Manic laughter movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant manic laughter movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, independent film, cult classic, psychotronic and rough films and TV shows about / with manic laughter, danger, escapades, murder, rivalry, violence, gore, blood, death and deadly plots mostly in Comedy, Action and Horror genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as manic laughter: The Tournament (2009), Ravenous (1999), From Beyond (1986), The Secret of the Sword (1985), Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite (2020), When Seagulls Cry (2009), Permanent Vacation (1980), Fist of the North Star (1986), Double Dragon (1994), Rampage (2009).

List of manic laughter movies

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 6.0
 36K
The Tournament (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Bahrain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Every ten or seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, intense, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, chase, martial arts, hitman, tournament, competition, game of death, female fighter, female martial artist, fight, fight to the death, assassin ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: england, britain, miami, united kingdom, brazil
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 6.9
 43K
Ravenous (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Mexico, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, wendigo, snow, winter, gory, death, camp, isolation, military, fort, survival ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 90s, 1800s, 1840s ...
Place: usa, california
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 6.6
 30K
From Beyond (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style: scary, lovecraft, demonic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: body horror, mad scientist, transformation, supernatural, monster, experiment, zombie, gory, laboratory, another dimension, murder, obsession ...
Time: year 2016
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The Secret of the Sword (1985)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After experiencing traumatic nightmares of a time now past, the Sorceress summons Prince Adam and Cringer to Castle Grayskull to give Adam a precious, jeweled sword and send the pair to the planet Etheria to investigate its secrets.
Style: exciting, serious, independent film, psychotronic, crying ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, female warrior, sorcery, sword and sorcery, family reunited, swordplay, extraterrestrial, pimp, sword, rebellion, good versus evil, twins ...
Time: 80s
Place: fictional island
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Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: It's been ten years since the creation of the Great Truce, an elaborate joint-species surveillance system designed and monitored by cats and dogs to keep the peace when conflicts arise. But when a tech-savvy villain hacks into wireless networks ...
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, humorous
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: pets, talking dog, talking cat, dog, talking animal, secret agent, save the world, heroic mission, good versus evil, master villain, rivalry, animal life ...
Place: seattle
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When Seagulls Cry (2009)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: As customary per year, the entire family is gathering on the island for a conference that discusses the current financial situations of each respective person. Because of the family head's poor health, this year involves the topic of the head ...
Style: anime, crying, dark fantasy
Plot: teenager, vulgar, love, psychopath, torture, conundrum, violence, magic, aristocrat, fight, wealth, murder ...
Time: 80s
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Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ernest P. Worrell grows a hand out of the top of his head and tries to destroy the world.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: weirdo, mad doctor, mad scientist, absurdism, insanity, robot, madness, financial ruin, financial crisis, totalitarianism, secret hideout, inflation ...
Time: 80s
Place: ohio, cincinnati ohio
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Permanent Vacation (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along the way.
Style: independent film, art house, artsy, contemplative, surreal ...
Plot: slacker, dialogue, solitude, drifter, coming of age, jazz, mental illness, hipster, teen angst, youth culture, alienation, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Fist of the North Star (1986)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After a nuclear holocaust tears the world apart, mankind is forced to the harshness of not only the oppression of others who are much more powerful, but the dead earth which seems to be getting worse with every passing moment. But a savior has risen ...
Style: anime, manga, adult anime, apocalyptic, adult animation ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wasteland, samurai, female nudity, smoking, killing, mature, dark future, mixed martial arts, post nuclear, underground, fighter ...
Time: 80s, near future, future
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 3.9
 14K
Double Dragon (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set 15 years in the future in post-earthquake California, where San Diego and Los Angeles are merged into one city, two teenage brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader named Bo Abobo has the other half, and ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, light hearted, funny ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroic mission, chase, heroes, good versus evil, danger, vigilante, superhuman powers, rivalry, leadership, secret identity, race against time ...
Time: future, year 1994, year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, china, california, usa
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 6.2
 20K
Rampage (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The boredom of small town life is eating Bill Williamson alive. Feeling constrained and claustrophobic in the meaningless drudgery of everyday life and helpless against overwhelming global dissolution, Bill begins a descent into madness. His ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, brutal, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: bad guy wins, violence spree, killing spree, chase, psychopath, murder, violence, anti hero, violent, serial killer, massacre, breaking point ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
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Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie (1996)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sonic's arch nemesis Dr. Robotnik has been banished from the Land of Darkness by an evil Metal Robotnik. The devious doctor tells Sonic that the Robot Generator has been sabotaged and will blow Planet Freedom to kingdom come. But it's not ...
Style: anime, cult classic, mecha, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: anthropomorphic animal, sonic the hedgehog, robot, superhero, anthropomorphism, space and aliens, evil alien, video game, game, race against time, president, fox ...
Time: 90s
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 5.2
 3K
Equinox (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic, due to possession of a tome of mystic information, and find themselves pitched into a world of evil which overlaps our own. Incorporates a 16mm amateur short film by Dennis Muren and Mark ...
Style: lovecraft, mythical, supernatural thriller, cult classic, classic horror ...
Plot: monster, giant monster, stop motion, devil, occult, supernatural, kaiju, exploitation, creature, witchcraft, killer animal, bookstore ...
Place: california, persia
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 4.0
 8K
Starcrash (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, grindhouse, funny, retro ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, robot, space, space travel, female warrior, lightsaber, spacecraft, space battle, emperor, exploitation, father son reunion, supernatural power ...
Time: year 1978
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Master, Mistress and Servant (1962)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A Zamindar neglects his wife and prefers the company of alcohol and dancing girls. The decadence of the Bangali Zamindar milieu and the raising bourgeoisie in the late 19th century, seen through the eyes of a young upward mobile rustic seeking ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, black and white, retro, realistic ...
Plot: indian woman, women, affair, unfulfillment, society, master and servant, couple relations, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance, estate ...
Time: 19th century
Place: india, kolkata
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 7.1
 14K
Cold Fish (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, rough, serious, twisted ...
Plot: serial killer, sexual pleasure, psychopath, female nudity, slutty wife, perversion, sexual promiscuity, fish, milf, woman on top, sex, cheating wife ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Follows a group of friends that decide to go snowmobiling during their winter break. They make a "wrong turn", getting lost in a storm.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, scary, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cannibal, survival, cannibalism, blood, snow, murder, lesbian cunnilingus, winter, strong violent content, danger, psychopath, chase ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
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 5.6
 7K
Botched (2007)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, Ireland, UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ritchie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the ...
Style: slasher, horror comedy, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, hostage, gangster, rivalry, danger, elevator, zombie, robbery, brother brother relationship, violence, hardcore ...
Place: russia, ireland, moscow russia
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The Robber Hotzenplotz (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Children's Story about a allways unlucky Highwayman of the southern geman Forestaicion's in the later half of the 19th Century,witty Grammafication by the Author,in,off Course german Lingua.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: tree, small town, castle, escapades, family relations, heroes, supernatural ability, grandmother, monkey, sorcerer, kidnapping, crocodile ...
Place: bavaria
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 6.1
 38K
Orgazmo (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Joe Young is a devout Mormon living in L.A. trying to raise enough money to go back to Utah and marry his girlfriend, Lisa. Joe is spreading the word about the church of Latter Day Saints one day when he's confronted by two burly bodyguards. A ...
Style: humorous, independent film, funny, parody, absurd ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: sex, adult filmmaking, violence, male nudity, satire, sarcasm, dumb, stupidity, storytelling, fight, superhero, fish out of water ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: los angeles, utah, california, usa, xian
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 6.1
 23K
No Escape (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of ...
Style: suspense, exciting, grindhouse, bleak, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: prison, island, jungle, prison guard, dystopia, survival, chase, violent, brutality, island prison, prisoner, escape ...
Time: future, year 1994, near future
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Mozart and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Style: touching, inspirational, sweet, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: asperger's syndrome, autism, mental illness, taxi driver, mathematics, disability, loneliness, bird, hopes, couple relations, support group, love story ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa
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 5.2
 3K
Mindwarp (1991)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell, Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind control.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, serious, futuristic ...
Plot: post apocalypse, virtual reality, wasteland, dystopian future, rebel, cannibalism, danger, rivalry, post apocalyptic, cannibal, distopia, slavery ...
Time: future, 2030s
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Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal which brings fame and fortune but ...
Style: humorous, cult classic, not serious, feel good, witty ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: music, showbiz, rock and roll, friendship, celebrity, teenager, fictional band, music band, lifestyle, musician's life, desire for fame, ambition ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york
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Inspector Gadget (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art ...
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teens
Plot: good versus evil, superhero, rescue, robot, superhuman powers, escapades, undercover, goofy hero, fighting crime, secret identity, imaginary, master villain ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: pittsburgh
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style: surreal, psychological, lovecraft, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: insanity, investigation, hallucination, paranoia, gory, supernatural, small town, mind game, mental illness, writers, fear, monster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, distant future
Place: new england, new hampshire, england, europe, new york ...
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Basket Case 3 (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Henelotter up's the ante in the final part of his trilogy by introducing a new member to the family; the potentially monstrous fruit of hideously deformed Belial's loins. With the pair still enjoying relative anonymity and comfort in their ...
Style: slasher, cult classic, dark, classic horror, horror comedy ...
Plot: monster, body horror, creature, twins, babies and infants, tiny, birth, freak, violence, little creatures, killings, misfit ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
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Basket Case 2 (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Having eluded the authorities after a series of grisly murders, the pair find sanctuary at the palatial home of Granny Ruth, an eccentric philanthropist who rallies the cause of "Unique Individuals". But even amongst "friends" ...
Style: disturbing, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, twins, mutant, supernatural, psychopath, superhuman powers, journalism, good versus evil, body horror, social misfits, freak, hospital ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city
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Curse of Chucky (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After the passing of her mother, a young woman in a wheelchair since birth, is forced to deal with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, Nica discovers the culprit ...
Style: slasher, scary, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: killer doll, doll, serial killer, evil doll, disability, toy comes to life, child in peril, psychopath, old dark house, murder, dark humor, supernatural power ...
Time: 2010s, year 1988, year 2013
Place: usa
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Fist of the North Star (1984)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: In the year 199X, human civilization has been all but destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. In an age where the strong rule over the weak, the survivors of the fallout struggle over the remaining supply food and water left. Kenshiro, successor to an ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, adult anime ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, superhuman powers, chaos, vengeance, danger, nuclear holocaust, dystopian future, uninhibited rivalry, heroic mission, kung fu, tragic hero, one against many ...
Time: near future, 80s, future
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