Satire, Splatstick, prison film, screwball comedy film
Frank Drebin has retired from Police Squad and lives a seemingly happy life with his wife, Jane Spencer Drebin. In reality, Frank is unfulfilled as a househusband and attends marriage counseling with Jane. Six months after Frank's retireme…
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Gross Out Film, Komödie, Parodie, Sci-Fi
The film follows a group of intergalactic homosexual black men from the planet Anus, who discover the presence of female creatures on planet Earth. Using rayguns, they proceed to eliminate all females from Earth, eliciting gratitude from t…
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Horror comedy, comedy film, comedy horror, fantasy film, ghost film, monster film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Five years after saving New York City from destruction by the shapeshifting god Gozer, the Ghostbusters have been sued for the property damage incurred and barred from investigating the supernatural, forcing them out of business. Ray Stant…
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Drama, Komödie, Satire, comedy drama
Middle-aged, simple-minded Chance lives in a wealthy old man's townhouse in Washington, D.C., along with the man's African-American maid Louise, who is kind to him. He has spent his whole life tending the garden and never left the property…
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Psychodrama, Romance Film, Satire On Media, comedy film, drama film
Prologue 1st Day Sequence: A helicopter transports a statue of Christ over an ancient Roman aqueduct outside Rome while a second, Marcello Rubini's news helicopter, follows it into the city. The news helicopter is momentarily sidetracked b…
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Christmas film, Satire On Media, comedy film, fantasy, fantasy film, ghost film, romantic comedy
On December 23, Frank Cross, the ruthless and cynical president of IBC television, is preoccupied with ensuring the success of his extravagant live broadcast of A Christmas Carol scheduled for Christmas Eve. He launches a violent, fear-mon…
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Erotic Film, Sci-Fi, adventure film, comedy film, erotic film, fantasy film, retrofuturism, science fiction film, space opera
In an unspecified future, space adventurer Barbarella is sent by the Earth's president to retrieve Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti planetary system. Durand is the inventor of a laser-powered weapon, the positronic ray, which Earth's leader…
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Satire On War, War Film, action film, heist film, war film
In 1944 France, during World War II, United States Army Private Kelly—a former lieutenant scapegoated for a failed infantry assault—captures Colonel Dankhopf of Wehrmacht Intelligence. Kelly realizes that Dankhopf is carrying several gold …
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Buddy Film, Dark Comedy, Drama, Film Noir, Satire On Media, Thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, independent film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1941, up-and-coming Broadway playwright Barton Fink accepts a contract from Capitol Pictures in Hollywood to write film scripts for a thousand dollars per week. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Fink settles into the cheap Hotel Earle. His ro…
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Detective Film, Monumental Film, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir
Down-on-his-luck private eye Philip Marlowe leaves his Los Angeles apartment to buy cat food. After he returns, his close friend Terry Lennox arrives and asks Marlowe for a ride to Tijuana, Mexico. Marlowe notices scratches on Terry's face…
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Animation, Komödie, animated film with LGBT character(s), comedy film, musical film
In South Park, Colorado, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski and his adopted brother Ike, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick visit the movie theater to see Terrance and Phillip's R-rated film, Asses of Fire, bribing a homeless man to help sneak the…
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Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Drama, comedy drama, drama film
At Camden College in New Hampshire, students Lauren Hynde, Paul Denton, and Sean Bateman give apathetic interior monologues on their lives and briefly exchange glances with one another. Lauren, previously a virgin, takes a film student ups…
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Komödie, Satire On War, War Film, action film, comedy film, war film
In the summer of 2009, four-star General Glen McMahon, having won renown for his effective leadership in Iraq, is sent to Afghanistan to prepare a strategic assessment so the government can end the ongoing war. He is given wide latitude to…
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Animation, Anti-War Film, Cartoon, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Political Satire, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, technofantasy
Earth has been devastated by a nuclear war. It takes 2 million years for the radioactive clouds to allow sunlight in. The humans who survived the apocalypse have been transformed into mutants, while humanity's true ancestors – trolls, fair…
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Dark Comedy, Family Drama, Melodrama, Musical, Psychodrama, Romance Film, Satire, drama film, romantic comedy
Socially awkward young Muriel Heslop is the target of ridicule by her shallow and snobbish friends, Tania, Cheryl, Janine and Nicole. A devoted ABBA fan, she often daydreams of a glamorous wedding to get her away from the dead-end beach to…
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Drama, Satire, crime film, drama film
Griffin Mill is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow. He hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only twelve out of 50,000 submissions ever…
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Groteske, Horror, Musical, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, musical film, thriller film
Following a run-through by the 1950s-style nostalgia band the Juicy Fruits, star record producer Swan overhears singer-songwriter Winslow Leach perform an original composition: a song from the cantata based on the legend of Faust. Swan bel…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, Silly Movie, Teen Comedy Film, romantic comedy
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Elle Woods wants her Chihuahua, Bruiser, to reunite with his mother, hoping both dogs will attend her wedding to Emmett. Elle hires a detective to find Bruiser's mother, only to discover that her o…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Daffy Comedy, Gross Out Film, Satire, alien invasion, biopunk, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Late one night, a large meteor crashes in the Arizona desert, witnessed by aspiring firefighter Wayne Grey. The next morning, college professors Ira Kane and Harry Block investigate the crash site, discovering that the meteor has landed in…
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