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Plot Summary:
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mysterious, fairy tale, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Jealous Gods (2017)
Plot Summary:
When three college students get their wishes granted, all hell breaks loose on campus. But after a rowdy week with their new superpowers, one of their classmates gets powers of her own -- including the power to correct all the damage they've done. Or cause far, far worse on her own.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: postmodern
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Hook, Line And Sinker (1969)
Plot Summary:
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive (Jerry Lewis) goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake. This 1969 comedy, directed by George Marshall, also stars Anne Francis, Peter Lawford and Kathleen Freeman.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Invisible Dad (1998)
Plot Summary:
Doug Baily's father is weird, but a strange machine in the garage now makes him invisible too. It's a roller coaster ride of fun and hijinks as Doug tries to turn his invisible dad back to normal again.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, humorous
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The Poof Point (2001)
Plot Summary:
This is a movie about two scientists who invent a time machine. A critical part falls out of the time machine before they get into it to test it. Nothing seems to happen at first, but when they wake up the next day they are regressing in age (physically and mentally).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Plan 10 from Outer Space (1995)
Plot Summary:
A woman accidentally discovers the Plaque of Kolob which leads her to discover an insidous alien plot for world domination documented by a disreputable early Mormon prophet. 'Plan 10 from Outer Space' is an eccentric comedy involving a bizarre relationship between Mormons, bees and extra terrestrials. Shot on an obviously miniscule budget with a largely unknown cast, save for b-grade queen Karen Black, this is the perfect example of an inventive and original script outshining technical shortcomings.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, campy
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Man in Outer Space (1962)
Plot Summary:
In this routine, allegorical sci-fi drama by Czech director Oldrich Lipsky, a disgruntled worker accidentally finds himself aboard a spaceship (long story), and five hundred years later he comes back with a super-advanced being to a whole new world. He discovers that in his long absence, the world has literally cleaned up well, solved its problems, and is rife with a multitude of technical toys to make life easier. All of these conveniences, however, have not had much effect on the basic foibles that have plagued humanity since cave-dwelling days. Of significance are the names of two of the main characters -- Adam and Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slapstick comedy, campy
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Way... Way Out (1966)
Plot Summary:
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Pet Shop (1994)
Plot Summary:
Kids' film about a couple of aliens who come to earth and open up a pet shop in an attempt to try and eat some of earth's children for dinner.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mysterious, psychotronic, independent film
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When Nature Calls (1985)
Plot Summary:
When construction worker Greg becomes fed-up with his foreman and the "city life", he takes his wife and kids on a wilderness adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spoof, grindhouse, parody, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious
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Hardly Working (1980)
Plot Summary:
In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman - all with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, slapstick comedy, cult film
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Rumburak (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wizarding criminal Rumburak, exiled to the Mortal Realm, uses a supercomputer to recreate his lost spell formulas. His software falls into the hands of humans, chaos ensues, and Rumburak suddenly finds himself on the side of good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, urban fantasy
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
Plot Summary:
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, not serious, crying, psychotronic, spoof, parody, light, romantic, sexy
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Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune capital of the world. Is it any wonder that he wants to go to Saudi Arabaia for college and leave Sunnyvale far, far behind? He spends his days at school with his sex-obsessed best friend Dan Forrester and lusts after Lisa Winston, the sexy lounge singer who his parents have hired to perform at the Holiday Inn. Stuck without a date for his brother's wedding to a senator's daughter, Ryan goes to a computer dating service, which asks him such questions as "Can you breathe foreign substances?" Soon, Ryan is told that he may be an alien stuck on Earth along with thousands of others. Soon, Charles and Edna Pinsky show up and tell him that he may an alien prince meant to lead his brethren home. And that's when things get out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Martians Go Home (1989)
Plot Summary:
Song writer Mark Devereaux accidentally calls millions of green Martians to invade Earth. No they aren't dangerous, just wise-cracking, intrusive, pain in neck, annoyances. No one can escape their distracting influence. It's up to Mark to figure out how they got here, and most importantly, how to get rid of them before they drive everyone crazy!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Plot Summary:
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, slapstick, light, feel good, esoteric, surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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Charley and the Angel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Unbelievable!!!!! (2020)
Plot Summary:
The crazy exploits of four off-beat astronauts who travel to the Moon on a rescue mission to determine the fate of two Space Agency comrades who have not been heard from in several days.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic, satirical, semi serious
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Throg (2004)
Plot Summary:
Believing he's destined for greatness, an unlikely hero named Throg (Dana Lee) embarks on a wild adventure filled with Greek gods, Arthurian knights, certified loonies, nasty harpies, talking pigs, garbage collectors and one twisted forest dweller in this medieval fantasy spoof. Bungling his way through the centuries, the immortal Throg lurches along a path leading to an ultimate showdown with the bloodthirsty Urshag the Destroyer (Dennis Green).
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick, dark comedy
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Simon (1980)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientist take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwash experiment. After that they try to convince him that he was a living-being from another planet.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, offbeat, not serious, funny, thought provoking, clever, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, bad ending, futuristic
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UHF (1989)
Plot Summary:
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick, funny, cult classic, game show, humorous, slapstick comedy, hilarious, realistic
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The Nutty Professor (1963)
Plot Summary:
Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slapstick, funny, feel good, humorous, black comedy, cult classic, aesthetic, not serious, absurd, psychotronic
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Aliens Stole My Body (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Galactic Patrol is back - but they've lost Deputy Rod Allbright's body. It's been stolen by B'KR, the most fiendish villain in the galaxy, which leaves Rod's mind sharing one body with his annoying cousin Elspeth. Stranded on a mysterious alien planet, our young heroes embark on a mission to find the only being who can stop B'KR once and for all, the legendary time-strider himself; Art Allbright - who also happens to be Rod's dad. The Galactic Patrol's high-flying adventures continue in this thrilling second film based on the global best-selling book series from acclaimed author Bruce Coville and Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing. This rip-roaring sequel draws the crew of the Good Ship Ferkel into a web of alien plots that will test their courage to the utmost -- and ultimately bring them face-to-face with one of the galaxy's most guarded secrets.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, satirical, funny
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Saturday the 14th Strikes Back (1988)
Plot Summary:
Eddie and his family have just inherited a spooky wreck of a house. What they do not know about the house is that it was built over an evil passage way, but they are soon to discover the wacky evil it releases.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, gothic, psychotronic, independent film, horror spoof
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Young Frankenstein (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, black and white, gothic, humorous, cult classic, slapstick, hilarious, horror comedy
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Munchies (1987)
Plot Summary:
Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures and are they mean!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, scenic, independent film, scary, parody, offbeat, humorous, not serious, slapstick
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Saturday the 14th (1981)
Plot Summary:
After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house and the family must join together to save themselves and their neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, scary, humorous, satirical, absurd, slasher, cult classic, slapstick, psychotronic
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The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999)
Plot Summary:
David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as an extraterrestrial nature documentary. The relationship "footage" is played straight, while the voice-over (with its most often wildly inaccurate theories) and elaborate visual metaphors add comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, funny, entertaining, satirical, clever, witty, mockumentary, not serious, sex comedy
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Serena the Sexplorer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lusty, luscious interstellar visitor Serena comes to Earth to satisfy her deepest desires in this erotic tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Evil Alien Conquerors (2003)
Plot Summary:
Inept beings from the planet Kabijj land on Earth and attempt to behead all of its beings and take over the planet.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, funny, entertaining, slapstick
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The Master of Disguise (2002)
Plot Summary:
A sweet-natured Italian waiter named Pistachio Disguisey at his father Fabbrizio's restaurant, who happens to be a member of a family with supernatural skills of disguise. But moments later the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped Fabbrizio's former arch-enemy, Devlin Bowman, a criminal mastermind in an attempt to steal the world's most precious treasures from around the world. And it's up to Pistachio to track down Bowman and save his family before Bowman kills them!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, feel good, not serious, slapstick comedy, funny, hilarious, slapstick, spoof, scary