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Plot Summary:
A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: thinking, dark comedy, game show, psychotronic, black comedy, eighties
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Stooges in Hong Kong (1992)
Plot Summary:
James Wong stars as a late night talk show host who tells some of the dirtiest jokes and is insanely popular. His show is the biggest rated late night show on television. But all of his credit should go to his mistreated joke writer (Tommy Wong). Instead of paying him the money he truly deserves, James Wong short changes him every chance he can get. His personal life is a mess as well. He has a hot wife whom he can't satisfy and no friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spoof, black comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, parody
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Stitches (1985)
Plot Summary:
The misadventures of three students in medical school.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Betty (1998)
Plot Summary:
The world's most famous actress freaks out on the set of her latest Christmas blockbuster and runs away to hide in the unlikely setting of Palm Springs.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Glitch! (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two thieves rob a large fancy house when the owner is away. But when a visitor mistakes them for the owner, and they find out about a casting party mis-scheduled for that day, they decide to stick around for the fun. There's only one small problem, a little glitch in their plan. The real owners owe some bad dudes a lot of money, and they show up to collect.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult classic, spoof, surprise ending, sitcom, independent film, parody, cult film
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Young Nurses in Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
Russian agents raid an American sperm bank in order to get the sperm of geniuses Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein to take back to Russia with them.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, spoof, parody
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Hollywood Boulevard II (1990)
Plot Summary:
A studio finds itself in the middle of a bizarre murder mystery when an exploding teddy bear kills the latest star. Soon more actresses get violently eliminated as the desperate search for the killer begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas (1985)
Plot Summary:
A made for Showtime network comedy special with numerous skits and music starring Martin Short and featuring a number of his fellow SCTV cast members. The special has skits with characters such as Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr., Jerry Lewis, and many more.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, sketch comedy
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Laughing to the Bank (2011)
Plot Summary:
A down-on-his-luck actor is frustrated with Hollywood and makes a plan to write, direct, and distribute his own project. When the money goes missing, it proves to just be the beginning of an adventure to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, dark comedy, black comedy
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I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood (1989)
Plot Summary:
Martin goes on an adventure with his 3 friends, Ballsy, Felcher and Bungle f*ck. Their mission? To travel to Hollywood to get Martin's movie made. Follow the awesome foursome as they encounter crocogators, Gangsters, Pirates, AIDS and many other hilarious obstacles.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, sketch comedy
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The Hitler Tapes (1994)
Plot Summary:
Did they really come from Hitler?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, sexploitation film, cult film
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Il prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue (1969)
Plot Summary:
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Mob Boss (1990)
Plot Summary:
The last thing a dying mobster needs is a son who thinks money laundering needs detergent.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spoof, independent film, parody
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A Touch of Sweden (1971)
Plot Summary:
While on vacation in Sweden, a young woman tells a friend about the sexy escapades she's been involved in back in the U.S. Footage from this R-rated comedy later ended up in the 3-D softcore film THE CHAMBER-MADES (1972) and the hardcore film PASTRIES (1975).
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Deathrow Gameshow (1987)
Plot Summary:
Chuck Toedan's the host of a gameshow featuring death row convicts competeing in life-or-death contests in hopes of cheating the executioner or, at the very least, winning some nice prizes for their next of kin. Not surprisingly, Chuck has made more than a few enemies, from outraged viewers trying to ban his show, to families of losing contestants looking for revenge. A hitman hired by one such family has shown up at Chuck's office, and he'll need to enlist the help of his most outspoken critic to keep from ending up like most of his contestants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, game show, independent film, rough, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Alice Goodbody (1974)
Plot Summary:
Sharon Kelly plays a naive waitress who sleeps her ways to bigger and bigger roles in a musical adaptation of Julius Caesar, only to suffer some form of physical calamity every time the cameras roll.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, hot
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Tripping Forward (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ford Coleman is a struggling actor in Hollywood who fears never achieving fame other then appearing in local TV commercials. After over a year living in L.A., Ford is broke and in danger of being evicted from his apartment. His slacker roommate Tripp, who has given up his music career out of hopelessness, convinces Tripp to become a drug dealer to buy and sell cocaine to supermodels as their extra income, which brings both Ford and Tripp into danger as they venture into the Los Angeles underworld which also puts a risk on Ford's budding romance with Gwen, a struggling actress herself unaware of Ford's secret arrangement with Tripp.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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The Feud (1989)
Plot Summary:
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between two men has turned into an outright war between two towns in this outrageous comedy of errors.--Summary from container. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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R.S.V.P. (1984)
Plot Summary:
A group of people who were the inspiration of an author's fact-based, best-selling book are invited to a party at a mansion in the Hollywood hills to celebrate the making of the book into a movie which a series of situations, and bed-hopping begins between all persons involved.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, teen comedy
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Corner Office (2022)
Plot Summary:
In this office satire, Orson, a straight-laced employee, retreats to a blissfully empty corner office to get away from his lackluster colleagues. But why does this seem to upset them so much?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie. Sketch comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, black comedy, sketch comedy, dark comedy, fun
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien: The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (2004)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious collection of some of the best Triumph the Insult Comic Dog segments from "Late Night with Conan O'Brien.".
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, entertaining, sentimental, feel good, captivating, disturbing, skit
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Young Doctors in Love (1982)
Plot Summary:
An "Airplane!"-style spoof of hospital soap operas: a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman - in other words all the usual ingredients present and correct, though in this case the laughs are intentional.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, sexy, medical drama, realistic, not serious, fast, sex comedy, funny
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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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Bad Actress (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alyssa Rampart Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie’s appliance empire. When their tree hugging daughter Topanga dies in a tragic golf ball accident, Bernie goes off the spiritual deep end and tries to give away their fortune with disastrous results. But what starts off as tragedy quickly turns into career re-invention for Alyssa. And as the body counts rises, so does her star. Bad Actress is a guilty pleasure of a film that gleefully mocks the world of Hollywood and Fame, which reminds us that Justice has nothing on Celebrity.Written by Anonymous (www.imdb.com).
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, offbeat, dark, black comedy, dark comedy
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Critical Condition (1987)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the electricity to the hospital is broken. In the ensuing chaos that follows, Eddie is taken for a doctor. Suddenly he is in charge of a whole hospital!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, black comedy, realistic, sexy, feel good
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Putney Swope (1969)
Plot Summary:
Swope is the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, and is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, surreal, funny, mind bending, psychedelic, political, black comedy, art film, black and white, cult classic
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Strangers with Candy (2005)
Plot Summary:
A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, satirical, stylized, semi serious, absurd, dark comedy, black comedy, sexy, independent film
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Slumber Party (2005)
Plot Summary:
When Naomi, a fine, young sexy thing from South Central LA is invited to Palm Springs by her rich Uncle Bob to house sit for the weekend, she jumps at the chance to get out of the hood.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, independent film, black comedy
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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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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