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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When his new album fails to sell records, pop/rap superstar Conner4real goes into a major tailspin and watches his celebrity high life begin to collapse. He'll try anything to bounce back, anything except reuniting with his old rap group The ...
Style: parody, mockumentary, funny, satirical, stylized ...
Plot: music, musician, concert, celebrity, music business, pop star, storytelling, satire, fame, stereotypes, dumb, coming of age ...
Time: year 2016
Place: california
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Gulliver's Travels (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.
Style: humorous, exciting, satirical, absurd, funny ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: fantasy world, imaginary kingdom, giant, princess, goofy hero, island, travel, sea disaster, imaginary, catastrophe, getting home, battles ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 21st century
Place: fictional island, new york
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 5.5
 119K
Little Fockers (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, absurd, feel good ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot: in-laws, marriage, family relations, nothing goes right, family disapproval, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, disorder, family gatherings, comedy of errors, suburbs ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, miami
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 5.3
 111K
Legion (2010)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
Style: scary, suspenseful, demonic, absurd, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: angel, apocalypse, supernatural, religion, desert, demon, end of the world, good versus evil, prophecy, survival, save the world, extinction ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, los angeles, north america
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
Style: absurd, stylized, natural horror, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, underwater, giant monster, monster, killer shark, fish, octopus, creature feature, kaiju, water, shark attack, dangerous animal ...
Time: prehistory
Place: japan, alaska, california, usa
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Land of the Lost (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full ...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, not serious, spoof ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, paleontologist, survival, chase, lost world, beast, escapades, partner, danger, satire, misfit ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, year 2009, 2000s
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Crank: High Voltage (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
Style: stylized, entertaining, grindhouse, absurd, surreal ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: tough guy, revenge, violence, one man army, assassin, hitman, lone hero, gangster, gunfight, nudity, mixed martial arts, stripper ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The German film director Werner Herzog sets out to the Scottish Highlands to make a documentary, "Enigma of Loch Ness", exploding the myth of the Loch Ness Monster. Meanwhile, another documentary film crew is making a film about Werner ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, absurd, satirical, intense ...
Plot: legends and myths, monster, beautiful scenery, obsessive quest, loch ness monster, disorder, nothing goes right, danger, filmmaking, killer animal, giant monster, witch ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: scotland, europe
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Save the Green Planet! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A traumatized young man abducts Korean leaders, believing they're toxic reptilian aliens - a fifth column launching a takeover of beloved Earth. Stumped law enforcement geniuses half-seriously hire a disgraced, disheveled private detective with ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, alien, kidnapping, investigation, torture, dark humor, save the world, biopunk, space and aliens, twists and turns, anti hero, brutality ...
Place: south korea, korea
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 5.9
 22K
Immortal (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York City in the year 2095 where genetically altered humans live side by side with unaltered men and women.
Style: surreal, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy ...
Plot: cyberpunk, mythology, cyborgs, distopia, dystopian future, parallel universe, transformation, fantasy world, genetics, society, dystopia, humanity ...
Time: future, year 2004
Place: new york, usa
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 6.4
 9K
Eulogy (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family secret, funeral, eccentric family, death in the family, lesbian, family life, family feud, parents and children, fall in love, generation gap, loss of grandfather ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
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Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Russians need help in dealing with the Mafia and so they seek help with the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is ...
Style: absurd, slapstick, humorous, spoof, disgusting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police academy, police, car chase, mafia, video game, farce, chase, police investigation, gangster, destiny, satire, commander ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: russia, moscow russia
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Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Japan, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, intellectual, black and white, ironic ...
Plot: musician, conversation, dialogue, addiction, actor, smoking, art, coffee, lifestyle, cafe, dark humor, deadpan ...
Time: year 2003, 1920s, 70s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, america, paris france, las vegas ...
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 6.9
 56K
Naked Lunch (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: hallucination, surrealism, drug addiction, paranoia, addiction, exterminator, insect, homosexuality, beat generation, giant insect, cockroach, secret agent ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, 50s ...
Place: north africa, usa, new york
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 7.1
 310K
Elf (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, christmas special, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, father son relationship, santa claus, north pole, christmas season, corporate world, adoption, snow, winter, elf ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, south pole, manhattan new york city
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Final Destination 2 (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: survival, supernatural horror, destiny, danger, a vision, supernatural, creativity, cheating death, gory, road trip, violence, premonition ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 4.7
 14K
Corky Romano (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for ...
Style: humorous, light, absurd, funny, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gangster, undercover, unlikely criminals, fish out of water, goofy hero, organized crime, espionage, family relations, disorder, dumb, mafia, farce ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.7
 35K
Bubble Boy (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jimmy is young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy -- ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, satirical, melancholic, absurd ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: stereotypes, road trip, happy ending, transformation, illness, teenage life, obsessive quest, goofy hero, youth, self discovery, love and romance, dumb ...
Time: y2k, 2000s
Place: las vegas
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Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Penn & Teller enjoy playing jokes on each other. When Penn says on an interview show that he wishes he has someone threatening his life so that he "wouldn't sweat the small stuff," each of them begins a series of pranks on the ...
Style: humorous, surreal, absurd, dark comedy, disgusting ...
Plot: magic, murder, creativity, brutality, prankster, psychopath, danger, dark humor, stalking, prank, faked death, chase ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality.
Style: sex comedy, parody, anthology, surreal, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: zoophilia, satire, sex, mad scientist, surrealism, sexual fantasy, sex scene, bestiality, transsexuality, looking for sex, nudity, sarcasm ...
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 7.3
 126K
Eraserhead (1977)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style: surreal, avant garde, art house, psychological, experimental ...
Plot: surrealism, nightmare, insanity, existentialism, baby, psychology, art, dream, psychosis, eccentricity, factory, electricity ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: america
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 2.8
 2K
Last Resort (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sam and Dave are living the boring life until they are beckoned to Sam's uncle's Island. When they get there (still not quite sure how that worked) they are compelled by beautiful women and a dastardly enemy of the Island. After ...
Style: humorous, absurd, intense, parody, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: island, resort, stupidity, nothing goes right, buddies, partner, disorder, lifestyle, down on your luck, absurdism, uncle nephew relationship, female nudity ...
Time: 90s
Place: caribbean
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Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
Style: humorous, absurd, light, detective, not serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: kidnapping, private detective, investigation, justice, law enforcement, stupidity, dysfunctional family, multiple storylines, father daughter relationship, cons and scams, family business, clumsiness ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: santa monica california, california, los angeles
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 5.7
 15K
Drowning Mona (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The recently deceased Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny ...
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, absurd ...
Plot: murder, small town, investigation, murder mystery, sarcasm, waitress, goofy hero, disorder, social relations, family problems, drowning, small town life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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 7.1
 21K
Help! (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This Beatles film has an obscure Asian cult, that believes in human sacrifice, chasing Ringo after he accidentally put on the their victim's ceremonial ring. He is pursued by the cult, a pair of mad scientists, a member of a side cult that no ...
Style: humorous, witty, surreal, absurd, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: the beatles, music, mad scientist, rock and roll, good versus evil, heroic mission, religious cult, curses spells and rituals, rock, musician, olympics, hippie ...
Place: england, bahamas, europe, scotland yard, buckingham palace
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Yellow Submarine (1968)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, draining it of all its color and music, firing anti-music missiles, bonking people with green apples, and turning the inhabitants to stone by way of the pointed finger of a giant blue glove. As the only ...
Style: psychedelic, colorful, humorous, absurd, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: the beatles, surrealism, submarine, music, rock and roll, fighting the system, rock, trippy, musician, anti war, mature, dancing ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: england, europe, liverpool
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There's Something About Mary (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Having never fully recovered from a prom date that became a total disaster, a man finally gets a chance to reunite with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
Style: funny, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, date night ...
Plot: true love, dream girl, dumb, stupidity, private detective, farce, dating, love, obstacle, wooing, nothing goes right, hidden identity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998
Place: rhode island, florida, miami, usa
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The House of Yes (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend. She's even more shocked to learn that this friend is his fiance. It soon becomes clear that Jackie Kennedy's ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, independent film, absurd ...
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, mental illness, family problems, twins, brother sister incest, female protagonist, thanksgiving, eccentric family, secrets, family life, sexual fantasy ...
Time: year 1997, 80s, 90s, year 1983
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
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The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.
Style: funny, absurd, humorous, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, eccentricity, dark humor, filmmaking, nothing goes right, disorder, school, gangster, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, betrayal, chase ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: The mad and evil scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first things first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to ...
Style: funny, humorous, talky, light, absurd ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: mad scientist, robot, space and aliens, space travel, satire, stupidity, outer space, teleportation, irreverent, scientist, time, imaginary ...
Place: minnesota
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