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Plot Summary:
This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, spoof, parody, fake documentary
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Pohjan tähteet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
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Idol (2006)
Plot Summary:
Farce about the casting of a gay actor in a gay role on a television series which had previously been played by a straight man. When the original star of a fictional gay-themed action series called "Espionage" unexpectedly dies, network executives go looking for a new actor. They cast Kerry Mitchell (Scott Victor Nelson), unknown, but also openly gay. They spin the idea of an openly gay actor playing a gay role is something new and refreshing. As Kerry gets prepared for the media onslaught, he is also hiding something which could ruin everything! Also starring Matthew Jett Schaefer and Gabrielle Docktor in this independent "mocumentary" style film co-written and co-directed by Mike Heim and Christopher Long.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, semi serious, mockumentary, independent film, queer cinema, documentary filmmaking
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Saturday Night Live: Halloween (2013)
Plot Summary:
Saturday Night Live's Halloween Special will tingle your funnybone! Join hosts Wayne and Garth (aka Mike Myers and Dana Carvey) as they peek into the vaults of spooky mayhem and unearth hilarious comedy sketches from seasons past and present. It's the frightful best of Saturday Night Live, the ultimate Halloween party video. Treat yourself to these tricks tonight!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sketch comedy, parody, spoof
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Cornhole: The Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Cornhole: The Movie is a mockumentary feature film that examines the lives of four groups of quirky characters who have sacrificed, exploited, and shamed those in their lives to gain a certain level of minimal fame in the Cincinnati based sport of Cornhole.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, spoof, fake documentary
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Paul Cruz: Latin Actor (2010)
Plot Summary:
An all American Latin Actor hilariously struggles to fit into the stereotypes of Hollywood while dealing with his alcoholic manager, sex addicted agent, dysfunctional family and bad dates. A satirical look at docuseries and reality shows.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, hispanic, mockumentary
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Attack Of The Bat Monsters (1999)
Plot Summary:
Join schlock impresario Francis Gordon as his intrepid crew attempt to shoot an impromptu monster movie in the three days left over from the film they’ve just wrapped. From the Saul Bass opening title homage to its highly authentic, comic evocation of 1950s’ grade-Z grind house, this was lost when it was made in 1999. But ace restorer Mark Rance (who restored Tobe Hooper’s Eggshells) found it and has lovingly refurbished it under writer/director Kelly Greene’s supervision.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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The Auteur (2008)
Plot Summary:
THE AUTEUR follows formerly renowned porn director Arturo Domingo (Five Easy Nieces, Requiem for a Wet Dream) through a bizarre weekend as he receives a lifetime achievement award at a film festival in Portland, OR. Encountering crazed fans, former collaborators, bitter enemies and free-loving hippies, Arturo attempts to put the pieces of his broken career and personal life back together.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, mockumentary, touching, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black comedy
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The Extendables (2014)
Plot Summary:
A struggling and publicly disgraced Hollywood icon gets another shot at mega stardom when he is hired to star and direct an action movie in Uzbekistan.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, spoof
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Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts (2013)
Plot Summary:
Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival of the world! When she arrives at the 65. Cannes film festival, she has face the accomplished facts: David, her incompetent producer, has kindly sublet their cosy joint apartment to other festival guests. The other bad news: There is not a single movie in the competition directed by a woman! This affirms Isabell’s qualms: The film business demands women to gear up instead of dressing up low cut! Moreover, the chauvinistic remarks of her comrade-in-arms David who feels comfortable around the clichéd gender stereotypes from the Stone Age seemingly prevalent in Cannes infuriate Isabell. As if this wasn’t enough already, a shattering feedback on her new film project by a potential investor finally causes her to doubt herself. Before she can live her dream up at the Olympus of film business, she must first find out who really believes in her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, mockumentary, queer cinema
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Brutal Massacre: A Comedy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Harry Penderecki, a once heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood. He hasn't had a hit film in years, and most in the industry, including his close friends, think he's washed up. Harry is given one last chance to redeem himself with what could be his best or last picture. Brutal Massacre becomes just that, as the cast and crew find themselves battling one mishap after another as Harry struggles to keep his sanity against overwhelming resistance to finish the picture and find himself at the top once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, humorous, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, offbeat, slasher, spoof, cult movie cast
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Shakespeare In... And Out (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s, a filmmaker begins a project to record the life of an average kid. In Perry, Ohio, he picks Rich Longfellow, a shy lad, and begins filming. Soon after, he dies in Mozambique. Sixteen years later, his son continues the project, finding Rich, now 23, in L.A., with dreams of being a Shakespearean actor, getting experience in porn films. We meet Betsy, Rich's sensible girlfriend, Lee, the impatient producer, and Carmichael, a director with artistic pretensions who inspires Rich. Problems with Besty and tension on the set bring Rich to a crisis; when his boyhood friend starts a Shakespeare company that tours nursing homes in the San Fernando Valley, Rich sees a way out.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, spoof, black comedy, mockumentary, parody, fake documentary, cult film
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My Breakfast with Blassie (1983)
Plot Summary:
My Breakfast with Blassie is a movie starring Andy Kaufman and professional wrestler "Classy" Freddie Blassie. It is a mostly improvised parody of the popular art film My Dinner with Andre and is set in a restaurant where Kaufman and Blassie have a discussion over breakfast. Also featured is Kaufman's partner Bob Zmuda, who plays a nosy fan. Lynne Margulies, who would later become Kaufman's girlfriend, also plays a role; in fact, she and Kaufman met for the first time on camera.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, not serious, spoof
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The Making of '...And God Spoke' (1993)
Plot Summary:
A documentary on the making of a big budget Bible picture. This is a spoof that shows the inside action on a film set where everything that could possibly go wrong goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, spoof, offbeat, humorous, epic, realistic, witty, not serious, biblical, independent film
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Who's the Caboose? (1997)
Plot Summary:
A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too depressing. Ducking into a nightclub, they discover a young Manhattan comedienne and decide instead to follow her as she makes the circuit of auditions in L.A. as she tries to get a TV pilot. Unfortunately, she has failed to tell her boyfriend of this move. He decides he will trail her out west. There, the boyfriend runs into an old friend who has already made a break on a TV pilot. Seizing the opportunity, the actress turns her attentions to the established actor. However, the actress goes nowhere in auditions, but her ex-boyfriend is suddenly noticed and becomes the next hot prospect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, documentary filmmaking, fake documentary
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Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (2004)
Plot Summary:
Caught cheating and banned for ten years, Bobby Dukes, paintball's first superstar, returns to reclaim his title and erase the memory of his tainted past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, not serious, mockumentary, indie film, parody, spoof
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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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The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson is a mockumentary on the disappearance of a fictitious wealthy British film producer, Kevin Johnson, who is dealing in sex, lies and blackmail in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hijacking Hollywood (1997)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring director working as a lowly production assistant, conspires with his aspiring producer roommate to steal the reels of a mega budgeted film he's working on.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, black comedy
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Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, entertaining, light, absurd, spoof, feel good, semi serious, funny
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An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad, big budget action film which he proceeds to steal the reels and leave the cast and crew in a frenzy.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, cult classic, parody, clever, humorous, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, witty, 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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Forgotten Silver (1995)
Plot Summary:
An epic documentary chronicling the extraordinary, unbelievable life of pioneer Kiwi filmmaker Colin McKenzie. Or is it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, witty, offbeat, epic, semi serious, independent film, clever, funny, light
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Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Plot Summary:
Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style in this hilarious mockumentary from the people who brought you "This is Spinal Tap!".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, parody, independent film, clever, humorous, witty, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic
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Being Michael Madsen (2007)
Plot Summary:
Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, clever, realistic
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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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Real Life (1979)
Plot Summary:
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, satirical, humorous, witty, comedy drama, clever, realistic, not serious, biting
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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