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Plot Summary:
Gillian and Charlene, as usual, play a couple of mis-matched partners who come under the tutelage of the slightly nutty and love-sick Black Rose (Teresa Mo), a former kung fu-fighting super-hero who grooms them for a life of fighting crime. Ekin Cheng plays a dim-witted cab driver who wears a Robin costume and becomes Charlene's love interest. There is a bit of "comedy" as Rose confuses Ekin with her former lover and Gillian become jealous. A lot of time is wasted with this Three's Company-style shtick until eventually, some shred of a conflict comes forward, as the girls must battle a former protege of Rose who has taken to kidnapping to pay the bills.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody
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The Kill (1968)
Plot Summary:
From the golden age of roughies, comes a shocking drive-in masterpiece, in which a hot young vixen is kidnapped and raped by a dangerous gang of heroine smugglers, who rape and kill anyone who gets in their way! Then a tough private detective is hired to track down the bastards! Rare grindhouse gem.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: parody, detective
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Leave Me Alone (2004)
Plot Summary:
Leave Me Alone (Chinese: 阿孖有難, also Ah ma yau nan) is a 2004 Hong Kong thriller film directed and co-written by Danny Pang. Gay fashion designer Yiu Chun Man (Ekin Cheng) is visited in Hong Kong by his straight twin brother, Yiu Chun Kit (also Ekin Cheng). Kit borrows his brother’s driver’s license, and is then involved in a car crash in which a woman dies (see also Ab-normal Beauty), and Kit falls into a coma. With no ID card, Man is unable to prove his identity, so he assumes the identity of his brother, and takes up with Kit’s girlfriend, Jane, (Charlene Choi), and goes with her to Thailand. Jane, however, is having some money problems, and is deeply indebted to a loan shark (Dayo Wong), who pursues Man and Jane. Kit comes out of his coma and finds himself struggling to fend off the amorous advances of Man's boyfriend (Jan Lamb), who is a high-ranking Hong Kong police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, realistic
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Kayrat Champion (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rich oligarch is setting a two million dollar prize contest looking for a perfect girl who will give a birth to his grandson.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 88 min
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The Fortune Buddies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lam Luk (Cho-lam Wong), Jit Sau (Johnson Lee), Fook Cheung (Louis Yuen) are three unemployed friends who come together to help Lam Luk get married. After Lam Luk proposed to his girlfriend (Fiona Sit), his future father-in-law (Eric Tsang) stipulated that he will allow the marriage only if Lam Luk can come up with $500,000 for the downpayment of their future apartment. The three friends must now do everything they can to come up with the money ….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
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Intrigue in Nylons (1972)
Plot Summary:
Essentially a comedy about the cut throat advertising business.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Riam Fighting Angel (2020)
Plot Summary:
'Riam' is extremely envious of her sister 'Ram' because she is beautiful, mannered and sweet. That's making Riam even more envious and pranking her sister. But everything changed because of the arrival of the thief has capture Ram and her mother. Riam and the 'Riam Sing' gang have to go on an adventure to help her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: parody
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Supermen Against the Orient (1973)
Plot Summary:
Robert Wallace travels to Hong Kong to bust a gang of drug trafficker's. There he finds help from Tang and Suzy, as well as his fellow Supermen Max & Jerry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Italy, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Cicciabomba (1982)
Plot Summary:
An overweight high school student is relentlessly bullied due to weight. Out of the blue, she wins a trip to New York, where she sheds 80+ pounds and then returns home to take revenge on her tormentors.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Stewardess School (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, parody, teen sex comedy, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, hot, teen comedy
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Die Hart (2023)
Plot Summary:
Kevin Hart - playing a version of himself - is on a death-defying quest to become an action star. And with a little help from John Travolta, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Josh Hartnett - he just might pull it off.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody
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Los gatos de las azoteas (1988)
Plot Summary:
There are people disappearing in an apartment building and a psychopath killer is doing it. A man is busy cheating on his wife, another man is looking for love in the same building. It's up to Los Gatos to stop the sexy madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Gidget Grows Up (1969)
Plot Summary:
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian Sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Italy is Rotten (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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Four Riders (1972)
Plot Summary:
This prime example of director/co-writer Chang Cheh's mastery takes place in Seoul right after the Korean War, as a kung-fu master, combat instructor, explosives expert, and missile specialist must take on a venal drug smuggling gang. Representing the Book of Revelation's four riders of war, famine, disease, and death as heroes against murder, corruption, jealousy, and greed, it's a brutal battle where the one true winner is the audience.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
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Enter the Fat Dragon (1978)
Plot Summary:
Ah Lung is a pig farmer and a devoted Bruce Lee fan who is anxious to follow in Lee's footsteps, but only ridiculed for his attempts. He is sent to the city to earn a living working at his uncle's restaurant, but when he arrives, he finds a gang of thugs causing trouble in the restaurant. He takes the chance to prove himself and attacks the thugs, defeating them and saving the restaurant. Soon, he becomes a waiter, and discovers a plot by the same thugs to kidnap a woman he works with. Eventually, he defeats the thugs once again and saves the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick comedy, cult film
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Wonder Seven (1994)
Plot Summary:
Wonder Seven, a secret group of well-trained government agents in China, has been assigned a case of a computer disc robbery. At first everything seems to go smooth, when a disastrous national conspiracy unravels. Seven gets caught and are forced to strike back. Meanwhile, the leader of Seven, Yip, develops a forbidden romance with a mysterious Japanese lady.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Inspector Wears Skirts IV (1992)
Plot Summary:
To save the Hong Kong Police Force's Banshee Squad from becoming defunct, the struggling new squad members seek the help of former officers Amy (Sandra Ng), now a divorced mom with a young kid, and May (Kara Hui), now partially mentally-unstable, to help them with their training regiment, lead by Madame Yang (Cynthia Khan). Their police skills are put to the test when they are ordered to nab a band of brutal thugs in the city.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
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The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011)
Plot Summary:
Spoof of sword-and-sandal flicks such as “Gladiator,” “300″ and “Troy.” Following in the long tradition of National Lampoon, this ballsy comedy takes aim at “sword and sandal” movies of every era, with s special nod of the feathered helmet to historical epics such as 300, Gladiator, Troy, and Braveheart.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, entertaining, sex comedy, homoerotic, offbeat, independent film, campy
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Homo Eroticus (1971)
Plot Summary:
Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things goes terribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic
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Top Squad (1988)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around a crack squad of female police officers who have to deal with harassment and a lack of respect from their male colleagues, personal issues as well as some serious criminals.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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Mad Mission V: The Terracotta Hit (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two friends who own an investment firm turn to a policeman friend for help when they are framed for robbery by a gang of antiquities smugglers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, fast, independent film, slapstick comedy, poliziottesco
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Once a Gangster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Roast Pork joins the triad as a young man and ends up becoming a trusted lieutenant of boss Kerosene. However, his true passion is in his successful chain of restaurants, his loving wife, and his two children. So when Kerosene wants to promote his trusted right hand man to the top of the organization as a way to take on his financial debts, it's understandable why Roast Pork would want to refuse. Roast Pork comes up with an intricate scheme with his men that would take himself out of the running, but Kerosene's intervention causes it to fail. When all hopes appears to be lost, lifelong gangster Sparrow is released from jail after serving a 20-year sentence for committing a gang-related murder that earned him a guarantee for the leader spot. However, Sparrow has made his own plans to stay out of the gang, setting off a battle of wits between the two men.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Twins Effect (2003)
Plot Summary:
An evil Duke attempts to kill and collect the blood of a royal family of European vampires in order to become all powerful. The only surviving member of the family travels to Hong Kong, only to complicate his struggle by falling in love with a mortal girl who just happens to have a vampire hunter for a brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, semi serious, humorous, underground film, fast
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Kung Fu Chefs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ousted chef Wong Bing-Yi is determined to help Shen Qing at her restaurant "Four Seas". He trains a young chef, Lung Kin-Yat to compete against Chef Tin, the head chef at "Imperial Palace", for the title of "Top Chef".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, light, captivating, entertaining, parody, romantic, semi serious
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The Midas Touch (2013)
Plot Summary:
A debt collector takes over the management of a group of starlets after their talent agent defaults on a loan, but soon finds he's in over his head.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Get Lucky (2013)
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Lucky is a small time criminal and he's happy just getting by until he agrees to look after some counterfeit money for a friend who is in a bit of trouble with the law Two months go by without a word from him so Lucky burns the 'funny money' to avoid problems for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
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Twins Mission (2007)
Plot Summary:
Twins Mission is a 2007 Hong Kong martial arts-action-comedy film directed by action choreographer Kong Tao-Hoi and staring Gillian Chung, Charlene Choi and Sammo Hung among others. The film is a bit of a spoof of the popularity and success of the Twins and leaves the audience with a cliffhanger ending.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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Twin Dragons (1992)
Plot Summary:
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, exciting, realistic, semi serious, road movie, action comedy, harsh, cult classic, action adventure
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The Twins Effect II (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the mythical land of Huadu, Charcoal Head, a humble boy born to rule an empire must undertake his journey to claim his throne.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, fast, epic
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House of Fury (2005)
Plot Summary:
Teddy Yu is a former secret agent turned chiropractor who thought he left his past behind. He teaches martial arts to his two kids. However, his past catches up to him as a rogue agent demands to know the whereabouts of an agent known as Dragon. Now, father and children must team up to stop the rogue agent and his goons.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, cult classic, realistic, suspenseful