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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 709 films · Page 7.
Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, comedy film, drama film, science fiction film
Joanna Eberhart's successful career as an executive producer and president of reality television network EBS abruptly ends after Hank, a disillusioned reality show participant, attempts to murder Joanna during an upfront presentation. Afte…
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Dark Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, comedy thriller
Beverly Sutphin appears to be an unassuming upper-middle-class housewife living with her dentist husband Eugene and their teenage children, Misty and Chip, in Towson, Maryland. In truth, she is a serial killer who murders people over trivi…
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Fake Documentary, Musical, Satire On Media, comedy film
Conner Friel, a musical prodigy, forms a pop rap group dubbed "The Style Boyz" with his childhood friends, Lawrence Dunn and Owen Bouchard. They almost instantly gain fame in the music industry and inspire many modern musicians, who extol …
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Parodie, Satire On War, Silly Movie, Sitcom, action comedy film
Major Benson Winifred Payne, a battle-hardened Force Recon Marine, Vietnam War and Persian Gulf veteran, returns from a successful drug raid in South America to find out that he has been passed over for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. Pay…
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Drama, Erotic Film, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Thriller, drama film, horror film, musical film, sexploitation film, teen film
Three young women—Kelly MacNamara, Casey Anderson, and Petronella "Pet" Danforth—perform in a rock band, the Kelly Affair, managed by Harris Allsworth, Kelly's boyfriend. The four travel to Los Angeles to find Kelly's estranged aunt, Susan…
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Drama, Komödie, Romance Film, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy film
Jane Craig is a talented, intense news producer who is passionate about reporting and abhors the trend towards soft news in broadcasts. Her best friend and collaborator, Aaron Altman, is a gifted writer and reporter lacking in social skill…
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Komödie, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Dave Kovic runs a temporary employment agency in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and, as a side job, capitalizes on his remarkable resemblance to President Bill Mitchell by comically impersonating him at events. Secret Service agent Duane St…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
After the "World Crash of '79", massive civil unrest and economic ruin occurred. The United States government is restructured into a totalitarian regime under martial law. To pacify the population, the government has created the Transconti…
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Daffy Comedy, comedy drama, comedy of remarriage, drama film, romantic comedy film
left|thumb|thumbtime=20|The full-length film is in the public domain. Walter Burns, a hard-boiled newspaper editor, learns that his ex-wife and former star reporter, Hildy Johnson, is about to marry insurance man Bruce Baldwin and settle d…
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Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Sherman McCoy is a Wall Street bond trader who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin, a Southern belle gold digger. Sherman and Maria are driving back to Maria's apartment from JFK Airport when t…
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Parodie, Satire On Media, slapstick
George Newman, a daydreaming slacker who bounces between jobs, is put in charge of Channel 62, a UHF television station, after his uncle, Harvey Bilchik, wins ownership of it in a poker game. George and his friend, Bob Steckler, realize th…
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Romantic Drama, Satire, comedy drama, romantic comedy
On the eve of the 1968 presidential election, successful Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy meets with Felicia, one of his several clients/sexual partners, at his apartment. During sex, he receives a phone call from Jill, his naive, y…
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Satire
thumb|Jacques Tati as M. Hulot in "Tativille" Playtime is set in a hyperconsumerist mid-century modern Paris. The story is structured in six sequences, linked by two characters who repeatedly encounter one another over the course of a day:…
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Romance Film, Satire, war film
The film follows an aspiring actress working for a military role-playing facility, posing as a fictional country known as Atropia.
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Drama, Satire, Vampirfilm, drama film, horror film, vampire film
In 1921, German director F. W. Murnau is shooting Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
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Political Satire, Secret Agent, drama film, thriller film
Andy Osnard is an MI6 agent reassigned to Panama after having an affair in Madrid with the foreign minister's mistress. His superior warns him of the corruption present in Panama, but Osnard views that as an opportunity. Consulting a list …
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Sitcom, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, gangster film, romantic comedy film
In 1928, David Shayne is an idealistic young playwright newly arrived on Broadway from Pittsburgh. Desperate to gain financing for his play, God of Our Fathers, he is persuaded by producer Julian Marx to cast actress Olive Neal, the girlfr…
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Dark Comedy, Gross Out Film, Silly Movie, comedy film, musical film
Six fish in a restaurant's tank greet each other, then see their friend being eaten. This leads them to question the meaning of life. In the first sketch, "The Miracle of Birth", maternity doctors ignore a woman in labour while trying to i…
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Political Drama, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Henry Burton, a young political idealist and grandson of a civil rights leader, is recruited to join the campaign of Jack Stanton, a charismatic Southern governor trying to win the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United St…
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Political Satire, comedy film
Democratic Congressman Cam Brady, who has run unopposed for the 14th district of North Carolina for four elections, is exposed when he has an affair with a supporter that is heard on a phone call, damaging his upcoming campaign for a fifth…
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Cartoon, Crime, Drama, adult animated film, blaxploitation film, comedy film, live-action/animated film
Sampson and the "Preacher" rush to help their friend, Randy, escape from prison, but are stopped by a roadblock and a shootout with the police begins. While waiting for them, Randy converses with an escapee named Pappy, who claims to know …
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Satire, Satire On Media, parody film
Komödie, Musical, Satire
thumb|350x350px|Four stills from the film, (left to right and top to bottom) depicting the mock reaction video and anti-suicide talk, and images from the songs "All Eyes On Me" and "Goodbye". Burnham enters a small, spare room. All subsequ…
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Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, military comedy film
Judy Benjamin, a 28-year-old Jewish woman from a sheltered wealthy upbringing whose lifelong dream is to "marry a professional man", is devastated after Yale Goodman, her new husband, dies on their wedding night. Emotionally adrift, Judy t…
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