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Plot Summary:
Incorporating the manic approach of The Monkees and the camp aesthetic of the 60s Batman TV series, this heist movie in drag is a laugh-riot from wigs to stilettos. Starring, Hedda Lettuce and Miss Understood as a pair of none-too-glam dragqueens, down on their luck and living the low life in New York City circa 1992. A not particularly bright scheme to reinvent themselves as Bonnie and Bunny, bank robbers in daring frocks, rockets them to fame and finally gives them enough cash to hire a posh, Eastern European, interior decorator, specializing in rococo. But all is not feather boas and sequins. The envy of Brenda, bitchy Morticia Adams clone, and Violet, a whip-wielding dominatrix, scheme to ruin the party.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult classic, campy, cult film
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Brewster McCloud (1970)
Plot Summary:
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, cult classic, clever, offbeat, humorous, surreal, semi serious, detective, black comedy
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Black Lizard (1968)
Plot Summary:
Japanese sixties comedy featuring a cunning female jewel thief named Black Lizard who tries to kidnap Sanaye, a wealthy jeweler's beautiful daughter as part of a plot to steal the jeweler's expensive "Star of Egypt" diamond. To thwart the planned kidnapping, the jeweler hires Japan's number one detective, the brilliant Akechi. This sets off a dual between Black Lizard and Akechi as each tries to outwit the other. In the process, the two adversaries develop a mutual respect and affection for each other. Despite Akechi's efforts, Black Lizard and her crew are able to kidnap Sanaye and gain possession of the "Star of Egypt". Black Lizard takes Sanaye to her secret lair on a remote island which is populated by an eerie collection of naked human dolls. There Black Lizard plans to preserve Sanaye's beauty forever by turning her into one of her dolls. As Sanaye's doom quickly approaches, it is up to Akechi to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective
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Drop Dead Rock (1995)
Plot Summary:
A down and out rock 'n roll band, Hindenburg, kidnap their favorite British rock star Spazz-O (Maynard), and hold him hostage so he will listen to their music and make them famous. The problem is, Spazz-O's ex-porn star wife Holly Everest (Parks) and his back-stabbing manager, Dave Donovan (Ant), can't wait to get their hands on his fortune, and have hired a hitman to do him in. Thanks to the media feeding frenzy, Spazz-O's career is hotter than ever. Enter media mogul Thor Sturmundrang (Harry) with a big advance check. Now Spazz-O is worth more alive than dead. Dave must outwit the bumbling band, clumsy cops, ruthless record execs and terrifying terrorists to get his just reward.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Our Miss Fred (1972)
Plot Summary:
Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues in his female costume, Fred is certain to be shot as a spy. The risque gags and double entendres fly as he attempts to make his escape in the company of a gaggle of randy English schoolgirls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ghostbox Cowboy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tech entrepreneur Jimmy Van Horn arrives in China armed with an invention and confidence, only to learn that being American is not enough to succeed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, weird
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The Golden Boat (1990)
Plot Summary:
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams. In the course of their adventures, Austin pursues his object of desire - a Mexican soap opera star - and along the way engages a host of TV characters and bit players, whose repartee range from gangsterish insults to the question of God's existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black comedy, parody, independent film, telenovela
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The Naked Truth (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his Terminator-like lackie to find them. The Franks hide by impersonating make-up women for a beauty pageant. While in drag, the mafioso falls in love with one of the Franks.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Flaming Creatures (1963)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, erotic, psychedelic, dark, absurd, art film, black and white, cult classic, independent film
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Take It Out In Trade (1970)
Plot Summary:
A couple hire a detective to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute.".
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic
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Fatty Drives the Bus (1999)
Plot Summary:
Oh no! It appears as if Satan isn't going to fill his soul quota this month! So of course, he turns himself into a tour guide and takes a bus-load of unsuspecting tourists on a ride down the highway to hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sex, Blood and Fairy Tales (2016)
Plot Summary:
What would you do if you had to choose between ten years in prison and selling your soul to the Devil? Vera's biggest desire is to become a housewife and have children. Her dreams get interrupted when on Engagement night her fiancé confesses in his disloyalty. Vera gets upset and...he dies. Luckily or unfortunately her brother happens to work in criminal defense who offers her a way to "escape" conviction, after which Vera finds herself in the money laundering entertainment joint that is run by the Yakuza mafia. Although, nothing's ever what it seems to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, light, unusual plot structure, suspense, dark comedy
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Kinky Kong (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Manhattan, Seymour is a fast-talking, flatulent, frustrated director of titillation flicks, in search of fame and fortune. With a crudely drawn map, he sets sail for Bone Island, his crew including Fanny, his latest discovery. The island is home to the legendary Kinky Kong, a massive gorilla. The crew overcomes the ape and takes him back to New York to exhibit - but chains break, and the ape is on the loose. Liberty is in danger. Source IMDB.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Beverly Kills (2005)
Plot Summary:
Whacked-out, muscle-bound, cross-dressing actor Beverly Jackson has been rejected for a role in Pride Playhouses nude theatrical production of "Balls Out." Furious, Beverly decides to form a diabolical cult of revenge! Meanwhile, back at the Playhouse, adorable employee Shane falls right into the arms of Ray, a lighting designer, and the two are swept into Beverly's bizarre scheme. Featuring lots of cuties, a hot romance and a twisted drag queen, you are guaranteed loads of laughs with this riotous comedy from the twisted mind of filmmaker Damion Dietz.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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From Behind (1999)
Plot Summary:
Frédérique's mother has died recently leaving her the family stud farm. She's never met her father, doesn't even know his name. But she finds it on the back of an old photo. She sets off for Paris. She stays with her gay dancer pal Marc. Marc and friends decide to go to their favourite gay bar... but it's men only. So Frédérique becomes Frédéric, an effeminate gay boy... Frédérique follows her father. Pierre Arroux is an art curator - and gay. She introduces herself to him, but as Frédéric. So while Frédéric is quite an awkward young man and an embarrassment to his father, Frédérique is secretly meeting with her old boyfriend now living in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Hannah and her Brothers (2000)
Plot Summary:
Amidst a large family who doesn’t understand him, Martin yearns to find someone who does. His shelter from familial storms is Theodora, an amateur photographer who helps Martin find someone in the responses to his personal ads.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Remote Control (1992)
Plot Summary:
Since his mother wants to watch TV, Axel, a young auto-mechanic, must recover her remote control, accidentally taken by his punk sister Maja. During his quest, he becomes involved in the conflict between Moli, the liquor smuggler, and Aggi, a night club owner who wants to be Iceland's first mafia boss.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Iceland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Plot Summary:
A traveling sideshow called the Cavalcade of Perversion draws in and terrorizes unsuspecting spectators. The leader of the troupe of misfits is Lady Divine, who goes out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: underground film, dark comedy, slasher, black and white, independent film, cult classic, bloody, disturbing, controversial, horror comedy
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Cherry Pop (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Zaza, headliner of a weekly drag show, 'CHERRY POP', refuses to come out of her dressing room, all hell breaks loose backstage. A young newcomer, The Cherry, is hiding a huge secret from the girls while getting ready for his debut performance.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, queer cinema, campy
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Encino Woman (1996)
Plot Summary:
After thawing, a young prehistoric woman, Lucy, gets herself taken care of by David, a young intern at a marketing firm. Working on a campaign ad for a cosmetics company, David becomes Mr. Bigshot when his protégé is chosen to be the model/spokeswoman for her animal personality.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: teen, ridiculous
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Asylum Seekers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, surprise ending, mindfuck, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, cult film
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Desperate Living (1977)
Plot Summary:
A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in Mortville, a homeless community built into a garbage dump.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, erotic, controversial, cult classic, humorous, surreal, witty, allegory, biting
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Candy (1968)
Plot Summary:
Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a send-up of Voltaire's Candide. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychedelic, melancholic, humorous, suspense, stylized, semi serious, realistic, surreal, sexual
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The Coffee Shop (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Coffee Shop takes place in a gay owned, rainbow-friendly New York restaurant and coffee house where love is constantly tossed into the blender.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, sexy, feel good, humorous, lgbt cinema, melancholic, sexual, unusual plot structure, queer cinema
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Coming Out Party (2003)
Plot Summary:
"Coming Out Party" is a celebration of love, life and freedom as seven gay and lesbian comic storytellers share their personal stories of "coming out" to family, friends, and co-workers, and living "out" and proud. Features: Rene Hicks (World Comedy Tour 2002), Sabrina Matthews, John Riggi (“The Dennis Miller Show”), Dan Renzi (MTV’s “The Real World”), Jackie Beat, Terry Sweeney (“Saturday Night Live”), and Bob Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Homo Promo (1991)
Plot Summary:
How did Hollywood pitch movies about gays and lesbians between 1956 and 1977? Here are theatrical trailers for 27 mainstream and art-house films, presented chronologically from "Tea and Sympathy" to "Outrageous!" More than half are films released between 1968 and 1972. Half are dramas and half are comedies, with farce dominating the films released after 1971. At least three advertise X-rated films: "The Killing of Sister George," "Midnight Cowboy," and Visconti's "The Damned." There's no voice-over commentary for this compilation, but it does include advertisements for snacks and one warning against public displays of affection aimed at "her" to control "him.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Connie and Carla (2004)
Plot Summary:
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, realistic, not serious, independent film, light, sexy, thought provoking
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Pink Flamingos (1972)
Plot Summary:
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, disturbing, controversial, underground film, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, surreal, erotic, disgusting
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Female Trouble (1974)
Plot Summary:
The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progress from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. She runs away from home, is raped, becomes a single mother, criminal and glamorous model before her inevitable rendezvous with the electric chair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, controversial, cult classic, humorous, surreal
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White Chicks (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites to the Hamptons, where they're going to be used as bait for a kidnapper. But when the girls realize the FBI's plan, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from African-American men into a pair of blonde, white women.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 159000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, hilarious, funny, satirical, parody, teen, action comedy, black comedy, entertaining, feel good
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The Birdcage (1996)
Plot Summary:
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, entertaining, feel good, slapstick, hilarious, lgbt cinema, clever, witty