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Plot Summary:
Joe Dante directs this story of the glamour, the glitter, the magical allure of Hollywood... and not a speck of it rubs off on Miracle Pictures, where "If it's a good picture, it's a Miracle." This is a hilarious tribute to the unsung heroes who grind out the B movies massacred by critics, but nursed fondly in the hearts of film fans everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, funny, sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, black comedy, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980)
Plot Summary:
Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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The Student Teachers (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sexy student teachers at Valley High School give private lessons while being terrorized by a mad rapist.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, dark comedy
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The Silence of the Hams (1994)
Plot Summary:
The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, not serious, humorous, sweet, horror comedy, independent film, sexy, realistic, absurd
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Where's Marlowe? (1998)
Plot Summary:
After making a 3-hour fiasco about New York City's water supply, a two-man film crew decides to take it up a notch by documenting life in the private investigator offices of "Boone and Murphy". Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail to bring in the big bucks however, and after sleeping with the wife of one of their clients Murphy leaves. To stop Boone from having to close down the business the two film-makers must resort to a hands-on approach in the investigations to ensure the completion of their movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: entertaining, satirical, humorous, semi serious, funny, independent film, mockumentary, noir, realistic, neo noir
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Up! (1976)
Plot Summary:
Up! is a 1976 soft core sex comedy film directed by American filmmaker Russ Meyer. The plot centers around a bizarre murder mystery involving the death of former Nazi Adolf Schwartz, a caricature of Adolf Hitler, who was living in hiding in a Bavarian style castle in Northern California.Kitten Natividad plays the "Greek Chorus", who appears nude between scenes throughout the film to provide narration, plot details, and updates.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, surreal, controversial, psychotronic, dark comedy, parody, black comedy, offbeat, humorous
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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
Plot Summary:
Mike O'Donoghue's parody of "Mondo Cane" showcases curious performers, strange musicians, celebrity mutations and unusual short films, including Thomas Alva Edison's "Elephant Electrocution". In the tradition of films like Groove Tube (1974), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), and Saturday Night Live.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, sketch comedy, mondo, anthology, parody, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty, cynical
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Shut Up and Shoot! (2006)
Plot Summary:
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, cynical, suspense, independent film, semi serious, biting, surprise ending, dark comedy
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3 Geezers! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow actor J Kimball as he researches what it's like to be old for a role in an upcoming movie. When he meets the residents at The Coconuts convalescent home, he quickly discovers that his perceptions of the elderly may be off from today's reality. After being on the wrong end of some pranks, J enlists the help of his Hollywood friends to turn the tides. Mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good
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She Wants Me (2012)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic writer working on his new film gets into a tricky situation when an A-list actress shows interest in the role intended for his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, sincere, independent film
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Stuntmen (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the industry's two biggest stuntmen are nominated for Stuntman of the Year, an over-ambitious documentarian reignites a dormant rivalry between the two men that results in an all out press war.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, humorous, semi serious, exciting, mockumentary
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
Plot Summary:
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood is a 1976 film directed by Michael Winner.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spoof, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, silent, parody, silent film
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Chump Change (2000)
Plot Summary:
A failed Hollywood actor returns to his home town in Wisconsin and reminisces about his life in L.A. to a potential new girlfriend about his faults, auditions, misadventures, and confrontations with the evils of Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, independent film, offbeat
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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)
Plot Summary:
A kid from the Midwest moves out to Hollywood in order to follow in his parents footsteps -- and become a porn star.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, dark comedy, sex comedy, realistic, sexual, sexy, bloody
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Nickelodeon (1976)
Plot Summary:
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway! This movie is based, extremely loosely, on the early career on Cecil B. De Mille. - Written by Alfred Jingle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1973, martial arts great Bruce Lee died, his final film, Game of Death, left unfinished. With the public hungry for more Lee, movie execs decide to find a replacement. This outrageous satire looks at the entire process, from the oddball candidates to the greed and racial motivations that drive the final decision. There's big business in the movies, and Finishing the Game skewers it with an eye for '70s detail.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, not serious, parody, realistic, witty, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tracey Ullman's comedy special features the one-and-only 'Ruby Romaine'--the memorable character from HBO's 'Tracey Takes On.' After an illustrious career, veteran Hollywood makeup artist Ruby has decided to call it quits. Or has she? In her trailer, Ruby tells a series of hilarious tales and explains why she reconsidered her retirement. With Debbie Reynolds, Jane Kaczmarek.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, parody, talky, independent film, spoof
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He's Way More Famous Than You (2013)
Plot Summary:
When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change... she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen script and two pitchers of sangria, Halley enlists the help of her brother Ryan and his boyfriend to make her own movie, starring herself (of course) as herself, and any A-list celebrity she can land along the way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, realistic
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These Old Broads (2001)
Plot Summary:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical "Boy Crazy" is re-released in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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Movers & Shakers (1985)
Plot Summary:
Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of a best-selling sex manual "Love in Sex". Enlisting the help of depressed screenwriter Herb Derman and rather off-centre director Sid Spokane to try and come up with an idea or two, Joe soon wishes he was not one of those people who always try to keep their promises.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, campy
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The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Film Crew gives a commentary track to Walk the Angry Beach (1968), aka Hollywood After Dark, featuring Rue McClanahan as a stripper. Beloved, sassy Golden Girl Rue McClanahan stars as an unbeloved, depressive stripper who wants to become a movie star but can’t get any roles better than, say “Stripper #3” in Mondo Topless. But love is in the air, mingling with LA smog, as Rue falls for assistant junkyard attendee Tony, played by Anthony Vorno (Sweet trash, Jailbait Babysitter). Surprisingly, things go wrong and one of them turns up dead. There’s plenty of dimly-lit Burlesque dancing on a bare, presumable filthy stage, plus pale, hairy men in tight swimsuits, and drug-laced creepy sex! HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! It’s up to the Film Crew to turn this bleak cautionary tale into a hilarious, um, cautionary tale. Lunch is provided.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: parody, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexy, offbeat, sexual, campy
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The Groove Tube (1974)
Plot Summary:
Chevy Chase makes his film debut in this riotous collection of live skits. Directed by Ken Shapiro and featuring Chase, Richard Belzer and others, The Groove Tube mocks TV Land and its trappings by spoofing kids' shows -- from a marijuana-smoking Koko the Clown who resides in Make Believe Land, to Safety Sam, the penis with a plan who gleefully informs the audience of the perils of casual sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, sketch comedy, surreal, cult classic, clever, offbeat, independent film
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Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy. Celebrities are talking about him on MTV and girls are fighting over him on Jerry Springer. It's everything that he wanted...his plan worked. A week or so later the LAPD is tipped off about his whereabouts and they break down the door of the seedy motel room that he's hiding out in and throw him in LA County's celebrity wing.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, satirical, absurd, surreal, stylized, dark comedy, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious
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For Your Consideration (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, parody, humorous, talky, not serious, dark comedy, hilarious, clever, witty, entertaining
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The Independent (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Independent is a mockumentary comedy film made in 2000, directed by Stephen Kessler, starring Jerry Stiller as an independent film maker, who makes little-known B movies with titles like Twelve Angry Men and a Baby. The film spoofs independent directors and independent film. The film features Janeane Garofalo, Max Perlich, and cameos by Anne Meara, Ron Howard, Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, John Lydon, Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Fred Dryer, Jonathan Katz, Fred Williamson, Karen Black, Nick Cassavetes, Julie Strain and adult film actress Ginger Lynn. The fictional career of Morty Fineman (Stiller) is said to have made 427 films. It is not specified as to whether he directed them all, or if it refers to films produced or written by the Fineman character.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, light, satirical, cult classic, witty, mockumentary, stylized, offbeat, realistic
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Brother's Justice (2010)
Plot Summary:
Motivated by Box Office statistics, Dax Shepard has made a decision to leave comedy to pursue his dream of becoming an international Martial Arts action star.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious, mockumentary, funny, light, feel good, independent film, fun
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Silent Movie (1976)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them. The film contains only one word of dialogue, spoken by an unlikely source.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: silent, spoof, humorous, funny, parody, satirical, light, absurd, slapstick comedy, clever
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Not Another Not Another Movie (2011)
Plot Summary:
In this non- stop hilarious ride we follow a struggling Movie Studio that is willing to do anything to make a buck even if it means ruining its reputation, and running the Movie Industry into the ground. This film has everything that an audience wants from a LAUGH OUT LOUD COMEDY by taking a no-holds barred attack on the Spoof Genre from Blockbuster Action movies to Dramas and Documentaries to Popular Television shows.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, spoof, mockumentary, parody, ironic, witty, independent film, offbeat
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Eating Raoul (1982)
Plot Summary:
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, funny, dark, surreal, humorous, witty, erotic, psychedelic
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Bowfinger (1999)
Plot Summary:
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio gofer, he sets out to shoot a blockbuster featuring the biggest star in Hollywood, Kit Ramsey -- only without letting Ramsey know he's in the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, witty, talky, light, feel good, not serious, spoof, hilarious
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The Player (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark comedy, neo noir, clever, black comedy, talky, satirical, cynical, psychological, semi serious