Campy movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant campy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, weird, cult classic, absurd, psychotronic and funny films and TV shows about / with camp, brutality, cult, mentor, dialogue, catastrophe, storytelling, adaptation, violence and mad scientist plots mostly in Comedy, Horror and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
campy movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as campy: Flash Gordon (1980), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), The Room (2003), Blood for Dracula (1974), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), Captain Flamingo (2006), Hairspray (1988), Casino Royale (1967), Death Becomes Her (1992), The Horror of Party Beach (1964).

List of campy movies

 6.5
 66K
Flash Gordon (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
Style: cult classic, saga, psychotronic, visual, stylized ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, flash gordon, american football, weather manipulation, mad scientist, emperor, robot, canceled wedding, mind reading, eroticism, mind control, meteor shower ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, future, 1930s
Place: new york, usa, space western
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker ...
Style: parody, cult classic, sexy, homoerotic, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lgbtq, mad scientist, gay interest, transvestite, gay, gender, homosexual, castle, rock and roll, wedding, surrealism, dance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: transylvania, ohio
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 3.6
 99K
The Room (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world fall apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, funny ...
Plot: infidelity, best friend, breast cancer, dark humor, suicide, flower shop, american football, seduction, strange behavior, psychologist, room, unrequited love ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, bay area, california
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Blood for Dracula (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, sexy, grindhouse, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, rape, exploitation, blood, erotica, dracula, satire, supernatural, vampire bite, illness, sex horror, lesbian incest ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, paris france, england, romania ...
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. ...
Style: grindhouse, erotic, sexy, road movie, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, femme fatale, desert, violence, go go dancer, innuendo, teenage girl, female martial artist, lust, nudie cutie, murder, exploitation ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: california
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Captain Flamingo (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Philippines
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Captain Flamingo is a Canadian animated television series, which chronicles the adventures of the protagonist and main character Milo Powell. The television series was produced by Atomic Cartoons, Breakthrough Films & Television, The Heroic ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing
Plot: superhero, children, child protagonist, child, child in peril, rescue mission, satire, escapades, flamingo, heroic mission, young heroes, heroes ...
Time: 2000s
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 7.0
 25K
Hairspray (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ample teen Tracy Turnblad wants nothing more than to be on the hip local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show" -- and when her dream comes true, her lively moves and bubbly personality meet with unexpected popularity. But after ...
Style: light, satirical, stylized, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, teenager, rock and roll, racism, civil rights, fat girl, satire, dance, interracial romance, music, interracial friendship, social differences ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1962, year 1963, 80s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland, america, california ...
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 5.0
 35K
Casino Royale (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take ...
Style: parody, spoof, psychedelic, saga, spy comedy ...
Plot: 007, espionage, spy spoof, spy, satire, james bond, auction, woman fights a man, sexual attraction, secret agent, james bond spoof, farce ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, scotland, india, highlands, france ...
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Death Becomes Her (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to ...
Style: dark comedy, satirical, gothic, clever, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: dark humor, immortality, love triangle, obsession, magic, death, fountain of youth, afterlife, satire, rejuvenation, zombie, potion ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1978, year 1985 ...
Place: california, persia, beverly hills, usa, new york ...
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The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
Genre: Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Radioactive waste dumped off the coastline creates mutant monsters. The beasts attack slumber parties, beaches, tourists, and terrorize a waterfront community as a scientist, his daughter, her boyfriend and the local police try to find a way to stop ...
Style: semi serious, scary, humorous, grindhouse, absurd ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beach, beach party, sea monster, mutant, monster, teenager, voodoo, rock music, voodoo doll, teenage girl, deadly creature, black maid ...
Time: 60s
Place: long island, connecticut, new york
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 6.0
 31K
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person ...
Style: controversial, underground film, black comedy, independent film, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: nudity, lesbian, obsession, animal abuse, arson, perversion, dysfunctional family, murder, egg, transgression, controversy, sadism ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, maryland, baltimore, idaho, california
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 6.0
 15K
Motel Hell (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make ...
Style: parody, gothic, dark comedy, scary, spoof ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, murder, psychopath, backwoods, violence, trap, butcher, rural setting, female nudity, farmer, satire ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place: california, texas
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 6.5
 38K
Batman (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Style: cult classic, saga, exciting, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: kids, date night, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, batman, good versus evil, super villain, vigilante, comic book, male male relationship, villain, kickass women, rescue, superpower, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: north america, pentagon
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The Toxic Avenger (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when mop boy Melvin Junko falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, bloody, cult horror, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, satire, vigilante, gory, absurd violence, freak, absurdism, monster, bullying, blood, corruption, extreme violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Battlefield Earth (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of ...
Style: futuristic, cult classic, dutch angle, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, heroic mission, violence, slavery, escape attempt, danger, escapades, survival, rat ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, distant future
Place: denver colorado, washington d.c.
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 6.5
 68K
Cry-Baby (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Style: humorous, sentimental, satirical, light, parody ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: rock and roll, gang, forbidden love, youth, satire, music, couples, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, biker, juvenile delinquent, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1954, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa
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 5.2
 81K
Showgirls (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A young drifter named Nomi arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become a top showgirl.
Style: sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, satirical ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: striptease, showgirl, stripper, sex scene, erotica, nudity, rape, female nudity, strip club, seduction, showbiz, pole dancing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Thor goes on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced — a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the ...
Style: saga, captivating, entertaining, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: superhero, space travel, warrior, costumed hero, norse god, superheroine, heroine, alien, battles, mythology, courage, lightning ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: ancient greece
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Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A traveling sideshow called the Cavalcade of Perversion draws in and terrorizes unsuspecting spectators. The leader of the troupe of misfits is Lady Divine, who goes out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
Style: underground film, independent film, dark comedy, slasher, black and white ...
Plot: rape, fetish, sexual perversion, freakshow, cannibalism, exploitation, surrealism, lesbian, rape and revenge, church, hardcore, murder ...
Time: 60s
Place: maryland, baltimore
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Bride of Chucky (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts.
Style: scary, horror comedy, slasher, black comedy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: evil doll, dark humor, doll, supernatural, wedding, goth, serial killer, gory, murder, couples, female serial killer, road trip ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 80s
Place: new jersey
Is relevant?
 7.2
 165K
Tremors (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before ...
Style: scary, entertaining, horror comedy, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night, kids, boys' night, teens, horror for children
Plot: monster, desert, creature feature, creature, death, survival, small town, deadly creature, danger, giant monster, stranded, rescue ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, future, 20th century, 80s
Place: nevada, usa
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 3.3
 56K
Sharknado (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin sets out with his friends Baz and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April and ...
Style: absurd, grindhouse, horror comedy, funny, natural horror ...
Audience: horror for children
Plot: shark, killer shark, beach, stupidity, creature feature, animal attack, chaos and mayhem, gory, danger, fish, shark attack, eaten alive ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
Is relevant?
 5.8
 9K
Blacula (1972)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his ...
Style: grindhouse, gothic, cult classic, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot: vampire, reincarnation, blaxploitation, dracula, african american, nightclub, macabre, gay, black, bloodsucker, monster, coroner ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1972, 18th century, 19th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, europe, usa, transylvania ...
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 3.0
 36K
Troll 2 (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young child is terrified to discover that a planned family trip is to be haunted by vile plant-eating monsters out of his worst nightmare...
Style: cult classic, scary, humorous, funny, cult horror ...
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, small town, little creatures, sexual innuendo, person on fire, exploitation, creature, stupidity, seduction, profanity, child in peril, destiny ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
Is relevant?
 7.1
 12K
Female Trouble (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progress from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. She runs away from home, is raped, becomes a single ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, sexy, controversial, erotic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: satire, absurd violence, juvenile delinquent, absurd humor, fat woman, female nudity, male nudity, murder, dysfunctional family, kidnapping, disfigurement, absurdism ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: baltimore, california
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Psycho Beach Party (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Spoof of 1960's Beach Party/Gidget surfing movies mixed with slasher horror films. A not-so-innocent girl in 1960's Malibu becomes the first girl surfer at Malibu Beach, only she suffers from dissociative identity disorder and occasionally ...
Style: sexy, spoof, slasher, parody, satirical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: beach, camp, surfer, surfing, voyeur, dark humor, serial killer, murder, single mother, female nudity, revenge, friends ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, 80s
Place: malibu california, italy, europe, florence
Is relevant?
 7.0
 10K
Polyester (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's ...
Style: independent film, black comedy, disturbing, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: misfit, satire, dysfunctional family, alcoholism, abortion, loser, housewife, playboy, transvestite, lgbtq, surrealism, middle class ...
Time: year 1981, 80s, 20th century
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa, boston, california
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Aliens, who look like clowns, arrive on Earth to capture and harvest people in order to use them as sustenance.
Style: parody, dark comedy, horror comedy, frightening, scary ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, horror for children
Plot: clown, killer clown, monster, ufo, alien, extraterrestrial, evil clown, alien abduction, rescue, alien invasion, amusement park, small town ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1988
Place: california, usa
Is relevant?
 7.4
 109K
Braindead (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Style: bloody, dark comedy, cult classic, horror comedy, creepy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, zombie, dark humor, living dead, infection, eaten alive, terror, monster, supernatural, zombie attack, body horror, macabre ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
Is relevant?
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 comedy film directed by John De Bello and starring David Miller. The film is a spoof of B-movies. Made on a budget of less than USD $100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and ...
Style: parody, scary, black comedy, independent film, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mad scientist, satire, monster, space and aliens, disaster, disguise, helicopter crash, food, insanity, espionage, rescue, survival ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Is relevant?
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