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Plot Summary:
Welcome to Terminal City, a decaying world where the citizens wallow amidst a mind-boggling profusion of discarded consumer goods; a ruthless world where television is exploited to its fullest to sell yet more needless junk to eager consumers; a bewildering land where the unreal is real and the real, unreal. Alex Stevens is hurled into this bedlam where he finds himself pitted against the maniacal Ross Gilmore, Mayor of Terminal City, and the evil Bruce Coddle, agent of Gilmore's Social Peace Enforcement Unit.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: political, underground film, independent film, black comedy, cult film
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Crimes of the Future (1970)
Plot Summary:
Crimes of the Future is set in a future where sexually mature women appear to have been obliterated by a plague produced by the use of cosmetics. It details the wanderings of Adrian Tripod director of the dermatological clinic the House of Skin. Tripod seems at a loss following the disappearance of his mentor Antoine Rouge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: surreal, tech noir, homoerotic, independent film, weird
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Future Schlock (1984)
Plot Summary:
In a future time when middle-class, Stepford-type suburbanites have triumphed over individualists and non-conformists and made them prisoner, two vanquished but not defeated non-conformists carry on the fight as best they can.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, avant garde, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ernest P. Worrell grows a hand out of the top of his head and tries to destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, cult film
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Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
Plot Summary:
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: absurd, cult classic, slapstick, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction, alternative comedy, campy, comic, cult film
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
Plot Summary:
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black comedy, apocalyptic, parody, psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, costume drama, alternative comedy, period drama
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You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
Plot Summary:
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, surreal, absurd, spoof, black comedy, experimental, slapstick comedy, slapstick, double entendre
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A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
Plot Summary:
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, alternative comedy, campy, cult film
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
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After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, not serious, crying, psychotronic, spoof, parody, light, romantic, sexy
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Some Time Later (2018)
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Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it. (Sequel to “Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing,” 1989.).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, futuristic, social, crying, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, bizarre
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The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
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A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, humorous, independent film, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, spooky
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The Stuff (1985)
Plot Summary:
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, unfortunately, it takes over the brains of those who eat it, turning them into zombie-like creatures. It is up to ex-FBI agent David Rutherford and a kid named Jason to stop the spread of the mind-devouring dessert.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, satirical, absurd, suspenseful, humorous, horror comedy, cult classic, black comedy, cult horror, retro
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Born in Flames (1983)
Plot Summary:
In a future where a socialist government gains power, a group of women decides to organize and rebel.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film, underground film, political, cult classic, indie film, sincere, thought provoking, offbeat, bleak, futuristic
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They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
Plot Summary:
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy lurking directly beneath their neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surprise ending, suspense, satirical, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, grindhouse, hood
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Night of the Comet (1984)
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Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous "think tank," karate chop their way through flesh-eating zombies, and, of course, find time to go to the mall.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, black comedy, parody, apocalyptic, suspenseful, horror comedy, christmas horror, grindhouse, cult classic, humorous
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Tank Girl (1995)
Plot Summary:
Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: stylized, futuristic, exciting, cult classic, slapstick, apocalyptic, offbeat, semi serious, visual, black comedy
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
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When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, black comedy, grindhouse, independent film, splatter, parody, rough, suspenseful, dark comedy, slasher
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Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1970)
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A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, apocalyptic, surreal, independent film, offbeat, humorous, futuristic, experimental, cynical, semi serious
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Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass (2011)
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John Glass, wakes up in a desolated barn from a long cryogenic slumber, to be informed that not only the planet has been devastated by a third world war, but reduced to little habitability by a subsequent alien invasion. He also learns that in order to reestablish a livable atmosphere for what's left of humanity, he'll have to go on a solitary mission to retrieve important codes dispersed in remote locations. Soon enough, he'll encounter more than he bargained for: aliens, crazy survivors, inadequate equipment, LOTS of walking and a pretty unhealthy dose of bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, offbeat, not serious, black comedy, dark comedy, weird
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The Watch (2012)
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Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood - and the world - from total extermination.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, absurd, not serious, light, hilarious, surprise ending, surreal, stylized
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The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
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In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including the signing of the peace treaty) is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, apocalyptic, psychedelic, surreal, psychotronic, mind bending, cult classic, twisted, offbeat, humorous
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Evolution (2001)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, absurd, light, not serious, stylized, exciting, epic, black comedy
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Sleeper (1973)
Plot Summary:
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, slapstick, funny, cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, psychotronic
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Mars Attacks! (1996)
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'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy homage to science fiction films of the '50s and '60s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 240000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, dark comedy, absurd, humorous, spoof, futuristic, funny, black comedy, stylized, melancholic
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Southland Tales (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: surreal, futuristic, enigmatic, cult classic, cynical, apocalyptic, postmodern, allegory, mindfuck, mind bending
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A Boy and His Dog (1975)
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Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War 4, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surreal, humorous, futuristic, tense, disturbing, stylized, grindhouse, dark comedy, offbeat
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When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deranged scientist as half man and half animal. His newfound powers are awesome -- but their adverse side effects could take over his life. Now, Marvin must fight to control his crazy primal urges around his new squeeze, Rianna, and his rival, Sgt. Sisk, who both think he's one cool cat.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, not serious, parody, teen, fast, absurd, scary
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Don't Look Up (2021)
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Two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 580000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, feel good, entertaining, political, dark comedy, funny, thought provoking, cerebral, surreal, light
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The Running Man (1987)
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By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed
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To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 178000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, futuristic, absurd, dark comedy, offbeat, intellectual, humorous, funny, satirical, not serious
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Plot Summary:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, atmospheric, psychological, political, bleak, apocalyptic, cult classic, suspenseful, independent film