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Plot Summary:
Spoof of TV crime dramas. Someone is murdering all the great detectives and cops, and it's up to the remaining few to find the killer and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, detective, spoof
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Dirty Vivancos III (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, spoof
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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (2009)
Plot Summary:
Created by Mike Stoklasa of Red Letter Media, "The Phantom Menace Review" is a thoroughly informative, in-depth look at George Lucas's "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", told from the perspective of an elderly psychopathic killer named "Mr. Plinkett". This is achieved through explanation of the various issues behind the film and its production as well as further analysis into why it was such an unsatisfactory experience for many movie-goers and fans of the "Star Wars" franchise.
IMDB Rating: 9.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, spoof, funny
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Hey! There's Naked Bodies on My TV! (1979)
Plot Summary:
A GROOVE TUBE-styled skit comedy spoofing TV sitcoms of the 1970s in three segments: "Happy Daze," "Don't Come Back Kotler," and "Bernie Milner.".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: anthology, parody, spoof
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Shooting Stars (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, spoof, parody
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Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)
Plot Summary:
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope!!! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island Favignana. There is very little for the commissioner to do on the quiet island, so Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist which quickly becomes a very complicated affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Bare Hunt, or My Gun Is Jammed (1963)
Plot Summary:
A private investigator tries to crack a case involving a number of dead nude women.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, slapstick comedy
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The Best of SCTV (1988)
Plot Summary:
Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley try to persuade the FCC to renew SCTV's license.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, parody, spoof
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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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American Tickler (1977)
Plot Summary:
A ridiculous comedy that spoofs many different American made movies in multiple segments and skits.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, spoof, sketch comedy
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Boogie Vision (1977)
Plot Summary:
Struggling hippie independent filmmaker Mick gets his big break after he finds out that his girlfriend Marlene's father Burt is a movie producer. Unbeknown to Mick, Burt only specializes in porno pictures. Mick cranks out a cruddy science fiction stinker in three days for Burt, who demands countless changes and has a hard time figuring out how to distribute Mick's lousy movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, spoof, sketch comedy
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This Girl for Hire (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious, slapstick, spoof, parody, eighties
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Death to the Supermodels (2005)
Plot Summary:
This sexy comedy finds the world's greatest, most eccentric supermodels gathered on a deserted island for the swimsuit photo shoot from hell.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, parody, humorous, suspenseful, slasher
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Killer Tomatoes Strike Back! (1991)
Plot Summary:
Police assitant Boyle along with tomatologist Kennedi Johnson look into investigations about Killer Tomato attacks, and discover Gangrene plans to brainwash people via TV talk shows to take over the world! Will Gangrene be stopped? Will Johnson become part of a Bacon, Lettuce and Human sandwich?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, mockbuster, horror comedy, spooky, natural horror, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, not serious
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Elite Cup (2014)
Plot Summary:
A spoof of recent Brazilian movies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, psychological, feel good, spoof
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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Plot Summary:
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spoof, dark comedy, parody, independent film, humorous, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, witty, not serious
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The Census Taker (1984)
Plot Summary:
When George (Greg Mullavey) and Martha (Meredith MacRae) let Harvey (Garrett Morris), an annoying census taker, into their home, they find themselves under a barrage of increasingly abusive questions. Furious at his intrusiveness, and at their wit's end, they kill the census taker and with the help of their friends Pete (Timothy Bottoms) and Eva (Austen Tayler), must hide the body from a determined investigator.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Rock Slyde (2009)
Plot Summary:
Between trying to get Judy Bee (Elaine Hendrix) back and tracking down a sexy client's stalker, droll Det. Rock Slyde (Patrick Warburton) has his hands full in this comedy that also stars Rena Sofer and includes cameos by Jason Alexander, Brian Bosworth and Jerry Cantrell. Andy Dick plays a wigged-out cult leader who has successfully brainwashed Judy. Chris Dowling (The Plight of Clownana) writes and directs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, realistic, slapstick, parody, neo noir, detective, spoof
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InAPPropriate Comedy (2013)
Plot Summary:
A no-nonsense cop has a flair for fashion and a celebrity takes revenge on the paparazzi in a collection of comedic sketches.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, spoof, sexy, light, sketch comedy, detective, realistic
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Bullit & Ripper (2012)
Plot Summary:
French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic television stars Kad Merad and Olivier Barroux are both the protagonists and the screenwriters. As a parody of Hollywood cop films, the story is set somewhere in the American Midwest as fabricated by the French. After losing his regular partner, FBI agent Richard Bullit (Merad) gets assigned to the book-learned cop Riper (Barroux) to investigate the death of a stripper. American movie stereotypes abound, such as shock jock Phil Canon (Gérard Darmon) and sheriff Steve Marley (Jean-Paul Rouve).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, exciting
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But who killed Pamela Rose? (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic, suspenseful, detective, spoof
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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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Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to testifying against orgainzed crime in Brooklyn, all the while dealing with their personal lives, overbearing spouses, common criminals, arms dealers, and their officious boss Captain Anderson.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, realistic, not serious, inspirational, rough, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, melancholic
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Superfast! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop Lucas White joins Vin Serento's LA gang of illegal street racers. They are fast and they are furious and they plan to double cross LA crime kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol who hides his cash in a downtown Taco Bell. The gang's outrageous plan is as daring as it is ridiculous and will see them towing the whole damn restaurant, at crazy speeds.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, light, realistic, fast
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Supernatural Activity (2012)
Plot Summary:
The world's most beloved illusionist, armed with his team of oxymoron’s, embark on the freakiest, most adventurous paranormal investigation of all time. Terrorized at every turn by an unexplainable irregular patterns of mysterious paradox’s, this witch-hunting, ghost busting, creature questing supernatural spooftacular is the funniest footage ever found!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, scary, humorous, not serious, independent film, mockumentary, offbeat, spoof, horror spoof
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The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, parody, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bumbling cop Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, hilarious, funny, detective, humorous, slapstick, feel good, entertaining, ironic
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Plot Summary:
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man . . . or beast!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 319000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, absurd, humorous, funny, detective, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, parody, talky
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Inspector Späck (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dead body is found and police detective Mårten Späck draws the conclusion that a serial suicide killer is at large. Späck with his colleagues Grünvald Karlsson and Irene Snusk suspect a gang who distributes pirated DVD's of 'bottom-of-the-barrel' Swedish movies.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, captivating, tense, light, perverse, offbeat, realistic, suspenseful
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Plot Summary:
When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, humorous, detective, slapstick, not serious, absurd, light, hilarious
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Camouflage (2001)
Plot Summary:
Marty Mackenzie is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter, a crusty private eye. They both take a case in Beaver Ridge, a seedy small town where a murder is being planned against a rich gravel pit owner. Marty realizes that private investigating is not as it seemed to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, detective, feel good, sentimental, touching, funny, spoof, slapstick