Kitsch movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant kitsch movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out cult classic, humorous, semi serious, realistic, psychotronic and weird films and TV shows about / with kitsch, danger, exploitation, murder, female nudity, sex, death, violence, bare chested male and family relations plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres shot in USA, Netherlands, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as kitsch: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), Pink Flamingos (1972), Flodder (1986), Hustler White (1996), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), Switchblade Sisters (1975), The Driller Killer (1979), Flash Gordon (1980), Forbidden Zone (1980), Lifeforce (1985).

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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, road movie, sexy, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, violence, femme fatale, desert, lesbian, go go dancer, lust, teenage girl, female martial artist, innuendo, exploitation, murder ...
Time: year 1965, 20th century, 60s
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 6.0
 28K
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: independent film, disturbing, underground film, controversial, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: nudity, obsession, perversion, lesbian, controversy, gender, animal abuse, dysfunctional family, arson, male nudity, dehumanization, absurd humor ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, baltimore, idaho, maryland
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 6.6
 8K
Flodder (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A low-class a-social family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.
Style: humorous, cult classic, realistic, not serious
Plot: dysfunctional family, neighbor, eccentric family, culture clash, rivalry, gay, milf, light comedy, social worker, family relations, sex scene, blackmail ...
Time: year 1986
Place: netherlands, europe, holland
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Hustler White (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Reminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, Hustler White transposes the action from the silver screen's old movie backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the porn industry. Said to be an homage to classic Hollywood cinema.
Style: sexual, clever, controversial, experimental, cynical ...
Plot: gay, male prostitution, amputee, male prostitute, gay sex, male pubic hair, gay for pay, satire, lgbt, gays and lesbians, sex, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A hip and happenin' all girl rock group head to LA to claim lead-singer Kelly's inheritance and make it (and make it) in LA. Soon the girls fall into a morass of drugs and deceit as their recording success soars. It takes several tragedies ...
Style: erotic, grindhouse, psychotronic, psychedelic, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: satire, lesbian, erotica, sexploitation, friendship, hippie, abortion, hollywood, music industry, price of fame, sex, rock and roll ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Switchblade Sisters (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go!
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, slasher, action thriller, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: exploitation, girl gang, women in prison, juvenile delinquent, gangster, gang, high school, bullying, lesbianism, unwanted pregnancy, women, school ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
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The Driller Killer (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Style: psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, punk rock, murder, painting, homelessness, homeless man, artist, hallucination, psychopath, stalking, social misfits, obsession ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa
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 6.5
 61K
Flash Gordon (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
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: psychotronic, visual, stylized, exciting, epic ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, american football, alien, mad scientist, emperor, superhero, space, robot, space travel, megalomaniac, mind reading, mind control ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: new york, usa, space western
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Forbidden Zone (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and ...
Style: psychedelic, cult classic, grindhouse, black and white, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, transgender, camp, dancing, satire, martial arts, sex, mental disorder, time travel ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, venice california
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 6.1
 29K
Lifeforce (1985)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a ...
Style: grindhouse, intense, erotic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: vampire, alien, zombie, supernatural, alien invasion, apocalypse, nude, mind control, space, monster, alien abduction, ufo ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london, united kingdom, yorkshire ...
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Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Rock Hudson is Roger Willoughby, a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige (Paula Prentiss), a sweetly annoying girl who has just ...
Style: slapstick, retro, realistic, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: screwball, fishing, writers, erotic scene, contest, fiance fiancee relationship, disorder, love and romance, nothing goes right, rivalry, self discovery, ambition ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: san francisco
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What a Way to Go! (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became ...
Style: dark comedy, retro, laugh out loud, black comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: curse, love, fall in love, in love, choreographer, atmosphere, choreography, fashion, suburbs, strong female lead, women, sea ...
Time: 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
Style: feel good, sentimental, christian film, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, toddlers, kids ...
Plot: world war two, nanny, love, love story, love and romance, convent, mischievous children, beautiful scenery, nazi, nun, children, single father ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, 50s, 1900s ...
Place: austria, europe, alps
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Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, suspense, funny ...
Plot: peeping tom, driving, satanism, surrealism, dog, camp, master, occult, bad guy wins, sacrifice, polygamy, family in danger ...
Time: 60s
Place: austin texas
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 5.1
 4K
Candy (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a send-up of Voltaire's Candide. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.
Style: sexy, psychedelic, melancholic, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: seduction, satire, teenager, naive girl, plot twist, guru, uncle niece relationship, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, obsession, sex, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 60s
Place: california, new york, italy, europe, usa ...
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 6.9
 69K
The Rescuers (1977)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss ...
Style: light, touching, feel good, colorful, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, preschool ...
Plot: childhood, mouse, good versus evil, orphan, friendship, kidnapping, rescue, chase, little girl, anxiety, happy ending, talking animal ...
Time: 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: madagascar, new york, usa, louisiana, new orleans
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 6.9
 68K
Time Bandits (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal ...
Style: humorous, surreal, light, colorful, dark fantasy ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, date night
Plot: time travel, childhood, treasure, children, good versus evil, parallel universe, map, dwarf, time portal, monty python, mythology, medieval ...
Time: regency period, 80s, year 1981
Place: arizona, london, england, europe, ancient greece
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Enter the Ninja (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Vietnam veteran by the name of Cole (Franco Nero) visits his war buddy Frank Landers (Alex Courtney) and his newly wed wife Mary Ann Landers (Susan George), who are the owners of a ...
Style: grindhouse, bloody, action adventure, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, sword fight, fight scenes, death, kung fu, exploitation, cannon, violence, chase, fight, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: the philippines
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 6.6
 18K
Mommie Dearest (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, factual, intense, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: child abuse, adoption, dysfunctional family, abusive mother, single mother, bad mother, mother daughter relationship, mansion, hollywood, borderline personality disorder, mother, storytelling ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, new york, los angeles
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Style: exciting, breathtaking, epic, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, manly, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeologist, indiana jones, treasure, adventurer, archaeology, nazi, artifact, chase, villain, desert, escapades ...
Time: 1930s, year 1936, 20th century, 90s, year 1981
Place: egypt, south america, nepal, africa, himalaya ...
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 6.2
 24K
Cat People (1982)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After years of separation, Irina (Nastassja Kinski) and her minister brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sensual, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: incest, female nudity, human sacrifice, sex horror, voyeurism, werewolf, transformation, nudity, brother sister incest, sex, erotica, skinny dipping ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 6.8
 53K
Creepshow (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
Style: anthology, dark comedy, suspenseful, grindhouse, scary ...
Plot: monster, death, murder, torture, gory, zombie, dark humor, transformation, brutality, voodoo, demon, life & death ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 19th century, 1830s, future
Place: pittsburgh
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style: teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage pregnancy, stoner, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, youth, high school life, shopping mall, sex scene, loss of virginity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
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 5.1
 45K
Red Sonja (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.
Style: dark fantasy, entertaining, light, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: sword and sorcery, barbarian, supernatural, bare breasts, female warrior, female nudity, medieval, maiden, revenge, good versus evil, female protagonist, wizard ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, prehistoric times
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 12K
Legal Eagles (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable ...
Style: melancholic, entertaining, realistic, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom, lawyer, legal, conspiracy, investigation, murder, dedicated lawyer, legal action, court case, cons and scams, couples, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.4
 62K
The Money Pit (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buys what looks like the home of their dreams – only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling ...
Style: realistic, light, slapstick, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: home renovation, house, screwball, farce, writers, culture clash, love story, greed, life philosophy, chaos, couple relations, family in crisis ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, rio de janeiro, new york
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Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though ...
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, teen, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, nerd, couples, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, youth, pretend relationship, friendship, popularity, cheerleading ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: arizona, tucson arizona
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 6.0
 19K
The Gate (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally ...
Style: scary, slasher, satanic, suspense, splatter ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: demon, monster, supernatural, zombie, boy, occult, coming of age, child protagonist, suburbs, suburban life, child in peril, creature ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Style: feel good, road movie, light, funny, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: road trip, thanksgiving, travel, on the road, buddy, snow, holiday, train, airplane, airport, railway, traveling salesman ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
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 5.9
 37K
Barbarella (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Style: futuristic, psychedelic, surreal, grindhouse, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: space opera, mad scientist, alien planet, angel, female nudity, space, striptease, evil queen, laser gun, sexual fantasy, sex, alien ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: yukon
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