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Plot Summary:
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, parody, offbeat, humorous, witty, not serious, slapstick, independent film, spoof, campy
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Are You Being Served? (1977)
Plot Summary:
The clothing department's floor requires renovation; rather than let the staff sit idle while the area is closed off, the management sends them on a paid holiday in Costa Plonka, a fictional city in Spain. Their hotel and its surroundings prove to be dismal, and the group tries to pass the time by acting on the crushes they have developed for one another in the workplace. This results in disaster, as multiple amorous notes reach the wrong recipients and everyone gets wrong ideas about who fancies whom. Meanwhile, Carlos, the hotel manager receives an unwelcome visit from an old acquaintance, Cesar Rodriguez, who is after Mrs. Slocombe after seeing her passport. He is also plotting a revolutionary uprising and wants to use the hotel as his base.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, witty, talky, not serious, biting, independent film, suspense
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Carry on England (1976)
Plot Summary:
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, spoof, parody
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Carry on Behind (1975)
Plot Summary:
Professors Vrooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. With a randy Major owning the site, a snobbish mother, and the two professors' constant innuendos, the film ends with a sinking caravan site and a striptease performance as a replacement for the cabaret night.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, double entendre, humorous, realistic, not serious, spoof, independent film, parody, campy
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Carry on Cruising (1962)
Plot Summary:
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, entertaining, melancholic, light, sex comedy, humorous, spoof, independent film, campy
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Carry on Spying (1964)
Plot Summary:
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and James Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spoof, spy comedy, sex comedy, parody, slapstick comedy, independent film, eurospy, campy
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Carry on Loving (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called "The Wit to Woo". The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches, and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, double entendre, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Carry on Abroad (1972)
Plot Summary:
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about the staff. They all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, double entendre, independent film
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Carry on Dick (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. Little do they know that the priest leads a double life. Then Madame Desiree and her "Birds of Paradise" arrive in the village.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, double entendre, spoof, parody, humorous, witty, not serious, independent film, campy
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Carry on Cabby (1963)
Plot Summary:
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, spoof, independent film, parody, campy
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Carry on Henry VIII (1971)
Plot Summary:
Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her in his usual manner, Henry has to find some way of doing it without provoking war with Marie's cousin, the King of France. Perhaps if she had an affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, spoof, double entendre, parody, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, independent film
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Carry on Doctor (1967)
Plot Summary:
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle. The hospital is about to enter a period of total chaos. The regular Carry On team is joined by Frankie Howerd as the fraudulent Francis in this 'bed-panorama of hospital life'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: double entendre, parody, humorous, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, sex comedy, independent film, campy
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Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe. But the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas. He wants all the British dead! But his troops fear the "skirted-devils"; they are rumoured not to wear anything underneath. Then one is caught with his pants on.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick comedy, double entendre, humorous, realistic, not serious, surreal, sex comedy, independent film
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Carry on Cleo (1964)
Plot Summary:
Two Britons are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. Hengist Pod creates useless inventions, while Horsa is a brave and cunning fighter. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra. Cleo doesn't want him around and plots for his sudden demise.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, witty, not serious, double entendre, sex comedy, independent film, campy, cult film
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Carry on in the Legion (1967)
Plot Summary:
Bertram Oliphant West (also known as Bo West) wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation. He joins the Foreign Legion, with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there is trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, sex comedy, spoof, double entendre, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film
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Carry on Up the Jungle (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird. Everything is going swimmingly until a gorilla enters the camp, and then the party is captured by an all female tribe from Aphrodisia... Written by Simon N. McIntosh-Smit.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, spoof, parody, offbeat, humorous, not serious, independent film, campy
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That's Carry On! (1977)
Plot Summary:
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series. From the original, military mayhem of Carry On Sergeant, through to the really ancient archaeological gags of Carry On Behind, our saucy hosts get their titters out for this laugh-a-second gallop through the most successful series of British comedy films ever made.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, anthology, spoof, independent film, parody
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Carry on Again Doctor (1969)
Plot Summary:
Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, spoof, independent film, parody, campy
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The Bobo (1967)
Plot Summary:
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious
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My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
This film is a spoof along the lines of "Scary Movie" and "Not Another Teen Movie." It includes parodies of some of the indie film world's most renowned movies such as "Memento," "Pulp Fiction," "Magnolia," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "Amelie," "Run Lola Run," "El Mariachi," "The Good Girl," "Pi," "Swingers" and many others.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, spoof, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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The Bogus Witch Project (2000)
Plot Summary:
A series of short films spoofing "The Blair Witch Project.".
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, light, entertaining, spoof, offbeat, horror spoof
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Carry on Cowboy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a "sanitary engineer" (plumber) by the name of Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal! Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy, sex comedy, independent film, campy
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Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the Headquarters of the T.I.A. (Terminal Intelligence Agency), someone has stolen Professor Bacterio's most dangerous invention, the D.O.T. (Demoralizer of Troops), an artifact that ends up in the hands of a very short, wacky dictator who is ready to use it for criminal purposes. The T.I.A Chief, though, is firm in his resolve: if he wants to get the D.O.T. back, he must NOT count on his agents Mortadelo & Filemon. But when the crime fighting duo discover that the T.I.A. has engaged a cocky and slimy detective from outside the agency, they decide to act at their own risk, even if that risk involves all of Humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, parody, humorous, witty, not serious, surreal, spoof, spy comedy, slapstick, stylized
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Carry on Jack (1964)
Plot Summary:
Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless (Kenneth Williams). Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be entitled ´Up the Armada´, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, spoof, independent film, campy
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Carry on Pimpernel (1967)
Plot Summary:
The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes "the black fingernail", scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, sex comedy, exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Welcome to the Jungle (2013)
Plot Summary:
A company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Puerto Rico, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, witty, feel good, perverse, cult classic, offbeat, realistic, independent film, parody
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Keep Your Hands Off the Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Action
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, buddy comedy, independent film
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Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981)
Plot Summary:
George Hamilton stars in a dueling dual role as twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after the dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and costume, a broken ankle prevents the masked avenger from fulfilling his heroic duties. When his flamboyantly fashion-conscious brother assumes the secret identity to continue an ongoing fight for justice, the results are nothing short of hilarious!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, cult classic, humorous, witty, novela, exciting, not serious, independent film
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Yellowbeard (1983)
Plot Summary:
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, cult classic, humorous, colorful, exciting, saga, not serious, independent film, funny, light
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Cabin Boy (1994)
Plot Summary:
A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, melancholic, absurd, talky, not serious, cult classic, spoof, slapstick, nautical
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Pirates (1986)
Plot Summary:
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: dramatic, spoof, grindhouse, action comedy, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, campy