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Plot Summary:
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, dark comedy
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)
Plot Summary:
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End is a 1980 British film based on the eponymous character created by Vivian Stanshall. It starred Trevor Howard as Sir Henry and Stanshall himself as Henry's brother Hubert. Unusually, the film was released in sepia toned monochrome. As complex as the mind of its creator, Vivian Stanshall, the plot of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End revolves around attempts to exorcise the ghost of Humbert, the brother of Sir Henry (Trevor Howard). Humbert was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident whilst escaping from an illicit tryst. Amongst the eccentric family members, mad friends and grudgingly loyal servants involved are the eternally knitting Aunt Florrie, the tapeworm obsessed Mrs. E, Lady Phillipa of Staines (Liz Smith), who enjoys the odd 'small' sherry and the ever-present Old Scrotum, Sir Henry's wrinkled retainer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Romeo & Julio (2009)
Plot Summary:
Break-dance trash musical comedy/parody based on William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody
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The Milky Life (1993)
Plot Summary:
Retired billionaire, Rooney, feels his family loves only his money and not him. He plans to live as an adult baby with his wet nurse, Sagebrecht. When thieves break into his mansion and hit him on the head, he starts to grow younger.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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Getting Wasted (1980)
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An uptight military school gets a dose of hippie-infused rebellion when a group of students gather in support of the 1960s uprising going on around them. When a few students decide to bring the more liberal, artsy side of the revolution onto campus, they face opposition from much of the school's staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Adding Machine (1969)
Plot Summary:
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Virgin's Bed (1969)
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30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental
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Jungle Freaks (1969)
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Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, black comedy, weird
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The Committee (1968)
Plot Summary:
The Committee, starring Paul Jones of Manfred Mann fame, is a unique document of Britain in the 1960s. After a very successful run in London’s West End in 1968, viewings of this controversial movie have been few and far between. Stunning black and white camera work by Ian Wilson brings to life this “chilling fable” by Max Steuer, a lecturer (now Reader Emeritus) at the London School of Economics. Avoiding easy answers, The Committee uses a surreal murder to explore the tension and conflict between bureaucracy on one side, and individual freedom on the other. Many films, such as Total Recall, Fahrenheit 451 and Camus’ The Stranger, see the state as ignorant and repressive, and pass over the inevitable weaknesses lying deep in individuals. Drawing on the ideas of R.D. Laing, a psychologically hip state faces an all too human protagonist.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, experimental, allegory, independent film
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The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker (1970)
Plot Summary:
An aimless college graduate drives a taxi while rebelling against his parents, the Establishment and whatever else he happens to loathe on any given day (including pigeons). Then he meets a girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: political, psychedelic, independent film
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Jubilee (1978)
Plot Summary:
Queen Elizabeth I visits late twentieth-century Britain to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: offbeat, mind bending, retro, psychedelic, touching, dark, surreal, psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982)
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Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest to be married, pursued by a pair of not-lovers. There, in the forest, live the fairies whose lives are in turmoil, due to the heated lovers' quarrels between their rulers, Oberon and Titania. Between the fairies, an ass's head, the lovers, a troupe of unsuspecting would-be actors, and a magic flower that can make people fall in love at first sight, it's a merry night of chaos and comedy until everything is put to rights.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
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O Lucky Man! (1973)
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This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, road movie, psychedelic, controversial, allegory, philosophical, mind bending, political
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The Mighty Boosh (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy television show created by Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and others. The Mighty Boosh is a comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in different genres, such as electro, heavy metal, funk, and rap. The show has been known for popularising a style called "crimping"; short a cappella songs which are present throughout all three series. Julian Barratt wrote the music within the show, and performs it with Noel Fielding. Fielding also designed many of the show's graphics and artwork. The TV series has many animated sequences, puppets and special effects. Barratt has said that he approached Fielding with the idea of doing a show like The Goodies, as if it were a complete "world" rather than simply a sketch show. Barratt and Fielding play many of the recurring and one-off characters themselves, with other characters being played by other Boosh members Rich Fulcher, Dave Brown, and Michael Fielding.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, sitcom, exciting, not serious, atmospheric, controversial, offbeat, absurd, sketch comedy
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Destiny to Order (1989)
Plot Summary:
A writer starts running into the characters he's created in real life. Alberta is his fantasy woman, who starts out as a sexy rock singer. However, when the bad guy in his novel (played by Michael Ironside) gets his hands on the manuscript and starts making changes of his own, they are all in for a wild ride.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, cult film
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Generation (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jim Bolton, a well-off businessman from Chicago hears that his daughter Doris is pregnant in New York. Since he did not even know she was seeing anyone he fears the worst. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter and the father of his grandchild, Walter marry shortly before Jim's arrival in New York. Upon his arrival he is shocked to hear that Doris and Walter plan not only a natural childbirth but the birth will take place in their apartment NOT a hospital. To make matters worse, Walter states that he personally will deliver their child. Jim at first doubts Walter's sincerity and expertise but begins to gain respect for Walter after he calls in a doctor to consult and is told that Walter is very prepared for almost any contingency.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Plot Summary:
A typically Beatlesque film originally produced for television, this short film was intended to be an off-the-wall road movie with the Beatles and three dozen or so friends on a psychedelic bus.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychedelic, art film, cult classic, offbeat, feel good, humorous, surreal, stylized, non-linear
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
Plot Summary:
A housewife, bored with her bra-manufacturer husband, who spends most of his time obsessed with classical music, strikes up an affair with one of his employees whom she hides in the attic--something both she and the lover find quite a suitable arrangement.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, absurd
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The Murder of Mr. Devil (1970)
Plot Summary:
Comedy with fairy-tale touches, about Kate, who wants to marry, and Mr. Devil, who is not interested in the heart or soul of this passionate and aging lady, but is interested in her good cooking – for Mr. Devil is a glutton.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, allegory, minimal cast, dark comedy, urban fantasy, campy
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Head (1968)
Plot Summary:
The Monkees are tossed about in a psychedelic, surrealist, plotless, circular bit of fun fluff.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, grindhouse, offbeat, humorous, psychological, parody, funny, mind bending
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Asylum Seekers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, surprise ending, mindfuck, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, cult film
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Bedazzled (1967)
Plot Summary:
Stanley is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him. He meets George Spiggott AKA the devil and sells his soul for 7 wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: witty, funny, surreal, dark comedy, humorous, psychedelic, intellectual, psychotronic, mind bending, satanic
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
Plot Summary:
Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychedelic, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, hot
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Morgan! (1966)
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Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, witty, cynical, biting, cult classic, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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The Acid Eaters (1967)
Plot Summary:
A group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychedelic, surreal, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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Throg (2004)
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Believing he's destined for greatness, an unlikely hero named Throg (Dana Lee) embarks on a wild adventure filled with Greek gods, Arthurian knights, certified loonies, nasty harpies, talking pigs, garbage collectors and one twisted forest dweller in this medieval fantasy spoof. Bungling his way through the centuries, the immortal Throg lurches along a path leading to an ultimate showdown with the bloodthirsty Urshag the Destroyer (Dennis Green).
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick, dark comedy
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The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998)
Plot Summary:
Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they decide to try adoption, a series of misroutings and chance encounters results in an escaped adult mental patient arriving at their door with adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Olivia accept this without question and welcome him in as their son. Can this family arrangement work?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: manga, offbeat, humorous, surreal, semi serious, spoof, parody, weird
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Hogfather (2006)
Plot Summary:
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for children everywhere - has vanished. Suddenly, Discworld's entire mythical system is under threat. The fate of this magical time rests in the hands of a very motley group: A band of wizards headed up by a mystical university president named Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland), a loyal manservant called Albert (David Jason), a level-headed governess called Susan Sto Heilt (Michelle Dockery), and her grandfather, who happens to be - Death (Marnix van den Broeke).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 189 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, humorous, christmas horror, semi serious, enigmatic, captivating, entertaining, funny, epic, mysterious
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Plot Summary:
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: satirical, dark comedy, light, enigmatic, ironic, talky, cynical, humorous, surreal, black comedy
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Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, cerebral, art house, psychological, atmospheric, stylized, psychological thriller, philosophical, mind bending
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Beetlejuice (1988)
Plot Summary:
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 331000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy, funny, scary, offbeat, humorous, horror comedy